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A recent gang attack on a train in Nigeria has left 8 people dead and about 26 injured, and an unknown amount of people have been abducted during. Classified as a terrorist attack, the train was hit by two explosives before it was fired upon. This has been the second train attack in the past six months, and the amount of kidnappings for ransom have become an increasing problem over the past few years. As a result, many Nigerians are outraged about the declining security. The gunmen have yet to be identified. The rail line has since closed for an unknown amount of time, which is having further effects on the citizens of Nigeria. They are currently having a shortage of fuel and electricity, and especially with spikes in various prices of food and petroleum, the lack of deliveries is taking a serious toll.

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‘Gunshots everywhere’: Survivor of train ambushed by armed gang in Nigeria reveals harrowing details | CNN

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Chilling details have emerged about an armed gang’s attack on a train in northern Nigeria which left eight people dead and more than two dozen injured.

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The war in Ukraine has cut off the world's largest supplier of sunflower oil manufacturer. This has caused vegetable oil prices to rise 23% and cereal prices to rise 17%. These effects will be worldwide as Ukraine is a major manufacturer of wheat, maize, and other vital farming products. This could also cause increased malnutrition in some countries as cheap food could become hard to come by.

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Ukraine war causes giant leap in global food prices, says UN

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The UN says the conflict has spread shocks through markets for grains and vegetable oil.

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After a wave of terrorist attacks in Israel, another happened yesterday. A Palestinian gunman attacked a pub killing 3 people and injuring 15 more. After the attack, a shootout took place between the gunman and the police. At around 6:00 AM the shootout had ended with the death of the gunman, identified to be Raed Hazem. Among the deaths of the victims was coach Barak Lufen, who was a part of Israel's national kayak team. The shooter had no political ties and there is no official record as to why he committed the act of terror.

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Israeli security and rescue personnel respond to the scene of a shooting in Tel Aviv on April 7. (Reuters)

TEL AVIV - A Palestinian gunman was killed by Israeli police after fatally shooting three Israelis and injuring at least 15 others at a popular pub in central Tel Aviv Thursday night, Israeli authorities said.
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The shooting comes amid a wave of terrorist attacks in recent weeks, the deadliest to hit Israel in years. Fourteen people have been killed in attacks carried out by Palestinians from Israel or the West Bank since March 22.

Israeli police said that the shooter, a man from the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, fired into the Ilka pub on Dizengoff Street, one of Tel Aviv's busiest shopping and nightlife centers, just before 9 p.m. on Thursday, the start of the weekend in Israel. He then fled the scene.

Israeli police found and killed a Palestinian gunman after two people were killed and at least 15 others were wounded at a popular pub in Tel Aviv on April 7. (Video: Reuters, Photo: Reuters)

Police ordered residents to go inside, lock their doors and stay away from their windows as hundreds of officers swept the city, searching in courtyards and construction sites in pursuit of the assailant. Videos posted on social media showed emergency workers loading victims onto stretchers and working to clear debris as helicopters shone a spotlight from above.

The gunman was found and killed in a shootout with Israeli police at around 6 a.m. Friday morning near a mosque in central Jaffa, a mixed Jewish-Arab neighborhood south of Tel Aviv. He was identified as Raed Hazem, 29. Hazem was not known to have any political affiliation and he did not have a permit to stay in Israel, Israeli authorities said. He was from the Jenin refugee camp, one of the West Bank's most impoverished camps and a hotbed of political and militant activity.

The three Israelis killed by the gunman includedchildhood friends Eytam Megini and Tomer Morad, both 27, from the central Israeli town of Kfar Saba, andBarak Lufen, a 35-year-old coach on Israel's national kayak team, from the central Israeli town of Givat Shmuel, according to Israel's emergency services. More than a dozen others, who were also in their 20s and 30s, suffered severe gunshot wounds to their chests and stomachs, medics said. Lufen, who was hospitalized in the intensive care unit of Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, died Friday evening of wounds he sustained in the attack, according to Israeli health officials.

