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Watch as Dominic Raab and Dutch justice minister Dilan Yesilgoz-Zegerius hold a joint address after an international conference on accountability for war crimes in Ukraine.Last Friday, the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for Russian president Vladimir Putin's arrest, accusing him of bearing personal responsibility for the abduction of children from the war-torn nation.

The chief of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group on Friday called on the country's central bank governor to resign amid mounting legal troubles.The governor, Riad Salameh, should either step down or be stripped of his responsibilities, Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Iran-backed Hezbollah, said in a televised speech commemorating the Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000.

A Texas man who joined other rioters at the U.S. Capitol trying to break into the Speaker's Lobby, where a woman who was a part of the mob on Jan. 6, 2021, was fatally shot by the police, was sentenced on Tuesday to nearly seven years in prison, the Justice Department said.The man, Christopher R. Grider, 41, of Eddy, Texas, had also tried to shut off the electricity at the Capitol, pressing buttons on an electric utility box while yelling, Turn the power off! according to prosecutors.

The Russian government has put the British prosecutor of the international criminal court (ICC) on a wanted list in an act of retribution after the Hague-based court issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin for allegedly overseeing the abduction of Ukrainian children.The arrest order said Russia's interior ministry was seeking to detain Karim Khan, who has served as the ICC prosecutor since 2021.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has made a surprise visit to Kyiv, stealing some of the global attention from Asian rival President Xi Jinping of China, who is in Moscow to show support for Russia against the West over the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine.
he two visits, about 500 miles apart, highlighted the war's repercussions for international diplomacy as countries line up behind behind Moscow or Kyiv.

A court in Pakistan on Saturday had to cancel a hearing involving former Prime Minister Imran Khan after hundreds of his supporters clashed with police outside of the court building in the capital city, Islamabad.The court had been expected to indict Khan on charges of corruption and for unlawfully selling state gifts.

The former prime minister has been arrested over corruption allegations during a court appearance in the capital.Islamabad, Pakistan Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has been arrested during a court appearance in capital Islamabad over corruption allegations.Musarrat Jamshed Cheema, a leader of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party (PTI), confirmed Khan's arrest to Al Jazeera on Tuesday.

Vladimir Putin must face justice for his invasion of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said during a visit to The Hague, as he strengthened calls for a new war crimes tribunal to try the Russian leader.The Ukrainian president said: We all want to see a different Vladimir here in The Hague, the one who deserves to be sanctioned for his criminal actions here, in the capital of international law.

17 minutes ago17 minutes ago Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a highly symbolic visit to the the war crimes court in The Hague.Afterwards he said Russian President Vladimir Putin must be brought to justice for his war in Ukraine.In a keynote speech during a visit to the Netherlands, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would like to see Russian President Vladimir Putin stand trial for war crimes at The Hague.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reacts during a press conference of the Nordic-Ukrainian Summit at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, Wednesday May 3, 2023.Zelenskyy is in the Finnish capital, Helsinki, for a one-day Nordic summit.(Heikki Saukkomaa/Lehtikuva via AP)Comment Gift Article THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was in the Netherlands on Thursday for a surprise visit to the city that is home to the International Criminal Court, which has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Zelenskyy is expected to visit the International Criminal Court, which has issued an arrests warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin on war crime charges.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has arrived in the Netherlands, local media reported, on an unannounced visit expected to include meetings at the International Criminal Court (ICC) and with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as well as members of the country's parliament.

FILE - Opposition activist Maxim Kats speaks to journalists at an opposition rally in Moscow, March 10, 2012.A Russian court on Thursday March 23, 2023, issued an arrest warrant for Maxim Kats on charges of disparaging the military, and the authorities declared other activists and bloggers "foreign agents" amid efforts to muzzle criticism of Russia's action in Ukraine.

Russia's ex-President Dmitry Medvedev has warned that any attempt to arrest President Vladimir Putin abroad would be seen as "a declaration of war."The International Criminal Court (ICC) based in The Hague issued an arrest warrant for Putin last week for alleged war crimes."Let's imagine obviously this situation which will never be realized but nevertheless lets imagine that it was realized: The current head of the nuclear state went to a territory, say Germany, and was arrested," Medvedev said in a video posted to Telegram late on Wednesday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands after speaking to the media during a signing ceremony following their talks in Moscow on Tuesday.Mikhail Tereshchenko/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP TAIPEI and MOSCOW China's top leader Xi Jinping has wrapped up a state visit to Moscow, where he held nearly three full days of talks with Russia's President Vladimir Putin.

