You know him as a cute, cuddly bear, but Winnie the Pooh is about to receive a terrifying makeover as the knife-wielding villain of a blood-drenched new slasher film -- no joke.. I don't want him to be small and cuddly and cute."
Three weeks after he laid down his tools and took up arms, Kashmiri carpenter Mukhtar Ahmed was killed in a firefight with Indian government forces, who buried his remains in an unmarked grave hours from his family home.. Mukhtar is one of at least 580 suspected rebels killed in confrontations with Indian forces and whose bodies were then denied to their families for proper funerals since April 2020, official records show.
Over 200 detained members of Nicaragua's opposition were freed Thursday and expelled to the United States, in a surprise move by the Central American country's increasingly authoritarian president, Daniel Ortega.. Nicaragua's legislature moved quickly Thursday to strip the expelled dissidents of their citizenship as well as their political rights.
Nicaragua's government on Thursday freed 222 people among hundreds of critics and opposition figures in jail for allegedly threatening the country's sovereignty among other charges widely denounced as bogus.. She was sentenced to eight years of house arrest on charges of money laundering and mismanagement widely denounced as trumped-up.
IOC president Thomas Bach has told Ukraine that its calls for a boycott of the 2024 Paris Games over the possible participation of Russian competitors goes against Olympic "principles".. "Threatening a boycott of the Olympic Games which, as you inform me, the NOC of Ukraine is currently considering, goes against the fundamentals of the Olympic Movement and the principles we stand for," Bach said in the letter to Ukraine's Olympic chief Vadym Goutzeit.
The headline images were a triumph for all concerned: British and Belgian royal visits, a tank, a Paris dinner and a family photo with 27 applauding EU leaders.. All that diplomatic elbowing and bitterness swirled in the background, even as Macron tweeted a photo of the 27 EU leaders standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Zelensky, alongside the words: "The European family." bur-dc/rmb/bp
The death toll from the massive earthquake in Turkey and Syria kept on climbing Thursday, topping 20,000 as the first UN aid reached Syrian rebel-held zones but hopes of finding more survivors faded.. But in a potentially life-saving development, an aid convoy reached rebel-held northwestern Syria on Thursday, the first since the quake, an official at the Bab al-Hawa border crossing told AFP. - Freezing temperatures - The crossing is the only way UN assistance can reach civilians without going through areas controlled by Syrian government forces.
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa declared a national disaster on Thursday in a bid to fast-track efforts to tackle a record electricity shortage that has put the brakes on growth in Africa's most industrialised economy.. "We are therefore declaring a national state of disaster to respond to the electricity crisis and its impact," Ramaphosa said in a keynote annual address that was delayed by opposition lawmakers who tried to block him from delivering it.
The massive earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on February 6 is one of the 10 deadliest of the 21st century.. Nearly 80 percent of Bam's infrastructure is damaged, and the desert citadel, once considered the world's largest adobe building, crumbles. - 2023: more than 20,000 dead, Turkey and Syria - On February 6, a 7.8-magnitude quake strikes near the Turkish city of Gaziantep, close to the Syrian border.
Credit Suisse stocks plunged nearly 15 percent on Thursday as the scandal-plagued Swiss banking giant posted its biggest annual loss since the 2008 financial crisis -- and warned it expects to stay in the red in 2023.. - 'Simpler, more focused bank - Credit Suisse's capital-guzzling investment banking business has been the source of heavy losses which plunged Credit Suisse's accounts into the red -- eclipsing its more stable activities such as wealth management or its Swiss domestic banking services.
