Thu 17 March 2022: US President Joe Biden’s reference to Russian leader Vladimir Putin as a “war criminal” over his military operation in Ukraine is “unacceptable and unforgivable,” the Kremlin has said. “We believe such rhetoric to be unacceptable and unforgivable on the part of the head of a state, whose bombs have killed hundreds […]
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Thu 17 March 2022: Ukraine claimed Wednesday that Russia had destroyed a theatre harbouring more than a thousand people in the besieged port city of Mariupol, with the toll as yet unknown. Bombing on theatre came after US President Joe Biden branded Vladimir Putin a “war criminal”. “Today, the invaders destroyed the Drama Theatre. A […]
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Wed 16 March 2022: President Vladimir Putin has said Russia would achieve its goals in Ukraine and would not submit to what he called a Western attempt to achieve global dominance and dismember Russia. “Behind the hypocritical talk and today’s actions of the so-called collective West are hostile geopolitical goals. They just don’t want a […]
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Wed 16 March 2022: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Wednesday ordered Russia to cease military actions in Ukraine immediately, in a preliminary decision in a case brought by Kyiv. “The Russian Federation shall immediately suspend the military operations that it commenced on Feb 24, 2022 on the territory of Ukraine,” judges at the […]
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Wed 16 March 2022: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday, nearly three weeks into Russia’s assault on Ukraine, that the alliance wants to “remove any room for miscalculation” in Moscow about its willingness to defend all members of the alliance. “At the meeting today, we will also not only address the immediate consequences […]
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Wed 16 March 2022: After more than seven years of war, Yemen is becoming a “chronic emergency” and “there are grave risks in chronic emergencies, namely inertia and fatigue,” a senior UN official said on Tuesday. Speaking to the UN Security Council on Yemen, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, said: “Yemen […]
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Wed 16 March 2022: The Russia-Ukraine peace talks are not easy, but there is hope for finding a compromise, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. Speaking in an interview with the Russian RBC TV Channel, Lavrov said his assessment is based on the information provided by the Russian delegation at the peace talks with […]
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Wed 16 March 2022: After more than two years of isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, New Zealand has opted to speed up the opening of its international borders. The government imposed among of the strictest isolation policies in the world, but Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern believes it is time to return to normalcy, claiming […]
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Wed 16 March 2022: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has welcomed a decision by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to approve a resolution setting March 15 as the International Day to Combat Islamophobia. The resolution, adopted on Tuesday by consensus by the 193-member world body and co-sponsored by 55 mainly Muslim countries, emphasises the […]
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Wed 16 March 2022: President Joe Biden will travel to Europe next week for face-to-face talks with European leaders about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced Tuesday. Biden will meet with European leaders at an extraordinary NATO summit in Brussels on March 24. He will also attend a scheduled […]
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