Published by Al-Araby A Yemeni rebel attack on a Saudi oil plant set off a huge fire near Jeddah’s Formula One circuit during televised practice sessions on Friday, part of a wave of assaults on Aramco facilities. Smoke billowed near the circuit and the second practice was delayed in the attack, one of 16 drone-and-missile […]
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Published by Al-Araby The war in Ukraine has killed 136 children in the 31 days since the start of the Russian invasion, Ukraine’s office of the prosecutor general has said early today in a message on the Telegram app. Of the total, 64 children have been killed in the Kyiv region, the office said. A
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Published by Reuters UK By Gleb Garanich and Natalia Zinets MARIUPOL/LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pushed for further talks with Russia as Moscow signalled it was scaling back its ambitions to focus on territory claimed by Russian-backed separatists in the east after attacks elsewhere stalled. In an announcement on Friday appearing to
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Published by Reuters By Krishna N. Das and Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India said ties with China could not be normal until their troops pulled back from each other on the disputed border, but Beijing struck a conciliatory note during a meeting of their foreign ministers in New Delhi on Friday. Both nations have
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Published by DPA On the second day of his visit to Poland, US President Joe Biden is due to deliver a speech in Warsaw on Saturday addressing the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. The president’s appearance at Warsaw’s Royal Castle is scheduled for the late afternoon between 5 and 6 pm (1600 and 1700 GMT),
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Published by Reuters By Angie Teo and Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to attend the next G20 summit in Indonesia later this year and received valuable backing from Beijing on Wednesday in a pushback to suggestions by some members that Russia could be barred from the group. The United States
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Published by Reuters UK By Tom Polansek and Ana Mano CHICAGO(Reuters) – Sky-high fertilizer prices have farmers worldwide scaling back its use and reducing the amount of land they’re planting, fallout from the Ukraine-Russia conflict that has some agricultural industry veterans warning of food shortages. Western sanctions on Russia, a major exporter of potash, ammonia,
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Published by Global Voices A Ceylon Petroleum fuel truck. Image from Flickr by Dhammika Heenpella. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 On March 18, 2022, the authorities announced that the final term examinations of schools in the Western Province of Sri Lanka would be delayed due to a shortage of paper and other materials required to prepare the
Published by Reuters By Natalia Zinets and James Mackenzie MARIUPOL/LVIV/KYIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukraine’s military warned the public on Tuesday of more indiscriminate Russian shelling from bogged-down Russian troops, and U.S. President Joe Biden issued his strongest warning yet that Russia is considering using chemical weapons. Amid the devastation caused by Russia’s unceasing bombardment of
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Published by Reuters By Martin Quin Pollard WUZHOU, China (Reuters) -Rescuers scoured heavily forested mountain slopes in southern China on Tuesday looking for victims and flight recorders from a China Eastern Airlines passenger jet that crashed a day earlier with 132 people on board. Parts of the Boeing 737-800 were strewn among trees charred by
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