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Vice President Harris on Friday said that intentional attacks against civilians are considered a war crime during a trip to Romania amid Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine. © Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP Vice President Kamala Harris holds a press conference following a meeting with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis at Cotroceni Palace in Otopeni, Romania”We have been clear that any intentional attack or targeting of civilians is a war crime. Period,” she said when asked if Russia’s actions in Ukraine constitute war crimes.The vice president on Thursday, while in Poland, voiced support for a war crimes investigation into Russia over its…

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Friday marks two years to the day since the World Health Organization first described Covid-19 as a pandemic, shaking countries into action as the disease ripped around the planet. The once-in-a-century pandemic has turned the world upside down, claiming more than six million lives and infecting at least 450 million people. © Peter PARKS Covid-19 has at times overwhelmed hospitalsBut the WHO voiced its frustration at people marking the second anniversary of March 11, 2020, insisting that the real alarm came six weeks earlier — but few people bothered to sit up and take notice. The WHO declared a public health…

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeBron James continues to put on age-defying performances. © Provided by Associated Press – Sports Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James (6) dunks during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Washington Wizards in Los Angeles, Friday, March 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis) The 37-year old Lakers superstar had 50 points Friday night and became the oldest player to have multiple 50-point games in a season in Los Angeles’ 122-109 victory over the Washington Wizards. James surpassed Bernard King, who was 34 when he did it in 1990-91 with Washington. “He’s really good at…

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Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY   Expectations were high for the Paris Saint-Germain superteam that boasts international stars Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappé and Neymar, so an early exit from the Champions League was always going to be tough to swallow. Video Player is loading. Pause Current Time 0:00 / Duration 1:00 Loaded: 19.92% Unmute 0 LO Captions Fullscreen Ukrainian soccer stars are left in tears as soccer unites against the Russian invasion Click to expand But after PSG lost 3-1 to Real Madrid Wednesday to fall out of the round of 16 on an aggregate score of 3-2, Neymar, the Brazilian forward, and Italian…

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© Bang Showbiz The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have called for an end to vaccine inequalityThe royal couple joined world leaders, scientists and faith leaders and activists to sign in signing the People’s Vaccine that urges the break up of “vaccine monopolies” – that are impacting poorer countries disproportionately – on the second anniversary of the pandemic that has led to more than six million deaths worldwide. The letter began: “Two years since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic – and faced with disturbingly unequal access to COVID-19 vaccines – we urge world leaders to do…

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A judge in El Salvador ordered the arrest Friday of former president Alfredo Cristiani for alleged links to the murder of six Jesuit priests and two co-workers by the army during the country’s the civil war, prosecutors said. © Pedro UGARTE El Salvador has ordered the arrest of former president Alfredo Cristiani, seen here in 1994 in San Salvador, in connection with the killing of six Jesuits in the civil war in 1989On November 16 1989, Salvadoran troops from the now banned Atlacatl battalion shot dead the Jesuits, five of them Spanish, at the Central American University in San Salvador. They…

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The lawmaker representing Osun West Senatorial District, Senator Adelere Oriolowo, has said a former Governor of Lagos State and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, is physically and mentally fit to be President of Nigeria. Oriolowo, however, dismissed the alleged presidential ambition of the Vice-President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, as a mere rumour, stating that the only presidential aspirant known in the political family of the APC in the South-West geopolitical zone is Tinubu. © Thomson Reuters FILE – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, meets with Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, and Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama,…

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“On Ukraine, indeed the current situation there is grave, and China is deeply concerned and grieved,” Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told reporters Friday. This year marks Li’s final appearance at the press briefing as premier, a position he’s held since 2013. Li closed the roughly two-hour-long session with a pledge that China would continue to open up its economy regardless of changes in the international environment. © Provided by CNBC Chinese Premier Li Keqiang speaks during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow on September 18, 2019. BEIJING — China is “deeply” worried about the crisis…

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© Provided by Hindustan Times Thane: People get inoculated against Covid-19 as vaccination continues at a Thane’s CR Wadia Hospital. (HT Photo/Praful Gangurde)India’s daily Covid-19 cases remained below the 5,000-mark on Saturday, as 3,614 people tested positive for the viral disease in the last 24 hours, data released by the Union ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) showed. With this, the country’s cumulative infection tally has risen to 42,987,875, as per the data. The dashboard also showed that there were as many as 5,185 recoveries during this period, pushing the total number of recovered cases to 42,431,513. There were 89 related…

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LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukraine was at a turning point in the war with Russian forces appearing to be regroup for a possible assault on Kyiv, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, as the United States imposed new sanctions on senior Kremlin officials and Russian oligarchs. © Reuters/GLEB GARANICH Smoke rises after shelling near KyivWith the Russian assault in its third week, Zelenskiy, who has rallied his people with a series of addresses from the capital Kyiv, said Ukraine had “already reached a strategic turning point”. © Reuters/SERHII NUZHNENKO Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, in Irpin”It is impossible to say how many days we…

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