Situation 'critical' after wave of Russian missiles - Ukraine
The United States has strongly condemned Russia’s latest missile attacks against Ukraine, which are reported to have struck residential buildings in Kyiv and additional sites across the country.
US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has said the strikes will serve to only deepen the concerns among the G20 about the "destabilising impact of [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s war".
Summary
- Dozens of missiles are launched at targets across Ukraine as Russia faces stinging condemnation at the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia
- At least one person is reported dead after strikes on the capital Kyiv
- The Ukrainian president's office says the situation across the country is "critical"
- UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says Russia is waging a "barbaric" war and that it should "get out" of Ukraine
- A draft G20 declaration says "most" members strongly condemn the war in Ukraine and that it is exacerbating fragilities in the global economy
- We won't get to see the finalised statement until tomorrow but Russia has already attacked the "politicisation" of the declaration
- Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, representing Russia at the summit, earlier accused Ukraine of setting "unrealistic" conditions for talks
- Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared at the G20 via videolink, calling for the war to be stopped
Alaa Abd el-Fattah has ended hunger strike, sister says
British-Egyptian political prisoner had been on a partial hunger strike of 100 calories or less a day for six months
Alaa Abd el-Fattah, the British-Egyptian democracy activist jailed in Egypt, has told his family in a letter that he has ended his six-month-long hunger strike, which he began in protest against his detention conditions.
“I’ve broken my strike. I’ll explain everything on Thursday,” he told them, in reference to his monthly family prison visits to the Wadi el-Natrun desert prison where he is being held. The democracy activist was sentenced to a further five years in prison last year for sharing a social media post about torture, shortly after gaining British citizenship through his mother.
Iran protests: Demonstrators mark deadly 2019 crackdown
Students and workers in Tehran and several other cities took to the streets to commemorate 2019 anti-government protests that are now known as Bloody November.
Protesters in Iran led a fresh bout of demonstrations on Tuesday to commemorate 2019 Bloody November protests over fuel prices — protests which were ultimately put down by government force.
It comes after more than two months of protests against the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Jini Mahsa Amini while in custody of the country's notorious morality police.
Iranian authorities have sought to crack down on the protests. A court sentenced what it described as a "rioter" to death and handed jail terms to other anti-government protesters.
For several days, activists posted online about commemorating the 2019 protests. Others spread written material in person to circumvent internet restrictions.
World population poised to hit 8 billion, UN says
A baby born somewhere on Tuesday will be the world's eight billionth person, according to a projection by the United Nations.
"The milestone is an occasion to celebrate diversity and advancements while considering humanity's shared responsibility for the planet," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a statement.
The UN attributes the growth to human development, with people living longer thanks to improvements in public health, nutrition, personal hygiene and medicine.
It is also the result of higher fertility rates, particularly in the world's poorest countries -- most of which are in sub-Saharan Africa -- putting their development goals at risk.
European Casts Covetous Eyes toward West Africa
Until recently, Europe had been urging Africa to focus on the development of renewable energy sources. But a natural gas project in Senegal suddenly has Germany, France, Italy and others flocking to the country hoping for a new supplier.
A large wave spills over the gunwales of the wooden pirogue and everything in the bottom of the boat begins floating around in the swirling water. Another wave hits the boat a short time later, its keel rising two meters before plunging into the trough, hitting the surface hard.
Moustapha Dieng leans placidly on a plank of wood, amused by the pale faces of the DER SPIEGEL team onboard with him. Dieng is wearing a black wool cap, his shaggy beard has long since become peppered with gray and he is missing several teeth. In the coastal village of Guet Ndar, essentially an extension of Saint Louis, a city in northern Senegal, they call him "father." Dieng is head of the powerful association of traditional fishermen in Senegal. He knows everybody here, and everybody knows him.
Residents ‘revolt’ over oppressive Covid lockdowns in China’s Guangzhou
Residents under Covid lockdown in China’s southern manufacturing hub of Guangzhou have torn down barriers meant to confine them to their homes, taking to the streets in defiance of strictly enforced local orders, according to video and images circulating on social media.
Some of the images show large crowds cheering and surging across toppled barriers and filling streets after dark in the city’s Haizhu district, which has been under an increasingly restrictive lockdown since November 5, as the epicenter of the city’s ongoing Covid outbreak.
The clanging sound of metal barriers falling reverberates across the neighborhood and mingles with cheers in the footage, in scenes multiple social media users said took place late Monday evening on district streets.
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