Foreign policy
Russian defence minister tells Putin Ukraine’s Luhansk region has been ‘liberated’
A Ukrainian soldier on a destroyed Russian tank on the frontline in Luhansk oblast, Ukraine, on June 09, 2022. Diego Herrera Carcedo | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu informed President Vladimir Putin that all of Ukraine’s Luhansk region had been “liberated” by Russian and separatist forces, the defence ministry said […]
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Blasts kill three in Russian city near border; Ukraine concedes last eastern bastian could fall
At least three people were killed and dozens of homes damaged in the Russian city of Belgorod near the Ukraine border, the regional governor said on Sunday, as Kyiv acknowledged it could lose its last big bastion in eastern Ukraine to Kremlin forces. Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov reported a number of blasts in the city of […]
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Russia’s messages with missiles tell West to back off
The latest in a litany of horrors in Ukraine came this week as Russian firepower rained down on civilians in a busy shopping mall far from the front lines of a war in its fifth month. The timing was not likely a coincidence. While much of the attritional war in Ukraine’s east is hidden from sight, the […]
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Blasts rock Ukraine’s Mykolaiv after Russian missiles kill 21 near Odesa
An aerial view of rescue workers carrying out operations after the Russian missile attacks where a number of people died in Serhiivka district of Odessa, Ukraine on July 1, 2022. Anadolu Agency | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Powerful explosions rocked the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv early on Saturday, the mayor said, a day after […]
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Russia says iron curtain is ‘already descending’; Biden pledges to stick with Ukraine for ‘as long as it takes’
Russian trial for American basketball player Brittney Griner begins American basketball player Brittney Griner (pictured here at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games) was accused by Russian authorities of having cannabis oil in her luggage and smuggling the narcotic material, a crime that could draw a 10-year jail sentence. Jean Catuffe | Getty Images American basketball […]
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U.S. takes enforcement action against trust over interest held by Russian oligarch
Russian billionaire, businessman and Council of the Federation Member Suleyman Kerimov attends a meeting on April 14, 2021 in Russia. Mikhail Svetlov | Getty Images The United States on Thursday took enforcement action imposing restrictions against Delaware-based Heritage Trust on the grounds that sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov holds a property interest, the Treasury Department […]
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Israel votes to dissolve parliament, collapsing government and triggering fifth election in three years
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen during the the 2016 Genesis Prize award-ceremony in Jerusalem, June 23, 2016. Amir Cohen | Reuters DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — In what now feels like a familiar story, Israel’s government has collapsed after the Parliament, or Knesset, voted on Thursday to dissolved itself. This paves the way for […]
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‘Everything was going fine between us’ Putin says of NATO expansion; war grinds on in Ukraine with one city under ‘constant shelling’
City of Lysychansk under ‘constant shelling’ as battle rages to control wider region Ukrainian soldiers in the eastern Luhansk region on June 23, 2022. On Wednesday, Serhiy Haidai, the governor of the Luhansk region where the fighting is most severe, said that the city of Lysychansk is under “constant shelling.” Anatolii Stepanov | Afp | […]
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NATO deal between Turkey, Sweden and Finland brings home wins for Erdogan — and a possible F-16 breakthrough
Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan holds a news conference during the NATO summit at the Alliance’s headquarters in Brussels, Belgium June 14, 2021. Yves Herman | Reuters NATO officials on Tuesday celebrated Turkey’s lifting of its veto against Sweden and Finland joining the transatlantic alliance, a move that brought the Nordic states one step closer to […]
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Europe’s plans to replace Russian gas are deemed ‘wildly optimistic’ — and could hammer its economy
A drilling rig at a gas processing facility, operated by Gazprom. Maxim Shemetov | Reuters The European Union’s best shot at replacing Russian gas imports this year is likely to miss the mark, analysts predict, exerting further pressure on the region’s economy. The EU plans to replace two-thirds of Russian gas imports by the end […]
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