Sat 12 March 2022: At least 579 civilians have been killed in Ukraine, and more than 1,000 have been injured, the UN human rights office has said but officials believe the actual number of casualties is considerably higher. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said 42 of those killed were children, […]
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Sat 12 March 2022: Google has said that it will begin sending out alerts for upcoming air raids to Ukrainian Android phone owners immediately in order to assist them in getting to safety. Kent Walker, Google’s head of global affairs, said in a company blog post on Thursday that the Air Raid Alert system will […]
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Sat 12 March 2022: The Ukrainian nuclear power plants at Chernobyl and Zaporizhzhia, both now under the control of Russian forces, are being run and managed by their Ukrainian staff, Russia’s atomic energy agency Rosatom said on Saturday, according to the RIA news agency. Rosatom’s statement said an external power supply was being restored to […]
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Sat 12 March 2022: According to Ukraine’s foreign ministry, Russian soldiers shelled a mosque in Mariupol, a southern Ukrainian port city, where more than 80 adults and children had sought safety. Turkish citizens were among those seeking refuge in the mosque when it was bombed, according to the government. “The mosque of Sultan Suleiman the […]
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Sat 12 March 2022: Public health experts at the World Health Organization have begun discussing how and when to call an end to the global Covid-19 crisis, exploring what would be an important milestone more than two years after the emergence of the virus. The WHO said it isn’t currently considering such a declaration. While […]
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Sat 12 March 2022: Poorer countries in northern Africa, Asia and the Middle East that depend heavily on wheat imports risk suffering significant food insecurity because of Russia’s war in Ukraine, and the conflict is poised to drive up already soaring food prices in much of the globe, the UN food agency warned Friday. Ukraine […]
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Sat 12 March 2022: US President Joe Biden said he has moved 12,000 troops along the borders with Russia, such as Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Romania while asserting that Vladimir Putin will not be victorious in the war he has waged against Ukraine. Addressing members of the House Democratic Caucus on Friday, Biden stressed over […]
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Sat 12 March 2022: US removal of Russia as ‘most favoured nation’ done in coordination with NATO allies, G7 and EU. The United States and its top allies are revoking Russia’s “most favoured nation” status, President Joe Biden has announced, in a move he said aims to punish the Russian government for its invasion of Ukraine. […]
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Fri 11 March 2022: Piotr Andryushchenko, an adviser to Mariupol Mayor wrote on his Facebook page that Turkish citizens are now hiding in a mosque in Mariupol due to Russian forces shelling. “Mariupol. Right now, 86 Turkish citizens are hiding in a shelter on the territory of the mosque. 34 of them are children. And […]
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Fri 11 March 2022: Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has suggested that the conflict in Ukraine could have been avoided had the world spoken out against Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea. “Would we have faced such a picture if the West, the whole world, had raised their voices?” Erdogan asked. “Those who remained silent in […]
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