Ukraine war: Zelensky says situation in Bakhmut worsening
The situation in the city of Bakhmut, on the eastern frontline, is becoming "more and more difficult", Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
Russian forces have been trying to take the city for over six months.
"The enemy is constantly destroying everything that can be used to protect our positions", Mr Zelensky stated.
The Ukrainian leader's remarks came as US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned China against arming Russia during a visit to Kyiv on Monday.
Some of the fiercest fighting since Russia invaded Ukraine just over a year ago has taken place in Bakhmut, in Ukraine's Donetsk region, part of which is under the control of Russia and its proxy forces.
Nigeria’s opposition parties call for election to be scrapped
Labour party chairman Julius Abure says vote has been ‘irretrievably compromised’
Nigeria’s main opposition parties have called for the country’s presidential election to be scrapped, alleging that results showing the ruling party’s candidate in the lead had been manipulated.
Early results have put Bola Tinubu from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) well ahead of the main opposition Peoples Democratic party (PDP) candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and the outsider third challenger, the Labour party’s Peter Obi.
German doctor arrested for issuing illegal COVID exemptions
A doctor in the German state of Saxony was arrested on Tuesday, as part of an investigation into fraudulent COVID-19 health certificates. The 66-year-old woman has been accused of exchanging false health exemptions for money.
According to a police statement, the doctor earned €12,500 ($13,300) as part of the illegal activity. The arrest warrant accuses her of issuing some 162 exemption certificated to individuals who should not have qualified for them.
These included certificates to exempt people from wearing masks and to exempt them from being vaccinated or tested at establishments that required this for entry.
North Korea's Kim orders 'fundamental transformation' of agriculture amid fears of food shortages
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for a "fundamental" change in agricultural production, state media reported on Tuesday (February 28), amid fears that the country's food shortage is worsening.
Dentsu, others indicted over Tokyo Olympics bid rigging
Japanese advertising giant Dentsu Group Inc, a former Olympic organizing committee executive and others were indicted Tuesday over alleged bid rigging in connection with the 2021 Tokyo Games.
Prosecutors took the decision after receiving complaints from the Japan Fair Trade Commission, indicting six companies, including Dentsu's rival Hakuhodo Inc., as well as six individuals from the companies and Yasuo Mori, former operations executive on the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee.
They are suspected of violating the anti-monopoly law by rigging bids for contracts worth around 43.7 billion yen to plan and run Olympic test events and competitions.
Twitter under fire for censoring Palestinian public figures
Digital rights groups say social media giants have restricted, suspended the accounts of Palestinian journalists and activists.
On December 15, Twitter owner Elon Musk suspended the accounts of some journalists, including reporters from newspapers like the New York Times and the Washington Post. Defending his decision, Musk claimed the journalists had breached the company’s new rule about revealing people’s locations.
The suspensions were condemned by the journalists’ newspapers and other media organisations – even the European Union and the United Nations weighed in, saying the move set a dangerous precedent. A day later, Musk lifted the suspensions after running a poll in which respondents went against his preferred outcome.
But there had been no such global outrage two weeks earlier about the suspension of the account of Said Arikat, a veteran Palestinian journalist based in Washington, DC, on December 3.
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