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Serie A is back to its glory days

Serie A is back to its glory days

Mahtab Jamil 2022-04-06 16:32:30

Amidst all the drama and excitement of Premier League and La Liga, the top 4 race in Serie A is also picking up the pace.  If we look at the points table, Serie A is having the most competitive...

US and its allies ready new Russia sanctions

US and its allies ready new Russia sanctions

-- 2022-04-06 09:54:54

The United States and its allies on Wednesday prepared new sanctions on Moscow over civilian killings in northern Ukraine, which President Volodymyr Zelensky described as "war crimes" demanding commen...

Zelensky urges UN to reform its system to strip Russia of its veto

Zelensky urges UN to reform its system to strip Russia of its veto

-- 2022-04-05 21:44:33

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged the United Nations to act and reform its system which gives Security Council permanent member Russia a veto. In an address to the United Nations Secur...

War in Ukraine displaces over 7.1m people

War in Ukraine displaces over 7.1m people

-- 2022-04-05 19:16:57

Over 7.1 million people have been internally displaced since the invasion of Ukraine, according to the second Ukraine Internal Displacement Report issued by the International Organization for Migratio...

Italy expels 30 Russian diplomats, Moscow set to retaliate

Italy expels 30 Russian diplomats, Moscow set to retaliate

-- 2022-04-05 18:52:51

Italy has expelled 30 Russian diplomats because of security concerns, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Tuesday, and Russia was set to retaliate. A number of other Western governments have taken...

France pushing for energy sanctions against Russia

France pushing for energy sanctions against Russia

-- 2022-04-05 17:12:42

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said Tuesday that there is a “total determination” from all 27 European Union countries for sanctions against Russia that could target oil and coal o...

Turkey, US ready for attempt at improving strained ties

Turkey, US ready for attempt at improving strained ties

-- 2022-04-05 15:11:20

Turkey and the United States announced the culmination of months of talks to set up a procedure for improving their strained ties, eyeing cooperation in the areas of economy and defence. Ministerial...

Zelenskyy to address UN amid outrage over civilian deaths

Zelenskyy to address UN amid outrage over civilian deaths

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-05 12:03:56

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy planned to speak Tuesday to UN Security Council diplomats outraged by growing evidence that Russian forces have deliberated killed civilians, many of them shot...

US, Europe plan new sanctions on Russia

US, Europe plan new sanctions on Russia

-- 2022-04-05 09:51:11

The United States and Europe were planning new sanctions on Tuesday to punish Moscow over civilian killings in Ukraine, and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned more deaths were likely to be uncovered...

Global outcry at ‘war crime’ killings near Kyiv as frontline shifts

Global outcry at ‘war crime’ killings near Kyiv as frontline shifts

-- 2022-04-04 21:48:53

Global outrage spread on Monday at civilian killings in north Ukraine where a mass grave and tied bodies shot at close range were found in a town taken back from Russian troops, as Moscow shifted the...

UNGA should remove Russia from Human Rights Council, say US

UNGA should remove Russia from Human Rights Council, say US

-- 2022-04-04 20:51:50

The United States will ask the UN General Assembly to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council, the US ambassador to the United Nations said on Monday, after Ukraine accused Russian troops of kill...

Russia to resume flights with 52 'friendly' countries

Russia to resume flights with 52 'friendly' countries

-- 2022-04-04 20:32:36

Russia plans to end restrictions on flights to and from 52 countries after April 9, part of its plans to reduce measures taken to slow the spread of Covid-19, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on...

Russia introduces visa restrictions for citizens of ‘unfriendly countries’

Russia introduces visa restrictions for citizens of ‘unfriendly countries’

-- 2022-04-04 19:41:06

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday introducing visa restrictions for citizens of countries that Moscow deems "unfriendly" in response to sanctions over Ukraine. The decree, wh...

Kremlin condemns Polish comments on readiness to host nuclear weapons

Kremlin condemns Polish comments on readiness to host nuclear weapons

-- 2022-04-04 16:28:32

Kremlin condemns Polish comments on readiness to host nuclear weapons The Kremlin on Monday condemned comments by the leader of Poland's ruling party, who said Warsaw would be open to having US nuclea...

Barcelona's resurgence makes La Liga title race interesting

Barcelona's resurgence makes La Liga title race interesting

Mahtab Jamil 2022-04-04 15:44:31

Last night’s match between Barcelona and Sevilla at Camp Nou was a crucial tie at the business end of the season. Before the start of the match, Sevilla were sitting 2nd in the La Liga table and...

