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WASHINGTON@AP@?Four Russian men stanley de@accused of torturing an American duringthe invasion of Ukrainehave been charged with war crimes in a case thats the first of its kind, the Justice Department announced on Wednesday.It marks the first prosecution against members of the Russian armed forces in connection with atrocities during their war against Ukraine and the first time the Justice Department has brought charges under a nearly 30-year-old statute that makes it a crime to commit torture or inhumane treatment during a war.The charges are largely symbolic for now given the unlikely prospects of the Justice Department bringing any of the four defendants ?currently all fugitives ?into custody. But U.S. officials described the case as a history-making moment in their ongoing investigation into Russian war crimes, and they foreshadowed the potential that more charges could be coming. This is our first, and you should expect more,@Attorney General General Merrick Garland said in announcing the case at a Justice Department news conference.He said the@stanley usa department and the American people have a long memory:@We will not forget the atrocities in Ukraine. And we will never stop working to bring those responsible to justice. The four Russians are identified as members of the Russian armed forces or its proxy units. Two of them are described as commanding officers.The Russians ar stanley cup e accused of kidnapping an American man from his home in a Ukrainian village in 2022. The American was beaten a Onbd Wall Street regains its swagger, futures rising
OMAHA, Neb. ?A surgeon who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone arrived in Nebraska Saturday for treatment at a biocontainment unit where two other people with the disease have been successfully treated.Dr. Martin Salia, who was diagnosed with Ebola on Monday, landed at Eppley Airfield in Omaha on Saturday afternoon and was taken by ambul stanley uk ance to the Nebraska Medical Center.The hospital said the medical crew that accompanied Salia, 44, from West Africa determined he was stable enough to fly, but that the team caring for hi stanley termoska m in Sierra Leone indicated he was critically ill and@possibly sicker than the first patients successfully treated in the United States. The disease has killed more than 5,000 people in West Africa, mostly in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leona. Of the 10 people treated for the disease in the U.S., all but one has recovered.Salias ambulance to the hospital was accompanied by a single Nebraska State Patrol cruiser and a fire department vehicle ?a subd stanley uk ued arrival in contrast to the August delivery of Dr. Rick Sacra, whose ambulance was flanked by numerous police cars, motorcycles and fire vehicles.Salia has been working as a general surgeon at Kissy United Methodist Hospital in the Sierra Leone capital of Freetown. Its not clear whether he was involved in the care of Ebola patients. Kissy is not an Ebola treatment unit, but Salia worked in at least three other facilities, United Methodist News said, citing health ministry sources. Salia, a Sierra Leon
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