Mon 14 March 2022: United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres told reporters at the UN Headquarters, that the conflict in Ukraine can turn into a nuclear one. “The possibility of nuclear conflict, which was once unthinkable, is now possible again,” he said. “Ukraine is on fire. The country is being destroyed before the eyes of […]
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Mon 14 March 2022: Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, has been denied permission to appeal a decision to extradite him to the United States to the Supreme Court, the court announced on Monday. Authorities in the United States want Assange, who was born in Australia, to stand trial on 18 counts related to WikiLeaks’ […]
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Mon 14 March 2022: The UN human rights office (OHCHR) has confirmed the deaths of at least 636 civilians in Ukraine through to March 13, including 46 children. The actual toll is likely much higher, it said, since there have been delays receiving and corroborating reports from places with intense hostilities such as Kharkiv and […]
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Mon 14 March 2022: A Ukrainian cluster munitions missile strike on Monday hit a residential area in the eastern city of Donetsk, killing 20 people and injuring 28, the Russian Defense Ministry said. A Tochka-U missile went off over a bus stop where civilians, mostly women and children, were waiting for a bus, Defense Ministry […]
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Mon 14 March 2022: A pregnant woman and her baby have died after Russia bombed the Ukrainian maternity hospital where the expectant mother was meant to give birth, media reports said. Images of the aftermath of last Wednesday’s attack showing the woman being rushed to an ambulance on a stretcher had shocked the world, epitomising the horror […]
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Mon 14 March 2022: Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Inc, said on Sunday that his company and his rocket company, SpaceX, are under substantial inflationary pressure in raw materials and logistics. Musk also asked about the outlook for inflation rates in a tweet, noting that his companies “are not alone,” retweeting an article claiming […]
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Mon 14 March 2022: Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is ready to marry for the second time. He is currently being imprisoned in London while he battles a US attempt to extradite him on espionage accusations. According to The Guardian, the 50-year-old will marry Stella Moris, 38, on March 23 at Belmarsh Prison, south-east […]
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Mon 14 March 2022: Russia’s finance minister admitted that over half of the country’s foreign exchange reserves are insufficient to survive Western economic sanctions. According to Interfax, a Russian news agency, Anton Siluanov claimed on Sunday in an interview with Russian state television that Russia had roughly $640 billion in foreign reserves, with about $300 […]
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Mon 14 March 2022: Besieging cities, shelling civilian infrastructure and arranging “safe corridors”: the tactics used by Russia in its war on Ukraine mirror those it tested and fine-tuned to drain resistance in Syria’s conflict. But unlike its Syria play book, the challenge Russia faces from a Western-backed army in Ukraine dwarfs that of Syrian […]
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Huge queues outside Russian McDonald’s on last day before shutting over Ukraine war. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Mon 14 March 2022: The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that Russian authorities have threatened foreign companies intending to depart from the country with arrests and asset seizures, as Western sanctions take hold According to the business daily, Russian prosecutors have […]
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