Germany says West to agree more Russia sanctions after Bucha killings

Germany says West to agree more Russia sanctions after Bucha killings

-- 2022-04-04 10:09:48

Germany said on Sunday that the West would agree to impose more sanctions on Russia in the coming days after Ukraine accused Russian forces of war crimes near Kyiv, ratcheting up the already vast econ...

Ukrainian forces retake areas near Kyiv amid fear of traps

Ukrainian forces retake areas near Kyiv amid fear of traps

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-03 10:07:29

Ukrainian troops moved cautiously to retake territory north of the country’s capital on Saturday, using cables to pull the bodies of civilians off streets of one town out of fear that Russian fo...

Ukrainian photographer and Reuters contributor, Maksim Levin, killed covering war

Ukrainian photographer and Reuters contributor, Maksim Levin, killed covering war

-- 2022-04-02 19:52:58

Maksim Levin, a photographer and videographer who was working for a Ukrainian news website and was a long-time contributor to Reuters, was killed while covering Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He leaves...

Pope Francis criticises Putin for the first time

Pope Francis criticises Putin for the first time

-- 2022-04-02 18:13:05

Pope Francis came the closest he has yet to implicitly criticising President Vladimir Putin over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, saying on Saturday a "potentate" was fomenting conflicts for nationalist...

Russian missiles strike several Ukrainian cities

Russian missiles strike several Ukrainian cities

-- 2022-04-02 17:26:42

Russian missiles hit two cities in central Ukraine early on Saturday, damaging infrastructure and residential buildings, the head of the Poltava region said. "Poltava. A missile struck one of the inf...

Space cooperation likely only after Western sanctions are lifted: Russia

Space cooperation likely only after Western sanctions are lifted: Russia

-- 2022-04-02 15:16:44

Russia's space director said on Saturday that the restoration of normal ties between partners at the International Space Station (ISS) and other joint space projects would be possible only once Wester...

Can Real Madrid hold on to their lead?

Can Real Madrid hold on to their lead?

Mashfiq Mizan 2022-04-02 11:56:57

Table-toppers Real Madrid will return to LaLiga evening today at Balaidos when they take on Celta Viga. Celta are always a team to beat led by Iago Aspas, as they showed Real at the Santiago Bernabeu...

Red Cross heads again for Mariupol as Russia shifts Ukraine focus

Red Cross heads again for Mariupol as Russia shifts Ukraine focus

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-02 11:35:26

Mariupol, encircled since the early days of Russia's five-week-old invasion, has been Moscow's main target in Ukraine's southeastern region of Donbas. Tens of thousands there are trapped with scant ac...

Moscow says Ukraine hit a fuel depot inside Russia

Moscow says Ukraine hit a fuel depot inside Russia

-- 2022-04-01 19:39:21

Russia accused Ukraine of carrying out an air strike against a fuel depot in the Russian city of Belgorod on Friday, an incident the Kremlin said set an unfavourable tone for peace talks with Kyiv. U...

Turkey working to bring together Ukrainian, Russian foreign ministers again for talks

Turkey working to bring together Ukrainian, Russian foreign ministers again for talks

-- 2022-03-31 14:37:06

Turkey is working to bring together the Ukrainian and Russian foreign ministers for talks after hosting peace negotiations in Istanbul this week, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday, ad...

Turkish prosecutor asks court to halt trial of Saudi suspects in Khashoggi killing

Turkish prosecutor asks court to halt trial of Saudi suspects in Khashoggi killing

-- 2022-03-31 13:32:28

A Turkish prosecutor asked a court on Thursday to halt the trial in absentia of Saudi suspects over the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, and transfer the...

Ukraine preparing for new Russian attacks in the east, says Zelenskiy

Ukraine preparing for new Russian attacks in the east, says Zelenskiy

-- 2022-03-31 10:48:00

Ukrainian forces are preparing for new Russian attacks in the east of the country as Moscow builds up its troops there after suffering setbacks near the capital Kyiv, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy sai...

Putin demands complete surrender of Mariupol to end shelling

Putin demands complete surrender of Mariupol to end shelling

-- 2022-03-30 22:31:31

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that shelling of the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol will only end when Ukrainian troops surrender. Vladimir Putin made the comments during an hour long...

Russia increases intensity of strikes despite promise to scale back: Ukraine city mayor

Russia increases intensity of strikes despite promise to scale back: Ukraine city mayor

-- 2022-03-30 21:51:13

Russian forces bombarded the outskirts of Kyiv and a besieged city in northern Ukraine on Wednesday, a day after promising to scale down operations there in what the West dismissed as a ploy to regrou...

UK lawmaker plans to change his gender identity

UK lawmaker plans to change his gender identity

-- 2022-03-30 17:52:46

A lawmaker in Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party said on Wednesday he planned to change his gender identity to become Britain's first openly transgender member of parliament, a decision...