Ukraine war: Russia's Wagner boss suggests 'betrayal' in Bakhmut battle
The head of Russia's Wagner private army says it is not getting the ammunition it needs from Moscow, as it seeks to gain control of Bakhmut.
The eastern city has seen months of intense fighting, as Wagner and regular Russian troops try to seize it.
But Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin says his army's lack of ammunition could be "ordinary bureaucracy or a betrayal".
Ukraine's president and military commanders have agreed to strengthen their defence of Bakhmut.
Russia has appeared determined to capture the city for months, but many analysts say it has become a symbolic prize in the war and has little strategic value.
Revealed: 1,000 super-emitting methane leaks risk triggering climate tipping points
Vast releases of gas, along with future ‘methane bombs’, represent huge threat – but curbing emissions would rapidly reduce global heating
More than 1,000 “super-emitter” sites gushed the potent greenhouse gas methane into the global atmosphere in 2022, the Guardian can reveal, mostly from oil and gas facilities. The worst single leak spewed the pollution at a rate equivalent to 67m running cars.
Separate data also reveals 55 “methane bombs” around the world – fossil fuel extraction sites where gas leaks alone from future production would release levels of methane equivalent to 30 years of all US greenhouse gas emissions.
Hundreds of thousands of survivors still need help a month after deadly Turkey earthquakes
An appeal for $1bn (£832m) to assist people across the country is only 10 per cent funded, UN official says
One month after powerful earthquakes devastated parts of Turkey and Syria, hundreds of thousands of people still need adequate shelter and sanitation, and an appeal for $1bn (£832m) to assist survivors is only 10 per cent funded, hampering efforts to tackle the humanitarian crisis.
The earthquakes and strong aftershocks have killed close to 47,000 people in Turkey, destroyed or damaged around 214,000 buildings and left hundreds of thousands of people homeless — making it the worst disaster in Turkey’s modern history. The UN estimates that the devastating tremors have killed around 6,000 people in Syria, mainly in the rebel-held northwest.
Some 2m survivors have been housed in temporary accommodation or evacuated from the earthquake-devastated region, according to Turkish government figures. Around 1.5m people have been settled in tents while another 46,000 have been moved to container houses. Others are living in dormitories and guesthouses, the government has said.
Pakistan bans Imran Khan broadcasts
The state media watchdog has banned TV stations from showing speeches by former Prime Minister Imran Khan, accusing him of "leveling baseless allegations."
Pakistan's Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has imposed a ban on media broadcasts of Imran Khan.
The ban came into effect on Monday, with the regulator accusing the former prime minister of "spreading hate speech."
It comes after Khan held a provocative speech in the city of Lahore in his campaign for early elections.
Earlier on Monday morning, police authorities also made a failed attempt to arrest Khan at his residency in Lahore.
Al Qaeda leader in North Africa grants exclusive interview to FRANCE 24
Algerian Islamist Abu Obeida Youssef al-Aanabi, the current leader of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), granted an exclusive interview to FRANCE 24 in which he officially confirmed his group is holding French journalist Olivier Dubois, who was kidnapped in Mali in 2021, and discussed the role of jihadism in the Sahel.
As FRANCE 24's terrorism expert Wassim Nasr explains, it took a year from requesting the interview to securing the responses, with the militant leader imposing "many conditions" including the submission of all 17 questions in advance.
Nasr said he requested a "stamped" audio file from the militant group so he could be certain it was al-Aanabi who was speaking.
Russian troops killed her parents, then she vanished without a trace
A week after Russia invaded, the family of 15-year-old Arina Yatsiuk decided to flee their home near the Ukrainian capital by car. Less than 10 miles down the road, they encountered a group of Russian troops.
The soldiers started shooting, then dragged Arina and her 9-year-old sister Valeria out of the back seat. Arina was wounded and put into one car; Valeria was ushered into another.
Valeria was taken to a nearby village, where locals found her standing by the road. Denys and Anna, the girls’ parents, were discovered shot dead in their car.
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