Just a few days ago, award-winning Ukrainian author and war crimes researcher Victoria Amelina was killed when Russia bombed a restaurant in Kramatorsk.

"In the summer of 2022, Amelina had joined the human rights organization Truth Hounds, documenting war crimes in areas liberated by the Ukrainian army in the east, south, and north of Ukraine.

At the same time, she started working on her first nonfiction book, "War and Justice Diary: Looking at Women Looking at War," which she was writing in English. Soon to be published abroad, it is a chronicle of women who have documented their own lives during wartime, as well as the crimes committed by Russian occupying forces."

https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-the-legacy-of-author-victoria-amelina/a-66124496

For decades, Annie Ernaux has written fearlessly about sex, abortion and illness - laying bare herself and society. Deeply intimate and political work that earned the French writer the Nobel Prize for literature last October. Ernaux spoke to France 24's Fatimata Wane at the Taormina book festival in Sicily, where she was among the recipients of the Taobuk award.

The fantasy comedy film about the famous doll, directed by Greta Gerwig and starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, had been set for nationwide release in Vietnam on 21 July.

But its performance schedule has been removed from the websites of the country's major cinema chains following a government decision to ban the film due to scenes featuring the so-called nine-dash line, state media reported.

China has long used its so-called nine-dash line to illustrate its expansive claims over most of the resource-rich sea, often to the displeasure of Hanoi, which also claims parts of the waterway.

As Ukraine’s top army general has put it, every metre of ground in the country’s counteroffensive is being won “with blood”. The Ukrainian soldiers’ progress is particularly gruelling in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region. FRANCE 24’s Gwendoline Debono reports from the front line, where Russian forces are giving Ukraine’s artillerymen no respite.

Angry mobilised Russians have recorded themselves having a verbal confrontation with an officer. It's rare insight into the relationship between the soldiers facing Ukraine's counter-offensive and their frequently absent commanders, whom they say have abandoned them to die. A Mastodon thread.

Angry mobilised Russians have recorded themselves having a verbal confrontation with an officer. It's rare insight into the relationship between the soldiers facing Ukraine's counter-offensive and their frequently absent commanders, whom they say have abandoned them to die. A Mastodon thread.

Angry mobilised Russians have recorded themselves having a verbal confrontation with an officer. It's rare insight into the relationship between the soldiers facing Ukraine's counter-offensive and their frequently absent commanders, whom they say have abandoned them to die. A Mastodon thread.

Angry mobilised Russians have recorded themselves having a verbal confrontation with an officer. It's rare insight into the relationship between the soldiers facing Ukraine's counter-offensive and their frequently absent commanders, whom they say have abandoned them to die. - Mastodon thread

French police arrested more than 1,300 people nationwide during a fourth consecutive night of rioting over the killing of teenager Nahel M. by police, the interior ministry said Saturday. Family and friends will hold a funeral gathering for him in his hometown of Nanterre, but have requested that journalists and the public stay away.

Young rioters clashed with police and looted stores Friday in a fourth day of violence in France triggered by the deadly police shooting of a teen, piling more pressure on President Emmanuel Macron after he appealed to parents to keep children off the streets and blamed social media for fueling unrest.