Navalny’s widow Yulia will meet EU foreign ministers, Borrell says | Politics News

Navalny’s widow Yulia will meet EU foreign ministers, Borrell says | Politics News

Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of the late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, will meet European foreign ministers in Brussels on Monday, the European Union’s foreign policy chief said. The 47-year-old Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent domestic foe, died in a Russian jail on Friday after spending more than three…

Disappearing eels and the fight for a centuries-old livelihood | Climate

Disappearing eels and the fight for a centuries-old livelihood | Climate

On the boarding and the signposts‘Lough Neagh Fishermen’s Co-operative’.But ever on our lips and at the weir‘The eelworks’. — “Eelworks” by Seamus Heaney Gerard McCourt is a seventh-generation eel fisherman who works the waters of Lough Neagh [Neill O’Higgins/Al Jazeera] For Gerard McCourt, there is a lot riding on this…

Why are Israel and its Western allies targeting UNRWA? | Israel War on Gaza

Why are Israel and its Western allies targeting UNRWA? | Israel War on Gaza

Is Israel trying to associate Hamas and UNRWA to mobilise anti-Palestinian sentiment in the US? About 20 countries have announced suspension of funding to UNRWA, the agency that has been providing services to Palestinian refugees since 1950. The official reason for the suspension was Israel’s accusation that a dozen UNRWA…

‘They killed him’: Was Putin’s critic Navalny murdered? | Vladimir Putin News

‘They killed him’: Was Putin’s critic Navalny murdered? | Vladimir Putin News

In the last known video of Alexey Navalny shot one day before his death on Friday, the lanky, fair-haired 47-year-old looks gaunt and cracks jokes. Navalny was filmed via a video link from the IK-3 penal colony, also known as the Polar Wolf prison, in the Arctic town of Harp…

After gains against Modi, India’s Congress party slips before election | Elections News

After gains against Modi, India’s Congress party slips before election | Elections News

New Delhi, India — A little more than two months ago, the Congress party, India’s biggest opposition force, seemed to be on a roll. Rahul Gandhi, the leader of what is the country’s oldest political movement, the party of Mahatma Gandhi, had attracted large crowds on a nationwide march, rekindling…

Kremlin critics: What happens to Putin’s most vocal opponents? | Politics News

Kremlin critics: What happens to Putin’s most vocal opponents? | Politics News

Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny is just one of many Kremlin critics to have fallen foul of the government under President Vladimir Putin’s rule. Navalny, 47, who Russian prison authorities said had died on Friday, was jailed in early 2021 after returning from Germany, where he was recovering from a…

Alexey Navalny timeline: From poisoning to prison to death | Politics News

Alexey Navalny timeline: From poisoning to prison to death | Politics News

Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has died on Friday in the Arctic prison colony where he was serving a 19-year-term, Russia’s federal penitentiary service said. Navalny lost consciousness after a walk and could not be revived by medics, the prison service explained. Here are some of the key events in…