Fri 18 March 2022: The UK has revoked the broadcasting license of Russian state-funded television channel RT. “Ofcom has today revoked RT’s licence to broadcast in the UK, with immediate effect,” the UK’s media regulator said in a statement, adding it did not consider it “fit and proper” for RT to operate in the country. […]
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Fri 18 March 2022: Pope Francis on Friday called the war in Ukraine a “perverse abuse of power” waged for partisan interests, which has condemned defenceless people to brutal violence. Since the war began, the pope has not used the word “Russia” in his condemnations but has used phrases such as “unacceptable armed aggression” to get his point […]
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Fri 18 March 2022: More than two dozen whales died in a mass stranding at Farewell Spit, a remote South Island beach known as a whale death trap, according to New Zealand’s Department of Conservation on Friday. Late Thursday, wildlife rangers discovered 34 long-finned pilot whales on the shore, but 29 of them were already […]
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Fri 18 March 2022: Arnold Schwarzenegger, the former governor of California in the United States, has released an emotional video addressing the Russian people, arguing they are being fed misinformation about the war in Ukraine, and appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop the attack. Russia has described its actions as a “special military operation” to […]
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Fri 18 March 2022: Hundreds of bulletproof vests were stolen from an NGO in New York after officers donated them, police and the organization said Thursday. The vests were destined for Ukraine as the country fights a Russian military campaign. The theft occurred at the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA) offices, where officers arrived […]
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Fri 18 March 2022: Russia’s Defense Ministry accused the US on Thursday of developing infectious diseases in biolabs in Ukraine with the aim of spreading them to Russia disguised as natural outbreaks. The head of the Russian Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Force, Igor Kirillov, presented documents at a press briefing in Moscow that were […]
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Thu 17 March 2022: About 3.2 million people have fled Ukraine, according to data released by the United Nations. While the numbers arriving in the frontline states – Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Moldova – have slowed in recent days, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said he expected a “bigger wave” next week. “The war […]
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Thu 17 March 2022: Switzerland’s secretive banks hold up to $213 billion of Russian wealth, the country’s financial industry association estimates, as sanctions on Russia give a rare glimpse inside Swiss vaults. The Swiss Bankers Association (SBA) estimated that the banks hold between 150 billion and 200 billion Swiss francs ($213 billion) of Russian client […]
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Thu 17 March 2022: Rescue workers are searching for survivors in the rubble of a theatre in the besieged city of Mariupol after Ukraine said a powerful Russian air strike had hit the building where hundreds of people had been sheltering from the war. The port city is encircled by Russian forces and has faced […]
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Thu 17 March 2022: The United Nations’ cultural agency said Thursday it would provide bulletproof vests and helmets to journalists working in Ukraine after the deaths of several reporters covering Russia’s invasion. UNESCO will also organize online training courses for working in combat zones and first aid. It is also trying to provide in-person training […]
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