Russian President Vladimir Putin met again with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Tuesday during the latter's visit to Moscow.Xi was welcomed for talks with pomp and affair at the Grand Kremlin Palace as Russian soldiers dressed in 19th-century-style parade uniforms stood by.The importance of the Chinese premier's visit was highlighted by the pageantry and displays of excess from Russia's tsarist imperial past.

Russian President Vladimir Putin met again with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Tuesday during the latter's visit to Moscow.Xi was welcomed for talks with pomp and affair at the Grand Kremlin Palace as Russian soldiers dressed in 19th-century-style parade uniforms stood by.The importance of the Chinese premier's visit was highlighted by the pageantry and displays of excess from Russia's tsarist imperial past.

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Until a few months ago, when writer Alissa Bennett tweeted about working on a new foreword for its re-print, I'd never heard of Ursula Parrott and her cult Jazz Age novel , even though their combined lore seems primed for literary star treatment.An account of an open marriage and eventual divorce taking place against the glimmering backdrop of parties, restaurants and one-night stands in prohibition-era New York, was an instant hit, selling over 100,000 copies when it was first published anonymously.

Pope Francis is greeted by Hungary President Katalin Novak during the farewell ceremony at the Budapest International Airport in Budapest, Hungary, on Sunday.Denes Erdos/AP ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE Pope Francis said Sunday the Vatican was willing to help facilitate the return of Ukrainian children taken to Russia during the war, saying the Holy See had already helped mediate some prisoner exchanges and would do "all that is humanly possible" to reunite families.

Pope Francis is greeted by Hungary President Katalin Novak during the farewell ceremony at the Budapest International Airport in Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, April 30, 2023.(AP Photo/Denes Erdos)Comment Gift Article ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE - Pope Francis said Sunday the Vatican was willing to help facilitate the return of Ukrainian children taken to Russia during the war, saying the Holy See had already helped mediate some prisoner exchanges and would do "all that is humanly possible" to reunite families.

He will be fingerprinted.He will be photographed.He may even be handcuffed.In the days ahead, Donald J. Trump is expected to walk through the routine steps of felony arrest processing in New York, now that a grand jury has voted to indict him in connection with his role in a hush-money payment to a porn star.

Amnesty International publishes annual report highlighting the state of human rights in more than 150 countries.The invasion of Ukraine has exposed the double standards of human rights internationally, a new Amnesty International report has said, with the West adopting a tough response to Russia's war of aggression while also maintaining a deafening silence on rights abuses around the world.

The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence says Russia appears to have shifted its operational focus away from the Donbas town of Bakhmut to areas to the north and south.The ministry's daily report on Saturday says that, with their offensive on Bakhmut itself looking to have stalled, Moscow's forces are redirecting their efforts to Avdiivka, south of Bakhmut, and to the Kremina-Svatove sector in the north.

Russian cruise missiles intended for use by Moscow's Black Sea fleet have been destroyed in an explosion in the city of Dzhankoi in the north of the Crimean peninsula, Ukraine's defence ministry has said.Ihor Ivin, the Russian-installed head of the Dzhankoi administration, was quoted as saying the city had come under attack from drones, and that a 33-year-old man had suffered a shrapnel injury from a downed drone.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken on Monday said that the visit to Moscow by China's president days after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir V. Putin, amounts to Beijing providing diplomatic cover for Russia to continue to commit war crimes.President Xi Jinping's visit suggests that China feels no responsibility to hold the president accountable for the atrocities committed in Ukraine, Mr. Blinken said of Mr. Putin.

Russia's Investigative Committee says the International Criminal Court has knowingly accused an innocent person of a crime, in another show of defiance against the court.Russia's top investigative body has opened a criminal case against the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor and judges who issued an arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin on war crimes charges.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to begin a state visit to Russia, seeking to present China as a global peacemaker while strengthening ties with Vladimir Putin.Xi and Putin will have an informal one-on-one meeting and dinner on Monday before negotiations take place on Tuesday.Putin praised Xi as a good old friend in a newspaper article published in China while Xi wrote in a Russian daily that his trip to Russia aimed to strengthen the friendship between the two countries and called for pragmatism on Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin has made a surprise visit to the occupied Ukrainian port city of Mariupol in a show of defiance after the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for him on war crimes charges.Russian state media released footage on Sunday showing the president on what is believed to have been his first trip to Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine's Donbas region since he launched a full-scale invasion last year.

