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Turkey blocks access to Deutsche Welle, Voice of America for not getting licences

Turkey blocks access to Deutsche Welle, Voice of America for not getting licences

-- 2022-07-01 10:11:14

Turkey's RTUK media watchdog has blocked access to US-based Voice of America and German broadcaster Deutsche Welle for not applying for the licences it requests, a member of the watchdog said on Thu...

Sweden and Finland invited to join NATO

Sweden and Finland invited to join NATO

-- 2022-06-29 19:54:11

NATO invited Sweden and Finland on Wednesday to join the military alliance in one of the biggest shifts in European security in decades after Russia's invasion of Ukraine pushed Helsinki and Stockholm...

Britain sanctions Russian oligarch Vladimir Potanin

Britain sanctions Russian oligarch Vladimir Potanin

-- 2022-06-29 18:36:04

Britain on Wednesday announced sanctions on oligarch Vladimir Potanin, described by London as Russia's second-richest man and who has been buying assets from firms exiting Russia over the invasion of...

Russian missiles rain down on Ukraine as West pledges enduring support

Russian missiles rain down on Ukraine as West pledges enduring support

-- 2022-06-29 16:56:31

Russian forces struck at targets in the Mykolaiv area of southern Ukraine on Wednesday and intensified attacks on fronts across the country as NATO members met in Madrid to plan a course of action aga...

Bulgaria expels 70 Russian diplomatic staff

Bulgaria expels 70 Russian diplomatic staff

-- 2022-06-29 11:03:34

Bulgaria said on Tuesday it was expelling 70 Russian diplomatic staff over espionage concerns and had set a cap on the size of Moscow's representation as tensions between two countries that were once...

European Union received 648,000 asylum applications in 2021

European Union received 648,000 asylum applications in 2021

-- 2022-06-28 20:01:33

The European Union received 648,000 applications last year for international protection, a third more than in 2020, its asylum agency EUAA said on Tuesday, with Syrians and Afghans the main groups of...

More funds, care needed to save world's oceans: UN chief

More funds, care needed to save world's oceans: UN chief

-- 2022-06-27 19:25:40

UN Secretary-General António Guterres appealed to governments and companies on Monday to join the fight to save the world's dying oceans, by committing more funds to help create a sustainable e...

Thousands protest in Madrid against NATO summit

Thousands protest in Madrid against NATO summit

-- 2022-06-27 17:29:32

Thousands of demonstrators rallied in Madrid on Sunday to call for peace and protest against a NATO summit to be held there this week. Social, antimilitarist and pacifist movements from around the wo...

Cost-effective options in this transfer window

Cost-effective options in this transfer window

Mahtab Jamil 2022-06-27 15:17:44

The transfer window is open and lots of activities are going on around the football world. Big money moves are being made by the big clubs, also some smart deals are there.  The modern transfer...

Here's why Manchester United won't make top 4 in the next season

Here's why Manchester United won't make top 4 in the next season

Neel Rahman 2022-06-27 13:53:25

Manchester United fans have not had a good time for quite some time now. Since Sir Alex Ferguson bid goodbye, it has all been a downfall, a continuous careless crumble towards irrelevancy. In the mos...

Russia steps up missile strikes on Ukraine as G7 leaders gather

Russia steps up missile strikes on Ukraine as G7 leaders gather

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-06-27 11:33:55

Russian missiles struck an apartment block and close to a kindergarten in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Sunday, in strikes US President Joe Biden condemned as "barbarism" as world leaders gathered in...

Putin to make first foreign trips since launching Ukraine war

Putin to make first foreign trips since launching Ukraine war

-- 2022-06-27 11:07:27

Vladimir Putin will visit two small former Soviet states in central Asia this week, Russian state television reported on Sunday, in what would be the Russian leader's first known trip abroad since ord...

Putin to make first foreign trip since Ukraine war

Putin to make first foreign trip since Ukraine war

-- 2022-06-26 21:57:11

Vladimir Putin will visit two former Soviet states in central Asia this week, Russian state television reported on Sunday, in what would be the Russian leader's first known trip abroad since war in Uk...

Zelensky says Ukraine will win back lost cities

Zelensky says Ukraine will win back lost cities

-- 2022-06-26 17:29:09

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday said Ukraine would win back all the cities it had lost to Russia, including Sievierodonetsk, and admitted the war was becoming tough to handle emotio...

Ukraine forces ordered to withdraw from key battleground city

Ukraine forces ordered to withdraw from key battleground city

-- 2022-06-25 11:54:59

Ukrainian forces have been ordered to withdraw from the key battleground city of Sievierodonetsk after weeks of fierce street fighting, in order to limit more casualties and regroup, but the move will...

