Russia-Ukraine live: Children among victims of deadly air raids
- As people slept overnight, the biggest Russian air raids in months killed at least 21 people, including three children, Ukrainian officials said.
- Russia, which regularly denies targeting civilians, said its strategic bombers carried out precision missile attacks on Ukrainian army reserve units to prevent them from getting to the frontline.
- The Russian-installed mayor of Donetsk city said seven people were killed when Ukrainian shelling hit a minibus.
- Ukraine is making final preparations for a counteroffensive which will begin “as soon as there is God’s will, the weather and a decision by commanders”, Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov said.
Sudan street battles threaten fragile ceasefire as Turkish plane shot
Concerns truce agreement may not hold despite three-day extension as unrest continues
Street battles and gunfire threaten what remains of a fragile ceasefire in Sudan, now hanging by a thread despite a three-day extension of the truce agreement as a Turkish evacuation plane was shot at as it attempted to land.
The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), loyal to Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, claimed the paramilitary group the Rapid Support Forces had shot at the plane as it landed at the Wadi Seidna airbase, 12.5 miles (20km) north of Khartoum on the western bank of the Nile. The SAF said the attack had wounded a crew member and damaged the plane’s fuel supply.
'Football Leaks' ruling postponed for hacker Rui Pinto
The Portuguese hacker released more than 18 million documents that led to investigations into star players, including Cristiano Ronaldo. Pinto claims he should be shielded from prosecution as a whistleblower.
A court in Portugal has postponed its ruling for hacker Rui Pinto, who is on trial for accessing and releasing private documents that formed the "Football Leaks."
The ruling, originally scheduled for April 28, was pushed back to July 13 on Friday because of a change in facts in the case and to allow more witnesses to be called.
Pinto's lawyer said after the hearing on Friday that it was foreseeable that his client would ultimately be convicted, national newspaper Publico reported.
Conservative Turkish women are turning their backs on Erdogan ahead of vote
Turkey’s May 14 elections are looking uncertain for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan amid a sluggish economy, young Turks less enamoured with the ruling AKP and an opposition that is finally united. Support from conservative women, usually a pillar of his voting base, is also looking less robust ahead of the vote. FRANCE 24 reports.
Emine*, a housewife, lives in the Basaksehir district in Istanbul, one of the many neighbourhoods transformed by the ruling AKP’s urbanisation policy. She was in her early 30s when then candidate Erdogan, who ran as an MP in a March 2003 by-election, emerged as a beacon of hope for women like her: veiled, conservative women who felt marginalised and even disregarded.
"I liked him a lot, and I liked the party as well," Emine says, when asked why she has voted for Erdogan for the past 20 years.
Court rules Amex must compensate worker demoted after giving birth
By KYOTA TANAKA/ Staff Writer
April 28, 2023 at 18:28 JST
The Tokyo High Court has overturned a lower court ruling and backed an employee of American Express International Inc. who had sued her company for demoting her after she went on maternity leave.
The high court ordered American Express on April 27 to pay the woman 2.2 million yen ($16,000) in compensation, saying the company had disadvantaged her, violating the Equal Employment Opportunity Law.
“(The reassignment) put the plaintiff at a disadvantage in terms of payment and the importance of her role,” the ruling said. “Above all, it damaged her career with its lack of due consideration to what she had built up over the years.”
Right-wing Israelis come out in force to support plan to overhaul courts
Isabel Kershner
In a defiant show of force, masses of right-wing demonstrators have converged on Jerusalem to support an Israeli government plan to overhaul the judiciary that has deeply divided the country.
The crowd was largely made up of people from the religious Zionist camp. Many said they wanted a more Jewish Israel that put their brand of traditional values ahead of the liberalism championed by the country’s old, secular elites. Those elites, in the demonstrators’ view, control an overactive judiciary, the mainstream media and the bureaucratic establishment.
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