Iran – 21-year-old shot for tearing down poster
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es. Vienna, 25/10/22
BBC Persian service reports that Iranian security forces shot dead a 21-year-old man during protests in the city of Amol last month,...
FRONTLINE and AP – exclusive new evidence of Russian atrocities
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New documentary: FRONTLINE and The Associated Press go inside Russia’s war on Ukraine, tracing a pattern of atrocities committed by Russian troops with a focus...
Unrest among 220,000 Russian reservists drafted to fight in Ukraine
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es. Vienna, October 24, 2020
from the Kiev Independent:
More than 220,000 Russian reservists have been drafted to fight in Ukraine since Putin’s declaration of “partial...
Europe – why it’s still too important to leave to politicians alone
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es. Vienna, October 24, 2022
AEJ turns 60 – and still going strong
by Otmar Lahodynsky, AEJ Honorary President
Set up in 1962 in what were then...
“Staring over the brink of a precipice”
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es. Vienna, October 23, 2022 late news: Boris withdraws
One of the more unusually foolish UK Conservative ex-ministers came up with this phrase about...
Death of Austria’s Red Bull media czar
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es. Vienna, 23 October, 22
He was described as the "most famous unknown" in Austria, Dieter Mateschitz - whose death at 78 was mysteriously kept...
Russia and USA – rare talks about nukes
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es. Vienna, October 22, 2022
The London Guardian today published sketchy details of a rare discussion between the Kremlin and Washington about the war in...
Postcard from Teheran
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es. Vienna, October 21, 2022
Notes from Iran
by Nilo Tabrizy, NYT video-journalist
October 19, 2022
DISPATCH
IRANIAN PROTESTERS ON KESHAVARZ BOULEVARD IN TEHRAN. LICENSED UNDER CC0 4.0.
Before this September, I hadn’t...
Belarusian media at service of Putin’s war machine
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es. Vienna, October 21, 2022
To anyone who does not know it, Brussels-based VoxEurop is one of the most lively and well-informed sources of news...
Much-derided “Project Fear” comes true for UK Conservatives
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es. Vienna, October 20, 2022 updated 22/10/22
The saga of the UK's shameful decline is all too familiar, and the Economist's verdict on Liz Truss's...