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Kharkiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - The death toll from Russian strikes on a hardware store in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv rose to 16 Sunday, the regional governor said, as rescuers searched the charred debris for bodies. "Unfortunately, 16 have already been recorded dead," Oleg Synegubov, Kharkiv regional governor, said on Telegram, while 43 were wounded. Russian strikes hit the Epitsentr superstore on Saturday, sparking a massive fire that makes the dead hard to identify. Police said six of the dead had been identified, including a 12-year-old girl who was visiting the city, while several pe...
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Washington (AFP) - A US couple was among three missionaries shot and killed by a gang outside a church in the Haitian capital, which has endured months of extreme violence with deadly assaults on hospitals, prisons and government buildings. Missions in Haiti, an Oklahoma-based nonprofit founded in 2000, said Davy and Natalie Lloyd and a third person were killed in Port-au-Prince by armed men on Thursday evening. The third victim was identified by US media outlets as Jude Montis, the Haitian director of Missions in Haiti. "Davy and Natalie and Jude were shot and killed by the gang about 9 o'clo...
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By Maria DANILOVA Washington (AFP) - Le chanteur d'opéra Iouriï Ivaskevytch a troqué son classique costume noir pour un treillis militaire lorsque la Russie a envahi son pays, l'Ukraine. Mais lorsqu'il a perdu une jambe dans l'explosion d'une mine, il est revenu à la musique pour défendre sa patrie. A 51 ans, M. Ivaskevytch est membre des Forces culturelles, une unité militaire ukrainienne récente composée de musiciens professionnels qui se produisent pour les soldats sur les lignes de front afin de remonter le moral des troupes le temps de quelques notes. "Grâce à nous, ils peuvent se replong...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A Ukrainian pilot project to compensate women raped by invading Russian soldiers could offer a roadmap for dealing with wartime sexual violence, says a Nobel Prize winner and expert on conflict atrocities. Denis Mukwege, a 69-year-old medical doctor, has dedicated his life to helping victims of some of the most horrific violence committed by military men. In his native Democratic Republic of Congo, which has been riven by violence for years, he has treated tens of thousands of women raped or mutilated by rampaging militias. Many victims feel they are invisible, unable to sp...
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By Peter CATTERALL Pingtan (Chine) (AFP) - "L'île nous reviendra un jour!": sur la côte Est chinoise en face de Taïwan, des touristes scrutent vendredi les eaux du détroit, où se déroulent des exercices militaires, en rêvant de "réunification pacifique" avec le territoire. Dans son discours d'investiture lundi, le nouveau président taïwanais Lai Ching-te a promis de préserver le système démocratique de l'île et semblé vouloir creuser la séparation avec la Chine continentale. En réponse, Pékin a lancé de grandes manoeuvres militaires pour encercler le territoire et a accusé M. Lai de pousser Ta...
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Washington (AFP) - Ukrainian opera singer Yurii Ivaskevych traded his tuxedo for military fatigues to fight the Russian invasion. When he lost his leg in a mine explosion last year, music called him again. Ivaskevych, 51, is a member of Cultural Forces, a recently created Ukrainian military unit that consists of professional musicians who perform for soldiers on the front lines to lift their spirits and relieve them, if only briefly, of the horrors of war. "With us, they can cast their mind back to their past lives even for an hour -- something good, some positive emotions," Ivaskevych, whose ...
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Jerusalem (AFP) - Israel walked back its decision to shut down an Associated Press live video feed of war-torn Gaza on Tuesday, following a protest from the US news agency and concern from the White House. Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi said he had revoked an earlier order that accused the AP of breaching a new ban on providing rolling footage of Gaza to Qatar-based satellite channel Al Jazeera. "I have now ordered to cancel the operation and return the equipment to the AP agency," Karhi said in a statement, after Washington called on Israel to reverse the move. "We've been enga...
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Washington (AFP) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that a Gaza ceasefire deal was still possible but he charged that an International Criminal Court arrest bid for Israeli leaders was setting back diplomatic efforts. Testifying before Congress, Blinken was repeatedly disrupted by protesters critical of US support for Israel. Several were evicted after shouting that he was a "war criminal," but protesters -- many showing symbolically reddened hands --were later allowed to sit silently behind him. Blinken credited Qatar and Egypt with assisting the "extensive effort" to secure ...
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La Haye (AFP) - Le procureur de la Cour pénale internationale (CPI) a franchi une étape majeure en demandant l'émission de mandats d'arrêt contre des hauts responsables d'Israël et des dirigeants du Hamas. Mais que signifie-t-elle concrètement et quelles sont les chances de voir ces personnes sur le banc des accusés à La Haye ? \- Quel impact ? - Karim Khan a porté des accusations de crimes de guerre et de crimes contre l'humanité contre deux hauts responsables israéliens : le Premier ministre Benjamin Netanyahu et le ministre de la Défense Yoav Gallant. Elles comprennent "le fait d'affamer dé...
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Washington (AFP) - Amal Clooney helped the International Criminal Court weigh evidence that led to the decision to seek arrest warrants for top Israeli and Hamas leaders, the human rights lawyer said Monday. The high-profile British-Lebanese barrister posted a statement on the website of the Clooney Foundation for Justice, which she founded with her husband, American actor George Clooney. Both she and the foundation had previously been criticized on social media for not speaking out over the civilian death toll in Gaza. Clooney said she was asked by prosecutor Karim Khan to join an expert pan...
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