Tue 01 March 2022: Russia’s foreign minister has claimed Kyiv has been seeking to acquire nuclear weapons, telling a Geneva disarmament meeting that this is a real danger that Moscow needed to prevent. “Ukraine still has Soviet technologies and the means of delivery of such weapons,” Sergey Lavrov told the Conference on Disarmament in a […]
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Tue 01 March 2022: Palaeontologist Amelia Penny discovered a fossilized jaw in the landscape during a field research five years ago on the Isle of Skye in rural northwestern Scotland. The nearly-complete fossil now portrays a 170 million-year-old ancient flying reptile that is regarded to be “the largest” of its type ever unearthed from the […]
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Tue 01 March 2022: Google announced on Tuesday that it is blocking the YouTube channels linked to Russia’s RT broadcaster and Sputnik news agency across Europe in the wake of the special operation in Ukraine. “Due to the ongoing war in Ukraine, we’re blocking YouTube channels connected to RT and Sputnik across Europe, effective immediately. […]
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Tue 01 March 2022: Ukraine on Monday said it had received donated Starlink satellite internet terminals from SpaceX, but an internet security researcher warned these could become Russian targets. A shipment of SpaceX’s Starlink user terminals arrived in Ukraine on Monday, providing Ukrainians access to the satellite Internet network as traditional service faces interruptions from […]
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Tue 01 March 2022: The Russian president is facing an unexpected level of resistance, but remains determined to continue on a belligerent path. As Russia’s war on Ukraine enters another day, with reports of hundreds killed in less than a week, there are rising questions about what President Vladimir Putin is trying to achieve. According […]
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Tue 01 March 2022: By 2050, a billion people will face coastal flooding risk from rising seas; More people will be forced out of their homes from weather disasters, especially flooding, sea level rise and tropical cyclones. Climate change is upon us and humanity is far from ready, the United Nations climate science panel warned […]
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Mon 28 January 2022: Turkey will be using authority given by 1936 Montreux Convention to prevent Russia – Ukraine ‘crisis’ from further escalating, says Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Under the convention, Turkey can stop foreign warships from going through the Turkish Straitsduring a war. “Turkey has strictly fulfilled its responsibilities within the framework of the […]
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Mon 28 January 2022: FIFA and UEFA have suspended Russia’s national and club teams from all competitions until further notice due to the country’s invasion of Ukraine, the bodies said in a joint statement on Monday. “Football is in full solidarity with all the people affected in Ukraine. Both Presidents hope that the situation in […]
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Mon 28 January 2022: Ukrainian Ambassador to Lebanon, Ihor Ostash, said Russia sent 400 mercenaries to the capital city of Kyiv to kill political leaders and high-level officials in the European country. Speaking to reporters at the embassy in Beirut on the Russian intervention in Ukraine, Ostash said the mercenaries are affiliated with Russian security […]
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Mon 28 January 2022: The US State Department announced on Monday (February 28) that it has decided to close the US Embassy in Minsk, Belarus. In addition, the State Department has authorized the voluntary departure of non-emergency workers and family members from its Moscow embassy. In a statement, the US State Department said that these […]
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