Shattered display cases and empty shelves highlight the extent of Russian looting at a history museum in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson where Olga Goncharova has worked for four decades.. - 'Everything was broken' - Specialising in local history, the Kherson Regional Museum housed about 180,000 objects in its collection prior to Russia's invasion in February, and Goncharova had personally worked on preserving many of them.
Passengers at UK airports on Friday faced long delays as Border Force officers walked out in the latest of a string of strikes by public sector workers over pay.. Around 1,000 workers at six UK airports were taking part in Friday's stoppage organised by the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) -- the first of eight planned between Friday and January 1.
Ethiopia's government and Tigray's rebel forces have agreed to create a joint monitoring body to ensure a peace deal to end the country's brutal war is respected by all sides.. A representative from each side of the conflict, plus a delegate from IGAD and the African Union (AU), would form a joint committee to safeguard the peace deal and ensure its provisions are being respected.
"Deceased, deceased," a staffer in full protective gear shouted as she handed a nurse a death certificate, their hospital in central China overflowing with Covid patients.. The relatives of several of the deceased said the deaths were due to Covid.
Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha is to seek another term in a general election due to be held in the kingdom before May next year, he told local media on Friday.. The newly-created United Thai Nation Party "has offered to support me in becoming the next PM candidate in the next election," he told reporters outside Government House in Bangkok.
French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, responsible for multiple murders of young foreigners in the 1970s across Asia, was set to be released from prison on Friday, jail authorities and his lawyer said.. The top court ordered Sobhraj, who had heart surgery in 2017, released on Wednesday on health grounds after serving more than three-quarters of his sentence for murdering two North Americans in Nepal in the 1970s.
Hundreds of metres underground, Emylbek Umarov hacks out lumps of coal by hand with a pickaxe in a dank mine in a remote mountainous corner of Kyrgyzstan.. While there have been no fatal accidents in the mine where Umarov works, the risk is constant.
China has requisitioned medical supplies production across the country as millions struggle to obtain basic drugs and testing kits in the face of a surge in Covid-19 cases.. - 'Whole family sick' - Across China, millions are struggling to get hold of basic medical supplies.
His Haitian passport was in order, with up-to-date visas, so when police in the Dominican Republic detained him for hours, Josue Azor feels certain it was because of the black color of his skin. . And in late November, the US State Department issued a warning to nationals considering trips to the Dominican Republic, saying some travelers had complained of being delayed or detained because of the color of their skin.
Fiji's opposition on Friday accused the government of sowing "fear and chaos" in a bid to stay in power, as the military began deploying to the streets of the capital Suva. . He said top government officials were "sowing fear and chaos" and "trying to set the nation alight along racial lines".
