They got married the day Russia invaded. It’s been the longest year of their lives
Yaryna Arieva and Sviatoslav Fursin are not going to celebrate their first wedding anniversary this Friday.
The Ukrainian couple got married on the day Russia launched a full-scale attack on their country. A year later, Ukraine is still at war. Russian missiles are still falling from the sky and people are still dying.
There isn’t much to celebrate, they say. “A year has passed and all the memories, they start coming back,” Arieva told CNN at her and Fursin’s home in Kyiv.
She said that, for months, she avoided wearing a suit she got just days before the invasion because it was bringing back memories of the darkest moments of her life.
Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza after militants fire rockets in wake of West Bank raid
Region braced for escalation in violence as attacks from both sides follow deadliest Israeli army raid in decades in Nablus
Region braced for escalation in violence as attacks from both sides follow deadliest Israeli army raid in decades in Nablus
Israel and militants in the Gaza Strip have exchanged fire just hours after the deadliest Israeli army raid in decades killed 11 Palestinians and wounded more than 100 more in the occupied West Bank, leaving the region braced for an escalation in violence.
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said early on Thursday morning that it had carried out airstrikes on two military sites operated by Hamas, the Islamist movement that controls the strip, after the launch of six rockets from the blockaded enclave towards southern Israel.
Ukraine supermarkets full of fruit and veg as UK rations
Photos come from Ukraine as environment secretary Thérèse Coffey says Britain could face month of shortages
Full shelves of food have been pictured greeting customers in war-torn Ukraine as Britian’s supermarkets struggle to stock items.
Environment secretary Thérèse Coffey said on Thursday that salad and other vegetable items could be short in the UK for up to one month.
The government has come under fire for not supporting British farmers and also enacting Brexit policies that have led to the shortages. Tesco, Asda, Aldi and Morrisons have all limited the number of some fruits and vegetables that customers can buy.
How a search tool offers overseas Uyghurs harrowing insights
Leaked data and a search tool have allowed some overseas Uyghurs to gain insights into their family members in China's Xinjiang region. Some say they feel a deep sense of guilt while others are filled with fear.
Last May, a cache of leaked files and photos from hacked official databases in China's northwestern Xinjiang region shed new light on human rights abuses by Beijing toward the region's Uyghur minority.
Images showing teenagers and old women among those detained at the internment camps offered horrific insights into the Chinese government's brutal persecution of the Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities.
The files were obtained by an anonymous source who hacked police computers and leaked them to Adrian Zenz, director of China Studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in the United States.
Thomas Sankara, ‘Africa’s Che Guevara’, reburied in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso’s revolutionary leader, Thomas Sankara, was reburied Thursday, eight years after his body was exhumed as part of an investigation.
Sankara’s body, and those of the 12 people who died with him, were reburied at the site of his assassination, which has since become a memorial for Sankara featuring a life-size statue of the former leader pumping his fist in the air.
Soldiers and community leaders paid tribute during a ceremony Thursday, some posing for pictures by Sankara’s coffin. All the coffins were draped in Burkina Faso flags with a photo beside them.
Sankara and the others were gunned down in the capital, Ouagadougou, during a 1987 coup and buried hastily, their bodies only allowed to be dug up in 2015, after the ousting of former President Blaise Compaore.
How and why did Shamima Begum lose her UK citizenship?
Begum, whose nationality was stripped after she travelled to Syria to join ISIL (ISIS), continues to fuel debate.
Shamima Begum, the British-born national who travelled to Syria as a schoolgirl to join ISIL (ISIS), has lost her latest appeal against the removal of her citizenship.
Her lawyers on Wednesday vowed to keep fighting, saying the case was “nowhere near over”
The British government stripped Begum of her citizenship in 2019, shortly after she was found in a detention camp in Syria.
Public opinion is divided over her case. Some say she should remain barred, while others believe she should stand trial in a British court for joining ISIL.
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