Questions loom over Ukraine’s counteroffensive in Kharkiv
Ukraine has managed to turn the tide of war, at least for now. What may happen next?
The speed of the Ukrainian military’s counteroffensive in the eastern Kharkiv region is nothing short of breakneck.
Three dozen towns and villages have been liberated from the Russian forces who fled eastwards and offered little or no resistance, analysts say.
“Within four days, Ukraine nullified four months of success of the Russian army that cost them a huge amount of victims,” Nikolay Mitrokhin, a Russian expert at Germany’s University of Bremen, told Al Jazeera.
Fifty million people now trapped in modern slavery in a ‘surge of exploitation’
New estimates say the past five years has seen 10m more people enslaved and millions more children forced into early marriage
Fifty million people around the world are trapped in modern slavery, either forced to work against their will or forced into a marriage, according to new global estimates, marking a significant rise over the past five years.
The number of people trapped in forced labour, including sex trafficking, rose to 28 million, with a further 22 million trapped in forced marriage, says a report published on Monday by the International Labour Organization, International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the anti-trafficking human rights group Walk Free.
The new estimates found that 10 million more people had fallen victim to forms of modern slavery in 2021 compared with 2016, with women and children the most badly affected.
Sweden elections: Far-right party and its allies take narrow lead
Sweden Democrats become second largest group in parliament with antipicated 21 per cent of vote
A far-right party in Sweden has become the second largest in parliament following an election which is still too close to call.
Sweden Democrats, a group which has neo-Nazi roots, has profited from the country’s shift to the right, which has left the party and its allies on the verge of taking power.
With 94 per cent of votes from Sunday’s election counted, the right-wing bloc has a narrow lead over its centre-left opponents.
Iran as a nuclear power would endanger world: Israeli PM
German Chancellor Scholz and Israeli Prime Minister Lapid have held talks on topics including the nuclear deal with Iran. Lapid stressed the danger that would be posed by a nuclear-armed Iran.
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Monday said joint action should be taken to prevent Iran gaining nuclear weapons, saying that it would be wrong to try to revive a landmark 2015 agreement on curbing Tehran's nuclear program.
"Returning to the agreement under current conditions would be a mistake," Lapid said at a joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz following talks in Berlin.
It is Lapid's first visit to Germany as premier.
Survey: Africans, Latin Americans questioned by police most often
By TAKURO NEGISHI/ Staff Writer
September 12, 2022
The Tokyo Bar Association released the results of a survey on Sept. 9 that suggests those with Latin American, African or Middle Eastern roots are more likely than other foreigners to be subjected to police questioning.
Moe Miyashita, a lawyer with the Tokyo Bar Association’s committee on the rights of foreign nationals, called on the government to investigate racial profiling by Japanese police in light of the troubling survey results.
“I’m concerned that police consider people who look like foreign nationals as subjects for a criminal watch,” she said at a news conference. “It is necessary to create guidelines for police checks to prevent discrimination and a system that allows police questioning to be examined later.”
Donald Trump Is Not Invited to Queen’s Funeral, and Joe Biden Will Have to Take the Bus
If Donald Trump thought that his hagiography of Queen Elizabeth published on his Truth Social website and the Daily Mail in the days after her death would secure him an invite to her funeral, he will be disappointed.
For it has been revealed that Trump, who is believed to have been angling for an invite, will not after all receive an invitation to attend the queen’s funeral on Monday next week in London.
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