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As Cuba struggles to put out oil tank fire, questions about disaster response mount

Cuban authorities were still struggling Monday to contain a raging fire at an oil storage facility at the port of Matanzas, after new explosions spread the flames to other oil tanks, raising questions about the country’s disaster preparedness and its ongoing energy crisis.

Miami Herald

‘Absolute evil’: inside the Russian prison camp where dozens of Ukrainians burned to death

Entrepreneur Anna Vorosheva accuses Moscow of murder after spending 100 days in the Olenivka detention centre

The Guardian - UK

Relatives of POWs call on Red Cross to help find loved ones

Relatives of prisoners of war taken captive by Russia after the fall of Azovstal steel plant are calling for answers a week on from a prison attack in a separatist region of eastern Ukraine that reportedly killed dozens

The Independent UK

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Ukrainian officials press for information on prison attack

Ukrainian officials say they are struggling to establish the truth surrounding an explosion that killed dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war captured by the Russians following the fall of Mariupol

The Independent UK

As Russia and Ukraine trade blame for prisoner-of-war deaths, what becomes of the Geneva Convention?

The deaths of more than 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war last week is not only an apparent war crime, but also another sign the situation is becoming a race to the bottom when it comes to international law and conventions.

The Conversation

Red Cross condemns attacks on Ukraine POWs

The Red Cross has condemned an attack that appears to have killed dozens of Ukrainian prisoners in the front-line town of Olenivk.

Crikey

Red Cross renews appeal to visit site of Ukrainian POW attack

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has not yet received permission to visit the site of Friday's attack that killed dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war, it said on Sunday, condemning the incident at the Olenivka facility.

Reuters

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Zelensky Urges Evacuation of Ukraine's Frontline Donetsk

Ukraine's president urged civilians on Saturday to evacuate the frontline Donetsk region, the scene of fierce clashes with the Russian military, as Kyiv called on the Red Cross and UN to gain access to its soldiers being held by Moscow's forces. The eastern Donetsk region has faced the brunt of…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukraine’s Mykolaiv hit by heavy Russian strikes

Authorities in Ukraine's southern city of Mykolaiv said Sunday that widespread Russian bombardments overnight had left at least one person dead, as Moscow continued to pummel the sprawling front line. Earlier, Russia invited United Nations and Red Cross experts to probe the deaths of dozens of Ukrainian prisoners held by…

France 24

Russian strikes kill Ukrainian grain tycoon; drone hits Russian naval base

Russian missiles pounded the southern Ukrainian port city of Mykolaiv on Sunday, killing the owner of a major grain exporter, while a drone strike on Russia's Black Sea naval base in Sevastopol was launched from within the city in a "terrorist attack," a Russian lawmaker said.

Reuters

Zelensky urges evacuation of Ukraine's frontline Donetsk

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Ukraine's president urged civilians on Saturday to evacuate the frontline Donetsk region, the scene of fierce clashes with the Russian military, as Kyiv called on the Red Cross and UN to gain access to its soldiers being held by Moscow's forces.

AFP

Russia says it has invited U.N., Red Cross experts to probe jail deaths

Russia has invited experts from the United Nations and the Red Cross to probe the deaths of dozens of Ukrainian prisoners in a jail held by Moscow-backed separatists, the defence ministry said on Sunday.

Reuters

Kyiv urges UN, Red Cross to help Russia-held forces as gas flows cut

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Russian energy giant Gazprom on Saturday suspended gas supplies to Latvia, as Ukraine announced it had asked the Red Cross and UN to gain access to its soldiers being held by Russian forces.

AFP

Ukraine to ship grain for first time since Russia invasion amid food shortage fears

The country is a global exporter of grains including wheat, barley and corn prompting fears of a food shortage after Russia declared war on the country and blocked shipments

Daily Mirror

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukraine Says Russian Attacks Hit Kharkiv, Mykolaiv

Russia launched nighttime attacks on several cities in Ukraine, Ukrainian officials said Saturday as they and officials in Moscow blamed each other for the deaths of dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war in a separatist-controlled area of the country's east. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the United Nations and the…

The Independent UK

Red Cross requests access to Ukraine prison after POWS die

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross have a duty to react after an attack on a prison complex killed dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war

The Independent UK

Ukraine urges UN and Red Cross to investigate prisoner of war deaths after rocket strike

Volodymyr Zelenksy says attack was a ‘deliberate Russian war crime’

Reuters

Ukraine demands U.N., Red Cross react immediately react to killing of POWs

Ukraine's security agencies on Friday demanded the United Nations and Red Cross immediately react to killing of prisoners of war in a Russian-held jail, noting the two bodies had given guarantees the detainees would be well treated.

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The Guardian - UK

‘Don’t know if they are alive’: anguish of Tigrayan families cut off by telecom shutdown

The ‘partial blockade’ of the war-torn Ethiopian region has added to Tigrayans’ fears and distress

The Guardian - AU

Foot-and-mouth disease: how Indonesia is trying to control the outbreak by the end of the year

Threat of FMD is biggest for Indonesia’s smallholder farms where families’ entire livelihoods are at stake and access to vaccine can be a problem

Los Angeles Times

Oak fire near Yosemite grows to 17,000 acres, destroys 10 structures

LOS ANGELES — Crews fighting the massive, still-growing Oak fire near Yosemite National Park reported some progress for the first time Monday morning, containing 10% of the almost 17,000-acre blaze.

Daily Mirror

Huge blaze rips down at least 9 homes in apocalyptic scene started by grass fire

The Texan neighbourhood of Balch Springs has had at least nine homes destroyed and as many as 20 damaged in apocalyptic scenes that were started by a grass fire in a nearby field

Los Angeles Times

Firefighters face punishing weather conditions in battle against raging fire near Yosemite

LOS ANGELES — A combination of heat, low humidity and parched vegetation continues to bedevil firefighters battling an inferno burning in the Sierra Nevada foothills near Yosemite that has forced thousands to flee their homes.

Irish Mirror

Irish NGOs struggle to manage increase in Ukrainian refugee arrivals as Red Cross warns of 'very serious' situation

“The recent pulse of people has been caused by an increase of refugees coming in from Ukraine but that’s been further augmented by refugees coming in from other countries looking for political asylum. That particular pulse wasn’t foreseen at all."

WEKU

Three runners are gored in a tense 5th Pamplona bull run

It was the first run with gorings in the festival so far this year. Three more daily runs before it finishes Thursday.

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