Security Council official Dmitry Medvedev's comments come amid reports of an imminent counteroffensive by Ukrainian forces in the besieged city of Bakhmut.Russian forces may have to advance as far as Kyiv or Lviv in Ukraine, Russia's former president Dmitry Medvedev says, amid reports Moscow was losing momentum in the war-torn city of Bakhmut.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled to the southern region of Kherson, extending his tour of the country's front line after a trip to Bakhmut a day previously.More than 50 villages in Kherson had been "almost completely destroyed," he said in his nightly address Thursday, adding that in some locations 90 percent of the buildings lay in ruins.

As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its 394th day, we take a look at the main developments.Here is the situation as it stands on Friday, March 24, 2023: Hungary said Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be arrested if he enters the country despite the International Criminal Court (ICC) issuing an arrest warrant against him on war crimes charges.

Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Russia made international headlines.The demonstrative display of closeness between him and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, and the signed new pact between their two nations are considered to be a sign of a strategic consolidation of relations between the two powers.

Ukraine's president says Russian attacks, which killed at least nine people, will not go unanswered.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said his country will respond to every blow after Russian attacks killed at least eight people in the Kyiv region and one person in the city of Zaporizhzhia.

China's president says his country and Russia are driving global geopolitical change.President Xi Jinping has concluded his visit to Moscow, cementing his no-limits partnership with Vladimir Putin.The Chinese leader's trip came just days after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the Russian president, for war crimes in Ukraine.

China said President Xi Jinping's visit to Russia had been a "journey of friendship, co-operation and peace" and again criticised the US for providing military support to Ukraine.
he trip, which ended on Wednesday, signalled no new progress in ending the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, while shoring up Russian president Vladimir Putin's standing amid growing efforts to isolate him and his government internationally.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has left Moscow, wrapping up a three-day visit, shortly after Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida left Kyiv.r Kishida made a surprise visit on Tuesday to Kyiv, stealing some of the attention from Mr Xi's trip to Moscow where he promoted Beijing's peace proposal for Ukraine, which Western nations have already dismissed.

MOSCOW Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, sought to project a sense of unity and normalcy on Tuesday, during the second day of Mr. Xi's grand state visit, which included the signing of 14 agreements.We signed a statement on deepening the strategic partnership and bilateral ties, which are entering a new era, Mr. Xi said, following talks with Mr. Putin in the Kremlin.

During every NFL draft season, various factors can cause a player's value to rise or fall.The weight of those factors gets measured by various scouts, talent evaluators and analysts, with the consensus of a player's evaluation culminating at the Draft in late April.What should we make about the Jalen Carter situation?

Russia and China showcased their "no-limit friendship" on Tuesday during a pomp-laden Kremlin ceremony intended to further cement ties amid the fighting in Ukraine.fter hosting Chinese leader Xi Jinping over a seven-course private dinner for four and a half hours the previous night, Russian President Vladimir Putin greeted him in the old imperial palace for talks involving top officials from both countries.

An international conference in London raised 4 million pounds ($4.9 million) to support the International Criminal Court in its investigations into alleged war crimes in Ukraine and its work to hold Russia to account, officials said Monday.Justice ministers from over 40 countries met in London for the war crimes conference days after the global court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of personal responsibility in the abduction of children from Ukraine.

The Russian President Vladimir Putin has marked the ninth anniversary of the illegal annexation of Crimea from Ukraine by visiting Tauric Chersonese, a Unesco World Heritage Site on the Black Sea peninsula that his government is transforming into a cultural and ideological platform for Russian expansion.

Newspapers featuring a front-page photo of Chinese President Xi Jinping meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, are displayed at a news stand in Beijing on Tuesday.(Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images)For audiences in China, Xi Jinping's visit to Russia this week was a show of strength and a testament to Beijing's bid for global leadership.

Russia plans to hold an informal meeting of the UN Security Council in early April on what it said is "the real situation" of Ukrainian children taken to Russia.
he issue has entered the spotlight after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes related to the abduction of children.

HOUR BY HOUR Issued on: 21/03/2023 - 07:48Modified: 21/03/2023 - 07:54 Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks to the media after North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan, at his official residence in Tokyo, Japan on October 4, 2022, in this photo taken by Kyodo.Kyodo via Reuters Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a surprise visit to Kyiv on Tuesday to offer "solidarity and unwavering support", Japan's foreign ministry said.

As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its 391st day, we take a look at the main developments.Here is the situation as it stands on Tuesday, March 21, 2023: Fierce fighting continues for control of the centre of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine.The eastern town of Avdiivka could soon become a second Bakhmut, with the risk of being encircled, the Ukrainian military said on Monday.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping visits Moscow days after the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin.Russian President Vladimir Putin has warmly welcomed Chinese leader Xi Jinping on a state visit to the Kremlin, sending a message to Western leaders that their efforts to isolate Moscow over its war in Ukraine have fallen short.

