Greece train crash: families of victims grieve as protests grow
Katerini/Athens, Greece Reuters Families and friends, dressed in black, clung to each other, in tears, as the coffin of a 34-year-old mother killed in Greece’s deadliest train crash was lifted up the stairs of a church on Friday. The first known funeral after Tuesday night’s accident, which killed at least 57, took place in the […]
Russians pound access routes to Ukraine’s besieged Bakhmut
Chasiv Yar, Ukraine Reuters Russian troops and mercenaries rained artillery on the last access routes to the besieged Ukrainian city of Bakhmut on Friday, bringing Moscow closer to its first major victory in half a year after the bloodiest fighting of the war. The head of Russia’s Wagner private army, speaking in a video recorded […]
Colombia must speed dismantling of armed groups – United Nations
Bogota. ColombiaReuters Colombia should speed the dismantling of armed groups to reduce violence and human rights violations, and implement the country’s 2016 peace accord with the FARC rebels, the in-country representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Friday. Colombia’s nearly six decades of armed conflict between the armed forces, leftist […]
Nicaragua’s government committed crimes against humanity: UN experts
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters Nicaragua’s government has committed serious and systematic violations which amount to crimes against humanity, a United Nations-appointed team of human rights experts said on Thursday, calling for international sanctions against the government. The three-person body said the government has committed, and continues to commit, acts of torture, extrajudicial executions, arbitrary detention since […]
In the US, transgender pastor claims bias, sues Lutheran denomination
United StatesAP Rev Megan Rohrer, who was elected as the first openly transgender bishop of one of the largest Christian denominations in the country in May, 2021, has filed a lawsuit alleging that he was forced out from his post after enduring several months of discrimination and harassment. The denomination, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, declined […]
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Year after Kyiv area massacres, police struggle to find those still missing
Borodianka, Ukraine Reuters In a corner of Borodianka’s town cemetery, the bodies of three men lay buried for a year, to no one’s knowledge in the town 55 kilometres north-west of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. The three men, one of whom police have so far tentatively identified, are the latest confirmed dead civilians from Russian […]
Late Pope Benedict’s top aide to be given a new job
Rome, Italy Reuters Pope Francis will decide on a new role for German Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, a critic of the pontiff who was the long-term senior aide to his predecessor Benedict, in the coming days, Gaenswein said. Gaenswein made the comment to Italian RAI public television in an extract from an interview to be broadcast […]
Torture chambers in Ukraine’s Kherson “financed by Russian state” – investigators
The Hague, The NetherlandsReuters A network of at least 20 torture chambers in the recently liberated southern Ukrainian region of Kherson was “planned and directly financed by the Russian State”, war crimes investigators said on Thursday, citing new evidence. The Mobile Justice Team, funded by Britain, the EU and the United States, has been working […]