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More than 100 are confirmed dead in the sinking of a river cruiser on the Volga; twelve are dead following an explosion at a naval base in Cyprus, and NATO continues to apply pressure in Libya, as Muamar al-Gaddafi vows retaliation against Europe. … Read More »
Victory in the Wimbledon Girls’ Tennis for Ashleigh Barty, (picture, with Yvonne Goolagong Cawley, Wimbledon champion 1980), capped a great week for young Australian contenders. … Read More »
The death of the former Soviet human rights campaigner Yelena Bonner this month (18.6.11), aged 88, brought memories of tribulations of the recent past.
Yelena Bonner was already an activist when she met her second husband, the late “dissident” and nuclear physicist, Andrei Sakharov, in 1970 - picture, together. … Read More »
Squabbling over compensation for farmers has accompanied flailing efforts to trace down the source of Europe’s E. coli attack, with attention focused on the area around Hamburg. … Read More »
Russian investigators have charged the suspect detained a week ago in Chechnya, Rustam Makhmudov, with the murder of the investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya (picture). … Read More »
The E. coli outbreak focused around Northern Germany has caused 17 deaths to date in Germany and one in Sweden, with 2000 people ill in several countries, many seriously. … Read More »
Members of the European Parliament have called for bringing more pressure on the Russian government to change its ways, to improve independence of the judiciary and the state of human rights. … Read More »