The U.N. estimates that up to 80% of local health workers have been evacuated from the area, and those who remain endure dire shortages of supplies that exacerbate the humanitarian crisis throughout the region.
The ruling was the final coda to a transcontinental, high-profile case marked by sensationalism and bitter condemnation of the defendants, the media, and the Italian legal system.
The years-long legal battle was instigated by Erika Rosenberg, an Argentine woman and legal heir of Emilie Schindler, Oskar’s late widow. Rosenberg became close to Emilie in the 1990s until her death in 2001.
The United Nations needs as much possible support from its member states as it can muster when it comes to the plethora of peace missions it currently manages.
She was named by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2012 as an “indirect co-perpetrator” of crimes including rape, murder and persecution.
The international condemnation of the ban has been so passionate that one wonders what Delhi expected to gain from the move. Scenes from the film are widely available online, including interviews with one seemingly remorseless perpetrator of the 2012 crime.
There are several reasons for Qatar’s success. For one thing, its hydrocarbon wealth lies not in oil but in gas, whose prices are only somewhat correlated to oil’s. Perhaps more importantly, Qatar has been quite effective at diversifying its economy to cushion the potential impact of an energy crisis.
Hundreds of security officers reportedly surrounded demonstrators in the city of Letpadan, thereby blocking their marching route to the capital. The activists responded by staging a sit-in, with neither side seeming likely to de-escalate tensions.
In a blog post published Tuesday, Navalny argues that Nemtsov’s murder was explicitly ordered “by the political leadership of the country, including Vladimir Putin.”
The gleeful destruction was widely condemned, particularly by UNESCO, the U.N. agency tasked with the protection of worldwide cultural heritage.