"This is a difficult day," said Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Friday, in a televised appearance with Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Public Security Minister Omer Bar-Lev from the Israeli military headquarters in Tel Aviv, several blocks from where the attacks occurred.

"We are giving full freedom of action to all Israeli security forces needed to eradicate this terrorism. There will be no limits to this war," Bennett said.

Gantz urged Palestinian leaders, including Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who had condemned Thursday's attack to proactively quash terror cells, saying that Israeli forces will "not wait" to do the same. He added that Israeli security forces have already arrested 200 people.

American ambassador to Israel Tom Nides said in a tweet that he was "horrified to see another cowardly terror attack on innocent civilians, this time in Tel Aviv."

"This has to stop!" he wrote.

Bennett announced late Thursday his government would scale up security forces in Tel Aviv, in addition to the already increased numbers of forces recently deployed throughout Israel and the West Bank. Last week, Bennett called on licensed Israelis to carry arms after a Palestinian man embarked on a shooting rampage in a suburb of Tel Aviv, killing five people.

The string of attacks are the deadliest since the so-called "knife intifada" of 2015-2016, when mostly young, politically-unaffiliated Palestinian men used knives, scissors, cars and other unconventional weapons to lethally attack Israeli civilians and soldiers. In many cases, the assailants were active in social media groups circulating false rumors claiming that Israel was planning to take over the al-Aqsa Mosque, which sits on a Jerusalem holy site contested by Jews and Muslims.

Israeli security forces have been on high alert ahead of Friday, the first of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in preparation for potential clashes near Damascus Gate in East Jerusalem. Both Israeli and Palestinian authorities have warned of a steep escalation in violence especially over the next few weeks, when in a rare instance Ramadan will coincide with Passover and Easter.

In May, also during Ramadan, clashes between Palestinians and Israelis near Damascus Gate helped spark an 11-day war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas that controls Gaza.

In a statement on its website Thursday, Hamas praised the attack in Tel Aviv, calling it a "heroic operation" that "led to the killing of a number of occupying soldiers and Zionist settlers."
Steve Hendrix in Jerusalem and Hazem Balousha in Gaza City contributed to this report.

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Palestinian gunman fatally shot after killing 3 Israelis in Tel Aviv

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People wait to be vaccinated by a member of the Western Cape Metro EMS

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In Africa, it is believed that 2/3rds of the population is infected with COVID. It was believed that, around the continent, 11.5 million cases have been detected, but this newest study has shown that 800 million people could've been infected by last September. In one study from January 2020 and December last year, it showed that the percent of cases jumped from 3% to 65% by September 2021. This means that the global average has jumped 16%.

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Many say that the Russians are committing genocide by killing civilians. The Russians are killing people near Kiev, and this is based on them being Ukrainian, which means the Russians are killing a group of people based on their national identity, which is classified as genocide. The Russians claim they are cleansing a state based on Nazi Ideology, but in reality they are the oppressors. They want to destroy a Ukrainian national identity, whether that means reeducating the people, or killing the people.

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A missile strike on Ukraine has killed more than 30 people and injured more than 100. Russia carried out 2 missile strikes on a railway station in Kramatorsk. This area was home to many evacuated citizens. Russia has committed many war crimes including using cluster bombs that put thousands in danger. Russia denied the attack on the railway, and said that the missiles fired were missiles only used by the Ukrainian armed forces. Many people were awaiting further evacuation when the missiles hit. A photo going around shows one of the missiles with for children on it, no one can identify who wrote it.

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As COVID cases in China continue to rise, many cities like Shanghai are under strict lockdown. This is the case as China is conducting a zero-Covid policy instead of a living with Covid one. This means that they will try to completely eliminate Covid cases from the country-by any means necessary. This is detrimental is Shanghai and other large cities are big players in the Chinese economy and now China is suffering from it. This is not good as China is very important to the global economy is this could have effects across the world.

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China's unwavering commitment to stamping out Covid by locking down big cities such as Shanghai threatens to deal a hefty shock to its vast economy, place more strain on global supply chains and further fuel inflation.

