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Bangladesh is not doing enough to protect Rohingya from increasing violence by armed groups and criminal gangs operating in the refugee camps near the country’s border with Myanmar, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.
Kurdish women are signing up for the local traffic police force in northeast Syria in increasing numbers. The development is helping to break stereotypes about the role of women in society.
Although Aleksandr Statiev was born in Turkmenistan, he chose to live in Ukraine. He has a business and has appeared in films, but after Russia invaded Ukraine, he went home to serve as a medic for the wounded.
Animals that have been transferred from Ukrainian zoos to Poland’s Poznan Zoo include lions, tigers, bears, and other animals as those seeking refuge from Russia’s full-fledged invasion of Ukraine. On their way to new homes in Western Europe and the United States, that is their first stop.
Since the start of Russia’s invasion, Ukraine has been using drones for attack and reconnaissance. To save civilians or perhaps capture the enemy, combat drone operators have been known to use them.
At least 10 people were killed, and 42 others were injured when Russia launched a missile attack on an apartment building in Lviv early on Thursday. Rescuers still searching for survivors among the rubble.
A month after the Kakhovka dam disaster in Ukraine, the upstream reservoir that has provided the region with water, power, and food since the 1950s has turned into a heap of dried-up fish carcasses and puddles next to the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
The Minnesota-based company Epimona, which was founded by a former refugee, turns material from life jackets worn by refugees into accessories and other clothing items.
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Kyiv and its Western allies have opened a new center in The Hague that will investigate Russian officials for the crime of aggression.
Nigerian authorities have urged citizens avoid consuming cooked animal hides, a delicacy also known as “pomo” in the country, following an outbreak of the anthrax disease in the West African country of Ghana.