"I'm not afraid of Russians," says "Voron", a sniper with the State Border Guard of Ukraine in the eastern Donbas region. . - 'The eyes of your commander' - Despite fierce fighting and heavy shelling in places like Bakhmut, the winter months have slowed down the battle for the Donbas region.
It seemed like just another grim day in his solitary prison cell for Juan Lorenzo Holmann Chamorro, whose family owns Nicaragua's oldest newspaper, but by evening he knew something was brewing.. "We were getting ready to sleep when they came to our cells and told us, 'Take off your uniforms and put on these civilian clothes,'" Holmann told AFP. Holmann, 56, had been in the dreaded El Chipote prison since August 14, 2021, when police raided La Prensa, the nearly century-old newspaper owned by his family and where he served as general manager.
Rescuers pulled children from the rubble of the Turkey-Syria earthquake on Saturday as the death toll approached 24,000 and a winter freeze compounded the suffering of millions of people, many in desperate need of aid.. In rebel-held northwestern Syria, about four million people rely on humanitarian aid but there have been no aid deliveries from government-controlled areas in three weeks.
The apartments they once industriously spent so long saving up for, decorating and making comfortable now lie in a heap of rubble after a violent quake hit Turkey.. Many hope this quake will finally lead to better monitoring.
Peruvian authorities on Friday said the death toll from devastating mudslides in the country's south has climbed to 17, including three children.. The children who died ranged in age from one to 10 years old, officials said. et/pb/bfm/tjj
Iranian authorities on Friday released from prison French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah, who was first arrested in June 2019 and was serving a five-year sentence on national security charges vehemently denied by supporters, the French foreign ministry said.. Adelkhah was sentenced in May 2020 to five years in prison for conspiring against national security, accusations her supporters have always denounced as absurd.
Eyes red, features drawn, Fidan Turan looks lost as she stands in the middle of the street, wondering whether she should leave her devastated Turkish city or stay through its post-quake recovery.. Standing on the street and gazing at her fourth floor flat, Turan doesn't know which way to turn.
The United Nations' top human rights official urged on Friday for an international force to be deployed to violence-ravaged Haiti, describing the island nation's multiple crises as a "living nightmare.". "It can only be described as a living nightmare."
Iranian authorities on Friday released from prison French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah, who was first arrested in June 2019 and was serving a five-year sentence on national security charges vehemently denied by supporters, a source close to her said.. Motalebzadeh wrote on Twitter that Adelkhah was among half a dozen more prisoners released on Friday.
Acclaimed Spanish director Carlos Saura, who hit the global spotlight in the 1960s with his critiques of Franco's dictatorship, died Friday at the age of 91, the Spanish film academy said. . "He died today at his home at the age of 91, surrounded by his loved ones," the academy wrote on Twitter, describing him as "one of the most important filmmakers in the history of Spanish cinema".