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US prosecutors have arrested Takeshi Ebisawa, alleged leader of a network of Japanese crime families, on charges of drug trafficking and weapons trafficking. According to these prosecutors, Ebisawa purchased US made missiles, with the intent to use them to protect a drug shipment, and then distribute them to rebel groups in Myanmar. The drugs themselves were intended to be distributed in new york, and included drugs such as heroin and meth. However, Ebisawa and some key co-conspirators have been arrested in connection to the crimes, and are facing possible life imprisonment.

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US arrests alleged yakuza leader on drugs, weapons charges

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US authorities have arrested a leader of a Japanese crime syndicate on charges of plotting to distribute drugs in the United States and purchase weapons including US-made surface-to-air missiles, prosecutors said on Thursday.

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As Russia's invation of Ukriane continues, wheat price's continue to rise. The cost for bread in middle easter countries are still rising and are the highest they've been since 2008. On man says, “When you can’t afford other things, you will be able to afford the bread. So you take away that staple, and life becomes very, very difficult.” Without bread, many will starve or even die of hunger. The last time something like this happened was in Egypt in 1977 when the Egyptian government stopped pushing goods in the country.

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday blocked Prime Minister Imran Khan’s bid to stay in power, ruling that his move to dissolve Parliament and call early elections was illegal. That set the stage for a no-confidence vote by opposition lawmakers, who say they have enough support to oust him. The decision followed four days of hearings by the top court on the political crisis. Khan had tried to sidestep the no-confidence vote by accusing his political opponents of colluding with the United States to unseat him. Lawmakers will probably convene Saturday for the vote, and the opposition says it has the 172 votes in the 342-seat house needed to oust Khan after several members of his own party and a key coalition partner defected.

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ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday blocked Prime Minister Imran Khan's bid to stay in power, ruling that his move to dissolve Parliament and call early elections was illegal. That set the stage for a no-confidence vote by opposition lawmakers, who say they have enough support to oust him.

The decision followed four days of hearings by the top court on the political crisis. Khan had tried to sidestep the no-confidence vote by accusing his political opponents of colluding with the United States to unseat him.

Lawmakers will probably convene Saturday for the vote, and the opposition says it has the 172 votes in the 342-seat house needed to oust Khan after several members of his own party and a key coalition partner defected.

"It's an unfortunate decision," Khan's ally and Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry told The Associated Press following the unanimous ruling by the five-member Supreme Court. He warned that "instability will increase and I see no end to the crisis."

Dozens of heavily armed police officers backed by paramilitary Rangers surrounded Pakistan's stately white marble Supreme Court building. Roads leading to the court were blocked and a heavily armed contingent of police also encircled the nearby Parliamentary Lodges, where opposition and government lawmakers stay when Parliament is in session.

Opposition leader Shahbaz Sharif, who heads the Pakistan Muslim League and is the likely candidate for prime minister if the no-confidence vote succeeds, welcomed the ruling as a victory for "justice and the supremacy of law."

The political crisis began Sunday when an embattled Khan dissolved Parliament and set the stage for early elections. Chaudhry had stood in Parliament and accused the opposition of "disloyalty to the state" by working with a foreign power to bring about a "regime change."

The deputy parliamentary speaker, Qasim Suri, cited Chaudhry's allegation to toss out the no-confidence resolution, but the Supreme Court ruled that Suri had no grounds to do so.

Chaudhry did not say what Khan's next step might be. Khan previously had called for nationwide demonstrations to protest what he called Washington's interference in Pakistan's affairs.

During the week, the Supreme Court heard arguments from Khan's lawyers, the opposition and the country's president before handing down the decision Thursday night, after iftar, the meal that breaks the daylong fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

"This is the unfortunate fact about Pakistani politics - the political issues which should be settled in the Parliament are instead brought to the Supreme Court to settle," said analyst Zahid Hussain, who has written several books on militancy in the region and Islamabad's complicated relationship with Washington.

"It is just a weakness of the system," Hussain added.

