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Good News Europe Ukraine Railways and Doctors without Borders have created an ambulance train to carry patients from cities close to hostilities to hospitals some 1,000km away. So far they have carried over 650 patients. LGBTQ+ activists have set up shelters across Ukraine to help those who may need mental or physical support. The president…
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Bad News Europe According to Missing Migrants, a documentation project by the UN-run International Organisation for Migration, 19,705 people have gone missing in the central Mediterranean since 2014. The Red Cross and Red Crescent Separated Families and Missing Persons Centre registered 16,500 people who were looking for 25,600 missing migrants across Europe in 2021 alone. …
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Good News Europe At the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the staff at TV Rain in Russia resigned on air and fled the country. They are now relaunching the channel and its immediate priority is to challenge official propaganda on Ukraine. Germany has agreed to return sculptures known as the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria.…
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Good News Europe The Nobel Peace Prize auctioned off by Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov to raise money for Ukrainian child refugees was sold for £84.4mn. Bomb-disposal experts are clearing landmines from farms in Ukraine and the Halo Trust is training more women detectors to replace the men in Ukraine who have been conscripted. Belgium is…
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The UN General Assembly voted to replace Russia with the Czech Republic on its human rights body after its suspension following allegations of rights’ violations in Ukraine. The Spanish government passed draft legislation which will ensure that abortion is available to all, including women from the age of 16 without the permission of their parents.…
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