Ukraine is struggling to fill its ranks on the eastern frontline, in part because of a sharp increase in the number of desertions - more than 30.000 this year alone. This has prompted the government to decriminalise the offence for first-time offenders, allowing them to avoid jail if they return to duty.
Thursday, November 21, 2024
Six In The Morning Thursday 21 November 2024
ICC issues arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged Gaza war crimes
Warrants for Israeli PM and former defence minister put them at risk of detention if they go to some other countries
Thu 21 Nov 2024 16.20 GMT
ICC issues arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged Gaza war crimes
Warrants for Israeli PM and former defence minister put them at risk of detention if they go to some other countries
The international criminal court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, the country’s former defence minister Yoav Gallant and the Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif for alleged war crimes relating to the Gaza war.
It is the first time that leaders of a democracy and western-aligned state have been charged by the court, in the most momentous decision of its 22-year history.
Netanyahu and Gallant are at risk of arrest if they travel to any of the 124 countries that signed the Rome statute establishing the court. Israel claims to have killed Deif in an airstrike in July, but the court’s pre-trial chamber said it would “continue to gather information” to confirm his death.
4 tourists die from methanol tainted alcohol in Laos
Several backpackers have fallen ill in a suspected methanol poisoning incident in Vang Vieng, Laos. One young Australian woman was on "life support" in a Thai hospital, her father said.
Four foreign tourists have died of suspected methanol poisoning in Laos, officials said on Thursday.
Among the dead were an Australian woman, two Danish citizens and a US citizen.
What do we know about the suspected methanol poisoning case?
A group of around a dozen tourists fell ill after a night out on November 12 in the town of Vang Vieng, some 130 kilometers (81 miles) north of the capital, Vientiane.
At UN climate talks, developing countries blast lack of detail on funding for energy transition
The draft text for the UN climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, left out how much wealthy nations will pay poorer countries to help them to reduce greenhouse gasses and cope with climate change. The developing world says it needs the $1.3 trillion in climate finance, far more than negotiators say richer nations have been prepared to give
Countries of the world took turns rejecting a new but vague draft text released early Thursday which attempts to form the spine of any deal reached at United Nations climate talks on money for developing countries to transition to clean energy and adapt to climate change.
The draft left out a crucial sticking point: how much wealthy nations will pay poor countries. A key option for the lowest amount donors are willing to pay was just a placeholder “X.” Part of that is because rich nations have yet to make an offer in negotiations.
Kishida bombing suspect insulted in manipulative interrogation
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
November 21, 2024 at 16:37 JST
Details have emerged from a prosecutor’s harsh interrogation of the suspect in the bombing attack against former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, including derogatory insults and possible violations of his right to remain silent.
The Wakayama District Public Prosecutors Office issued a warning to the prosecutor after the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office concluded that the interrogation of the suspect, Ryuji Kimura, was improper.
Kimura, 25, was indicted in September 2023 on five charges, including attempted murder, in connection with a homemade bomb thrown at Kishida while he was delivering a campaign speech in Wakayama.
‘It’s impossible to breathe’: Life in the world’s most polluted city
Inside Delhi’s first ever clinic dedicated to pollution-related illnesses, Deepak Rajak struggles to catch his breath.
The 64-year-old’s asthma has worsened in recent days, and his daughter rushed him to the clinic, anxious about his rapidly deteriorating health.
Sitting in the waiting room, Rajak tells CNN he has become “very breathless” and cannot stop coughing.
First close-up image of a star outside Milky Way shows supergiant in ‘cocoon’
Astrophysicists say material may suggest star is dying and ejection of matter signals coming supernova
Hannah Devlin Science correspondent
Thu 21 Nov 2024 14.45 GMT
A star cloaked in an egg-shaped cocoon has been revealed in the first detailed images of a star beyond the Milky Way.
Until now, stars in other galaxies have been visible as little more than points of light, even when observed using telescopes. Now, thanks to the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), astronomers have captured the first zoomed-in image.
“We discovered an egg-shaped cocoon closely surrounding the star,” said Dr Keiichi Ohnaka, an astrophysicist at the Andrés Bello National University in Chile. “We are excited because this may be related to the drastic ejection of material from the dying star before a supernova explosion.”
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Six In The Morning Wednesday 21 November 2024
Ukraine fires UK-made Storm Shadow missiles into Russia for first time
Ukraine fires UK-made long-range missiles into Russia, BBC understands
The BBC understands that UK supplied Storm Shadow missiles have been used on targets inside Russia for the first time.
Former Ukrainian minister defends Biden's landmine decision
Let's return now to one of the other major news lines from today, which is that President Joe Biden has agreed to give Ukraine anti-personnel landmines, a US defence official tells the BBC.
A bit earlier, former Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba spoke to the BBC News channel about the US's decision, which has triggered pushback from some campaign groups.
Iran has offered to keep uranium below purity levels for a bomb, IAEA confirms
UN inspectorate chief calls Tehran’s move a ‘concrete step in the right direction’, amid threat of restored sanctions
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor
Wed 20 Nov 2024 15.21 GMT
Iran has offered to keep uranium below purity levels for a bomb, IAEA confirms
UN inspectorate chief calls Tehran’s move a ‘concrete step in the right direction’, amid threat of restored sanctions
Iran has offered to keep its stock of uranium enriched up to 60% – below the purity levels required to make a nuclear bomb – the head of the UN nuclear inspectorate, Rafael Grossi, has confirmed amid the threat of restored European sanctions over Tehran’s nuclear activities.
“I think this is … a concrete step in the right direction. We have a fact which has been verified by us. It is the first time Iran has agreed to take a different path,” Grossi said in Vienna on Tuesday.
Russia denies cutting Baltic Sea cables as tensions rise
Over the weekend two cables in the Baltic Sea were cut — including one connected to Germany — with European governments suspecting foul play. A Chinese vessel that was in the area has also raised suspicions.
Russia on Wednesday refuted suggestions it was responsible for damage caused over the weekend to two fiber-optic data telecommunication cables in the Baltic Sea.
European governments accused Moscow on Tuesday of escalating hybrid attacks on Ukraine's Western allies, days after one cable running between Finland and Germany, and another going between Sweden and Lithuania, were severed.
European officials stopped short of accusing Russia of destroying the cables but Germany, Poland and others suggested it was an act of sabotage.
G20 Rio summit ends with Ukraine blame game as Lula pushes climate action
Ukraine's allies and Russia on Tuesday traded blame for a dramatic escalation in the war in Europe, which dominated the final day of talks at a G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro.
The two-day gathering wrapped up with a plea from Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for the world's most powerful leaders to rescue stalled UN climate talks in Azerbaijan, calling it a matter of the planet's "survival."
Joe Biden, attending his last summit as US president before he hands power to Donald Trump -- a noted climate skeptic -- also appealed for urgent action.
Elections in 2 Indian states are seen as a test of Prime Minister Modi’s popularity
Millions of people are voting in state elections in Maharashtra, India’s western industrial hub, and the mineral-rich eastern province of Jharkhand on Wednesday, in a test of the popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party and its regional partners.
Politically significant Maharashtra is India’s wealthiest state and home to the financial and entertainment capital, Mumbai. It is currently ruled by a coalition of Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party and a Hindu nationalist ally. An opposition alliance, including the Congress party, is in power in eastern Jharkhand state.
US vetoes another UN Security Council resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire
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