Ukraine war: Four-year-old Liza killed by Russian attack on Vinnytsia
By Sarah Rainsford
Eastern Europe correspondent, Vinnytsia
On a strip of grass in front of the smashed, charred remains of the Jubilee department store there is a pink pushchair lying on its side, smeared with blood.
It belonged to a little girl called Liza.
The four-year-old was one of three young children killed on Thursday when Russian missiles hit the centre of Vinnytsia.
Her mother, Irina Dmitrieva, was seriously injured in the attack.
Twenty-three people are known to have lost their lives and another eight are still missing. Dozens more are still in hospital.
China’s Xi Jinping makes rare visit to Xinjiang
President shown surrounded by smiling and clapping Uyghur residents on first visit in eight years
Vincent Ni and agencies
China’s president, Xi Jinping, has paid his first visit to Xinjiang in eight years, as western nations continue to accuse Beijing of genocide against the region’s mostly Muslim Uyghur population.
State media reported on Friday that the visit from Tuesday to Thursday included stops at a university and a trade zone in the regional capital, Urumqi. A photo from the official Xinhua news agency showed a maskless Xi surrounded by smiling and clapping residents, many of them apparently Uyghurs wearing traditional costumes and Muslim prayer caps.
Captured British man Paul Urey ‘dies after being held by Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine’
The aid worker Moscow accused of being a mercenary ‘died of illness and stress’, DPR separatists said
A British aid worker held by Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine and accused of “mercenary activities” has died, according to the Russian state news agency Tass.
Paul Urey, who had been captured by the Russian military in the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in eastern Ukraine, allegedly died on Sunday at the age of 45 “due to illness and stress”.
Reports cite DPR ombudsman Daria Morozova, who wrote on her Telegram account: “British representatives ignored even the possibility of negotiating his return as part of the prisoner exchange procedure.
Russia: Tens of thousands flee 'cold civil war'
Russians who disagree with Kremlin policy are fleeing the country. More than 100,000 are thought to have left since the start of the war in Ukraine. Those who stay risk losing their jobs — and their freedom.
This may be the last time in her professional life that Moscow math teacher Tatiana Chervenko corrects homework before the summer vacation. She hopes she will still have a job to come back to at the start of the new school year — but it's by no means certain. Her open opposition to the war in Ukraine has alienated her from the school administration. "Slowly but surely, I'm being put under pressure," she tells DW. "Even for apparently trivial things."
Togolese army admits to killing children mistaken for ‘jihadists’
The seven children were killed while returning from celebrations of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha late on July 10.
The Togolese army has admitted to killing seven children on July 10 in a blast in the village of Margba, in Tone Prefecture, in its northernmost region Savanna region near the border with Burkina Faso.
In a statement issued Thursday, the military revealed that the youngsters aged 14-18 were hit by air raids at dawn after they were mistaken for what they say was a group of ” jihadists” who entered the country on the basis of intelligence gathered.
A 'Middle East NATO'? Why Iran is closely watching Biden's regional trip
By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN
United States President Joe Biden is on a landmark trip to the Middle East. One country he won't be visiting, however, is dominating the agenda: Iran.
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