Videos Show Aftermath of Russian Attacks in Ukraine

 

Ukraine’s forces make ‘fierce resistance’ in Chernobyl zone, officials say. On Day 1 of the first major land war in Europe in decades, the Russian military plunged into Ukraine by land, sea and air, killing dozens of Ukrainian soldiers, and ominously touching off a pitched battle at the highly radioactive Chernobyl exclusion zone that risked damaging the cement-encased nuclear reactor that melted down in 1986. The day began before sunrise with the terrifying thud of artillery strikes on airports and military installations all over Ukraine. And by sunset, Russian special forces and airborne troops were pushing into the outskirts of the capital, Kyiv. While the ultimate goal of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and his generals remained unclear, American officials assessed that the end game was likely the decapitation of Ukraine’s government and the replacement of its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, with a Russian-controlled puppet regime.

Broome: Diving the remnants of a WW2 attack on Australia

 

During World War Two, a surprise air raid on the remote Australian town of Broome killed scores of people.

But even in Australia it is not widely remembered, historians say.

Pakistani journalists under attack

 

There’s rising concern about a growing number of attacks on journalists and human rights activists in Pakistan – allegedly at the hands of the country’s powerful intelligence services.

'I’m getting shot': attacks on journalists surge in US protests

Analysis by Guardian and Bellingcat finds 148 arrests or attacks on media covering George Floyd protests in the US

Analysis by Guardian and Bellingcat finds 148 arrests or attacks on media covering George Floyd protests in the US

Journalists working in conflict zones and authoritarian states have been warning for years: reporting is becoming more dangerous. What little protection a press pass or camera might have afforded in the past has meant less than ever on the battlefields of Syria, in small-town India or on the streets of Hong Kong. This was the week that trend burst into view in US cities.

Reporters in Minneapolis, Louisville or the dozens of other places that witnessed protests and riots in the days after the alleged murder of George Floyd were not killed or prosecuted, as they increasingly are elsewhere in the world. But they were blinded, beaten, maced and arrested by police in numbers never before documented in the US.

Malala Yousafzai ask President Obama to stop drone attacks in Pakistan

The White House said it celebrates and encourages Malala's courage in pursuing her mission.
"Across the globe there are girls who will one day lead nations, if only we afford them the chance to choose their own destinies," President Obama said, according to a White House statement.
"And on every continent, there are girls who will go on to change the world in ways we can only imagine, if only we allow them the freedom to dream," he added. 

The White House statement released after the meeting never mentions that Malala asked President Obama to stop drone attacks in Pakistan as they help to feed militancy and terrorism as it isn't just members of the Taliban or associated organizations who die in these attacks hundreds of innocent people have been killed. 

“I thanked President Obama for the United States’ work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees,” she said in the statement. “I also expressed my concerns that drone attacks are fueling terrorism. Innocent victims are killed in these acts, and they lead to resentment among the Pakistani people. If we refocus efforts on education it will make a big impact.”

Thousands flee renewed Myanmar violence

Satellite images show huge swath of coastal town destroyed in a wave of violence that has left dozens dead

The pictures, acquired by Human Rights Watch, show destruction to the town of Kyaukpyu on the country's west coast. They reveal 14.4 hectares (35 acres) of destruction, in which some 811 buildings and houseboats have been destroyed.

The images confirm reports of massive violence in the town over 24 hours around 24 October, three days after the first wave of attacks. The incidents in Arakan province – also known as Rakhine – have displaced thousands of people in what appears to have been a wave of ethnic cleansing pitting Arakan Buddhists against Muslims. "There have been incidents of whole villages and parts of the towns being burned down," Thein Sein's spokesman said. A government official initially put the death toll at 112 but later revised it to 67.