BREAKINGICC issues arrest warrant for Russia's Putin over Ukraine crimes
ICC issues arrest warrant for Russia’s Putin over Ukraine crimes
Judges at the International Criminal Court accuse Russian president of being responsible for war crimes committed during invasion.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Putin over alleged war crimes in Ukraine.
There was no immediate comment by Russia following the ICC’s move on Friday.
Russia denies committing atrocities since it invaded Ukraine in February last year
New data links Covid-19’s origins to raccoon dogs at Wuhan market
Analysis of gene sequences by international team finds Covid-positive samples rich in raccoon dog DNA
Newly released genetic data gathered from a live food market in Wuhan has linked Covid-19 with raccoon dogs, adding weight to the theory that infected animals sold at the site started the coronavirus pandemic, researchers involved in the work say.
Swabs collected from stalls at the Huanan seafood market in the two months after it was shut down on 1 January 2020 were previously found to contain both Covid and human DNA. When the findings were published last year, Chinese researchers stated that the samples contained no animal DNA.
Turkey's Erdogan paves way to ratify Finland NATO accession
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he will support Finland's bid to join NATO and ask parliament to vote on ratifying its accession, which should prove a formality. He's still holding out on Sweden, though.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that Turkey would start the process of ratifying Finland's NATO membership bid in parliament, saying that the country had taken "sincere and concrete steps" to allay Turkey's concerns about Finland hosting Kurds and other opposition forces who fled Turkey.
The breakthrough came as Finnish President Sauli Niinisto was in Ankara to meet with Erdogan and 10 months after both Finland and Swden applied to become NATO members in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, having remained neutral throughout the Cold War.
"We have decided to start the protocol of Finland's accession to NATO in our parliament," Erdogan said following talks with his visiting Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinisto.
Belarus jails top news site managers for 12 years
Belarus on Friday handed long jail terms to senior staff at the country's largest independent news site, which was forced to shutter after historic demonstrations against strongman Alexander Lukashenko.
The verdicts are the latest in a crackdown targeting journalists, opposition figures and activists who challenged Lukashenko's claim that he won a sixth presidential term in 2020.
A court in Minsk sentenced the editor-in-chief of the Tut.by portal, Marina Zolotova, 45, and general director Lyudmila Chekina, 54, to 12 years behind bars.
The women faced a raft of charges including tax evasion -- which critics say is regularly used as a pretext to silence dissent -- and "incitement to hatred".
Hundreds detained in fiery protests after French government forces through higher retirement age
At least 310 people have been detained across France as the embattled government faces backlash for forcing through pension reforms that will see the country’s retirement age raised by two years.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told French radio RTL that most of the arrests made on Thursday night – 258 – were in Paris. Although calm had returned to the capital’s streets by Friday morning, government ministers were on the defensive following Thursday night’s impromptu protests.
The French government on Thursday forced through controversial plans to raise the country’s retirement age from 62 to 64, a move that has inflamed the country’s weeks-long protest movement.
S Korean wartime laborers file suit against Mitsubishi Heavy
A team of lawyers representing South Korean plaintiffs who were awarded damages in 2018 in a wartime labor case against Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd has filed a fresh lawsuit in Seoul to collect compensation from the major Japanese engineering company.
The lawsuit comes with Mitsubishi Heavy continuing to reject the payment of compensation in line with Tokyo's stance that the wartime issue has already been resolved.
Meanwhile, Seoul has proposed a plan to have South Korean companies compensate the plaintiffs through a public foundation.
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