Putin's staged meeting with Russian mothers

 

One of the fake mothers at Putin’s staged meeting showed a picture of her ‘son’ who died fighting in Ukraine.   Except the guy in the picture died in 2019.

 

Judy Dench in 1957

 

Judi Dench at a dress rehearsal for the production of Hamlet, in which she made her stage debut, September 1957 

German lawmakers want to declare 1930s Ukraine famine a genocide

 

Annalena Baerbock, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany 

BERLIN (Reuters) 

Lawmakers from Germany's ruling coalition and opposition want to declare the Holodomor, the death by starvation of millions of Ukrainians in 1932-33 under Soviet leader Josef Stalin, a genocide.

The draft describes the Soviet leadership's attempts to control and suppress farmers as well as Ukrainian culture and language through hunger and repression. This "from today's perspective, suggests a historical-political classification as genocide. The German Bundestag agrees with this classification".

The Bundestag is the German federal parliament. It is the only federal representative body that is directly elected by the German people. It is comparable to the United States House of Representatives or the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Wikipedia

Founded: 7 September 1949, Quay Bonn-Bundeshaus, Bonn, Germany

Black Friday sale queues in US

 

November 25, 2022: 

People line up at Kohl's Department Store before the 5 a.m. opening in Anderson, South Carolina on Friday, November 25, 2022. In store deals and incentives still draw shoppers to come out and line up for a Black Friday deal in person, even with earlier sales and online shopping.

 KEN RUINARD, ANDERSON INDEPENDENT MAIL/USA TODAY NETWORK

Chinese guards outside Beijing department store

 

November 24, 2022: 

Security guards wear masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 as they guard outside a luxury department store that remained open in the Central Business District in Beijing, China. China recorded its highest number of COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began Wednesday, as authorities stuck to their strict zero tolerance approach to containing the virus with lockdowns, mandatory testing, mask mandates, and quarantines as it struggles to contain outbreaks.

KEVIN FRAYER, GETTY IMAGES

 

Wretched conditions for migrants in France

 

Calais, France

Badr and his cousin Mhamod, migrants from Syria, cover themselves with blankets in Calais.  Badr has been in Calais for over a week.  His tent was taken by police so he slept under a footbridge in the centre of town, huddled with six mothers for warmth.  It is a year since at least 27 migrants drowned when their boat capsized in the Channel.  While the tragedy has not been repeated, partly due to better coordination between French and British coastguards, at first sight there is little other change in the wretched conditions faced by migrants in northern France.  Photograph: Abdulmonam Eassa/The Guardian

 

 

Ukrainian civilians moved to safer areas

 

Kherson, Ukraine

Ukrainians board the Kherson-Kyiv train at the railway station in Kherson.  Residents of the two southern regions of Kherson and Mykolaiv, which have been shelled regularly by Russian forces, have been advised to move to safer areas in the central and western parts of the country.  The government would provide transportation, accommodation and medical care.  Photograph: Bernat Armangue/AP