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Kyiv eases curfew as strikes continue

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko on Monday announced a slight easing of the curfew in the Ukrainian capital. In a post on his Facebook account, Klitschko said: “Friends! Important information! Curfew is changing in Kyiv and the region. As of today, March...

Ukraine war is our war, say Brit ex-squaddies heading to Lviv

The road to war for CJ, Elliott and Kieran ran through Facebook, a cheap flight to Poland, and a cold night sleeping outside a railway station. We meet the former British soldiers in Ukraine just outside a school, a couple...

First phase of Ukraine war over – Russia

Russia says it will focus its invasion of Ukraine on “liberating” the east, signalling a possible shift in its strategy. The defence ministry said that the initial aims of the war were complete, and that Russia had reduced the combat...

Blinken: No regime change plans for Russian

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has denied that the United States has any plans to bring about regime change in Russia or anywhere else. Mr Blinken’s comments come a day after President Joe Biden said his Russian counterpart, Vladimir...

Russian shelling blamed for corrosive gas leak

Russian shells hit a chemical plant near the north-eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy, causing an ammonia leak, officials say. Residents of Novoselytsya, near Sumy, were told to stay indoors but the region’s governor, Dmytro Zhyvytskyy, later said the leak had...

Chinese plane carrying 132 people crashes in hills

A Chinese passenger plane with 132 people on board has crashed in a forested hillside in southern China. The China Eastern Airlines, Boeing 737-800, was flying from Kunming to Guangzhou when it plunged to earth in Guangxi province and caught...

‘Myanmar Rohingya violence is genocide’

The Biden administration has declared that Myanmar’s military has committed genocide against the Rohingya minority. The US has seen evidence pointing to a clear intent to destroy the Rohingya, with reports of killings, mass rape and arson, Secretary of State...

Russia batters Ukraine; both sides say ready for more talks

JIM HEINTZ, YURAS KARMANAU, VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and DASHA LITVINOVAWed, March 2, 2022, 5:13 AM·7 min readIn this article: Volodymyr Zelenskyy6th President of Ukraine KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia renewed its assault Wednesday on Ukraine’s second-largest city in a pounding that lit...

Ukrainian sailor tried to sink Russia’s yacht

A Ukrainian sailor has admitted trying to sink a yacht owned by the head of a Russian state arms firm in retaliation to the invasion of Ukraine. The 48m (157ft) Lady Anastasia, which belongs to Rosoboronexport director general, Alexander Mikheev,...

Anger at treatment of Africans fleeing Ukraine

Nigeria’s government has condemned reports that its citizens, and those of other African countrieshave been stopped from leaving war-torn Ukraine. Isaac, a Nigerian man trying to get into Poland, said border staff told him they were “not tending to Africans”. “We’ve...
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“NAPO Suggests Halting Parliamentary Business if Ablakwa’s Agenda Is Irrelevant.”

Manhyia South MP, Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has suggested that Parliament should halt all legislative business if the National Democratic...
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