Digital investigators from the Bellingcat group have spent eight years exposing the lies of the powerful and gathering evidence of their crimes – work that has a grave human cost, the organisation's chief told AFP in an interview.. Grozev said one approach uses journalistic methods to debunk false information, the other is more judicial, gathering evidence of war crimes for eventual use in the courts.
Five Hong Kong unionists were found guilty of sedition on Wednesday for producing a series of illustrated children's books that portrayed the city's democracy supporters as sheep defending their village from wolves.. In one book, called "Defenders of the Sheep Village", a group of wolves try to occupy a village of sheep, who fight back and drive their attackers away.
Ukraine's nuclear operator said Wednesday it would support the deployment of UN peacekeepers at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia plant, a day after the UN atomic watchdog called for a security zone around the site.. Ukraine's nuclear operator Energoatom said Wednesday it would support the deployment of UN peacekeepers to the facility and called for Russian troops to leave.
President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday it was "impossible" to isolate Russia and hailed Asia's growing global influence, as Moscow looks east in the face of unprecedented Western sanctions over Ukraine.. Facing deteriorating ties with Western capitals, Moscow is seeking to pivot the country towards the Middle East, Asia and Africa.
Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan accused the government Wednesday of "unacceptable" censorship after authorities apparently blocked national access to YouTube to prevent a rally speech from being broadcast live.. "Access was restored after the speech concluded," Netblocks told AFP. YouTube has not commented on the matter, while a representative of the Pakistan Telecoms Authority said they had "no idea about it".
Burundi's parliament on Wednesday approved the appointment of a new prime minister after President Evariste Ndayishimiye warned last week of a possible coup plot against him.. Bunyoni's departure came after Ndayishimiye, who has been in power for just over two years, had last week warned of a coup plot against him.
Emulating Indian independence hero Mahatma Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi was set Wednesday to begin a "long march" seeking to halt the seemingly inexorable slow decline of his once-mighty Congress party.. - Reluctant leader - Mahatma Gandhi famously trekked some 380 kilometres (240 miles) in 1930 to protest a salt tariff imposed by British rulers, in a seminal moment in the independence struggle.
A group of French lawmakers landed in Taiwan on Wednesday, the first high-level European delegation since China conducted huge war drills to protest a visit to the island by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.. The delegation of five French lawmakers is being led by Senator Cyril Pellevat, Taiwan's foreign ministry said, adding it was the fourth visit by French politicians in the past 12 months.
The head of Hong Kong's journalist union was arrested on Wednesday, a police source said, just weeks before he was set to leave the city and begin an overseas fellowship.. Chan was set to leave Hong Kong at the end of September for the six-month Reuters Institute fellowship programme at Oxford University.
After months of anguish and hesitation, the Titkov family -- who fled to Vienna from Ukraine just after Russia invaded -- have finally decided to stay.. Yet in June the Titkovs almost returned to Ukraine.
