Published by AFP Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky will address the UN Security Council on Tuesday, where he is expected to demand tough new sanctions on Moscow over killings in the town of Bucha that he has called “war crimes” and “genocide”. The speech, Zelensky’s first to the body since Russia’s invasion, […]
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Published by DPA Ukrainian forces have retaken “key terrain” from Russian troops in the north of the country, Britain’s Ministry of Defence said in its latest intelligence assessment of the war. “Low-level fighting is likely to continue in some of the newly recaptured regions, but diminish significantly this week as the remainder of the Russian
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Published by DPA Ukraine announced the establishment of seven escape corridors for the evacuation of civilians on Tuesday. However, residents of the besieged port city of Mariupol will only be able to leave in private cars, Ukrainian Deputy Prime MinisterIryna Vereshchuk said, according to the Ukrinform news agency. She accused Russian troops of continuing to
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Published by Reuters UK By Uditha Jayasinghe and Devjyot Ghoshal COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa dropped his brother as finance minister and sought a new central bank governor on Monday, as crowds angry over the country’s deepening economic crisis surrounded the homes of several lawmakers. The debt-laden country, run by Rajapaksa and
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Published by Reuters UK By Liz Hampton and Isabel Kua SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Oil futures rose on Tuesday as the United States and Europe planned new sanctions to punish Moscow over alleged war crimes by Russian troops in Ukraine, raising concerns of tighter global supply, while Iran nuclear talks stalled. Brent crude futures rose $1.87, or
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Published by Reuters UK By Uditha Jayasinghe and Devjyot Ghoshal COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa dropped his brother as finance minister on Monday after calling for a unity government as protests against an economic crisis persisted and cracks emerged in the ruling coalition. The debt-laden country, run by Rajapaksa and his brothers in
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Published by The Bangkok Post SHANGHAI: Shanghai health officials on Monday defended a policy of separating babies and young children from their parents if they test positive for Covid-19, as frustration at the city’s tough virus controls builds. Around 25 million people in Shanghai, China’s largest city and financial centre, remain locked down as authorities
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Published by Reuters UK By Simon Gardner BUCHA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Global outrage spread on Monday over civilian deaths in Ukraine including evidence of bound bodies shot at close range and a mass grave found in areas retaken from Russian troops, as artillery bombarded the country’s south and east. Taras Shapravskyi, deputy mayor of Bucha,
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Published by Reuters UK SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China has sent the military and thousands of healthcare workers into Shanghai to help carry out COVID-19 tests for all of its 26 million residents as cases continued to rise on Monday, in one of the country’s biggest-ever public health responses. Some residents woke up before dawn for white-suited
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Published by AFP Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Explosions rocked the strategic Ukrainian port city of Odessa on Sunday, as a top UN official headed to Moscow to try to secure a “humanitarian ceasefire” and after evidence emerged of possible civilian killings around Kyiv. Thick plumes of black smoke rose from several areas on the historic
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