Khan said the U.S. wants him gone because of what he describes as his independent foreign policy, which often favors China and Russia. He also has been a strident critic of Washington's war on terrorism and was criticized for a visit to Moscow on Feb. 24, hours after Russia invaded Ukraine.

The U.S. State Department has denied any involvement in Pakistan's internal politics.

"Khan tapped into a potent vein of anti-American sentiment in Pakistan that is unlikely to dissipate any time soon," said Elizabeth Threlkeld, Pakistan expert at the U.S.-based Stimson Center. "Young people make up the majority in the country and grew up during the two-decades-long war on terror, which is deeply controversial in Pakistan."

She warned the anti-U.S. rhetoric could further complicate Pakistan's relationship with Washington.

Pakistan's top court or its powerful military have consistently stepped in whenever turmoil engulfs a democratically elected government. The army has seized power and ruled for more than half of Pakistan's 75-year history.

The military has remained quiet in the latest crisis, although army chief Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa told a security summit in Islamabad last weekend that Pakistan wants good relations with China, a major investor, and also with the U.S., the country's largest export market.

"The ongoing constitutional crisis is a major test for Pakistan's institutions, which stems from both tensions between the prime minister and the military and economic pressures that created an opening for the opposition," Threlkeld said.

"While a serious challenge, this is also an opportunity for Pakistan's institutions to demonstrate their resilience should they manage to restore a legitimate constitutional process," she said.

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Pakistan's top court blocks prime minister's bid to stay in power

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ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday blocked Prime Minister Imran Khan's bid to stay in power, ruling that his move to dissolve Parliament and call early elections was illegal. That set the stage for a no-confidence vote by opposition lawmakers, who say they have enough support to oust him.

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Hundreds of people are going back home after fleeing the war in Ukraine. People have said they could be reunited with family back in Ukraine, even though it wouldn't be easy. Ukrainian men cannot leave the country in case they need to stay and fight. There are lots of refugees who are worn out from being separated from family. The Ukrainian Border Guard Service said on Sunday, more than 22,000 Ukrainians crossed back into Ukraine compared to the 33,000 that left. There have been other countries as well that have reported thousands of people entering Ukraine. There are plenty of aid workers and volunteers helping people enter into Ukraine.

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BUDAPEST, Hungary - Hundreds of people who had fled the war in neighboring Ukraine gathered on Platform 10 at Budapest Nyugati railway station in Hungary's capital on the first Sunday of April.

But the more than 200 passengers waiting for the 7:23 a.m. train weren't on their way farther from Ukraine - instead they were heading back home.

Yulia Kalinina, who was traveling with her sister so that they could be reunited with their husbands, admitted it hadn't been an easy decision.

"I am afraid," said Kalinina, 39, who is from Kyiv. "But I very much want to go home. I want to see my husband. I'd rather be afraid with him than be afraid alone here."

Ukrainian men ages 18 to 60 are banned from leaving the country in case they are needed to fight.

As the war in Ukraine rages into its sixth week, Kalinina and her sister are part of a trickle of refugees who are worn out from being separated from family and unable to find opportunity in Europe, and are beginning to return to Ukraine.

The Ukrainian State Border Guard Service said that on Sunday alone, more than 22,000 Ukrainians crossed the border back into the country, compared to 33,000 that left. More than 4 million people have left Ukraine since the war broke out on Feb. 24.

While it's not just Hungary that is seeing refugees leave - the Polish Border Guard reported more than 421,000 border crossings into Ukraine since the start of the war - aid workers say the problems facing Ukrainians are particularly acute in Hungary, where the language is difficult to learn, inflation is skyrocketing and job opportunities are scarce.

"For women and children, no one can guarantee their safety. "
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And some humanitarian workers say that while Hungary's hard-line Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has softened his anti-immigration rhetoric, he has provided little government assistance to the roughly 400,000 Ukrainians who have arrived in the country, leaving volunteers and nongovernmental organizations to piece together a support system for the refugees.

