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16.05.2024 18:40 Statement by Ambassador James Kariuki at the UN Security Council meeting on Bosnia and Herzegovina.

16.05.2024 18:40 "If the U.S. diplomats are against visiting Susa, then hell with them," announced Caliber.az on May 5. The media outlet is widely seen as a mouthpiece for Azerbaijan's authoritarian government.

16.05.2024 18:40 The UN World Food Programme warns that the window to save lives is closing as famine looms in Sudan's war-torn regions with civilians trapped by intensified fighting in northern Darfur; the rainy season set to start in the coming month making critical transport routes inaccessible; and as the lean season - when food stocks run out and hunger peaks - hits.

16.05.2024 18:40 The United States is today imposing sanctions on two Rapid Support Forces commanders, Ali Yagoub Gibril and Osman Mohamed Hamid Mohamed for their role leading RSF operations in Darfur.

16.05.2024 18:40 Today, the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned Ali Yagoub Gibril and Osman Mohamed Hamid Mohamed,pursuant to Executive Order 14098,for leading the Rapid Support Forces' war campaign. The RSF's attacks in North Darfur, which started last month, have caused dozens of civilian casualties, including children. The RSF encirclement of North Darfur's capital of El Fasher and recent

16.05.2024 18:40 Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot Wednesday afternoon following a Cabinet meeting in the central town of Handlova.

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16.05.2024 18:40 Georgia's parliament this week passed a so-called "foreign influence" bill. The government says the bill is needed to prevent foreign interference in its politics, but critics call it a Russian-style threat to stifle free speech.

16.05.2024 18:40 The adoption of the controversial "foreign agents" law in Georgia seriously undermines the freedoms of expression and association, the UN's top human rights official said on Wednesday.

16.05.2024 18:40 Council of Europe Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić today made the following statement:

16.05.2024 18:40 The EU stands with the Georgian people and their choice in favour of democracy and of Georgia's European future. The intimidation, threats and physical assaults on civil society representatives, political leaders and journalists, as well as their families is unacceptable. We call on the Georgian authorities to investigate these documented acts.

16.05.2024 18:40 Today 15 May, Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna was on a visit to Tbilisi with his Latvian, Lithuanian and Icelandic counterparts. The focus of the visit was on the foreign influence law adopted yesterday.

16.05.2024 18:40 The EU stands with the Georgian people and their choice in favour of democracy and of Georgia's European future. The intimidation, threats and physical assaults on civil society representatives, political leaders and journalists, as well as their families is unacceptable. We call on the Georgian authorities to investigate these documented acts.

16.05.2024 18:40 The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Gabrielius Landsbergis, who met with opposition parties in the Georgian Parliament, said that as Georgia's friends, we could not simply sit down and wait for Georgia to fall off the track of EU integration and democracy finally.

16.05.2024 18:40 During his visit to Tbilisi, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Gabrielius Landsbergis, met with the Speaker of Parliament, Shalva Papuashvili. The Foreign Minister stressed at the meeting that the law on "foreign influence" was incompatible with the democratic standards of the European Union.