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N. Korea backs independence of breakaway regions in Ukraine
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea has turn into one of many few nations on the planet to acknowledge the independence of two Russian-backed separatist areas in jap Ukraine in help of Russia’s battle in opposition to its neighbor.
Ukraine’s Overseas Ministry reduce off diplomatic ties with North Korea in response and condemned Pyongyang’s choice as undermining Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
North Korea has repeatedly blamed america for the disaster in Ukraine, claiming the West’s “hegemonic coverage” justified Russia’s offensive in Ukraine to guard itself.
North Korea’s state media stated Thursday that the nation’s overseas minister, Choe Solar Hui, despatched letters to leaders within the breakaway areas of Donetsk and Luhansk a day earlier to convey the North’s choice to acknowledge their independence and its willingness to develop diplomatic relations with each.
Donetsk separatist chief Denis Pushilin acknowledged North Korea’s choice Wednesday.
Luhansk and Donetsk collectively make up the Donbas area, a largely Russian-speaking area of metal factories, mines and different industries in Ukraine’s east. Separatists have managed elements of each provinces since 2014, however Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged their independence solely shortly earlier than the invasion started in February. Syria has since acknowledged their independence as nicely.
Ukrainian Overseas Minster Dmytro Kuleba stated Russia’s attraction to North Korea for help reveals Moscow has “no extra allies on the planet, apart from international locations that rely upon it financially and politically.” Ukraine had already suspended its political and financial contacts with North Korea due to worldwide sanctions imposed on the North over its nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles program.
“The extent of isolation of the Russian Federation will quickly attain the extent of isolation of the DPRK,” Kuleba stated in an announcement, utilizing the initials of North Korea’s formal title, the Democratic Individuals’s Republic of Korea.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has successfully paralyzed the U.N. Safety Council, the place Russia is a veto-wielding everlasting member, leaving a gap for North Korean chief Kim Jong Un to push ahead his weapons improvement as he tries to cement the North’s standing as a nuclear energy and negotiate a elimination of crippling U.S.-led sanctions from a place of energy.
North Korea has test-fired greater than 30 missiles in 2022 alone, together with its first flight check of an intercontinental ballistic missile in practically 5 years. There are additionally indications the North is restoring tunnels at a nuclear testing website that was final lively in 2017 in attainable preparations to renew nuclear explosive checks.
A 25-year-old man who was declared dead and about to be cremated in India this week was found to be still alive by witnesses, according to reports.
Rohitash Kumar, 25, who was deaf and mute, was declared dead at a hospital in the state of Rajasthan in the northwestern part of India without a post-mortem examination, according to The Times of India.
Once it was clear Kumar was alive at his cremation on Thursday afternoon, his family reportedly took him back to a hospital where he died early Friday morning.
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A crematorium in India. (Rupak De Chowdhuri/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Three doctors involved in declaring Kumar dead at the Bhagwan Das Khetan district hospital have since been suspended, the newspaper reported.
Kumar had suffered an epileptic seizure and was declared dead after he flatlined while doctors were performing CPR on him, the Daily Mail reported, citing the AFP news service.
Relatives carry the body of a person who died of COVID-19 as multiple pyres of other victims burn at a crematorium in New Delhi, India, in 2021. (AP Photo/Amit Sharma, File)
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“The situation was nothing short of a miracle,” a witness at the funeral pyre told local news outlet ETV Bharat. “We all were in shock. He was declared dead, but there he was, breathing and alive.”
Ramavtar Meena, a government official in Rajasthan’s Jhunjhunu district, called the incident “serious negligence.”
The state of Rajasthan in northwestern India. (Vishal Bhatnagar/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
“Action will be taken against those responsible. The working style of the doctors will also be thoroughly investigated,” he said.
Meena added that a committee had been formed to investigate the incident.
Violence against women and girls remains largely unreported due to the impunity, silence, stigma and shame surrounding it.
Thousands marched across France and Italy protesting violence against women on Saturday – two days before the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
Those demonstrating protested all forms of violence against women – whether it be sexual, physical, psychological and economic.
The United Nations designated 25 November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The goal is to raise awareness of the violence women are subjected to and the reality that the scale and nature of the issue is often hidden.
Activists demonstrated partially naked in Rome, hooded in balaclavas to replicate the gesture of Iranian student Ahoo Daryaei, who stripped in front of a university in Tehran to protest the country’s regime.
In France, demonstrations were planned in dozens of cities like Paris, Marseille and Lille.
More than 400 organisations reportedly called for demonstrations across the country amidst widespread shock caused by the Pelicot mass rape trial.
Violence against women and girls remains one of the most prevalent and pervasive human rights violations in the world, according to the United Nations. Globally, almost one in three women have been subjected to physical and/or sexual violence at least once in their life.
For at least 51,100 women in 2023, the cycle of gender-based violence ended with their murder by partners or family members. That means a woman was killed every ten minutes.
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