Celebrations in Kherson as Ukraine recaptures key city
Russian defence map shows departure from Kherson
Paul Kirby
Europe digital editor
You don't need to be able to read Russian to see the significance of this map, produced during a briefing earlier today by Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov.
The orange areas of the map are under Russian occupation and, significantly, the entire area of the Kherson region on the western side of the River Dnipro is now white - in other words no longer in Russian hands. Kherson city is in yellow, near the bottom of the map in the centre.
World leaders at Cop27 urged to press Egypt over prisoner Alaa Abd el-Fattah
Global spotlight on host country has heightened scrutiny of human rights record, with Biden due to meet Sisi
As Egyptian officials strive to control the narrative and isolate the case of the detained British Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, pressure is mounting on world leaders at Cop27 to acknowledge Egypt’s poor human rights record and raise his case.
The Egyptian authorities have engaged in a sweeping public relations campaign to try to discredit Abd el-Fattah, including a digital campaign depicting him as a threat to national security.
A visibly shaken Sameh Shoukry, Egypt’s foreign minister and Cop27 president, told CNN that “this is a judicial matter, the person in question has had a fair trial … there should be respect for the judicial system.” Shoukry also cast doubt on Abd el-Fattah’s dual nationality, after he gained British citizenship while in prison last year.
Ethiopia says aid deliveries resume in Tigray
The Ethiopian government has said its military controls 70% of the restive northern region, as meetings for peace with Tigrayan fighters continue in Kenya.
Ethiopian officials on Friday said government forces control 70% of the war-torn Tigray region, claiming that aid deliveries have resumed.
The ongoing conflict between the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Ethiopian government has unleashed a humanitarian crisis, with deliveries of food and medicine to the region often blocked by fighting.
On November 3, the Ethiopian government and the TPLF agreed to a cease-fire mediated by the African Union.
Angry Iranians protest 'Bloody Friday' massacre
Hundreds of angry men protested after Friday prayers in Iran's Sistan-Baluchistan province, online videos showed, six weeks after rights groups say dozens were killed during a crackdown in the region.
Security forces shot dead more than 90 people at protests after weekly prayers on September 30 in the provincial capital Zahedan, on Iran's southeastern border with Pakistan, said Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights (IHR).
It came two weeks after demonstrations flared in Iran over the death of Mahsa Amini, following her arrest for allegedly flouting the country's strict dress code for women. The protests have grown into a broad movement against the theocracy under supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 83.
"Death to Khamenei," chanted men who emerged from mosques in Zahedan after Friday prayers, in a video published by IHR.
India’s top court orders release of six people convicted of killing former PM Rajiv Gandhi
India’s top court on Friday ordered the release of six people convicted of killing the country’s former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, 31 years after their imprisonment.
The Supreme Court released Nalini Sriharan, the only woman convicted in the case, and five men, according to Anand Landge, the lawyer for the petitioners.
They were arrested a few weeks after Gandhi was assassinated in a suicide bomb attack on May 21, 1991, in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
The attack was blamed on separatist rebels fighting for a Tamil state in Sri Lanka. Gandhi’s killing was seen as retaliation for his decision to send Indian troops into Sri Lanka in 1987 to enforce a peace accord to end the island nation’s civil war.
Kishida dumps justice minister for remarks on death penalty
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
November 11, 2022 at 18:37 JST
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida reversed course and sacked his embattled justice minister, Yasuhiro Hanashi, only hours after denying he had any intention of firing him.
Kishida met with reporters in the evening of Nov. 11 and explained that he was appointing Ken Saito, a former agriculture minister, to replace Hanashi.
Just before that, Hanashi met with Kishida to hand him his resignation. Hanashi then told reporters he was stepping down.
“I used the term ‘death sentence’ too lightly,” Hanashi said. “I caused the public and Justice Ministry officials to hold uncomfortable feelings. I have also caused Diet deliberations to stall.”
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