Reuters: KYIV, April 27 – One person was killed and 23 people, including a child, were wounded in a Russian missile strike on an apartment block and houses in the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv in the early hours of Thursday, officials said. “At night, Russia bombarded Mykolaiv with four Kalibr missiles launched from the […]
Al Jazeera: Chinese President Xi Jinping has spoken to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the first time since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with Beijing saying it wanted to send an envoy to Kyiv to serve as a mediator to pursue a “political settlement”. The phone call on Wednesday lasted nearly an hour […]
Reuters: HELSINKI, April 26 – Russia seized temporary control of assets of Finnish energy group Fortum and its former German subsidiary Uniper, sowing confusion over the fate of other Western companies in Russia as pressure grows to hit Moscow with more sanctions over Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin late on Tuesday signed a decree establishing temporary […]
BBC News: The World Health Organization has said that a batch of contaminated India-made cough syrup has been found in the Marshall Islands and Micronesia. The WHO said that the tested samples of Guaifenesin TG syrup, made by Punjab-based QP Pharmachem Ltd, showed “unacceptable amounts of diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol”. Both compounds are toxic […]
NDTV: Singapore on Wednesday hanged a prisoner convicted of conspiracy to smuggle one kilogram of cannabis, authorities said, ignoring international calls for the city-state to abolish capital punishment. The execution took place despite a plea by the United Nations Human Rights Office for Singapore to “urgently reconsider” the hanging and calls by British tycoon Richard […]
Reuters: TAIPEI, April 26 – Taiwan’s annual Han Kuang military drills this year will focus on combating a blockade of the island and preserving the fighting ability of its forces, taking into account China’s recent war games, the defence ministry said on Wednesday. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has ramped […]
BBC News: The Islamic State group mastermind thought to have planned the devastating 2021 bombing at Kabul airport has been killed by Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban, US officials say. The bombing that August killed 170 civilians and 13 US soldiers as people were trying to flee the country as the Taliban took control. The IS figure […]
BBC News: Ukraine says it is rapidly increasing its production of drones as demand grows on the front line. The government has relaxed import laws and scrapped taxes for drone parts and equipment. The expansion is being funded by a successful fundraising campaign called the Army of Drones. More than $108m (£87m) has been raised […]
Reuters: April 25 – Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak wants to make a deal with the European Union to make it easier for Britons to travel to the bloc, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Sunak is hoping to build on improved relations with the EU to reach an agreement […]
Reuters: WASHINGTON, April 25 – About half of U.S. Democrats say President Joe Biden should not seek re-election next year and that he is too old to run, a worrisome sign for the 80-year-old, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found. The three-day opinion poll completed on Monday, a day before he announced his re-election bid, showed an […]