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Political prisoner resurfaces after months of no contact

Imprisoned Belarusian opposition activist Maria Kolesnikova has resurfaced after more than 20 months without any communication with relatives or friends and met with her father, a human rights group says. Kolesnikova, one of the most popular and charismatic figures who helped lead protests of Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, was last heard from in February 2023. The 42-year-old musician-turned activist, who suffered a serious illness and underwent surgery while in prison, has been serving her 11-year sentence at a facility near Gomel.

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Agriculture

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Furore as French farmers protest imports deal

French farmers are protesting against a trade deal that would increase agricultural imports from South America, saying it hurt their livelihoods. The European Union and the Mercosur trade bloc, composed of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia, reached an initial agreement in 2019, but negotiations stumbled due to opposition from farmers, and some European governments, leading to sweeping rallies where they particularly expressed worry about the use of pesticides in South American produce.

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Russia

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Doctor jailed for alleged Ukraine war criticism

A doctor accused of criticising the war in Ukraine in front of a patient was convicted of spreading false information about the Russian military and sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison, part of an unrelenting Kremlin crackdown on dissent. Dr Nadezhda Buyanova, 68, was arrested in February after Anastasia Akinshina, the mother of one of her patients, reported the pediatrician to authorities. Akinshina alleged that Buyanova told her and her son that his father, a Russian soldier who was killed in Ukraine, was a legitimate target for Kyiv’s troops and had blamed Moscow for the war. A video of the outraged Akinshina complaining about Buyanova was widely publicised, and chief of Russia’s Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin personally demanded a criminal case be brought against the doctor.

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History

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Reservoir works reveal ‘ghost bridge’

A bridge from the horse-and-buggy era, known to locals as the “Ghost Bridge”, has recently become visible and is capturing the interest of people from around the region who travel to see it. The bridge is located in the Oak Ridge Reservoir in northern New Jersey, one of several reservoirs that supply water to the residents of Newark.

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Education

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Ten Commandments law blocked

A new Louisiana requirement that the Ten Commandments be displayed in all public classrooms is “unconstitutional on its face”, a federal judge has ruled, ordering state education officials not to take steps to enforce it and to notify all local school boards in the state of his decision.

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Court

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Judge delays hush-money ruling

A judge has postponed a decision on whether to undo President-elect Donald Trump’s hush-money conviction as prosecutors consider how to proceed in light of last week’s election and his lawyers argue for dismissal so he can run the country. The postponement comes at a dramatic and dynamic point in the New York case, which focused on how Trump accounted for the payments before the 2016 election and produced a first-ever conviction of a former commander-in-chief.

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Political prisoner resurfaces after months of no contact

Furore as French farmers protest imports deal

Doctor jailed for alleged Ukraine war criticism

Reservoir works reveal ‘ghost bridge’

Ten Commandments law blocked

Judge delays hush-money ruling