BBC News: Ukraine’s President Zelensky said he has “good news”, claiming the recapture of several settlements from Russia. Rumours have swirled for days about a possible breakthrough in the eastern Kharkiv region, but with no word from Ukrainian officials. Mr Zelensky declined to name which places had been retaken, saying that “now is not the […]
Reuters: KYIV -A Ukrainian presidential adviser said on Wednesday that Russia had no grounds to review the landmark deal allowing Ukraine to export grain from ports in the Black Sea and that the terms of the wartime agreement were being strictly observed. Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, made the comments to […]
Reuters: VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, Sept 7 – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday repeated his assertion that the Ukrainian government is an “illegitimate regime,” saying it was founded after a “coup” in 2014. Speaking at an economic forum in the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok, Putin also rejected claims that Russia had violated international law.
Reuters: PINGTUNG, Taiwan, Sept 7 – Tanks pounded targets and fighter jets roared overhead on Wednesday as Taiwan’s military carried out its latest combat drills after weeks of sabre-rattling by giant neighbour China. China, which claims democratically ruled Taiwan as its own territory, has been holding exercises around the island since a visit to Taipei […]
Reuters: SEHWAN, Pakistan, Sept 7 – Eighteen more people have died in Pakistan, authorities said on Wednesday, taking to 1,343 the toll in unprecedented floods that have inundated more than a third of the South Asian nation, making hundreds of thousands homeless. As many as 33 million of a population of 220 million have been […]
ABC News: LONDON — Liz Truss became U.K. prime minister on Tuesday and immediately confronted the enormous task ahead of her amid increasing pressure to curb soaring prices, ease labor unrest and fix a health care system burdened by long waiting lists and staff shortages. At the top of her in-box is the energy crisis […]
ABC News: BERLIN — Russia sent significantly more oil and coal to India and China over the summer compared with the start of the year, while European countries that long relied on Russian energy have cut back sharply in response to the war in Ukraine, said a report published Tuesday. The Centre for Research on […]
BBC News: Russia has been forced to buy military hardware from North Korea as sanctions squeeze Moscow’s ability to supply its military, US media have reported. According to declassified intelligence obtained by the New York Times, Russia has bought millions of artillery shells and rockets from Pyongyang. A US official said Russia would be forced […]
Reuters: KYIV, Sept 6 – The U.N. nuclear watchdog is due to issue a report on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in Ukraine on Tuesday, a day after shelling cut its electricity supplies for the second time in two weeks and raised fears of a catastrophe. Ukraine and Russia have accused each other of risking […]
India Today: India’s ‘Silicon Valley’, Bengaluru, came to a standstill on Monday after torrential rains submerged arterial roads, inundated apartment complexes and homes, snapped power lines and jammed traffic. As overflowing lakes and stormwater drains inundated low-lying areas, boats and tractors were pressed into service to ferry techies and students to their workplaces and schools, […]
