Sat 19 February 2022: Ukraine is Europe’s “shield” against the Russian army and deserves stronger international support, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. “For eight years, Ukraine has been a shield,” he told a security conference in the German city of Munich on Saturday. His comments came as pro-Russia separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine ordered a full […]
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Sat 19 February 2022: India and the United Arab Emirates signed a broad trade and investment pact on Friday (February 18) that will eventually cut all tariffs on each other’s goods and aims to more than double the annual trade between the two nations to $100 billion within five years, Reuters reports. The virtual signing ceremony marks […]
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Sat 19 February 2022: A Russian court has sentenced in absentia the brother of imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny, Oleg, to one year in prison for violating the terms of a suspended sentence. A district court in Moscow “replaced Oleg Navalny’s suspended sentence … with jail time”, his lawyer Nikos Paraskevov wrote on Twitter on […]
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Sat 19 February 2022: In an effort to keep women safe, the UK police are experimenting with new technology. They’re using SmartWater, a forensic liquid that only glows in the dark when exposed to ultraviolet light. According to a BBC report, this forensic liquid can stay on the skin for up to six weeks, allowing […]
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Sat 19 February 2022: According to a study released Friday by Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy, approximately 3.7 million more American children fell into poverty in January after the 2021 Child Tax Credit expired. Without the monthly payments, the child poverty rate increased from 12.1 percent in December 2021 to 17 percent […]
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Sat 19 February 2022: The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday that the world is not prepared for a new pandemic that could follow the coronavirus and reiterated his view that the narrative that the crisis is over is false. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus remarks were made in an address to the three-day […]
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Sat 19 February 2022: Moscow, Russia – On February 1, Igor, a middle-aged truck driver from Krasnodar posted a video on TikTok of a Russian military convoy cruising down a two-lane road in a rural area. The short clip has gathered a little over 350 views – but it was quickly picked up by hawk-eyed analysts who monitor […]
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Fri 18 February 2022: Police in Ottawa are working to clear the centre of the capital three weeks after protests shut it down. Ottawa police have made nearly two dozen arrests and begun towing vehicles that have blockaded the centre of the Canadian capital for three weeks, as a large contingent of officers moved in […]
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Fri 18 February 2022: Mali’s ruling military junta has demanded that France withdraw its troops from the country as soon as possible and under Malian supervision. In a statement broadcast on public television on Friday, a junta spokesman said the results of France’s nine-year military intervention in conflict-torn Mali were “not satisfactory”. Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga […]
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Fri 18 February 2022: According to Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov, the number of Russian military bases surrounding Ukraine has increased to 149,000. “We are watching the divisions of the Russian troops, which number 129,000. And put together with naval and air components, this figure reaches 149,000,” Oleksiy Reznikov told parliament. Meanwhile, amid Western fears […]
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