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By Srijit Das
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Russia has been shipping refined petroleum to North Korea in volumes that may violate the U.N. Security Council's restrictions, U.S. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said on May 2, according to Reuters. The reports came after the Financial Times wrote that Moscow was defying U.N. sanctions by supplying North Korea with oil, likely in exchange for weapons. Pyongyang is subject to a strict cap on oil transfers, imposed by the U.N. Security Council in 2017 after a series of nuclear weapons tests. Moscow supplied over 165,000 barrels of refined petroleum to North Korea in March al...
Kyiv Independent
Russia has been shipping refined petroleum to North Korea in volumes that may violate the U.N. Security Council's restrictions, U.S. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said on May 2, according to Reuters. The reports came after the Financial Times wrote that Moscow was defying U.N. sanctions by supplying North Korea with oil, likely in exchange for weapons. Pyongyang is subject to a strict cap on oil transfers, imposed by the U.N. Security Council in 2017 after a series of nuclear weapons tests. Moscow supplied over 165,000 barrels of refined petroleum to North Korea in March al...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
Russia has been shipping refined petroleum to North Korea in volumes that may violate the U.N. Security Council's restrictions, U.S. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said on May 2, according to Reuters. The reports came after the Financial Times wrote that Moscow was defying U.N. sanctions by supplying North Korea with oil, likely in exchange for weapons. Pyongyang is subject to a strict cap on oil transfers, imposed by the U.N. Security Council in 2017 after a series of nuclear weapons tests. Moscow supplied over 165,000 barrels of refined petroleum to North Korea in March al...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
Nations made progress on a treaty to end plastic pollution as their fourth round of talks finished early Tuesday in Canada. For the first time in the process, negotiators discussed the text of what is supposed to become a global treaty. Delegates and observers at the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution called it a welcome sign that talk shifted from ideas to treaty language at this fourth of five scheduled meetings. Most contentious is the idea of limiting how much plastic is manufactured. That remains in the text despite strong objections from plastic-producing countr...
Euronews (English)
At least four people have been killed in a Russian missile strike that hit a Gothic-style building in the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa. Known to locals as the "Harry Potter Castle", its turrets were still burning at nightfall and emergency services graded the blaze severe. Residents reportedly did not have enough time to take shelter as air raid alerts only happened a few minutes before the strike. "The type of missile is currently being checked; forensic specialists are carrying out the appropriate evaluations to this end," said a spokesperson for Ukraine's Southern Defense Forces, Dmytro...
Euronews (English)
The European Union has voted in favour of ratifying the High Seas Treaty. This treaty aims to protect marine life in areas that are outside of countries’ maritime borders including the high seas and the seabed. The decision is a key step in the process of approving the ratification of the High Seas Treaty. The Parliament’s decision will now be formally adopted by the European Council, after which the EU will be ready to deposit its “instrument of ratification” at the United Nations (UN). It has been classified as a “mixed agreement” by the EU, which means it needs to be ratified at both the EU...
Euronews (English)
The Russian Federation uses sexual violence as a weapon against civilians and prisoners of war, Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Sergiy Kyslytsya said during a meeting of the U.N. Security Council on April 23. Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office has recorded nearly 300 cases of sexual violence committed by Russian forces since the beginning of the full-scale war. Kyslytsya addressed Russia's weaponization of sexual violence during the Security Council's annual open debate on the worldwide escalation of sexual violence in conflict zones. Citing testimony from people re...
Kyiv Independent
The Russian Federation uses sexual violence as a weapon against civilians and prisoners of war, Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Sergiy Kyslytsya said during a meeting of the U.N. Security Council on April 23. Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office has recorded nearly 300 cases of sexual violence committed by Russian forces since the beginning of the full-scale war. Kyslytsya addressed Russia's weaponization of sexual violence during the Security Council's annual open debate on the worldwide escalation of sexual violence in conflict zones. Citing testimony from people re...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
The Russian Federation uses sexual violence as a weapon against civilians and prisoners of war, Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Sergiy Kyslytsya said during a meeting of the U.N. Security Council on April 23. Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office has recorded nearly 300 cases of sexual violence committed by Russian forces since the beginning of the full-scale war. Kyslytsya addressed Russia's weaponization of sexual violence during the Security Council's annual open debate on the worldwide escalation of sexual violence in conflict zones. Citing testimony from people re...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
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