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Just a week after they converged on Warsaw for a massive demonstration, tens of thousands of farmers and their supporters were back in Warsaw again on Wednesday, bringing the Polish capital to a standstill for several hours. This time, they were joined by the NSZZ Solidarnosc union, which is closely linked to the national-conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, which was voted out of office last October. This added a new, political edge to the protests and was a clear dig at the new center-left government of Donald Tusk, which has been in power for less than three months.The police…

The campaigning is over, the voting is closed – as Hollywood’s biggest night approaches, there’s little more for the nominees to do than show up looking fabulous and wait to see who has won what.Unlike recent years, in which front runners have been little-seen indie films the academy has chosen to shine a spotlight on, this year sees box office behemoth Oppenheimer in poll position to take the most prizes. But if we know anything about the Oscars it’s that it can be a ceremony of surprises, so let’s take a look at the main categories and which nominees might…

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday that it had thwarted a planned “terrorist attack” on a Moscow synagogue, Russian news agencies reported. The FSB said that a so-called “Islamic State” (IS) cell, based in Kaluga, situated southwest of Moscow, had planned on attacking Jewish worshippers. Suspected IS members killed during arrest “While being arrested, the terrorists put up armed resistance to the Russian FSB officers, and as a result were neutralized by return fire,” the security service was quoted by the TASS news agency as saying in a statement. “Firearms, ammunition, as well as components for the manufacture of an…

With Israel still refusing to open up more aid routes into Gaza, and the situation on the ground deteriorating rapidly, the US and Western partners have lost patience and are looking at options to bypass Israel. The US proposal to build a pier off Gaza is an imperfect, risky option but would be one way of delivering the large quantities of aid needed. It would likely take weeks to establish though, and is therefore only a medium-term solution to an immediate crisis.Middle East latest: Aid ship ‘heading to Gaza today’Lord Cameron’s call for Israel to open Ashdod port makes sense, but…

Three dead seamen, one sunken ship and a looming environmental catastrophe  — Yemen’s Houthis have scaled up their attacks on civilian shipping in the Red Sea. According to the U.S. Central Command, or CENTCOM, the freighter Rubymar, which sank earlier in March after it was attacked by the Houthi militia in mid-February, has already caused an oil spill of some 29 kilometers in length. (18 miles). So far, there is no final assessment of the environmental damage the attacks are causing. But it it’s possible that more than 7,000 barrels of oil and 22,000 tonnes of ammonium phosphate fertilizer on board the Rubymar will end…

Some 3,000 pregnant women in Haiti’s capital could be cut off from essential healthcare if the ongoing security crisis continues, with gang violence surging as armed gangs control most of Port-au-Prince. “If greater Port-au-Prince remains at a standstill in the coming weeks, almost 3,000 pregnant women could be denied access to essential health care,” the UN’s office in Haiti (BINUH) said in a statement on Friday. Abortion is illegal in Haiti. Hospitals have issued warnings regarding staff, bed and blood shortages. What did the UN say? The office also warned that almost 450 women could face life-threatening obstetric complications if…

British boxer Anthony Joshua has defeated former UFC title-holder Francis Ngannou in Saudi Arabia.The former two-time world champion demolished the ex-MMA star by knockout in the second round with a huge right hand. Cameroonian fighter Ngannou toppled to the canvas after the destructive final punch from 34-year-old Joshua, as the crowd in Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena erupted.Dazed and hurt, Ngannou managed to recover and exchanged words with Joshua, as the victor urged him “not to leave” boxing despite his crushing defeat.Joshua praised his opponent on his October bout with Tyson Fury – a clash which the Cameroonian narrowly lost – saying:…

“It’s like we just all of a sudden found ourselves in this horror film and we can’t get out. It’s become our life. It’s not something you can describe in words, you have to see it with your own eyes,” says Valentyna Lisnycha, who cares for some of the most critically ill patients that the war in Ukraine has produced. Lisnycha heads a trauma unit that treats patients with infected wounds at Dnipro’s Mechnikov Hospital. Most are soldiers from the nearby battlefields of southern and eastern Ukraine but frequent Russian missile strikes mean civilian victims are common, too. It’s early morning in the…

Authorities in India have detained members of a trafficking network, sending citizens of the country to fight for Russia in Ukraine. India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) issued a statement saying it had conducted raids on Thursday across 13 locations, detaining “suspects.” ‘A major trafficking ring’ The raids come after dismantling “a major human trafficking ring across the country that targeted gullible youths with the promise of lucrative jobs abroad”, the CBI said in a statement. “These traffickers have been operating as an organized network and were luring Indian nationals through social media channels and also through their local contacts/agents for highly paid jobs…

US President Joe Biden has said reaching a six-week ceasefire deal in Gaza before the start of Ramadan is “looking tough”.His comments come after the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said it was up to Hamas to make further progress on the truce.”The ball is in their court,” he said.”We’re working intensely on it, and we’ll see what they do,” Mr Blinken added ahead of a meeting with Turkish foreign minister Hakan Fidan on Friday.He said the US remains “intensely focused” on securing a ceasefire.Hamas left negotiations in Cairo on Thursday without a deal, dampening hopes an agreement will…