OPPOSITION BELARUS
Belarusian justice sentences Nobel Prize winner Bialiatski to 10 years in prison
Moscow. A Minsk court today sentenced prominent Belarusian human rights defender and 2022 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski to ten years in prison, the organization he chairs, Viasna, reported. Judge Marina Zapasnik found Bialiatski and three other human rights activists guilty of trafficking with an organized group and financing class action seriously undermining public order.
KOREAN CONFLICT
Seoul, Washington deploy strategic bomber ahead of drills
Seoul, March 3. Seoul and Washington air forces today carried out maneuvers with a US B-1 strategic bomber and South Korean fighter jets at a time marked by enormous tensions on the peninsula and the celebration of major Allied maneuvers starting in 10 days. The exercises were carried out over the Yellow Sea (called the West Sea in both Koreas) and the central region of South Korea and involved, in addition to B-1, F-15 and F-15 from the Asian country, he explained the South Korean Ministry of National Defense in a statement.
FOOD PRICES
Food prices fall for the eleventh consecutive month
Rome. The benchmark international food commodity price index fell in February for the eleventh consecutive month, albeit by just 0.6%, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations reported today. (FAO). The FAO Food Price Index came in at 129.8 points in February, down 0.6% from January but 18.7% below its peak in March 2022.
CAMBODIA OPPOSITION
UN criticizes conviction of Cambodian opposition leader and calls for his release
Geneva. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, today regretted the 27-year prison sentence of Cambodian opposition leader, Kem Sokha, handed down on Friday, and called on the authorities of the Asian country its liberation. . “I am concerned about the way the trial has been conducted and the grounds on which the charges have been brought. I urge the government to release Sokha as soon as possible and ensure that her human rights are fully respected,” Türk said in a statement. .
POISONING IN IRAN
Raisí accuses Iran’s “enemies” of poisonings in girls’ schools
Tehran. The President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisí, accused this Friday the “enemies” of the Persian country of the wave of gas poisoning in the female educational centers, in which nearly a thousand students were poisoned. “The enemy wants to create chaos in schools with insecurity and an atmosphere of fear and desperation in other areas,” Iran’s president said in a speech during his first public remarks on the poisonings.
GREECE ACCIDENT
Rescue work ends with dozens missing after train crash
Athens (EFE). – Rescue work on the remains of the two trains that collided on Tuesday evening ends this Friday, while efforts continue to find dozens of missing people and identify most of the victims of the incident, who are at least 57 As the firefighters outside have pointed out, work at the scene of the accident will end this Friday, and the first three carriages of the passenger train will be transferred to another site, where they can also be inspected by the Police.
ITALY CORONAVIRUS
Prosecutor says 4,000 deaths could be prevented in Italy due to pandemic
Rome. The establishment of a “red zone” or isolation at the end of February 2020 in the Seriana Valley (northern Italy) would have avoided the death of more than 4,000 people, according to the prosecutors who investigated the management at the start of the pandemic in this area, the western focus of a virus that has killed nearly 188,000 people in the country. The public prosecutor’s office in Bergamo (north), which has just completed three years of investigations into the causes of the high number of deaths and possible political responsibilities, charges 19 people with the crimes of aggravated culpable epidemic, multiple culpable homicide and refusal to perform official acts. , including former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and his Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, local media report today.
R. UNITED MUSIC
Arctic Monkeys and Guns N’Roses will perform at Glastonbury Festival
London. British band Arctic Monkeys and North American band Guns N’ Roses will headline the Glastonbury Music Festival, the organization announced on Friday. The pair will join veteran singer-songwriter Elton John, who will play the final UK gig of his Worthy Farm farewell tour, which kicks off in June. EFE
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