Thu 19 May 2022: Social media footage not verified by Reuters showed at least six people killed and dozens injured over the past few days. Iranian security forces fired live rounds and tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters in several provinces today, according to posts on social media, as protests triggered by rising food prices […]
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Thu 19 May 2022: Former US President George W. Bush referred to the invasion of Iraq as “unjustified” before clarifying that he was referring to Russia’s attack on Ukraine, according to local media on Wednesday evening. “The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia, and the decision of one man to launch […]
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Thu 19 May 2022: India’s top court and a court in Varanasi hear petitions filed by Hindu groups claiming a Mughal-era mosque has relics of Lord Shiva. India’s Supreme Court has overturned a lower court’s order banning mass prayers at a 17th-century mosque in northern India after a survey team said it found relics of […]
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Thu 19 May 2022: Russia must not win this war, Ukraine must prevail, German Chancellor Scholz said on Thursday, pledging more military support to the country. We must focus on supporting Ukraine “quickly and pragmatically”, he said. Speaking in his address to German parliament, Scholz said that “Russian president continues to believe he can dictate a settlement in Ukraine, but he is […]
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Thu 19 May 2022: According to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the number of COVID-19 cases throughout the Americas increased by 27.2 percent last week compared to the previous week, owing mostly to an increase in infections in the United States. More than half of a total 918,000 infections came from North America as […]
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Finnish PM Sanna Marin with Italian PM Mario Draghi during Press conference. Thu 19 May 2022: Even if Finland joins NATO, the Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin told an Italian newspaper in an interview published on Thursday that she does not want nuclear weapons or military bases on its soil. On Wednesday, Finland and Sweden […]
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Thu 19 May 2022: China, the US and India must take more decisive steps in the face of challenges in reaching net-zero emissions targets as they are responsible for more than half of all global emissions, experts say. The most important commitment of governments to limit global warming to 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level is […]
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Thu 19 May 2022: The US does not have legal authority to seize Russian central bank assets frozen due to its invasion of Ukraine, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has said. Some European officials have advocated that the European Union, the US and other allies seize some $300bn in Russian central bank foreign currency assets frozen […]
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Wed 18 May 2022: Russia has moved to expel a total of 85 European embassy staff, responding to similar moves by those countries. The Foreign Ministry said it was ordering out 34 diplomatic staff from France, 27 from Spain and 24 from Italy. The three countries are among European nations that have collectively thrown out […]
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Wed 18 May 2022: Hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers who held off Russian fighters at the besieged Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol have surrendered, Moscow said Tuesday, as Kyiv called for an immediate prisoner swap. The strategic port city fell to Russian forces last month, but a relentless Ukrainian military unit held out in the maze of […]
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