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UNESCO designates Odesa as World Heritage site amid war threats
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The United Nations’ cultural company has determined so as to add the historic centre of Ukraine’s Black Sea port metropolis of Odesa to its record of World Heritage websites to recognise “the excellent common worth of the positioning and the responsibility of all humanity to guard it” as the town faces the specter of destruction.
The 21 member states of UNESCO’s world heritage committee accredited the choice with six votes in favour, one towards and 14 abstentions.
Russia, which invaded Ukraine in February final yr and has bombed Odesa a number of instances, tried to delay the vote repeatedly.
“Whereas the struggle continues, this inscription embodies our collective dedication to make sure that this metropolis, which has all the time surmounted world upheavals, is preserved from additional destruction,” UNESCO Director-Common Audrey Azoulay stated after the choice.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who requested the itemizing in October, welcomed the designation.
The standing is geared toward serving to defend Odesa’s cultural heritage, and enabling entry to monetary and technical worldwide help.
“At the moment Odesa bought UNESCO safety,” Zelenskyy wrote on Twitter.
“I’m grateful to companions who assist defend our pearl from the Russian invaders’ assaults.”
‘Wonderful historic previous’
Based within the remaining years of the 18th century close to the positioning of a captured Ottoman fortress, Odesa’s location on the shores of the Black Sea turned it into some of the essential ports within the Russian empire.
Its standing as a buying and selling hub introduced vital wealth and made it some of the cosmopolitan cities in Jap Europe.
Town’s most well-known historic websites embrace its Opera Home, which turned a logo of resilience when it reopened in June 2022, and the enormous stairway to the harbour, immortalised in Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 silent movie Battleship Potemkin.
Though Odesa suffered vital harm in World Warfare II, its famed central grid sq. of low-rise, Nineteenth-century buildings survived principally intact.
Because the Russian invasion, Ukrainians have rushed to guard the town’s monuments and buildings with sandbags and barricades.
In July 2022, elements of the massive glass roof and home windows of the Museum of Positive Arts, inaugurated in 1899, had been destroyed.
UNESCO stated that it had already helped with repairs to the constructing, in addition to to the Odesa Museum of Fashionable Artwork, which has additionally been broken within the battle.
In Moscow, Russia’s overseas ministry accused a bunch of Western international locations of pushing by means of what it known as a “politically motivated” resolution in violation of normal procedures.
“It was ready rapidly, with out respecting the present excessive requirements of UNESCO,” the overseas ministry stated, stressing that simply six international locations voted in favour.
Moscow pointed to “the wonderful historic previous of Odesa as a part of the Russian state” and insisted that “the one risk” Odesa confronted was from “the nationalist regime in Ukraine” which had taken down quite a lot of monuments within the metropolis.
Following a ballot of residents, metropolis authorities final yr eliminated a monument to the Russian Empress Catherine the Nice, seen as the town’s founder, as a part of ‘de-Russification‘ efforts.
Ukraine has argued that the town, the third largest within the nation, thrived lengthy earlier than Catherine the Nice’s arrival and that Odesa dated again to the fifteenth century when it was often called Hadzhybei.
Ukraine is just not a member of the UNESCO committee, which is at present chaired by Saudi Arabia.
Underneath the 1972 UNESCO conference, ratified by each Ukraine and Russia, signatories undertake to “help within the safety of the listed websites” and are “obliged to chorus from taking any deliberate measures” which could harm World Heritage websites.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau got an earful during a photo op from a cash-strapped steelworker who told the leader his policies have left his family scratching to make ends meet.
Footage of the tense exchange in Sault Ste. Marie, a city in Ontario, which was obtained by CTV News, went viral. The unidentified worker spurned Trudeau’s offer of doughnuts to complain about high taxes, medical bills and giveaways to people he deemed “lazy.”
“The 25% tariffs we just brought in is going to help you out … that’s going to keep your job,” Trudeau told the man.
“What about the 40% taxes I am paying? And I don’t have a doctor,” the employee of Algoma Steel shot back.
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Trudeau responded by saying that a multimillion-dollar investment from the Canadian government meant the man would have a job “for many years to come.” The man responded by saying that he expected Trudeau to be voted out.
“That’s what elections are for,” said the Liberal Party leader, who stayed calm and collected during the exchange. “I look forward to everyone exercising the right to vote. … We are going to invest in you and your job.”
“I don’t believe you for a second,” the steelworker shot back.
The man also mentioned that he felt unemployed Canadians got better access to affordable health care than he did after Trudeau referenced an initiative to help hundreds of thousands of Canadians get dental care.
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“Probably like my neighbor who doesn’t go to work because she’s lazy?” the steelworker asked.
“You know what? Most Canadians try to stick up for each other, and that’s what we’ve got to keep doing,” Trudeau responded before wishing the man good luck. At the end, the laborer appeared to refuse a handshake from Trudeau.
The next federal election in Canada is set to take place on Oct. 20, 2025. Trudeau’s government has been scrutinized amid a cost-of-living crisis affecting the country, though Trudeau has remained optimistic.
“Inflation came down last month, beating out expectations,” the prime minister wrote in a Facebook post on July 17. “But, until Canadians can feel that relief in their wallets, at the grocery store, and on their mortgages, the job’s not done.”
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Taiwan court orders release of ex-Taipei mayor arrested in corruption probe
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A court in Taiwan has ordered the release of a former mayor and presidential candidate who was arrested over his alleged role in a corruption scandal, citing insufficient evidence for his detention.
Taipei District Court on Monday ruled that Ko Wen-je, a former mayor of Taipei and the leader of the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), should go free after finding that prosecutors had failed to make the case for his detention.
The court said prosecutors had not met the standard of there being a “high possibility” Ko had committed a crime.
“It cannot be concluded that the defendant… knowingly violated the law,” the court said in its ruling.
Ko was arrested on Saturday as part of a probe into alleged corruption in the redevelopment of the Core Pacific City shopping centre in the Taiwanese capital.
Ko, who came third in January’s presidential election, told reporters outside court that there was “no evidence” of his involvement in the real estate scandal.
A surgeon by training, Ko entered politics in 2014 when he successfully ran for the mayorship of Taipei as an independent candidate.
Re-elected as mayor of Taipei in 2018, he founded the TPP the following year as a third force to challenge the dominance of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and China-leaning Kuomintang (KMT).
Under the TPP banner, Ko received about one-quarter of the vote in the last presidential election, which was won by the DPP’s William Lai Ching-te.
While the TPP has only eight legislators in Taiwan’s 113-seat parliament, the party has gained outsized influence as both the DPP and KMT lack a ruling majority.
Ko, who draws much of his support from young people, is widely seen as a contender for the next election in 2028, although his popularity has been dented by a separate campaign funds scandal.
On Thursday, Ko said he would take a three-month leave of absence from the TPP leadership to take responsibility for the misreporting of campaign money and the use of election subsidies to set up a personal office space.
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