Author: BBC

Volodymyr Buzynov has been searching for his brother Mykyta for nearly two years. Mykyta is one of thousands of Ukrainian civilians being held in prisons in Russia and the occupied territories for opposing the war. But with no charges, formal investigation, trial, or release date, their location is a mystery, and unlike prisoners of war, there is no formal mechanism to secure their freedom. Source link

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Quentin Reynolds, a 26-year-old who had been gigging for almost a year, was also on the bill that night. When Bridges told his first joke “the whole room absolutely erupted”, he said. “I was pishing myself too, but also breathed a sigh of relief as the new lad had got a huge laugh and I knew he’d probably be OK.”Bridges went on to talk about the “trials and tribulations” of being 17. “Most of it was quite clever stuff, rather than the hack material you might expect from someone so young, and every single gag got a big laugh (again,…

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Earlier in the week, UN Secretary General António Guterres warned of a “humanitarian nightmare” in the city. His spokesman Stéphane Dujarric later added: “We are extremely worried about the fate of civilians in Rafah… I think what is clear is that people need to be protected, but we also do not want to see any forced displacement, forced mass displacement of people”. Source link

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