Abduweli Ayup has not been back to Kashgar since 2015, and his chances of doing so anytime soon seem slim. The Chinese government has canceled his passport, he said.Sometimes he watches videos on YouTube of his hometown. They do not make him feel better. It feels compulsive, he said, “like eating bad food.”“You know, you want to keep eating it, but afterward your stomach feels upset,” he added. As he watched one video while speaking with a BuzzFeed News reporter, Ayup pointed to a giant sculpture of a traditional stringed instrument by the gates of the city. “See that, that’s…
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Ukraine’s president says communications, water, heat, electricity have been disrupted as Russians left the city.Russian forces have destroyed critical infrastructure in the southern city of Kherson before fleeing, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said, as Kyiv’s military retook control of the southeastern city. “Before fleeing from Kherson, the occupiers destroyed all the critical infrastructure: communications, water, heat, electricity,” Zelenskyy said in a video address on Saturday. “[Russians] everywhere have the same goal: to humiliate people as much as possible. But we will restore everything, believe me,” he said. Jubilant residents welcomed troops arriving in the city centre on Friday after…
“I want to apologize to my teammates, my club, my fans, and the city of [Yekaterinburg] for my mistake that I made and the embarrassment that I brought on them,” Griner said in her statement. “I want to also apologize to my parents, my siblings, the Phoenix Mercury organization back at home, the amazing women of the WNBA, and my amazing spouse back at home.”Responding to her sentence, President Joe Biden slammed Russia for “wrongfully detaining” Griner, saying he would “pursue every possible avenue” to bring her home.”It’s unacceptable, and I call on Russia to release her immediately so she…
There is a new candidate for catch of the year in college football.The Notre Dame Fighting Irish were at the Navy 38-yard line on 1st and 10 up 7-0. Drew Pyne took the snap out of the gun, evaded pressure and launched a deep ball to Braden Lenzy.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Notre Dame wide receiver Braden Lenzy, right, makes a touchdown catch behind the back of Navy cornerback Mbiti Williams, Jr. during a game Nov. 12, 2022, at M and T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Md. (Randy Litzinger/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)The ball was underthrown, so…
STAVANGER, Norway — Canada won gold in the women’s team pursuit and silver in the men’s 500 metres Saturday on the second day of the season-opening speedskating World Cup stop. Isabelle Weidemann, Ivanie Blondin and Valerie Maltais combined to win the team pursuit in three minutes 1.81 seconds. The Netherlands took silver and Japan earned bronze. Weidemann and Blondin, both from Ottawa, and Maltais of Saguenay, Que., have dominated the event recently, winning the team pursuit at the 2022 Beijing Olympics in February and claiming three gold medals last World Cup season. Weidemann added to her medal count in Stavanger,…
Convicts are released citing their ‘satisfactory conduct’ in prison and the three decades they have already served behind bars.The last co-conspirators jailed for the 1991 assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi have walked out of prison, a day after the country’s Supreme Court ordered their release. Gandhi, 46, was killed by a woman suicide bomber at an election rally in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu in a plot by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a Sri Lankan armed separatist group. India’s apex court allowed the release of the six convicts, citing their “satisfactory conduct”…
These are the devastating effects that Pakistan’s deadly floods are wreaking on the country.Dubbed “the monster monsoon of the decade” by Pakistan’s climate change minister Sherry Rehman, torrential rain in the region has killed at least 982 people since June, according to the National Disaster Management Authority.Every 24 hours, the agency lists hundreds of men, women, and children who have been injured or killed because of collapsed roofs, flash floods, or drowning.“Pakistan is living through a serious climate catastrophe, one of the hardest in the decade,” Rehman said in a Twitter video. “We are, at the moment, at the ground…
Tehran, Iran – Iran has pushed back against efforts spearheaded by Western countries to scrutinise at the United Nations its handling of weeks of protests across the country. Germany and Iceland said on Friday they submitted a request on behalf of 42 countries to hold a special session of the UN Human Rights Council later this month on the continuing demonstrations in Iran – which would signal the first time such a meeting is being convened on Iran. The request calls for the session to “address the deteriorating human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran, especially with respect…
Her husband, Murugan, and three other convicts (Santhan, Robert Payas and Jayakumar) were also released, news agency PTI reported. Murugan and Santhan were released from the Vellore central prison, while Payas and Jayakumar were released from the Puzhal prison in Chennai. All four are Sri Lankan nationals and were taken to the special refugee camp in Tiruchirappalli to be lodged there. Along with Nalini, the SC on Friday had freed T Suthendraraja alias Santhan, V Sriharan alias Murugan, Robert Payas, Jayakumar, and Ravichandran alias Ravi. In May this year, the court ordered the release of A G Perarivalan while exercising…
I speak to you today with feelings of profound sorrow. Throughout her life, Her Majesty The Queen – my beloved Mother – was an inspiration and example to me and to all my family, and we owe her the most heartfelt debt any family can owe to their mother; for her love, affection, guidance, understanding, and example. Queen Elizabeth’s was a life well lived; a promise with destiny kept and she is mourned most deeply in her passing. That promise of lifelong service I renew to you all today.Alongside the personal grief that all my family are feeling, we also…