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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An Argentine court has sentenced a former police officer extradited from France to 15 years in jail for the kidnapping and disappearance of a young man during the country's so-called Dirty War some four decades ago, a court clerk said on Thursday.
Now there is war, people want cash in their pockets _ and fear it may run short. translation: we are shocked, we are totally shocked. we are afraid for our children, for our families. the women and the children of ukraine fleeing their country. you will not be allowed, a policeman shouts, to the men on the stairwell. women and children only. the police move to help those allowed to board. what cannot be held must be let go. until another day. the latest russian bombardments had hit yet more homes. injuring the very civilians
The last of our lives. we are probably facing our final days if not hours. the enemy is outnumbering us, ten to one. finally, after two months, women and children were allowed out into the light. it's been a brutal and bloody 83 days. but their battle is over for now. further north, the war seemed to be grinding almost to a halt, both sides suffering terrible losses. the shells start landing closer, as the russians are their aim. loud explosion. so you get a sense of what russia's artillery and tanks and do
For the first time in a long time, a major artery is unblocked. - and a ship which could save millions from hunger moving slowly - into hostile waters. the razoni, the first grain vessel to leave ukraine i since the 24th of february, . making its way out to lebanon ion and the hope is it'll the firsti of many in a route that will allow vessels in and out of what is still an active war zone. - and now, at the height of summer, the tally of the war began to turn. this was the aftermath of a ferocious ukrainian attack on a key bridge in russian —controlled territory. the start of a series of uk...
Further south, one of the war�*s biggest tragedies had been unfolding for weeks. the destruction of an entire city. a city in agony, mariupol burning. apartment blocks in ruins after two weeks of unrelenting russian bombardments. mariupol is a big, important city and the russians need to capture it to help their advance hearing to southern ukraine and i tactics are becoming brutally familiar. if you can't seize a city, then simply flatten it, whatever the cost in human lives. survivors emerge from the wreckage after what ukraine says was a russian air strike on a maternity hospital. the loca...