Ukraine says it captured two injured North Korean soldiers in Russia
Two wounded North Korean soldiers have been captured as prisoners of war by Ukrainian troops in Russia's Kursk Oblast, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday.
The two men are receiving "necessary medical assistance" and are in the custody of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in Kyiv, according to Zelensky.
The president said he was "grateful" to Ukrainian paratroopers and soldiers from the Special Operation Forces for capturing the North Koreans.
Venezuelan opposition candidate accuses Nicolás Maduro of coup
Sat 11 Jan 2025 13.44 GMT
Venezuelan opposition candidate accuses Nicolás Maduro of coup
Edmundo González, widely believed to have won July election, gives address after autocrat sworn in for third term
The man widely believed to be the real victor of last year’s presidential election in Venezuela has accused Nicolás Maduro of staging a coup and “crowning himself dictator” after the South American autocrat claimed another six years in power.
Maduro, a former union leader who has governed since 2013, in increasingly authoritarian fashion, was sworn in for a third term on Friday, despite claims that he stole the election from the actual winner, the retired diplomat Edmundo González.
Germany: Thousands protest AfD party conference in Saxony
Thousands of people protested in the German town of Riesa, in the eastern state of Saxony, against a gathering of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
Organizers counted 12,000 protesters in attendance, while the police spoke of 10,000.
The AfD conference is part of the party's campaign for the February 23 Bundestag election, which was called after the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition government.
Syria’s forced disappearances: No relief for grieving families
Thousands of people who vanished during former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's reign are still missing, a month after the regime's collapse. While some families have been reunited after the release of the regime's prisoners, others are desperately searching. Four families told FRANCE 24 the stories of their loved ones' forced disappearances.
136,000. That’s the number of people – men, women and children – who disappeared under the Assad dictatorship. This tragedy touches almost every family in Syria.
After the fall of the regime on December 8, 2024, many of these families rushed to prisons, hospitals and morgues in the hopes of finding their loved ones – dead or alive.
While some have been lucky enough to arrive at the end of their harrowing journey, others continue to look for traces, however small, of people they have had no news of for years.
Students describe horror of hammer attack on Tokyo campus
By SHOKO MIFUNE/ Staff Writer
January 11, 2025 at 15:34 JST
Students at Hosei University in Tokyo recounted how screams suddenly punctuated the quiet of a lecture hall after a classmate went on a rampage by swinging a hammer at those seated close by.
The incident on Jan. 10 at the Tama Campus in western Tokyo left eight students injured, but none was in a critical condition.
A 22-year-old student from South Korea was arrested on the campus in Machida city.
Sense of impunity ‘absolute’: The NGO holding Israeli soldiers to account
The Hind Rajab Foundation is using Israeli soldiers’ own social media footage as evidence for war crimes investigations.
Israeli officials are concerned about their soldiers being arrested after fighting in Gaza after a soldier fled Brazil to avoid being questioned over alleged war crimes he committed in Gaza and filmed for social media.
The Belgium-based Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) is the force behind this international effort for accountability.
Formed just five months ago, HRF has pulled together lawyers and activists from around the world to prepare cases, primarily based on social media content shared by Israeli soldiers themselves.
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