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Pelosi meets Ukraine president in Kyiv

Pelosi meets Ukraine president in Kyiv

-- 2022-05-01 16:16:00

US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday said she had met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv to send the message that the United States stands firmly with Ukraine as...

Carlo Ancelotti deserves all the praise for Real Madrid's league triumph

Carlo Ancelotti deserves all the praise for Real Madrid's league triumph

Rassiq Aziz Kabir 2022-05-01 13:38:37

With a 4-0 win over Espanyol, Real Madrid have clinched their 35th La Liga Title. The manager, Carlo Ancelotti has also been part of a phenomenal record. He has become the only manager to win all of t...

Mariupol civilians leave besieged Azovstal steelworks

Mariupol civilians leave besieged Azovstal steelworks

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-05-01 11:09:19

A group of about 20 civilians has left the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, the final part of the southern city still in the hands of Ukrainian troops. They are the first group to leave since Russian...

Russian missiles target Ukraine's east, south; some civilians leave Mariupol plant

Russian missiles target Ukraine's east, south; some civilians leave Mariupol plant

-- 2022-05-01 09:37:50

Russia pounded southern and eastern Ukraine with missile strikes on Saturday, Ukrainian officials said, while some women and children evacuated a steel plant in the besieged city of Mariupol where the...

Dominant Real Madrid take home 35th La Liga title

Dominant Real Madrid take home 35th La Liga title

Mahtab Jamil 2022-05-01 03:18:20

Real Madrid have secured their 35th La Liga title with a 4-0 win over Espanyol.  The season has been a stellar one for Real Madrid where they outclassed their domestic rivals by a great margin.&...

British MP resigns after watching porn in parliament

British MP resigns after watching porn in parliament

-- 2022-04-30 20:03:46

Neil Parish, a Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom, has said he has decided to resign as an MP after admitting he watched pornography twice in the House of Commons. The MP for Tiverton and Hon...

Ukraine says Russia pounding Donbas, failing to take targets

Ukraine says Russia pounding Donbas, failing to take targets

-- 2022-04-30 19:15:00

Russian forces pounded Ukraine's eastern Donbas region on Saturday but failed to capture three target areas, Ukraine's military said, while Moscow said Western sanctions on Russia and arms shipments t...

Britain says Russia forced to merge, redeploy depleted units

Britain says Russia forced to merge, redeploy depleted units

-- 2022-04-30 13:27:34

Russia has been forced to merge and redeploy depleted and disparate units from failed advances in northeast Ukraine, a British military update said on Saturday. "Shortcomings in Russian tactical coor...

Ukraine warns talks with Russia may collapse as battles rage in east

Ukraine warns talks with Russia may collapse as battles rage in east

-- 2022-04-30 13:08:27

Ukraine warned on Friday that peace talks with Moscow were in danger of collapse and said Russia was pounding areas in the east as US lawmakers vowed to swiftly approve a massive new weapons package f...

Lifting sanctions against Russia part of peace talks with Ukraine, Lavrov says

Lifting sanctions against Russia part of peace talks with Ukraine, Lavrov says

-- 2022-04-30 10:33:56

Lifting sanctions imposed on Russia is part of peace negotiations between Moscow and Ukraine, which are "difficult" but continue daily, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in remarks published...

UN head condemns attacks on civilians during Ukraine visit

UN head condemns attacks on civilians during Ukraine visit

-- 2022-04-30 08:55:09

KYIV (Ukraine): The head of the United Nations said Ukraine has become "an epicentre of unbearable heartache and pain" - a description underscored a short time later by the first Russian strike on t...

Britain to send investigators to Ukraine to gather evidence of war crimes

Britain to send investigators to Ukraine to gather evidence of war crimes

-- 2022-04-29 21:55:28

Britain will send investigators to Ukraine to help gather evidence of war crimes, including sexual violence, its foreign minister said on Friday. Both Ukrainian prosecutors and the International Crim...

Russia makes some overdue debt payments in dollars

Russia makes some overdue debt payments in dollars

-- 2022-04-29 21:28:07

Russia has made a number of already-overdue international debt payments in dollars despite previously vowing they would only be paid in roubles. Whether the money would make it to the United States a...

More than 3,000 people lost in sea crossings to Europe in 2021

More than 3,000 people lost in sea crossings to Europe in 2021

-- 2022-04-29 20:08:21

More than 3,000 refugees, migrants and asylum seekers died or went missing last year while trying to reach Europe via the Mediterranean and Atlantic sea routes. UN refugee agency gave the information...

Russia kills Radio Liberty journalist in missile attack on Kyiv

Russia kills Radio Liberty journalist in missile attack on Kyiv

-- 2022-04-29 18:31:43

Russia killed a journalist from the US-backed broadcaster Radio Liberty in a missile attack on Kyiv during a visit to the Ukrainian capital by the secretary-general of the United Nations, the broadcas...

