Deported Ukrainian children sent to ‘survival training’ with Belarus military – POLITICO

Deported Ukrainian children sent to ‘survival training’ with Belarus military – POLITICO

Dozens of Ukrainian children from a Russian-occupied city in Ukraine were taken to Belarus and sent to “emergency survival training” with the Belarusian military, according to local media. The Belarus 4 Mogilev state television channel reported on Wednesday that 35 children from the city of Antratsyt in eastern Ukraine, which Russia has occupied since 2014, … Read more

UK Under Pressure To Call Out Israel’s War on Hamas As Genocide After Myanmar Action

UK Under Pressure To Call Out Israel’s War on Hamas As Genocide After Myanmar Action

The UK government’s action of submitting detailed legal arguments at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in support of genocide claims against the Myanmar government has come under fire amidst the Gaza Strip situation. Britain is being accused of double standards, as the UK didn’t press for similar charges against the Netanyahu government in the … Read more

How Israel will fight Gaza genocide accusations in The Hague – POLITICO

How Israel will fight Gaza genocide accusations in The Hague – POLITICO

Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Back in November, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the far-right and religious nationalists in his coalition government to pipe down and “be careful with their words” when talking about their desired outcomes for the war … Read more

POLITICO Europe’s most-read stories of 2023 – POLITICO

POLITICO Europe’s most-read stories of 2023 – POLITICO

Well, here we are folks, at the end of another turbulent year. When we put this list together at the end of 2022, its contents largely covered something many of us thought we would not see again in our lifetime: a major war in Europe. Now, we are grappling with two wars in our immediate … Read more

MPs call for new measures to rein in Canadian pension investments in China

MPs call for new measures to rein in Canadian pension investments in China

The House of Commons special committee studying Canada-China relations is urging the federal government to introduce new measures to prevent Canadian pension funds from investing in Chinese companies implicated in human rights abuses, corruption or threats to national security. The committee’s report, tabled in the House of Commons this week, calls on Ottawa to, in partnership with … Read more