Ukraine war: Kyiv rejects Wagner claim over Bakhmut
Russian mercenaries are in full control of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, their chief says - a claim immediately dismissed by Ukrainian officials.
"We took the whole city," said Yevgeny Prigozhin, posing with some of his Wagner fighters.
Ukraine's deputy defence minister rejected the claim but admitted the situation was "critical".
Wagner mercenaries have been leading efforts to take the eastern city and previously claimed to have seized it.
Bakhmut is of little strategic importance to Russia, which has been trying to capture it for months.
Russian mercenaries behind slaughter of 500 in Mali village, UN report finds
Report implicates Wagner group fighters in Moura atrocity, including the torture and rape of civilians
First came a single helicopter, flying low over the marshes around the river outside the village, then the rattle of automatic fire scattered the crowds gathered for the weekly market.
Next came more helicopters, dropping troops off around the homes and cattle pens. The soldiers moved swiftly, ordering men into the centre of the village, gunning down those trying to escape. When some armed militants fired back, the shooting intensified. Soon at least 20 civilians and a dozen alleged members of an al-Qaida affiliated Islamist group, were dead.
Over the next five days, hundreds more would die in the village of Moura in the Mopti region of Mali at the hands of troops overseen by Russian mercenaries, according to a new United Nations report. All but a small fraction were unarmed civilians.
US-Afghan journalist Ali Latifi freed after Kabul detention
The journalist had spent a day in detention over accusations of "suspicious behavior." An Afghan advocacy group has registered 70 arrests of journalists since May 2022.
US-Afghan journalist Ali Latifi has been released from detention in Kabul, Latifi and a media advocacy group said.
The journalist had spent a day in detention.
"It was all a misunderstanding; I was treated fine," Latifi tweeted following his release.
The freelance journalist has reported for DW and other international outlets such as CNN and the BBC.
Latifi was arrested after he met with former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani's brother, Hashmat Ghani. The journalist was accused of "suspicious behavior" by authorities.
Malaysian tweens earn their ‘Tiger Stripes’ in Cannes coming-of-age body horror
A young girl’s experience of puberty gets the body-horror treatment in Amanda Nell Eu’s playfully rebellious “Tiger Stripes”, the first feature by a Malaysian female director to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. FRANCE 24 spoke to Eu about the making of the movie and its universal message.
A bold and stirring debut feature, “Tiger Stripes” offered an original take on the experience of menstrual metamorphosis – and a welcome distraction from the relentless rain that has dampened the mood here in Cannes.
Its Cannes screening, part of the Critics’ Week sidebar, was met with warm applause from a large and varied audience that included teenage pupils on a school outing.
'With no savings, I am worried'
An Uber driver in Delhi struggles with 18-hour work days and high costs.
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“I usually get three to four hours of sleep, not more than that,” says Sheetal Kashyap. “No matter how late I go to sleep, my morning starts at 7:30am. Then the usual chores of cleaning, cooking, getting ready, and I start taking rides by 9am.”
As a rideshare driver for Uber, she drives around the Indian capital every day, working to find passengers for about 18 to 19 hours before returning home. Ride requests are not always consistent, so she does take breaks, usually to have tea or eat a meal. But the long hours have taken a toll, and her health deteriorated in March.
Sheetal says she does not want more women to work the job she has. “Why should women join these professions? We didn’t have a choice, but others who do should not join.”
Is Mexico doing the US’s ‘dirty work’ when it comes to migration
Marilyn Lomas had finally made it. In front of the Ecuadorian migrant, her husband, and their two children, was the Suchiate. The mighty river’s waters can occasionally turn dangerous for migrants and marks the southwestern most part of the 956 kilometer (594 mile) border between Mexico and Guatemala.
“The situation [in Ecuador] is very bad. There’s a lot of crime. It’s really bad,” she said as she and her family recently crossed the river on a flimsy raft along with roughly a dozen migrants who typically pay a dollar to local guides to help them across, with luck, without getting wet.
Other than the Suchiate, there was nothing stopping the family from crossing from the Guatemalan department of San Marcos into the Mexican state of Chiapas. Historically, migrants coming from the south have faced few or no restrictions in Guatemala or Mexico. But that dramatically changed in 2019.
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