Kremlin drone attack: Russia accuses Ukraine of trying to assassinate Putin
Russia has accused Ukraine of trying to assassinate President Vladimir Putin by using drones to target his residence in the Kremlin in central Moscow.
The presidential office said defences downed two drones overnight. Mr Putin's spokesman said the Russian leader had not been in the complex at the time.
Unverified footage on social media appeared to show an object flying over the Kremlin before a small explosion.
Ukraine said it had nothing to do with the alleged drone strike.
President Volodymyr Zelensky's spokesman said Ukraine was focusing on liberating its own territory after Russia invaded last year.
US investigation uncovers two 10-year-olds working at Kentucky McDonald’s
Investigation also found three franchises in four states employed a total of 305 children working more than legally permitted hours
A US department of labor investigation uncovered child labor violations at three McDonald’s locations in Louisville, Kentucky, which included finding two 10-year-olds working unpaid, sometimes until 2am.
The three McDonald’s franchisees cited in the investigation own a total of 62 locations across Kentucky, Indiana, Maryland and Ohio, were found to employ 305 children who were working more than legally permitted hours and performing job tasks prohibited by law for their age.
Journalist on Ryanair flight forced to land in Belarus is jailed for 8 years
Lukashenko regime ordered commerical flight to land in Minsk and arrested opponent onboard
A journalist arrested after Belarus forcibly diverted his Ryanair flight was sentenced to eight years in jail on Wednesday after what opposition leaders called a “fake trial”.
Roman Protasevich, 27, was flying from Greece to Lithuania almost two years ago when Belarussian air traffic controllers ordered the pilots to land in Minsk on the false pretext of a bomb threat.
Ryanair flight FR9478, between two EU nations, was escorted to the ground by Belarus fighter jets in an unprecedented hostile act. No explosives were found on board but Mr Protasevich, a Belarusian citizen who lived in exile, was detained in an apparently pre-planned move.
DW Freedom of Speech Award 2023 goes to Oscar Martinez
The journalist from El Salvador becomes the ninth DW Freedom of Speech Award laureate for his work promoting press freedom in Central America.
DW's Freedom of Speech Award 2023 will go to Oscar Martinez, one of Latin America's most renowned investigative journalists, Germany's international public broadcaster revealed on Wednesday.
The 40-year-old El Salvador-born journalist is the editor-in-chief of the Salvadoran online magazine El Faro (The Lighthouse), which started in 1998 as a no-budget project and became one of the leading investigative media in Latin America.
The announcement of this year's Freedom of Speech Award recipient comes on May 3, the day of DW's 70th anniversary.
Brazil police search Bolsonaro's home in probe of falsified Covid-19 data
Police in Brazil searched ex-president Jair Bolsonaro's home Wednesday as part of an investigation into allegations of falsifying Covid-19 vaccination certificates, media reports said.
The far-right ex-president (2019-2022), who faced widespread criticism for his unorthodox handling of the pandemic, has repeatedly said he is not vaccinated against Covid-19.
Federal police confirmed they were investigating "the insertion of falsified Covid-19 vaccination data" into the health ministry's electronic vaccination records system, but did not mention Bolsonaro by name.
Saudi Arabia wants to be a bigger player in the Middle East — this time with diplomacy
When Iranian evacuees from Sudan were being flown out of Saudi Arabia on Saturday, a top Saudi military official went as far as boarding their plane back home to bid them a warm farewell.
“(This is) your country,” the kingdom’s Western Region Commander Major General Ahmed Al-Dabais declared to the departing Iranians as he held hands with Hassan Zarangar, Iran’s charge d’affaires to the kingdom. “If you need anything in Saudi, you’re most welcome… Iran and Saudi, they are brothers.”
Sixty-five Iranians evacuated from Sudan by the Saudi military were welcomed in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah with flowers, images of which were broadcast on both Iranian and Saudi state television. Dabais told Zarangar that the friendly welcome for the Iranians was “from the directives of the leadership, from the king, from the crown prince.”
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