Aid workers and volunteers say that they began to see hundreds of refugees, mostly women and children, trying to re-enter Ukraine toward the end of March. Ukrainian-speaking volunteers at the Budapest Nyugati railway station say more and more people are arriving at the station each day looking for help to buy a ticket back to Ukraine, aware that they may not have anything to return to.

While some Ukrainians said they would rather reunite with family and live in an underground bunker than continue to search day by day for food and shelter, others had run out of money and felt they had nowhere else to go.And some, still traumatized by near-death escapes, were returning home to retrieve elderly relatives who had been unable to leave in the initial rush to evacuate.

Tatiana Samsonova, 38, waved goodbye to her older sister who was boarding the train to go back to Lviv to get their 70-year-old mother, who could not travel on her own.

Samsonova said she knew the risks facing her sister. When Samsonova left Ukraine in March with her children, ages 4 and 10, she said Russian snipers shot at their car. Their neighbors, who were driving ahead of them, were hit with a rocket, setting their car on fire. The shelling was constant, and Samsonova, ducking under her steering wheel for protection, could not stop to help them.

"My sister is brave to go back," said Samsonova, who planned to wait in Budapest with her kids. "I just want her to come back here OK."

Refugee and migration experts say that it is not uncommon for refugees to return home during a time of conflict, but that it is often a sign of weak humanitarian and official government responses.

"It's very concerning because Ukraine is still a country in conflict," said Emily Venturi, who specializes in refugees and migration at Chatham House, a London-based think tank. "It's also a red flag for European governments to make sure that the humanitarian response is meeting the needs of Ukrainians."

Experts also say that refugees could be encouraged by Ukraine's recent battlefield victories, which have seen it drive out Russian troops in parts of the country, leading to a perceived sense of stability. It is unclear what proportion of refugees who are returning to Ukraine plan to stay temporarily to collect belongings or loved ones, or plan to remain more permanently in the country.

Alexander Betts, a professor of forced migration and international affairs at Oxford University, said that even though the trajectory of the war is uncertain, refugees could be interpreting news reports of the conflict in a way that hardens their determination to go home.

"People have left rapidly, women and children left so many family members, including men. They've left property, they've left homes, and many will continue to perceive their lives and their futures as being in Ukraine," Betts said.

Natalia Csuri, who began volunteering as a translator at the Budapest railway station when the war broke out, said huge questions hang over returning refugees.

"For women and children, no one can guarantee their safety. And nobody can really guarantee that they actually will still have their loved ones and their houses to go back to," she said. "It's a risky situation, and so far it's a new tendency that people are going back in so many numbers."

In response to what has become Europe's biggest refugee crisis since World War II, the European Union in March granted Ukrainians the right to live and and work within the bloc for up to three years. But even for those able to find jobs, many women who left Ukraine with their children are unable to find child care.

Marina, 30, who asked not to use her last name because she was worried about her security, left Kyiv with her 7-year-old and 18-month-old sons at the beginning of March with enough cash to rent a small apartment in Budapest for a month.

She was able to find a job as a waitress, but did not have anyone to watch her kids while she was at work. She turned the job down and came to the rail station looking for information on how to cross the border to Ukraine.

"It's not working out," she said. "How do I bring up two children without any help? I want to go back right now."

Many refugees simply seek the comfort and familiarity of home, even as they journey into the unknown.

On Sunday, Anna Lutsenko, 32, waited at the Budapest station to start what could be a weekslong journey back to the city of Odesa in the southeast of Ukraine. Lutsenko said she had seen videos on social media showing the Black Sea port city at peace.

"It's quiet there now," she said, as she boarded the train with the roller suitcase she left home with just a few weeks earlier. "We want to live in our city."

As the train pulled out, Russia announced that it had launched a missile strike against an Odesa oil facility, its first major attack against the city since the war started.

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As millions of Ukrainians flee war, hundreds turn go back home

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BUDAPEST, Hungary - Hundreds of people who had fled the war in neighboring Ukraine gathered on Platform 10 at Budapest Nyugati railway station in Hungary's capital on the first Sunday of April. But the more than 200 passengers waiting for the 7:23 a.m.

