Yahoo News Protests in Georgia: riots continue in Tbilisi
Police fired tear gas, water cannons and stun grenades at protesters in the Georgian capital Tbilisi late on Wednesday.
Police fired tear gas, water cannons and stun grenades at protesters in the Georgian capital Tbilisi late on Wednesday.
Allianz won its case against the University of Exeter at the High Court.
The former prime minister remains convinced his decision to invade Iraq was the right thing to do.
Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya urged her country to break ties with neighbor Russia as she spoke out Wednesday against President Alexander Lukashenko's support for the war in Ukraine."And it's important to remember that there are brave Belarusians, independent journalists, human rights defenders and other members of civil society, who are bravely fighting in exile to expose Lukashenko's criminal complicity in Russia's war in Ukraine." ft/mlm
An army convoy has delivered desperately-needed supplies to a northern Burkina Faso city that has been blockaded by jihadists for months, locals and security sources told AFP Wednesday.Another security source told AFP that 15 IEDs had been defused along the way, and that the convoy had suffered ambushes.
In Ukraine’s neighbor Moldova, the war is exacerbating old tensions as the country’s East-West divides bring protesters onto the streets.
Seven Extinction Rebellion protesters have been arrested after spray-painting newspaper offices in London.
Indian police are searching for a separatist leader who has revived calls for an independent Sikh homeland, stirring fears of violence in northwestern Punjab state where there's a history of bloody insurgency. Police have accused Amritpal Singh, a 30-year-old preacher, and his aides of creating discord in the state, which is haunted by the memories of an armed insurgency in the 1980s for an independent Sikh state called Khalistan. The insurgency had prompted a controversial military operation by the Indian government that killed thousands of people, according to official estimates.
Suspected militants ambushed a vehicle carrying a senior military intelligence officer in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing him and his driver, security officials and police said. Brig. Mustafa Burki, who had been deeply involved in operations against the Pakistani Taliban in recent years, was “martyred” along with his driver as he traveled in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, three security officials said. It was the second major assault on intelligence officers since January, when Pakistani Taliban killed another senior officer and his colleague in Punjab province.
STORY: "Especially Americans and those who supported the war should think, when in history, did missiles and bombings bring democracy?”Twenty years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqi writer and associate professor of Arabic literature at New York University Sinan Antoon thumbs through the headlines from his home in New Jersey.“Most people don't have hope. The situation in Iraq now is really terrible, and the Iraqis who live in Iraq will live with the consequences of the invasion, sadly. The people who decided to go to war... They don't have to live with the consequences of war."For Antoon, what’s left of his home country is hopelessness and anarchy.“All the decades of deceit and cruelty have now reached an end. Saddam Hussein and his sons must leave Iraq within 48 hours…”The invasion was meant to topple a dictator and usher in a thriving democracy.Instead, Iraqis faced years of upheaval and chaos…A devastating insurgency – first by Hussein loyalists, then by al Qaeda – was followed by a sectarian civil war and later, the rise of the Islamic State, which occupied a third of the country and slaughtered thousands."As much as I wanted to see the end of Saddam Hussein and his regime, I wanted that to be by the Iraqi people, not by military occupation. If you go now and ask Iraqis, 'Do we have a democracy in Iraq?' No, we have an oligarchy. We have one of the most corrupt systems in the world. Iraqis have lost $1.3 trillion, 1 million people have died, these are some of the estimates, very conservative estimates put it at 300,000, and that's already a huge number, 1.2 million people are internally displaced. This is not democracy."U.S. credibility also suffered from Bush's decision to invade based on bogus, exaggerated and ultimately erroneous intelligence about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.Brown University’s “Costs of War” project puts U.S. military deaths in Iraq and Syria over the past 20 years at 4,599.It estimates total deaths – including Iraqi and Syrian civilians, military, police, opposition fighters, media and others – between 550,000 to 584,000.This only includes those killed as a direct result of war, but not estimated indirect deaths from displacement, disease or starvation.The project also estimates the U.S. price tag to date for the wars in Iraq and Syria comes to $1.79 trillion. If you add projected veterans' care through 2050, it rises to $2.89 trillion.“Although the American media keeps saying about the cost of the war, the cost, yes, the cost of the war and billions of dollars to taxpayers, but the people who planned the war and who supported it, their portfolios tripled. Weapons companies and weapons manufacturers made a lot of money. But definitely, the war was unnecessary, ask the mothers, ask the 4 million orphans in Iraq, ask the 1 million widows, ask the people who are born in Falluja with birth defects every day because of the depleted uranium and the phosphorus that was used there by the U.S. So saying one is against the war doesn't mean that one is for dictatorship. It's not that simple.”In his 2019 work “The Book of Collateral Damage,” Antoon sought to chronicle what has haunted him since 2003, the stories of civilian lives destroyed by war.
A senior judge has called for evidence relating to allegations of unlawful activity by British armed forces in Afghanistan from anyone - including the Taliban. Sir Charles Haddon-Cave, who is chairing an independent inquiry, said his team will "do everything in our power to facilitate the receiving and hearing of evidence".
An Israeli missile strike destroyed a suspected arms depot used by Iran-backed militias at Syria's Aleppo airport Wednesday, a war monitor said, with authorities saying the raid put the airport out of service.A strike on Aleppo airport in September put it out of service for several days.
Protests against pension reforms continued across France on March 21, after President Emmanuel Macron survived a no-confidence vote, local media reported.Footage filmed by Twitter user @contactrevol shows crowds of protesters gathered in central Lille as police in riot gear stand by. Bins were set on fire, and tear gas was deployed, reports said.A general national strike was called for Thursday, March 23. Credit: @contactrevol via Storyful
Afghanistan’s new central bank chief served as an adviser to Mullah Mohammad Omar
An Israeli airstrike early Wednesday targeted the international airport in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, causing material damage and putting it out of service, Syria's state news agency reported. SANA quoted an unnamed military official as saying Israeli warplanes fired the missiles toward Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and once commercial center, while flying over the Mediterranean Sea. Bassem Mansour, head of Syria's civil aviation, told the pro-government Sham FM radio station the strike damaged the airport's runway and put the facility out of service.
Gaza fisherman Jihad al-Hissi is used to rough waters but he now faces a new storm. Last year saw 23 boat confiscations, the highest number since 2018, according to the Palestinian non-governmental group Al Mezan.
At least 10 soldiers were killed in renewed fighting in Yemen, military sources told AFP on Wednesday, despite diplomatic efforts to halt the long-running war in the Arab world's poorest country."At least 10 soldiers were killed, in addition to an unknown number of attackers," the source added.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday defiantly vowed to push through a controversial pension reform, saying in a TV interview that he was prepared to accept unpopularity in the face of sometimes violent protests, and that he plans to enact the new law by the end of the year. Read our live blog below to see how all the day's events unfolded. All times are Paris time (GMT+1). 7:56pm: Saint-Nazaire bridge closed until further noticeThe department of Loire-Atlantique in Western France has s
As war in Ukraine goes on, the more urgently NATO commanders view the issue of readiness for any potential widening of the conflict.
More than 530 people have been killed this year in gang violence in Haiti, the United Nations said Tuesday, with many killed by snipers shooting victims at random. The UN human rights office said it was concerned that extreme violence was spiralling out of control in Haiti."Clashes between gangs are becoming more violent and more frequent, as they try to expand their territorial control throughout the capital and other regions by targeting people living in areas controlled by rivals," spokeswoma
Around 200 people marched on Bridewell police station to commemorate to disorder that saw violent clashes with police officers on March 21 2021