Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 2013 EAT on Monday 18th July 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin says it is impossible to cut Russia off from the rest of the world, and that sanctions imposed by Western countries will not turn the clock back on Russia’s development. Since sending troops into Ukraine on February 24,…
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At least 20 killed, 30 missing after boat capsizes in Pakistan
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1958 EAT on Monday 18th July 2022. At least 20 people have died and another 30 are missing after a boat carrying more than 100 people capsized in a river in central Pakistan, officials said. The overloaded boat was heading to a wedding when it capsized in the Indus…
UAE arrests Khashoggi’s US lawyer on money laundering charges.
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 2309 EAT on Sunday 17th July 2022. Authorities in the United Arab Emirates have arrested an American citizen and civil rights lawyer who previously served as a lawyer for slain journalist jamal khashogi, according to an official and a United States-based rights group. A UAE government official confirmed to the…
Pope: Canada trip ‘pilgrimage of penance’ for Indigenous abuses.
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1918 EAT on Sunday 17th July 2022. Pope Francis has said an upcoming visit to Canada will be a “pilgrimage of penance” that he hopes will help to heal wounds left in Indigenous communities by Roman Catholic priests and nuns who ran abusive residential schools that sought to forcibly assimilate children….
Togolese army admits to killing children mistaken for ‘jihadists.
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1916 EAT on Friday 15th July 2022. The Togolese army has admitted to killing seven children on July 10 in a blast in the village of Margba, in Tone Prefecture, in its northernmost region Savanna region near the border with Burkina Faso. In a statement issued Thursday, the military…
Sweden hands life sentence to ex-Iranian official over 1988 purge
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1636 EAT on Thursday 14th July 2022. A former Iranian official has been sentenced to life in prison by a Swedish court after being convicted of committing grave war crimes and murder during the final phase of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. The Stockholm District Court on Thursday…
Ukraine devastates Russian artillery depots ahead of offensive.
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1559 EAT on Thursday 14th July 2022. Ukraine destroyed a series of Russian ordnance depots in the 20th week of the war, demonstrating the efficiency of US-supplied HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) rocket systems and other Western systems, and worrying Russian military observers. These Ukrainian attacks appear to…
Ukrainian Premier League to resume on August 23.
Updated by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 0022 EAT on Wednesday 13th July. The Ukrainian Premier League (UPL) will start again on August 23, the country’s sports minister has said, but the games will be held without spectators and the stadiums will be equipped with shelters for any air raid sirens. No matches have been played…
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