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This is Sankara in 1986, when he was still Burkina Faso's president before the assassination.

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Ex-president Blaise Compaoré has just been sentenced to life in prison for helping in the murder of his predecessor. In 1987 Thomas Sankara was murdered and Blaise covered up the assassination. Also, during this massacre, another coup occurred that took Sankara's friend Compaoré to power at that time. Fourteen people were charged for Sankara's killing in the trial which had started in October. Eight other people were found guilty of giving false testimonies, etc. Sankara's widow Mariam Sankara said, "Justice has been served. The judges have done their jobs and I am satisfied. Of course, I wished the main suspects would be here before the judges". Compaoré went on to rule for 27 years before a coup took him out of power in 2014. Investigations were reponed shortly after and Compaoré is found guilty but he lives in Ivory Coast and has become a citizen there. So, the Ivorian gov't won't give him up but hopefully, somehow he does get put in jail.

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Based on this article Russian forces are trying to cover up their alleged war crimes by operating a mobile crematorium.  Russia's top leadership ordered the destruction of any evidence of war crimes in Mariupol.  Mariupol officials estimate that 5,000 citizens have been killed, but based on the destruction it could reach tens of thousands.  The ICRC said it is still unable to gain access to those that may be trapped in Mariupol.  City officials claimed that Russia is barring humanitarian access to Mariupol because of the number of deceased Ukrainians that remain on the streets.  Russia is trying to cover it up before rescue efforts take place. Mariupol officials are comparing the devastation to what happened in Auschwitz and Majdanek.

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The Mariupol City Council on Wednesday accused Russian forces of relying on a mobile crematorium to cover up their alleged war crimes in the southeast port city of Ukraine.

Mariupol, which has been partially occupied for weeks, has been the target of one of the most brutal Russian offensives in Ukraine since the invasion began in February.
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"The killers are covering their tracks," the city council said in several social media posts, adding that the Russians have set up "mobile crematoriums."

"Russia's top leadership ordered the destruction of any evidence of crimes committed by its army in Mariupol," the council added in a translated statement, accusing Moscow of reacting to widespread condemnation over mass civilian killings in Bucha.

Humanitarian access to the city has been blocked for weeks, with an estimated 160,000 residents unable to evacuate and lacking access to electricity, heating, health care and water, reported the U.K.'s Ministry of Defense.

Mariupol officials have estimated that roughly 5,000 civilians had been killed, but warned Wednesday that given the size of the destruction caused to the city the death toll could be in the tens of thousands.

The Kremlin agreed to a cease-fire last week after devastating shelling pummeled the strategically important city for more than a month.

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But evacuation efforts by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) were stalled over the weekend due to treacherous conditions.

ICRC said Wednesday it was able to evacuate about 500 people from the city of Berdiansk, roughly 50 miles south of Mariupol, but it is still unable to gain access to those trapped inside Mariupol.

City officials claimed that Russia is barring humanitarian access to Mariupol because of the number of deceased Ukrainians that remain on the streets.

The city council further claimed that Russian forces are removing potential witnesses to "filtration camps" - a claim echoed Tuesday by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who said she has seen "credible reports" supporting such accusations.
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Thomas-Greenfield said Ukrainians in these camps were being stripped of their identification cards and passports, along with being separated from their families.

"The world has not seen the scale of the tragedy in Mariupol since the existence of the Nazi concentration camps. Russia-occupation forces turned our entire city into a death camp," Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko said in a statement translated by Ukrainian news outlet Interfax. "This is the new Auschwitz and Majdanek."

"The world must help punish Putin's monsters," he added.

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Russian crematoria operating in Mariupol: 'This is the new Auschwitz,' mayor says

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The Mariupol City Council on Wednesday accused Russian forces of relying on a mobile crematorium to cover up their alleged war crimes in the southeast port city of Ukraine. Mariupol, which has been partially occupied for weeks, has been the target of one of the most brutal Russian offensives in Ukraine since the invasion began in February.