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Mutiny at the BBC: Lineker spat leads to growing BBC crisis
The BBC faces a growing crisis after football presenter Gary Lineker’s criticism of the government’s immigration policy sparked a presenter mutiny that drew the Prime Minister’s comments and made the broadcaster’s boss stand for his own Defense of the position. The BBC was forced to cut most of its sports coverage on Saturday after the presenter refused to work in a show of solidarity with Lineker, after the BBC shut down the broadcast over Lineker’s social media comments to defend its impartiality.
Russian shelling kills Kherson resident, Zelensky condemns ‘terrorist attack’
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russian shelling killed three civilians in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson on Saturday and condemned what he called a “brutal terrorist attack” by pro-Moscow forces. Ukraine retook Kherson in November, shortly after the start of the massive invasion, which Russian forces occupied for nearly eight months. The area is now under almost constant bombardment by Russian forces across the Dnieper.
Ukraine: Russia killed and injured more than 500 people in Bakhmut in one day
More than 500 Russian soldiers were killed or wounded in fighting in the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut in the last 24 hours, a Ukrainian military spokesman said on Saturday. Pro-Moscow forces have been fighting for months to capture Bakhmut in the eastern Donbas region. Both sides have acknowledged that the losses have been extensive, and exact figures are difficult to verify.
Li Qiang becomes China’s prime minister, tasked with reviving economy
Former Shanghai party chief Li Qiang became China’s premier on Saturday, the country’s No. 2 job, appointing a close ally of President Xi Jinping to revive an economy battered by three years of COVID-19 containment measures. Mr Li, 63, who is widely seen as pragmatic and pro-business, faces the daunting task of propping up China’s uneven recovery amid global headwinds and weak consumer and private sector confidence.
Mount Merapi in Indonesia erupts, spewing hot clouds
Indonesia’s Mount Merapi erupted on Saturday, spewing a cloud of heat up to seven kilometers long, the country’s disaster management agency said in a statement. The volcano in Indonesia’s Yogyakarta Special Region erupted at around 12:00 noon local time (0500 GMT) and a 1.5-kilometer lava flow was observed, local authorities said.
More than 1,300 migrants disembark in Italy after multiple rescues
More than 1,300 migrants have been rescued in three separate operations near Italy’s southern tip, the coast guard said on Saturday, two weeks after at least 74 people died when their boat ran aground near the coast. The rising numbers of migrants have put pressure on Italy’s conservative government, which took office last October promising to reduce immigration, but this year has seen a sharp rise in migrants from North Africa and Turkey.
Russian Orthodox leader calls against expulsion of churches from Kiev
Russian Orthodox Church leader Patriarch Kirill on Saturday asked Pope Francis and other religious leaders to persuade Ukraine to end a crackdown on a church branch historically allied with Russia. Kiev on Friday ordered the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) to leave the monastery complex where it is housed, the latest move against a sect the government says is pro-Russian and is collaborating with Moscow.
French Senate votes for Macron’s pension plan despite fresh protests
The French Senate approved President Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular pension reform plan late Saturday after a seventh day of demonstrations that were not as large as authorities had expected. 195 members of the upper house of France’s parliament voted in favor of the text, whose main measure is to raise the retirement age by two years to 64, while 112 voted against it.
Canadian immigration: Why documenting asylum seekers crossing the US border
Bookseller Zulema Diaz fled her native Peru after being kidnapped, beaten and robbed in hopes of finding safety in the United States. Instead, she said she experienced homelessness and sexual harassment in her informal job as a hospital cleaning staff.So when Diaz, 46, heard that New York City was handing out free bus tickets, she said she hopped on a bus bound for Plattsburgh, a small town near the Canadian border, and took a taxi to Wroxham Road of irregular intersections entering Canada and submitting an asylum application
In Peru’s Andes, protest deaths scar deeper as families seek justice
In a small bedroom in a tin-roofed house in the southern Peruvian city of Juliaca, Asunta Jumpiri holds the torn red and black sweatshirt of her 15-year-old son, surrounded by six framed photos, his dark eyes staring at her . Room. She was wearing it when her son Brayan was shot in the back of the head on Jan. 9, the deadliest violence in Peru in more than 20 years, leaving deep scars in the country’s southern Andes.
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