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Ukraine will probably be answerable for its personal destruction if it undermines current peace agreements, a senior Russian diplomat has warned at a combative UN safety council debate on the disaster.
The feedback from Vasily Nebenzya, Russia’s everlasting consultant to the UN, got here on a day of continued high-level diplomacy aimed toward defusing the Ukraine disaster.
The state division stated it had obtained a response from the Kremlin to a doc the US delivered in Moscow final week, formally outlining areas the place the Biden administration believes the 2 international locations might discover frequent floor. US officers wouldn't disclose the contents of the Russian letter, saying they'd not “negotiate in public”.
Russia’s state information company RIA reported that Russia had despatched follow-up questions slightly than a response, and that Moscow was nonetheless engaged on a response.
What did Nebenzya say about Ukraine? “If our western companions push Kyiv to sabotage the Minsk agreements, one thing that Ukraine is … willingly doing, then which may finish within the absolute worst manner for Ukraine. And never as a result of any individual has destroyed it, however as a result of it will have destroyed itself and Russia has completely nothing to do with this.”
What occurs subsequent? The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, are attributable to speak on Tuesday. In the meantime, Vladimir Putin and the French president, Emmanuel Macron, might meet in individual quickly.
Boris Johnson underneath fireplace after launch of redacted report into lockdown events
Boris Johnson has been challenged by a Conservative backbencher to decide to publishing the complete report on Downing Avenue events, as his deputy, Dominic Raab, stated it was “unclear” if there was additional proof to come back.
Mark Harper, a former Conservative chief whip, advised the Guardian he had requested Johnson to reiterate at Wednesday’s prime minister’s questions his promise – made in personal to MPs – to publish the complete report.
A celebration in Boris and Carrie Johnson’s flat is one among 12 occasions being investigated by the Metropolitan police over alleged lockdown breaches, it has emerged, because the Sue Grey report into breaches of lockdown guidelines discovered “failures of management and judgment” in No 10.
Grey, a senior civil servant, criticised the tradition in Johnson’s Downing Avenue that allowed social gatherings to happen throughout lockdown, which had been “tough to justify”. The findings had been launched on the federal government’s web site in a shortened and redacted kind, after the Met final week stated it was investigating a few of the gatherings.
In a dramatic second within the Commons the place the report was being mentioned, Johnson was challenged by Theresa Could, his predecessor as prime minister, who stated both he “had not learn the foundations, didn’t perceive the foundations or didn’t suppose they utilized to No 10”.
The police have obtained greater than 300 pictures and 500 pages of paperwork of their investigation. The pictures embody photos taken at alleged events and from security-system cameras.
Whoopi Goldberg apologises for saying Holocaust ‘isn’t about race’
The US talkshow host and actor Whoopi Goldberg has provided her “sincerest apologies” after saying the Holocaust “isn’t about race”.
She stated Jewish folks all over the world had “all the time had my assist”, in a press release after her remarks led to a backlash on-line.
Goldberg, who co-hosts The View on ABC, stated the atrocity was about “man’s inhumanity to man”. She made the feedback on the present throughout a dialogue a couple of Tennessee college board’s resolution to ban the Pulitzer prize-winning Holocaust graphic novel Maus.
In a press release posted on Twitter, Goldberg stated: “On right this moment’s present I stated the Holocaust ‘is just not about race, however about man’s inhumanity to man’. I ought to have stated it's about each. As Jonathan Greenblatt from of the Anti-Defamation League shared, ‘The Holocaust was in regards to the Nazi’s systematic annihilation of the Jewish folks, who they deemed to be an inferior race’. I stand corrected.”
What did Goldberg say on the present? “Let’s be truthful, the Holocaust isn’t about race, it’s not. It’s about man’s inhumanity to man, that’s what it’s about. These are two teams of white folks.”
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The Azimuth music competition in Saudi Arabia, a government-backed occasion that value $20m, was secretly organised by the youth media firm Vice, as a part of the organisation’s push to make cash within the Center Jap state regardless of its poor human rights report, it has emerged.
A video of a lady apparently locked in opposition to her will in a dirty shack has gone viral in China, prompting an investigation in addition to a dialog in regards to the nation’s therapy of individuals with psychological sickness. Standing in freezing situations, the lady seemed to be chained by her neck to a concrete wall.
The New York Instances has acquired the viral phrase recreation Wordle for an undisclosed seven-figure sum, the writer introduced. The newspaper promised Wordle would stay free to play for brand spanking new and current gamers and no modifications can be made to its gameplay.
The risk to the west from the Chinese language authorities is “extra brazen, extra damaging” than ever, the FBI director, Christopher Wray, has stated, accusing Beijing of stealing American concepts and innovation and launching huge hacking operations.
Don’t miss this: are Mattel motion pictures about to take over Hollywood?
This weekend, the Mattel Movies govt vice-president, Robbie Brenner, gave an interview to Selection, throughout which she laid out her formidable plans for cinematic domination. Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling have signed on to star in a Barbie film directed by Greta Gerwig, working from a script she co-wrote with Noah Baumbach. Lena Dunham is writing and directing a Polly Pocket film starring Lily Collins. Akiva Goldsman is writing a Main Matt Mason movie that can star Tom Hanks.
Local weather examine: local weather disaster threatens way forward for Kenya’s El Molo folks
Surrounded by a barren panorama and dotted with black volcanic rocks, Lake Turkana, a Unesco world heritage website, has elevated in space by greater than 10% over the previous decade, submerging near 800 sq km of land. It has obliterated El Molo’s fishing websites, destroyed freshwater infrastructure, engulfed burial grounds and introduced the neighborhood in proximity with ferocious Nile crocodiles, hippos and snakes.
Final Factor: Rihanna lets the world know she is pregnant in essentially the most Rihanna manner doable
Depart it to music’s perennially best-dressed couple, the Bajan famous person Rihanna and her boyfriend, the rapper A$AP Rocky, to reinvent the style of superstar being pregnant announcement; “papped” by the fashion-friendly photographer Miles Diggs; strolling the streets of Harlem, the place Rocky grew up, in a snowstorm carrying a hot-pink archive Chanel coat mounted with a single button and a Christian Lacroix necklace draped over her naked abdomen, in what can solely be described because the most Rihanna method to let the world know she is anticipating a child.
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