Now that we are marking the eleventh month since Russia invaded Ukraine, Western countries are grappling with a difficult dilemma that could decide the fate of the war ... Pavlo Kyrylenko, Ukraine's governor of Donetsk, had said earlier that Russia had launched seven missile strikes on Kramatorsk ... CLODAGH KILCOYNE/REUTERS) ... .
So, now it is out in the open ... On the day that Germany announced WWIII, the leading section of the BBC’s news site carried no mention of the German Foreign Minister’s announcement but managed to find space for the following headlines. ‘Homeowner’s fury over sofa wedged in stairs’ and ‘BBCNewsPresenter gets emotional in last ever sign off’ ... Remember.
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The United States is tracking a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon seen over the country’s airspace for a couple of days, but the Pentagon has decided not to shoot it down due to the risk of harm to people on the ground, officials have said ... The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information ... .
Activists warn, however, that the Sao Paulo, an old decommissioned aircraft carrier, is full of asbestos and heavy metals that could leach into the water ... .
Greco is wanted for murder of two brothers beaten to death in Calabria fish shop as part of ‘mafia war’, Interpol says A convicted Italian killer, believed to belong to one of the country’s most powerful mafia organisations, has been discovered working as a pizza chef and arrested after 16 years on the run ... He was then placed in detention ... .
The battle on the front lines in eastern Ukraine "has become tougher" as Russian forces push for gains that they could show on the first anniversary of their invasion on Feb. 24, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a sombre assessment. ...Bakhmut has suffered persistent Russian bombardment for months. ... IOSAndroid ... .
By Humeyra Pamuk and MichaelMartina. (Reuters) – When U.S.Secretary of StateAntonyBlinken meets his Chinese counterpart in Beijing next week there will be plenty to disagree about, from Taiwan to chips and trade. But they will both be trying to answer the same question. How can the world’s two biggest economies avoid a new Cold War? ... Advertisement.
Years after a widely criticised United States policy known as “family separation” forcibly took migrant children away from their families at the southern border, nearly 1,000 have yet to be returned. Officials said on Thursday that a task force created under US PresidentJoe Biden has reunited about 689 children with their families ... .
The unilateral measures include settlement expansion, house demolitions, land confiscation, storming and changing the legal status of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, raids on Palestinian towns and a deduction of Palestinian tax revenue dues, according to the Palestinian side, Xinhua news agency reported.