Category: European Crises
Oct 08, – Governor Erkan Topaca said police, acting on a tip, launched an operation to catch a man and a woman who were suspected of planning a suicide car bombing in Ankara. They were hiding inside a hut at a horse farm in the district of Haymana, just outside of the capital. Two suicide […]
Oct 04, – In a poignant reminder of the ongoing drama being played out on Europe’s southern shores, the coastguard coordinated the rescue of a total of 39 distressed vessels, the bulk of them overcrowded rubber dinghies but also including five converted fishing boats crammed full of people, mostly Africans. Italy’s coastguard said nine corpses […]
Oct 03, – Thousands of Poles, many dressed in black as a symbol of mourning for the possible loss of reproductive rights, on Saturday gathered in front of the parliament in Warsaw to protest a proposed bill that would impose a virtually complete ban on abortion in the majority Catholic country. A rally called by the […]
Oct 01, – Parliament approved the law that “bans wearing in public clothing that partially or completely covers the face”, referring to the burqa or the more common niqab. Bulgaria banned on Friday face-covering Islamic veils in public, joining a small number of EU countries as the debate rages across Europe about religious freedoms. Infringements […]
Sep 23, – Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov said in Friday’s statement the firefighters were on the roof, working to contain the fire in the warehouse, when the collapse happened. Eight Russian firefighters died when the roof of a plastics warehouse in Moscow collapsed while they were trying to extinguish a massive blaze, the Emergencies Minister […]
Sep 17, – Russian U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin and U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power had been due to brief the council behind closed-doors on Friday but that was canceled at the last minute. Russia said on Friday that a U.N. Security Council endorsement of a Syria ceasefire deal between Moscow and Washington appeared unlikely because the […]
Sep 15, – At least one demonstrator and five police were injured — including one officer with burns — as thousands rallied against the law forced through by the Socialist government in July after months of often violent protests. French riot police fired teargas and stun grenades Thursday during clashes in Paris with opponents of […]
Sep 12, – Warplanes had struck three buildings identified as belonging to IS, the Chief of General Staff’s office said in a statement. Turkey’s military said Sunday that its warplanes killed 20 Islamic State group fighters in an attack on targets in northern Syria, while Turkey’s president renewed a pledge to destroy the group. A […]
Sep 08, – The artillery fire struck the Kurdish-controlled Afrin area in the northwest late on Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Heavy Turkish shelling across the border into Syria killed six US-backed Kurdish fighters and wounded several civilians, a monitoring group said on Thursday. A Syrian Kurdish news website reported the same […]
Sep 07, – The Turkish fatalities came after Turkish troops and allied Syrian rebels on Sunday expelled IS from the last strip of territory the militant group controlled along the Syrian-Turkish border, effectively sealing the extremists’ self-styled caliphate off from the outside world. Three Turkish soldiers were killed and four were wounded in a missile […]
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Human Rights Observers conference on Women’s rights and Environment
Human Rights Observers an organization in special status with UN ECOSOC has organized conference on Women’s rights and Environmental awareness Speaking on the occasion prominent senior advocate smt. Venkateshwari, stated that Violence against women and girls, a gross human rights violation, devastates lives, causes untold pain, suffering and illness. She has given various examples of […]
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