It was the culminating event of a four-day trip planned at the last minute for the purpose of rallying Europe to the cause of standing up to Russia’s military incursion into Ukraine. Speaking before a large and enthusiastic crowd in the Polish capital of Warsaw, US President Joe Biden concluded …
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Belgium, Ireland, the Czech Republic, and the Netherlands are together to expel more than 40 Russian diplomats, having accused them of espionage. Belgium is to send home 21 Russian nationals who worked at Moscow’s embassy in Brussels and its consulate in Antwerp. Officials allege that, while they had all been accredited …
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Eight members of MONUSCO, the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, have died when their helicopter crashed near the border with Rwanda on Tuesday. The Congolese military accused the March 23 Movement militants of shooting down the helicopter, which the rebels denied. MONUSCO said the Pakistani …
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Former President Donald Trump would beat current US leader Joe Biden in a hypothetical 2024 match-up, a new poll has revealed. If the presidential election were held now, Trump would enjoy the support of 47% of Americans while Biden would be trusted by 41% of respondents, the results of a …
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Ruslan Geremeev, a Chechen fighter long suspected of involvement in the 2015 killing of liberal politician Boris Nemtsov, has been wounded during the fighting in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, but is recovering in hospital, the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov revealed on Tuesday. It was Geremeev’s unit …
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The West will not agree to a Russia request to pay gas bills in rubles, French President Emmanuel Macron has told President Vladimir Putin, according to news agency Reuters. Macron told Putin it was impossible for Western clients to pay for gas in Russian currency, the news agency reported on Tuesday, …
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Saudi Arabia has announced a halt to all military operations in Yemen, with the eye of reaching a permanent solution to the conflict in the neighboring country, the spokesman for the Riyadh-led coalition announced on Tuesday evening. Yemen’s Houthi rebels had offered a three-day armistice earlier, which they said could …
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Explosions that lit up the sky south of the Russian city of Belgorod on Tuesday evening were caused by a Ukrainian ballistic missile striking an ammunition depot, Ukrainian sources claimed. While there are no reports of civilian casualties, four Russian soldiers may have been injured in the strike. Video of …
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After publicly appearing to call for the ouster of his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, US President Joe Biden read from a pre-prepared ‘cheat sheet,’ on Monday, in an attempt to assure reporters that he wasn’t actually suggesting regime change in Moscow. However, Biden, whose cognitive health Republicans say is declining, ended up …
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It will take more than a ceasefire in Ukraine for London to lift its sanctions against Russia, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told his cabinet on Tuesday, insisting that Moscow must fully alter its policy towards its neighbor. Pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin “must be increased both through further economic measures …
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