Mon 20 June 2022: Ukraine announced Monday that it has lost control of a village near Severodonetsk, the eastern industrial city at the center of weeks of brutal battle with invading Russian soldiers. “Unfortunately, we do not control Metyolkine anymore. And the enemy continues to build up its reserves,” the Lugansk regional governor Sergiy Gaiday […]
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Mon 20 June 2022: China’s defense ministry claimed a land-based missile intercept test “achieved its expected purpose,” describing it as defensive and not aimed at any country. The ministry announced in a brief statement late Sunday that the “ground-based midcourse anti-missile intercept technology” test had carried out that night. “The test reached its expected goals,” […]
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Mon 20 June 2022: Stella Assange, Assange’s wife, is concerned about her husband’s deteriorating health Anthony Albanese, Australia’s newly elected prime minister, has declined to publicly demand that the US drop its prosecution of WikiLeaks founder and Australian citizen Julian Assange. In an opinion piece published in The Sydney Morning Herald on Monday, Bob Carr, who was foreign minister when Albanese’s center-left Labor Party was […]
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Mon 20 June 2022: Following substantial gains by a newly formed left-wing alliance and record wins by the far-right, French President Emmanuel Macron has lost control of the National Assembly in legislative elections. The result, which was published in the early hours of Monday, threw French politics into disarray, raising the possibility of a paralyzed […]
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Sun 19 June 2022: Since achieving independence in 1948, Sri Lanka has been through the biggest economic crisis in its history, and there has been widespread public outrage about the situation. The situation deteriorated further on Saturday, when the military opened fire on people to prevent unrest at a gas station as fuel prices continue […]
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Sun 19 June 2022: According to local media, the new chief of the British army told troops that Britain needed a force capable of fighting in Europe and defeating Russia. Boris Johnson, a prominent backer of Ukraine since Russia’s incursion in February, has ruled out deploying British troops to assist Kyiv, but has warned that […]
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Sun 19 June 2022: Thousands of Rohingya Muslims have begun an arduous journey to cross the Indian-Bangladeshi border for safe shelter on the southeast coast of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh where more than 1 million Rohingya have been provided shelter. There are about 40,000 Rohingya in India with 20,000 registered with the UN refugee agency. Experts and activists on […]
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Sun 19 June 2022: Residents of several villages south-west of Berlin have been ordered to leave the area due to a forest fire that has been burning since Friday. On Sunday afternoon, police wrote on Twitter that people should follow the instructions of local law enforcement officers. The local town hall in Treuenbrietzen is serving […]
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Sun 19 June 2022: Droughts could affect more than three-quarters of the world’s population by 2050, according to the United Nations, which commemorated World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought on Friday, Anadolu Agency reported. The day, which has been commemorated on June 17 every year since 1995, focuses on shifting public perceptions about the […]
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Sun 19 June 2022: As Russian soldiers intensified their attack on Ukrainian positions in the east of the country, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg advised Western allies to prepare for the long haul in Ukraine. On Saturday, Johnson and Stoltenberg issued separate warnings, while Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited […]
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