Former prime minister Andrej Babis concedes defeat to Petr Pavel, who won more than 58 percent of the vote.Former army general Petr Pavel has won the race to become the new president of the Czech Republic, defeating billionaire Andrej Babis in a run-off vote on Saturday. Pavel, 61, secured more than 58 percent of the vote, the Czech Statistics Office said. Babis, a former prime minister and polarising figure in Czech politics, conceded defeat and offered congratulations to Pavel. A former chairman of NATO’s military committee, Pavel will replace controversial President Milos Zeman. “I would like to thank those who…
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Duncan Ferguson was denied a winning start to life as Forest Green boss as a dramatic end saw his side slip to a heart-breaking 2-1 defeat at in-form Shrewsbury.Swansea loanee Jordon Garrick had seemingly started the Everton favourite’s era in Gloucestershire in style with his stunning strike, a second goal in four league appearances for the club. But the League One basement boys had an elusive win snatched away from them in the most painful of circumstances as two goals in eight minutes of stoppage time stretched their winless run to nine games.Substitutes Rekeil Pyke and Ryan Bowman struck to…
As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its 339th day, we take a look at the main developments.Here is the situation as it stands on Saturday, January 28, 2023: Fighting Ukrainian troops were locked in a “fierce” confrontation with Russian fighters for control of the town of Vuhledar southwest of Donetsk. The latest wave of Russian shelling killed at least 10 Ukrainian and wounded 20 others, the office of Ukraine’s president said. Diplomacy Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy extended a provocative invitation to International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach to visit the front-line city of Bakhmut after the sport’s body said a “pathway”…
Memphis police kicked and baton-charged Tyre Nichols and used Taser on him during a January 7 traffic stop, footage released on Friday showed. Nichols died in hospital three days later, and five police officers were charged with second-degree murder. Here are crucial moments from four different police videos that recorded events from 8:23pm (02:23 GMT, Saturday) to 9:03pm (03:03 GMT). 8:24pm First sight of Nichols’s car, already stopped at an intersection where two officers order him to exit his vehicle. One of the officers opens the passenger door and pulls him out. “Damn, I didn’t do anything,” Nichols says. The officers…
Peru has been embroiled in a political crisis with near-daily protests since December 7.Peru’s Congress has rejected a request by embattled President Dina Boluarte to bring forward elections to December 2023, as protests that have killed dozens rage on against her leadership. Lawmakers agreed last month to bring forward elections from 2026 to April 2024. But in a plenary session held during Saturday’s early hours, Congress rejected the proposal, with 45 votes in favour, 65 against and two abstentions. Left-wing parties demanded that the advancement of elections be accompanied by a constitutional convention – something protesters have repeatedly called for.…
Police have detained many students in the Indian capital, New Delhi, over the screening of a BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alleged role during the deadly Gujarat sectarian riots in 2002. Police swarmed Delhi University after student groups supportive of Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) objected to the screening, seizing laptops and imposing a ban on assemblies of more than four people. Police officer Sagar Singh Kalsi told Indian news channel NDTV that 24 students were detained. Earlier this week, the federal government used emergency powers to block the airing of the documentary and banned its sharing on…
When the Taliban returned to power in August 2021, thousands of Afghans fled the country fearing curbs on freedoms. Cartoonist Sayed Muhammad Hussainy was one of them. The 29-year-old artist, who has taken refuge in Germany, said he feared the Taliban would target him for working with the previous West-backed government of President Ashraf Ghani. His sketches portrayed women as confident, colourful and playing important roles in society: athletes, doctors, teachers, engineers, and officers. But Afghanistan’s new rulers do not seem to see women from these lenses. Instead, they have incrementally been pushing Afghan women out of public roles in…
Vancouver Canucks general manager Patrik Allvin announced Friday night that the team is shutting down forward Ilya Mikheyev so he can undergo ACL surgery. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; According to Allvin, the exact recovery timeline for the 28-year-old would be known post-surgery, but he is expected to be ready to return by the start of next season’s training camp. Mikheyev’s injury was sustained during the pre-season and the GM revealed he’d been playing through it to this point. He skated on Friday night in the Canucks’ 5-2 win against the Columbus Blue Jackets, netting a goal in…
Male, Maldives – The Maldives’s governing party is set to hold a primary that is pitting incumbent President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih against his former ally and the nation’s first democratically-elected leader, Mohamed Nasheed. The closely fought election on Saturday follows a bitter campaign, with Nasheed framing the poll as a choice between autocracy and democracy, and accusing Solih of vote rigging and bribery — allegations he denies. Enmity between the two has raised concerns of new turmoil in the popular Indian Ocean tourist destination, four years after Maldivians voted out former President Abdulla Yameen, who had overseen a wide-ranging crackdown…
Federal police in Brazil have announced that the nephew of former President Jair Bolsonaro is under investigation in connection with the January 8 attack on government buildings in Brasilia. Leonardo Rodrigues de Jesus, also known as Leo Índio, is the first member of Bolsonaro’s family to be publicly targeted in the investigations. His home was searched in a series of raids on Friday, part of an ongoing inquiry into the perpetrators behind the attack, which was led by pro-Bolsonaro supporters. “Today, the Federal Police are carrying out 11 preventive arrest warrants and 27 search and seizure warrants against coup plotters…