UN chief warns of ‘catastrophe’ due to global food shortage

UN chief warns of ‘catastrophe’ due to global food shortage

-- 2022-06-24 19:50:02

The head of the United Nations warned Friday that the world faces "catastrophe" because of the growing shortage of food around the globe. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the war in Ukraine...

Ukraine says Russian forces ‘fully occupy’ town in Luhansk region

Ukraine says Russian forces ‘fully occupy’ town in Luhansk region

-- 2022-06-24 18:15:40

Ukraine said Russian forces had "fully occupied" a town south of the strategically important city of Lysychansk in the eastern Luhansk region as of Friday, and Moscow claimed it had encircled about 2,...

Happy Birthday Leo Messi: A birthday without a heartbreak!

Happy Birthday Leo Messi: A birthday without a heartbreak!

Ahnaf Wazed Khan 2022-06-24 15:52:16

Every year on the 24th of June, the world agonizingly witnesses one of the greatest footballers ever grow one more year old. The world witnessed the little boy from Rosario, who dazzled everyone with...

Wildfire in southwest Turkey enters third day

Wildfire in southwest Turkey enters third day

-- 2022-06-24 14:03:08

Firefighters sought to contain a wildfire in southwestern Turkey from land and air on Friday as the blaze raged on for a third day, with windy conditions fanning the flames and spreading them through...

EU grants Ukraine candidate status in 'historic moment'

EU grants Ukraine candidate status in 'historic moment'

-- 2022-06-24 09:35:11

Ukraine became a candidate to join the European Union on Thursday, a bold geopolitical step triggered by Russia's invasion that Kyiv and Brussels hailed as an "historic moment", reports Reuters. Star...

Germany accuses Russia of 'economic attack'

Germany accuses Russia of 'economic attack'

-- 2022-06-23 20:41:52

Germany triggered the "alarm stage" of its emergency gas plan on Thursday in response to falling Russian supplies but stopped short of allowing utilities to pass on soaring energy costs to customers i...

Strikes cripple Britain's railways

Strikes cripple Britain's railways

-- 2022-06-23 19:01:33

Strikes crippled Britain's rail network for the second time this week on Thursday as union bosses, train operating firms and the government faced off over demands that workers' pay increases keep pace...

Busquets and Alba are still irreplaceable for Barcelona

Busquets and Alba are still irreplaceable for Barcelona

Mahtab Jamil 2022-06-22 17:45:24

We all remember the domination of the Spain national team and FC Barcelona from 2008-2012. Within this period, Spain won 2 Euros and also the World Cup in 2010.  That team is regarded by many as...

Fifteen killed in Russian strikes on Kharkiv

Fifteen killed in Russian strikes on Kharkiv

-- 2022-06-22 16:51:55

Russian forces pounded Ukraine's second-largest city Kharkiv and the surrounding countryside with rockets, killing at least 15 people, in what Kyiv called a bid to force it to pull resources from the...

Mane to Bayern Munich: A good deal?

Mane to Bayern Munich: A good deal?

Rassiq Aziz Kabir 2022-06-22 14:51:29

Liverpool's Sadio Mane is already in Munich, and according to all the sources, the Bavarian Club has signed the Liverpool veteran for a sum of £27.5 million initially, which is going to rise to...

Lithuania to face 'consequences' for blocking rail shipments, Russia warns

Lithuania to face 'consequences' for blocking rail shipments, Russia warns

-- 2022-06-21 23:25:03

Russia threatened on Tuesday to punish Lithuania with measures that would have a "serious negative impact" for blocking some shipments by rail to Moscow's Baltic Sea enclave of Kaliningrad, the latest...

Sunny Spain's green energy plan leaves needy feeling cold

Sunny Spain's green energy plan leaves needy feeling cold

-- 2022-06-21 19:53:46

Standing by his swimming pool at his home in an affluent Madrid suburb, retired engineer Juan Manuel Cosmes Cuesta enthuses over the 30% state subsidy he will get for installing solar panels that have...

'Arrogant' Macron must compromise to win support, French opposition parties say

'Arrogant' Macron must compromise to win support, French opposition parties say

-- 2022-06-21 19:10:24

France's opposition parties said on Tuesday that an "arrogant" Emmanuel Macron will have to change tack and listen to them to win their support on a case-by-case basis after losing control of parliame...

Ukraine on course for EU candidacy at summit

Ukraine on course for EU candidacy at summit

-- 2022-06-21 18:04:29

Ukraine is set to become an official candidate for European Union membership on Thursday in a symbolic but morale-boosting decision following Russia's invasion, ministers and diplomats said on Tuesday...

Germany investigates ‘anti-competitive restrictions’ on Google Maps

Germany investigates ‘anti-competitive restrictions’ on Google Maps

-- 2022-06-21 17:06:45

Germany's cartel office launched an investigation of Google Germany and parent Alphabet Inc on Tuesday over possible anti-competitive restrictions on the Google Maps platform. "We have information to...