100 prisoners of war exchanged between Russia and Ukraine
From CNN’s Uliana Pavlova and Denis Lapin
Russia and Ukraine carried out a prisoner exchange Sunday with a total of 100 soldiers returning to their respective home countries, according to authorities from both countries.
As a result of the negotiation process, 50 Russian soldiers captured by Ukraine were returned to Russia, Russian defense ministry said in a statement.
Andriy Yermak, head of the Ukrainian presidential office confirmed the exchange, saying that 50 Ukrainian soldiers captured by Russia returned home.
Hedge funds holding up vital debt relief for crisis-hit Sri Lanka, warn economists
Exclusive: 182 experts say only debt cancellation offers chance of recovery but private investors are playing hardball
Larry Elliott Economics editor
Some of the world’s most powerful hedge funds and other investors are holding up vital help for crisis-hit Sri Lanka by their hardline stance in debt-relief negotiations after the Asian country’s $51bn (£42bn) default last year, according to 182 economists and development experts from around the world.
In a statement released to the Guardian on Sunday, the group said extensive debt cancellation was needed to give the economy a chance of recovery and that Sri Lanka would be a test case of the willingness of the international community to tackle a looming global debt crisis.
German police say they have foiled Islamist cyanide terror attack plot
Police detain 32-year-old Iranian man and his brother
German police say they have foiled a terror plot in the country after arresting a 32-year-old Iranian man suspected of having procured deadly poisons including cyanide and ricin to carry out an attack.
The residence of the suspect in the town of Castrop-Rauxel was also searched, police and prosecutors said in a joint statement.
Specialists wearing anti-contamination suits were seen carrying evidence out of the man’s home. A spokesperson for Duesseldorf prosecutors said initial searches did not find any toxic substances.
China's Battle against COVIDThe Omicron Wave Hits the Countryside
Instead of using the time gained through its zero-COVID policy to strengthen rural healthcare, services have actually decayed in recent years. Now, the Omicron wave is wreaking havoc in the countryside.
By Georg Fahrion und Christoph Giesen in Hebei and Tianjin, China
Sitting in his peach orchard, farmer Shang Ruitai looks out on the rural highway to Zanhuang, which runs by just on the other side of a thick row of poplar trees. The road connects the villages scattered throughout the southwestern corner of China’s Hebei province, a vital lifeline for the region. In recent weeks, though, it has become an alleyway of death.
Almost every day, there is a burial at some point along the road, with men wielding picks and shovels digging graves out of the frozen ground. If possible, Chinese farmers bury the urns containing family members' ashes on their own property. And fresh graves can be seen everywhere in the fields along the highway. Small mounds of earth decorated with brightly colored plastic flowers – green, orange and violet.
'Democracy in danger': Thousands of Israelis protest Netanyahu's new government
Thousands of Israelis protested on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government, regarded as the most right-wing in Israeli history, an AFP correspondent said.
Protesters brandished signs with slogans including "Democracy in danger" and "Together against fascism and apartheid" in the coastal city of Tel Aviv.
Some waved Israeli and rainbow flags while others held a large banner reading "crime minister" -- a slogan widely used by Israelis during regular demonstrations against Netanyahu in past years.
‘A search for ourselves’: shipwreck becomes focus of slavery debate
Vessel that sank with more than 200 transported people onboard is being used to humanise the story of slavery
In 2015, a delegation from the Smithsonian Institution travelled to Mozambique to inform the Makua people of a singular and long-overdue discovery. Two hundred and twenty-one years after it sank in treacherous waters off Cape Town, claiming the lives of 212 enslaved people, the wreck of the Portuguese slave ship the São José Paquete D’Africa had been found. When told the news, a Makua leader responded with a gesture that no one on the delegation will ever forget.
“One of the chiefs took a vessel we had, filled it with soil and asked us to bring that vessel back to the site of the slave ship so that, for the first time since the 18th century, his people could sleep in their own land,” says Lonnie Bunch, now the secretary of the Smithsonian.
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