Wed 06 April 2022: Pope Francis on Wednesday condemned “the massacre of Bucha” and held up a Ukrainian flag sent to him from the town where tied bodies shot at close range, a mass grave and other signs of executions were found. “Recent news from the war in Ukraine, instead of bringing relief and hope, […]
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Wed 06 April 2022: A key member of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s Yamina party said Wednesday she was quitting his coalition government, in a surprise move that leaves him without a parliamentary majority. Idit Silman’s announcement left Bennett’s coalition, an alliance of parties ranging from the Jewish right and Israeli doves to an Arab […]
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Wed 06 April 2022: Intel Corp, a US chipmaker, announced on Tuesday that it has halted business operations in Russia, joining a slew of other corporations that have left the country in the aftermath of its invasion of Ukraine. The company, which had suspended shipments to customers in Russia and Belarus last month, said it […]
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Wed 06 April 2022: Malian troops and suspected Russian mercenaries have allegedly executed around 300 civilian men over five days during a military operation in a central town. The killings took place between March 27 and 31 in Moura, a rural town of around 10,000 inhabitants in the Mopti region, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said […]
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Tue 05 April 2022: The UN’s undersecretary-general for political and peacebuilding affairs says the world body has received “credible” allegations that Russian forces have used indiscriminate cluster munitions at least 24 times in populated parts of Ukraine. Rosemary DiCarlo told the UNSC the global body was “gravely concerned by the persistent use of explosive weapons […]
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Tue 05 April 2022: In Iran’s northeastern shrine city of Mashhad, an attack on Tuesday led to the death of an Iranian Muslim cleric and the injury of two others, one of which is critical. “A man stabbed three Shiite clerics with knives, killing one and wounding two others,” said Yaghoub-Ali Nazari, the governor of […]
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Tue 05 April 2022: The European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Tuesday the fifth package of sanctions against Moscow that includes a ban on coal imports from Russia, among other things. “This fifth package has six pillars. First, we will impose an import ban on coal from Russia, worth 4 billion Euros […]
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A museum in Latvia across the street of Russian embassy. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Tue 05 April 2022: More than 120 Russian diplomats have been expelled from EU countries in the last 28 hours, amid international outrage over killings in the town of Bucha, Reuters reports. Spain’s foreign minister, Jose Manuel Albares, said today that 25 Russian diplomats […]
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Tue 05 April 2022: The Kremlin said remarks by US President Joe Biden yesterday calling for Vladimir Putin to be tried for war crimes was unacceptable and unworthy of a US leader. Biden was responding to harrowing images broadcast around the world after the discovery over the weekend of a mass grave and bodies in civilian […]
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Tue 05 April 2022: The U.K. government on Monday announced a series of initiatives toward its goal of making the country a global center for crypto technology and investments. “The measures we’ve outlined today will help to ensure firms can invest, innovate and scale up in this country,” Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak said in […]
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