President Vladimir Putin was not waiting at the end of the red carpet to greet Chinese leader Xi Jinping when he arrived in Russia for a high-profile visit on Monday, but it was not a snub.ussia's standard protocol for visiting dignitaries calls for them to be welcomed at the airport by a lower-ranking Cabinet official.

EU ministers are hopeful of finalising an agreement to supply Ukraine with 2bn (1.75bn) of ammunition to bolster its defences against Russia's invasion.The EU's most senior diplomat, Josep Borrell, said he hoped the bloc's foreign and defence ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday would reach an agreement on replenishing Ukraine's dwindling stocks.

As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its 390th day, we take a look at the main developments.Here is the situation as it stands on Monday, March 20, 2023: Putin made a surprise visit to the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol on Sunday in a trip condemned by members of its exiled city council.Ukrainian forces outside the embattled eastern city of Bakhmut are managing to keep Russian units at bay so ammunition, food, equipment and medicines can be delivered to defenders, according to the army.

On his way to Moscow, China's president is trying to cast Beijing as a peacemaker after more than a year of war.Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is due to arrive in Moscow later on Monday for talks, has called for a rational way out of the Ukraine crisis but has acknowledged it will not be easy to reach a solution.

China's leader, Xi Jinping, is set to arrive in Moscow on Monday for a summit with President Vladimir V. Putin that will test how far Mr. Xi is willing to go to act as a potential peace broker in the war in Ukraine.The Chinese government has cast Mr. Xi's three-day state visit to Russia as a trip for peace, seeking to burnish his image as a global statesman after Beijing hosted talks this month that led to a significant agreement between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

Vladimir Putin has welcomed China's willingness to play a constructive role in solving in what he called the Ukraine crisis, in an article released on the eve of a visit by his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping.In what the Kremlin said was an article written for a Chinese newspaper on Sunday, the Russian president called Xi his good old friend and said Russia had high hopes for his visit, the Chinese leader's first to Russia since Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine last year.

In this photo taken from video released by Russian TV Pool on Sunday, March 19, 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin talks with local residents during his visit to Mariupol in Russian-controlled Donetsk region, Ukraine.AP Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited the occupied port city of Mariupol, his first trip to the Ukrainian territory that Moscow illegally annexed in September.

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic after being awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019.Issuing an international arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin will have negative consequences and will only prolong the war in Ukraine, Serbia's president said Sunday, March 19, 2023.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited the port city of Mariupol in his first trip to Ukrainian territory that Moscow illegally annexed in September.ussian state news agencies reported on Sunday that he was in Mariupol, which became a worldwide symbol of defiance after outgunned and outmanned Ukrainian forces held out in a steel mill there for nearly three months before Moscow finally took control of it in May.

HOUR BY HOUR Russian President Vladimir Putin visits a museum in Sevastopol accompanied by the city's governor and an Orthodox Church bishop in occupied Crimea on March 18, 2023.Sputnik via Reuters Russian President Vladimir Putin made a surprise trip to Mariupol after visiting Crimea to mark the ninth anniversary of the peninsula's annexation from Ukraine, the Kremlin has said, in what would mark his first trip to the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine's Donbas region since the start of the war.

Russian strikes killed two people and wounded eight in Kramatorsk on Saturday, mayor Oleksandr Goncharenko said, accusing Moscow of having used cluster bombs in the attack on the eastern Ukrainian city.Agence France-Presse reporters heard about 10 explosions go off nearly simultaneously and saw smoke above a park in the city's south.

The US president, Joe Biden, has backed the International Criminal Court's decision to issue an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin over his role in the abduction of Ukrainian children, saying it was justified.Germany's chancellor, Olaf Scholz, was among other international leaders who welcomed the decision, saying on Saturdayyesterday that it showed nobody is above the law.

Ukraine's ambassador at the United Nations declared that "there is no purgatory for war criminals, they go straight to hell" in an address delivered after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin."Those of them who remain alive after the military defeat of Russia will have to make a stop in The Hague on their way to hell," Sergiy Kyslytsya said Friday, per EuroNews.

Russian president arrives in Crimea to mark the anniversary of the peninsula's 2014 annexation from Ukraine.Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Crimea on an unannounced visit to mark the ninth anniversary of Russia's annexation of the peninsula from Ukraine.Putin was greeted on Saturday by the Russian-installed governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhayev, and was taken to see a new children's centre and art school on what the official said was a surprise visit.