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The Associated Press news agency has verified footage from Ukrainian and Russian sources depicting the four soldiers.

Ukraine has opened a war crime investigation into the alleged killing of four soldiers captured by Russian forces, according to the Ukrainian parliament’s human rights commissioner.

Dmytro Lubinets wrote on X on Thursday that the four prisoners of war had no weapons as they walked out of a destroyed building with “their hands raised”.

“They were shot dead on the spot….

The case marks a first for Taiwan in prosecuting what it alleged is deliberate damage to a subsea cable.

Taiwanese prosecutors have formally charged the captain of a Chinese-crewed cargo ship that Taipei says severed one of its subsea cables earlier this year.

The Togo-flagged Hong Tai 58 was detained by Taiwan’s coastguard in February near the site of a cable breakdown amid allegations that it had deliberately dropped its anchor to cause damage.

The ship’s captain, who was only…

Johannesburg, South Africa – Last year, Mary* finally had the conversation she had been dreading for more than a decade.

Mary has lived with HIV since 2008.

But the 36-year-old has also carried the burden of another secret: Lita*, her daughter, was born with HIV.

Speaking from her four-room home in the bustling township of Soweto, just south of Johannesburg, where she lives with Lita and her parents, Mary recalls the fear she felt as she prepared to tell her child about her condition.

“I…

The move is a blow to North Korea, which once counted Damascus as an ally until the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

South Korea and Syria have formally established diplomatic relations, in another milestone for the transitional government of Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa.

The move has also dealt a blow to Seoul’s archenemy, North Korea, which once counted Syria as a friend under the regime of now-deposed President Bashar al-Assad.

Diplomatic ties were formalised on Thursday…

These are the key events on day 1,142 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here is where things stand on Friday, April 11:

Fighting

• Russia said its aerial defence systems destroyed 48 Ukrainian drones overnight and into the early morning in the Bryansk, Kursk, Kaluga, Belgorod, Moscow and Oryol regions, as well as the Russian-annexed Crimea.
• The Russian Ministry of Defence said its forces captured the border village of Zhuravka in Ukraine’s Sumy region.
• Ukrainian authorities recorded 145 Russian…

China’s National Film Administration says US movies will be less popular after Washington imposed a 145 percent tariff on Chinese imports.

China has moved to “moderately reduce” the release of Hollywood films in the Chinese market in the latest front of the growing United States-China trade war.

China’s National Film Administration directly linked their decision on Thursday to US tariffs on Chinese products, which US President Donald Trump has raised to a sky-high 145 percent.

“The…