Women and girls pay the “ultimate price” during conflicts like the one in Ukraine, the executive director of UN Women told CNBC. Sima Bahous, who in September 2021 became head of the UN body dedicated to gender equality, spoke on International Women’s Day on March 8. She told CNBC’s Tania Bryer that women and girls … Read more
When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of the Ukraine in February, many Palestinians felt that this war concerned them directly. Over the past nine months, they have seen direct parallels between their own experience of occupation and military violence and that of the Ukrainians. Whether it is civil housing, schools, religious buildings, etc.; the destruction … Read more
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INDIANAPOLIS — US Rep. Victoria Spartz took a healthy lead Tuesday in what appears to be her successful bid for re-election in the 5th Congressional District against Democrat Jeannine Lee Lake. “I think people in District 5 and across the country really want our government to govern and do less politics. A lot of that … Read more
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Putin miscalculated very badly. The Russian Army terribly underperformed. Kyiv has shown unexpected resilience in the face of what experts thought was vastly superior Russian firepower. This, we are told, is the story of the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, and it is all true. Vladimir Putin’s speech about a ‘dirty bomb’ is evidence of … Read more
Women and girls pay the “highest price” during conflicts like the one in Ukraine, the executive director of UN Women told CNBC. Sima Bahous, who in September 2021 became head of the UN body dedicated to gender equality, spoke on International Women’s Day on March 8. She told CNBC’s Tania Bryer that women and girls … Read more
get complete details of Ukrainian basketball players find home at Canadian university from here, checkout more details. Ukraine’s Vlada Hozalova (3) and Vika Kovalevska (4) on the court during basketball practice at the University of Lethbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta, on Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. (Leslie Ohene-Adjei/University of Lethbridge via AP) The squeak of their shoes … Read more
By ITP LONDON: An Andhra Pradesh orthopedic doctor, who was living in Ukraine when the conflict with Russia broke out, has asked the Indian government to help him rescue his pets, a jaguar and a panther, left behind when he was forced to leave the war zone. Dr. Girikumar Patil, known as Jaguar Kumar for … Read more
An Indian-born doctor, who was trapped in conflict-torn Ukraine for months with his two pets, a jaguar and a leopard, was forced to let them go. Gidikumar Patil, a 42-year-old doctor who became a Ukrainian citizen in 2016, had to leave his pets behind to find a livelihood in neighboring Poland after the hospital where … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday presided over a ceremony in the Kremlin to annex four Ukrainian regions partially occupied by his forces. During the ceremony, he made several comments about Russia’s “historical” past, mentioning the West’s “looting of India” while criticizing colonialism. The following are excerpts from his speech, translated by Reuters: western ‘satanism’ … Read more
Poland, far from being overwhelmed by hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians seeking refuge from Russia’s invasion of their country, is seeing its economy grow, according to economists. The latest available figures from early August show that about half of the working-age people who fled from Ukraine to Poland are now employed. In an interview with … Read more
By Robert Coalson and Mike Eckel* (RFE/RL) — The speech was expected to be about Ukraine, where Russia’s military is fighting seven months after its invasion and where Moscow claims four partially occupied regions as its own in a land grab condemned by Kyiv and the West. Yet most of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s nationally … Read more
Long lines of cars line the roads that wind toward Russia’s border crossings with Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia, and similar lines at airports. Angry demonstrations, not only in Moscow and St. Petersburg, but in the remote northern province of Yakutia and in the poor southern region of Dagestan, with women chasing a police officer and … Read more
How setbacks in Afghanistan slowed global progress on the UN gender equality goal NEW YORK CITY/BOGOTÁ, Colombia – Since the Taliban took Kabul in August 2021, two decades of progress in education, employment and the empowerment of women in Afghan public life have been dramatically reversed, leading to for the international community to increase pressure … Read more
Ernestas Tyminas felt “stuck” in his role as a marketing manager at a newspaper in Colorado Springs, Colorado. So he applied for a two-month backpacking trip around Asia, he said, landing in Beijing in January 2019. “On the first day… I meet this one,” he said, gesturing to Darina Karpitskaya, sitting next to him. The … Read more
National security Republican lawmakers want to know why the money is in limbo A local resident walks through a street market destroyed by military strikes, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, in Saltivka, one of the most damaged residential areas in Kharkiv, Ukraine, September 6, 2022. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi Adam Kredo • September 9, 2022 3:10 … Read more