A military plane carrying Malawi’s vice president, Saulos Klaus Chilima and nine others has gone missing. Top military official Paul Valentino Phiri said that the airplane may have crashed in dense forest, but it has not yet been found.
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100 passengers injured in storm at sea
A cruise ship has returned to the UK after around 100 passengers were injured when it got caught in a storm in the Bay of Biscay.
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Mass fight breaks out at Russian gas field
Nine people are in hospital after a fight between about 300 migrant workers from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan at Gazprom’s Kovykta gas field in East Siberia. Several videos of the incident were posted on the Russian social network VK, which suggested the brawl began about noon local time on 23 June in a queue near a canteen.
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The EU Sanctions Tajikistan : “Paper Tiger” or “Snow Leopard”
European Parliament members have strongly condemned ongoing repression by the authorities of Tajikistan against journalists, activists and protesters in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO). A history of violence escalated extending several years, following confrontational events in November 2021 and May 2022 where dozens of civilians were killed. The European Parliament has since passed a resolution on 7 July 2022. European deputies called on the Tajik government to “put an end to repression against the residents of GBAO”.