We have serious losses but Russia's losses are much bigger: Ukraine

We have serious losses but Russia's losses are much bigger: Ukraine

-- 2022-04-29 18:06:28

Ukraine acknowledged on Friday it was taking heavy losses in Russia's assault in the east, but said Russia's losses were even worse, as US President Joe Biden called on Congress to send as much as $33...

Blasts hit Kyiv during UN chief’s visit

Blasts hit Kyiv during UN chief’s visit

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-04-29 09:59:37

Russia fired two missiles into Kyiv on Thursday during a visit by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, Ukrainian officials said, as Moscow pressed an assault in the east that drew new US pledges of...

Swedish PM rejects referendum on possible NATO membership

Swedish PM rejects referendum on possible NATO membership

-- 2022-04-29 09:41:24

Sweden's government does not plan to hold a referendum if its parliament decides to proceed with an application for NATO membership, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said on Friday. Russia's invasi...

NATO says it is ready to support Ukraine for years in war against Russia

NATO says it is ready to support Ukraine for years in war against Russia

-- 2022-04-28 20:33:11

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday the organisation is ready to maintain its support for Ukraine in the war against Russia for years, including help for Kyiv to shift from Soviet...

Russian spy chief says US, Poland plotting division of Ukraine

Russian spy chief says US, Poland plotting division of Ukraine

-- 2022-04-28 20:23:38

Russia's foreign spy chief accused the United States and Poland on Thursday of plotting to gain a sphere of influence in Ukraine, the strongest signal from Moscow that the war could end with forced pa...

Russia halts gas supplies to Bulgaria, Poland for rejecting demand for rouble payment

Russia halts gas supplies to Bulgaria, Poland for rejecting demand for rouble payment

-- 2022-04-27 17:20:08

Russia halted gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland on Wednesday for rejecting its demand to pay in roubles, taking direct aim at European economies in its toughest retaliation so far against internatio...

Russia cuts gas to Poland in what Ukraine condemns as 'gas blackmail'

Russia cuts gas to Poland in what Ukraine condemns as 'gas blackmail'

-- 2022-04-27 09:16:46

Russia halted gas supplies to Poland under the Yamal contract on Wednesday, data from the European Union network of gas transmission operators showed, in a deepening of the rift between the West and R...

8.3m people will flee Ukraine this year, UNHCR predicts

8.3m people will flee Ukraine this year, UNHCR predicts

-- 2022-04-26 16:08:45

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) is expecting some 8.3 million people to flee Ukraine this year, revising up its previous projection, a spokesperson said on Tuesday. More than 12.7 million people have f...

Russia warns 'serious' nuclear war risks should not be underestimated

Russia warns 'serious' nuclear war risks should not be underestimated

-- 2022-04-26 09:10:49

Russia told the world not to underestimate the considerable risks of nuclear war that it said it wanted to reduce and warned that conventional Western weapons were legitimate targets in Ukraine, where...

Three NATO warships reach Finland for two-day training exercise

Three NATO warships reach Finland for two-day training exercise

-- 2022-04-25 20:53:23

Three NATO warships reached the southwestern Finnish port of Turku on Monday to train with Finland's navy as Helsinki considers the possibility of joining the US-led alliance amid increased tensions w...

Main spy agency foiled West’s plot to kill Russian journalist, says Putin   

Main spy agency foiled West’s plot to kill Russian journalist, says Putin  

-- 2022-04-25 19:25:18

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday said his main spy agency had foiled what he cast as a Western plot to kill a prominent Russian journalist. "This morning, the Federal Security Service stopp...

Top US officials visit Kyiv, promise to reopen embassy in Ukraine soon

Top US officials visit Kyiv, promise to reopen embassy in Ukraine soon

-- 2022-04-25 17:19:42

The United States promised on Monday to reopen its embassy in Kyiv soon, as Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Ukraine's capital and hailed its success so far...

Five railway stations come under fire in Ukraine, casualties reported

Five railway stations come under fire in Ukraine, casualties reported

-- 2022-04-25 15:24:26

Five railway stations came under fire in western and central Ukraine on Monday, causing an unspecified number of casualties, Ukrainian television quoted state-run Ukrainian Railways as saying. Oleksa...

Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp - pioneering the modern day managerial rivalry

Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp - pioneering the modern day managerial rivalry

Tofael Mahmud 2022-04-25 15:08:14

Remember the fierce rivalry between Arsenal and Manchester United that spanned nearly one decade?  Remember the magicians in the dugout—Arsene Wenger and Alex Ferguson — probably the...

Large fire at oil depot in Russia's Bryansk, near Ukraine

Large fire at oil depot in Russia's Bryansk, near Ukraine

-- 2022-04-25 15:01:42

A large fire broke out early on Monday at an oil storage facility in the Russian city of Bryansk, the emergencies ministry said, adding that no one was injured. There was no immediate indication that...