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President Joe Biden has said the US is “working every day” to secure the release of a US journalist, detained in Russia for a year.Evan Gershkovich, 32, was arrested on suspicion of spying while reporting in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg on 29 March 2023. The Wall Street Journal reporter was accused of stealing state secrets by Russian intelligence officials, who provided no evidence to support the charge. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player 0:39 Russian jet crashes into sea Russia-Ukraine latest: Poland scrambles fighter jetsMr Gershkovich and his newspaper deny the accusation, as does…

“Competitive and amateur sports are equally affected. It’s about relative overload,” Karsten Hollander explains to DW. “For example, you sign up for a spring marathon on New Year’s Eve and go from doing nothing to training 20, 40 or 60 kilometres per week — these are high-risk moments. The same thing can happen to a competitive runner after a four-week break — for example, a college runner who gets back into high intensity training very quickly after the semester break.” Hollander is a professor of sports medicine at the Medical School Hamburg and since January 2024, has also been the…

Skip next section Zelenskyy says 2 Ukrainian hydropower plants attacked03/29/2024March 29, 2024Zelenskyy says 2 Ukrainian hydropower plants attackedUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that the Kaniv and Dnister hydropower plants in Ukraine were attacked in Russian strikes overnight. “The terrorist country wants to repeat the environmental disaster in the Kherson region. But now not only Ukraine but also Moldova is under threat,” Zelenskyy said on the Telegram messaging app. The Dnister plant is on Ukraine’s border with Moldova. Zelensky had previously described Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure as “energy terrorism.” Meanwhile, Ukraine has announced emergency blackouts in three regions and…

India’s potential role as a mediator with Moscow, and its position as a vanguard of the Global South, is coming into focus for Ukraine as it seeks to expand international support for a peace plan more than two years after the Russian invasion. After arriving in India Thursday for a two-day visit, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told Indian media that New Delhi “is a very important player in the world and we need India to restore just and lasting peace in Ukraine.” Kuleba’s agenda includes a meeting Friday with his Indian counterpart, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, and the deputy national security adviser.…

Researchers have used DNA to reconstruct the face of a Chinese emperor and shed light on what might have caused his death.Emperor Wu was a ruler of the Northern Zhou dynasty in ancient China, reigning from 560 AD until 578, defeating the Northern Qi dynasty and unifying the northern part of the country. The emperor belonged to a rarely-studied nomadic group called the Xianbei that lived in modern-day Mongolia and northern and northeastern China.Almost 30 years after his tomb was discovered in northwestern China, researchers at Shanghai’s Fudan University used DNA and his nearly-complete skull to reconstruct his face in…

“Oppenheimer,” the winner of the Oscars Best Picture award, was finally shown in Japanese cinemas on Friday, where the subject of the creation of the atomic bomb remains a highly charged and emotional subject. Director Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster hit the big screens in the United States and other countries in July at the same time as “Barbie” — prompting a viral phenomenon dubbed “Barbenheimer” by movie buffs. But while the famous doll’s movie premiered in Japan in August, “Oppenheimer” has been conspicuously absent from the country’s cinemas for months. Why was the release date so late? No official explanation was…

Bayern Munich have been crowned Bundesliga champions again, overcoming the odds to win the title on goal difference — dashing Dortmund’s hopes of lifting the Meisterschale for the first time since 2012 on a final day of extraordinary drama. Bayern secured it following Jamal Musiala’s late strike as Dortmund could only draw 2-2 with Mainz. Thomas Tuchel’s side were already celebrating with their fans in Cologne as Dortmund threw everything at Mainz to get a late winner that never materialized in a Bundesliga finale that will live long in the memory.Dortmund’s players are left heartbroken after throwing away the Bundesliga. Image: Leon…

Russia on Thursday vetoed the extension of a UN panel tasked with overseeing sanctions against North Korea, amid allegation of its arms exchanges with Pyongyang to sustain the war in Ukraine. Before the vote, Russia’s UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia told the Council that Western countries are attempting to “strangle” North Korea, arguing that sanctions are becoming irrelevant and ineffective in curbing the country’s nuclear weapons proliferation. North Korea has been under Security Council sanctions over its nuclear program since 2006. The UN monitoring panel had been a key instrument in monitoring sanctions compliance and identifying violations. Without the extension its mandate is…

Friday marks one year since Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested in Russia on espionage charges. Last year, upon his arrest while on a reporting trip to the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg, Russia’s FSB security agency said he was accused of gathering information on “the activities of one of the enterprises of the military-defense complex” in Russia “for the American side.” Russian authorities did not reveal any details of the charges or provide evidence. Gershkovich, the WSJ and the US government all deny the allegations. On Tuesday, US Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy called the accusations “categorically…

The head of one of Haiti’s most powerful gangs, and the de-facto head of a consortium of gangs that have brought Port-au-Prince to a standstill has told Sky News he would consider a ceasefire and talks on the political future of the country if they were included.But Jimmy Cherizier, known universally as “Barbecue”, has predicted that more violence is imminent, adding that a recent halt in the fighting is purely a technical pause. “There is nothing calm, but when you’re fighting you have to know when to advance and when to retreat,” he said.”I think every day that passes we…