Britain is unwilling to apportion blame at this stage for the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine and is awaiting "all available facts", Foreign Secretary James Cleverly told AFP on Wednesday.. "It's clear that this event is a direct repercussion of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and there's nothing that Russia can do to hide that fact," he said.
Ukraine's assault against Russian positions flanking the city of Bakhmut has triggered a surge in battlefield casualties and piled pressure on frontline medics.. Kyiv has not released casualty figures, but AFP journalists saw Ukrainian military medics at a "stabilisation point" near the front treating wounded soldiers.
Ukraine has to breach multiple lines of heavily fortified defenses in its counteroffensive against invading Russian forces, and equipment and training provided by the United States and others will play a central role.. Kyiv's forces have the equipment and training they need, but Russia has greater numbers, according to Kupchan.
France's opposition parties on Wednesday vowed to submit a no-confidence motion against the government after the parliament speaker said she would block an attempt to repeal an unpopular pension overhaul that raised the retirement age.. Reversing the increase in the retirement age, the key measure of Macron's hard-fought pension reform, would add billions to government spending, she said.
In a factory in a tranquil German village, 120 mm tank shells with black-painted tips, packed into wooden crates, sit on pallets waiting to be delivered to Ukraine. . This position will be cemented with the acquisition of Spain's Expal, a leading manufacturer of 120 mm shells.
With the flood reaching the rooftops, rescuers raced to save people in Kherson as water from the destroyed Kakhovka dam engulfed the southern Ukrainian city.. The Dnipro River that flows through Kherson has risen by five metres since the dam upstream was destroyed early Tuesday, according to Ukrainian officials.
France's opposition parties on Wednesday were debating a no-confidence motion against the government after the parliament speaker said she would block an attempt to repeal an unpopular pension overhaul that pushes back the retirement age to 64 from 62.. Reversing the increase in the retirement age, the key measure of Macron's hard-fought pension reform, would add billions to government spending, she said.
UN war crimes judges ruled Wednesday that ageing Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga is unfit to stand trial but should still go through a stripped-down legal process.. Kabuga is one of the last Rwandan genocide suspects to face justice, with 62 convicted by the tribunal so far.
Kenya will convert a vast coastal forest where the bodies of more than 250 people linked to a doomsday cult have been exhumed into a national memorial site, a minister has said. . "The government will convert it into a national memorial, a place of remembrance so that Kenyans and the world do not forget what happened here," he said in a statement.
An Australian surfer detained after launching a drunken assault in Indonesia's most conservative province will be deported, officials said Wednesday.. Ultra-conservative Aceh -- a province granted special autonomous status -- prohibits alcohol and is the only region in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country that imposes Islamic law.
