Two British warships to head for Black Sea in May
TASS :Two British warships will sail for the Black Sea in May. According to The Sunday Times, a source in the Royal Navy indicated that this gesture is intended to show solidarity with Ukraine...
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Czechs expel 18 Russian envoys, over ammunition depot blast
Reuters :The Czech Republic is expelling 18 Russian diplomats over suspicions that Russian intelligence services were involved in an ammunition depot explosion in 2014, its government said on Saturday.The central European country is a...
Worldwide Covid-19 death toll tops 3 million
AP :The global death toll from the coronavirus topped a staggering 3 million people Saturday amid repeated setbacks in the worldwide vaccination campaign and a deepening crisis in places such as Brazil, India and...
France changes child rape law
Reuters :The French parliament has adopted legislation that characterises sex with a child under the age of 15 as rape and punishable by up to 20 years in jail, bringing its penal code closer...
US sues Trump ally Roger Stone for evading taxes
Reuters :The US Department of Justice on Friday sued Roger Stone, saying the close ally of former president Donald Trump owes about $2 million in unpaid federal income taxes, according to a court document...
Czech protesters show naked Putin effigy in Prague
Reuters :The demonstrators, from protest group Kaputin, were demanding the release from prison of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny and denounced the build-up of Russian troops near Ukraine’s eastern border.The protesters added a mock golden...
Navalny at growing risk of kidney failure
Reuters :Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is at increasing risk of kidney failure and his vision is deteriorating after more than two weeks on hunger strike, a medical trade union with ties to the...
40 migrants drown in shipwreck off Tunisia
Reuters :At least 40 migrants drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, United Nations and Tunisian officials said on Friday.The Tunisian coastguard had so far recovered...
Myanmar junta leader set to join ASEAN summit
AFP :Junta leader General Min Aung Hlaing is set to join Southeast Asian leaders at a special summit in Jakarta next week, the Thai foreign ministry said on Saturday, in what will be the...
As Biden improves with vets, Afghanistan plan a plus to some
AP :Patrick Proctor Brown says the war in Afghanistan was lost within a year of its start. The suburban Milwaukee lawyer, who was an infantry captain in Iraq, said the trillions of dollars spent...
Castro era in Cuba to end as Raul confirms he’s retiring
Reuters :Raul Castro confirmed he was handing over the leadership of the Cuban Communist Party to a younger generation at its congress that kicked off on Friday, ending six decades of rule by himself...
Iran starts enriching uranium at 60%, its highest level ever
Al jazeera :Iran’s nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi says Tehran has started 60 percent uranium enrichment at Natanz nuclear facility, days after an explosion at the site that Tehran blamed on Israel.“We are now...