By Catherine Belton Squeezed by Western sanctions and soaring interest rates, Russia’s businesses fear bankruptcies as President Vladimir Putin pushes ahead with the Ukraine war. Source: Washington Post
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By Agence France-Presse This year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Japan’s atomic bomb survivors’ group Nihon Hidankyo, on Monday urged Russia to stop issuing nuclear threats in a bid to prevail in its war in Ukraine. “President Putin, I don’t think he truly understands what nuclear weapons are for human beings,” said Terumi Tanaka, the 92-year-old […]
By Georgie English EMERGENCY crews are rushing to a Syrian hellhole jail amid fears prisoners locked up in underground cells could soon choke to death. The barbaric Sednaya Military Prison – headed up by ousted dictator Bashar Al-Assad – has long been dubbed a “human slaughterhouse” after years of torture, abuse and executions inside. AP […]