President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday Russia was fighting for its "historical" lands in Ukraine, at a state-organised patriotic rally in Moscow in support of the Ukraine offensive.. "I just heard from the top military leadership of the country that a battle is ongoing right now, for our historical lands, for our people," Putin said.
Kenyan prosecutors on Wednesday said they will investigate accusations of sexual abuse on tea estates that supply some of Britain's most popular brands.. More than 70 women working in the plantations in Kenya's Rift Valley told an undercover investigation by the BBC that they had been sexually abused by their supervisors for years.
A newly restored masterpiece by Wassily Kandinsky, "Murnau Mit Kirche II", will be auctioned in London on March 1, alongside a Munch and a Kupka once owned by Sean Connery. . "Murnau Mit Kirche II" was only identified a decade ago in a museum in Eindhoven, where it had been since 1951.
Germany said Wednesday that it was expelling two diplomats from the Iranian embassy in Berlin in response to the death sentence an Iranian court handed down against an Iranian-German national.. A ministry spokesman said later the Iranians would have "a few days" to quit the country.
A teacher at a school in southwest France was killed on Wednesday in a stabbing attack by a teenage pupil in the middle of a lesson, the regional prosecutor said.. Such attacks at schools are generally rare in France but there have been growing concerns about the security of teachers.
The United States is "committed" to conducting joint maritime patrols with the Philippines in the disputed South China Sea, the US navy chief said Wednesday, as the countries seek to deter Chinese aggression.. Gilday said the countries were "in the beginning of the planning stages" for combined maritime activities, but he insisted the United States was "committed and focused".
Six Palestinians were killed and dozens shot in a raid by the Israeli military Wednesday on the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, the Palestinian health ministry said.. The last major Israeli raid on Nablus killed five Palestinians, as troops targeted local militant group the Lions' Den.
A woman who was stripped of her British citizenship after travelling to Syria as a teenager to marry an Islamic State group fighter lost her legal battle on Wednesday to reverse the decision.. While there, she married an IS fighter and had three children, none of whom survived.
Pakistan's defence minister and spy chief were in Kabul Wednesday for talks with the Taliban government, days after Islamabad blamed Afghanistan-based militants for deadly recent attacks.. Pakistan has seen a dramatic increase in militant attacks, mainly in border regions, in the year-and-a-half of Taliban rule in Afghanistan.
Germany and other European countries must do everything they can to save a German citizen sentenced to death by Iran after he was abducted in the Gulf, his daughter said on Wednesday.. Jamshid Sharmahd, a German-Iranian dual national, was Tuesday handed the death sentence on terror charges vehemently rejected by his family, who also say he was kidnapped in Dubai by Iran in 2020 and taken to the Islamic republic for a show trial.
