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Willing to discuss resuming Ukrainian grain shipments, reports Putin

Willing to discuss resuming Ukrainian grain shipments, reports Putin

-- 2022-05-28 20:04:50

Russian President Vladimir Putin told the leaders of France and Germany in a phone call on Saturday that Russia was willing to discuss ways to make it possible for Ukraine to resume shipments of grain...

Russian forces blast Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk

Russian forces blast Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk

-- 2022-05-28 19:33:36

Russian forces were assaulting the Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk on Saturday after saying they had captured the nearby rail hub of Lyman as Moscow pressed its offensive in the eastern Donbas. Rus...

Ireland reports first monkeypox case

Ireland reports first monkeypox case

-- 2022-05-28 19:31:28

Ireland has confirmed its first case of monkeypox, the country's health agency said on Saturday. A separate suspected case is also being investigated and test results are awaited, reports Reuters cit...

Russia says Ukrainian town of Lyman is under its full control

Russia says Ukrainian town of Lyman is under its full control

-- 2022-05-28 16:17:58

Russia's defence ministry said on Saturday that the eastern Ukrainian town of Lyman had fallen under the full control of Russian and Russian-backed forces in the region. Pro-Russian separatists from...

Ship to take metal from Mariupol to Russia

Ship to take metal from Mariupol to Russia

-- 2022-05-28 16:03:39

A ship has entered the Ukrainian port of Mariupol for the first time since Russia completed its capture of the city to load metal and ship it east to Russia, TASS news agency reported on Saturday, in...

Russia needs huge financial resources for military operation

Russia needs huge financial resources for military operation

-- 2022-05-28 13:55:54

Russia needs huge financial resources for its military operation in Ukraine, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Friday, putting the amount of budget stimulus for the economy at 8 trillion roubles...

Israeli forces kill Palestinian teenager in West Bank

Israeli forces kill Palestinian teenager in West Bank

-- 2022-05-28 12:25:16

Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank on Friday, the Palestinian health ministry said in a statement. The 15-year-old was shot in his neck and back in the town of...

Trump urges end to gun-free school zones

Trump urges end to gun-free school zones

-- 2022-05-28 10:46:31

Former President Donald Trump on Friday argued the United States should make it easier to confine "deranged" people and eliminate gun-free school zones after a gunman killed 19 children and two teache...

G7 pledges to phase out coal power without fixing date

G7 pledges to phase out coal power without fixing date

-- 2022-05-27 17:30:51

Ministers from the world's richest democracies agreed on Friday to work to phase out coal-powered energy, although they failed to set a date for doing so, and said the energy crunch brought on by the...

Ukraine's richest man plans to sue Russia

Ukraine's richest man plans to sue Russia

-- 2022-05-27 14:09:36

Ukraine's richest man says he plans to sue Russia over what he said was $17 billon to $20 billion in losses caused by its bombardment of steel plants he owns in the devastated city of Mariupol. The A...

Indian author wins Booker Prize

Indian author wins Booker Prize

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-05-27 12:41:44

Geetanjali Shree has become the first Indian writer to win the International Booker Prize, BBC reports. Her novel Tomb of Sand, a family saga set in the shadow of the partition of India, follows an 8...

Security Council split spells end of an era for US-led sanctions on North Korea

Security Council split spells end of an era for US-led sanctions on North Korea

-- 2022-05-27 12:06:34

A decision by China and Russia to veto new United Nations sanctions on North Korea pushed by the United States shattered any veneer of global cooperation, straining efforts to pressure Pyongyang as it...

Iran expects 5.0m tonnes of grain from Russia

Iran expects 5.0m tonnes of grain from Russia

-- 2022-05-26 20:35:46

Iran expects Russia to supply it with 5.0 million tonnes of grain, including some wheat, Iranian Oil Minister Javad Owji told the semi-official Iranian news agency the Young Journalists Club (YJC) on...

Mothers confront horror after 11 babies die in Senegal hospital fire

Mothers confront horror after 11 babies die in Senegal hospital fire

-- 2022-05-26 18:29:06

Diali Kaba's mother woke her up on Thursday morning with terrifying news: there had been a fire at the hospital in their town in Senegal where Kaba's two-week-old daughter was being cared for, and 11...

G-7 nations can lead the way in ending coal use, says Germany

G-7 nations can lead the way in ending coal use, says Germany

-- 2022-05-26 16:49:28

Germany's energy and climate minister said Thursday that the Group of Seven wealthy nations (G-7) can lead the way in ending the use of coal, a heavily polluting fossil fuel that's responsible for a l...

Kashmir sees upsurge in violence after separatist convicted

Kashmir sees upsurge in violence after separatist convicted

-- 2022-05-26 16:29:09

Indian security forces have killed six militants in Kashmir in the past 24 hours while militants shot dead a female TV performer and a police officer, officials said on Thursday, following the convict...

Russia reports destroying Ukraine targets

Russia reports destroying Ukraine targets

-- 2022-05-26 16:08:05

The Russian military says it has destroyed a large Ukrainian unit with equipment at a railway station in the east. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj Gen Igor Konashenkov said Thursday that the R...

Ousted Pakistani PM Khan gives ultimatum for fresh election

Ousted Pakistani PM Khan gives ultimatum for fresh election

-- 2022-05-26 14:07:51

Pakistan's ousted prime minister Imran Khan disbanded a protest march by supporters on Thursday after clashes with police outside parliament the previous evening, but he warned that they would return...

Gunfire at US schools at record high

Gunfire at US schools at record high

-- 2022-05-26 10:25:21

On Tuesday three students were shot and wounded outside an elementary school in Washington DC. A day earlier, three teenagers were shot as they left their high school in Philadelphia. Last week, there...

Senegal president says 11 newborn babies die in hospital fire

Senegal president says 11 newborn babies die in hospital fire

-- 2022-05-26 10:17:58

Senegal's President Macky Sall said on Wednesday that 11 newborn babies died in a fire at the neonatal section of a regional hospital in the town of Tivaouane, around 120 km (74.56 miles) east of the...

Drunkenness, vomiting and a scuffle at UK government lockdown parties

Drunkenness, vomiting and a scuffle at UK government lockdown parties

-- 2022-05-25 21:13:59

A scuffle broke out, one attendee was sick and excessive amounts of alcohol were consumed when workers at Downing Street held a party in the middle of Britain's coronavirus crisis as the rest of the c...

British PM takes responsibility for alcohol-fuelled parties during lockdowns

British PM takes responsibility for alcohol-fuelled parties during lockdowns

-- 2022-05-25 20:17:33

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he took full responsibility after a damning official report on Wednesday detailed a series of illegal alcohol-fuelled parties at the British prime minister's...

Taliban to sign pact with UAE on running Afghan airports

Taliban to sign pact with UAE on running Afghan airports

-- 2022-05-25 19:43:35

The Taliban will sign an agreement with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on operating airports in Afghanistan, the group's acting deputy prime minister said on Tuesday, after months of talks with the UA...

Sri Lanka's prime minister says he will slash expenditure in new budget

Sri Lanka's prime minister says he will slash expenditure in new budget

-- 2022-05-25 19:41:13

Sri Lanka's new Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Tuesday he will present an interim budget within six weeks, slashing infrastructure projects to re-route funds into a two-year relief progra...

India may not lift ban on wheat exports immediately, its minister says

India may not lift ban on wheat exports immediately, its minister says

-- 2022-05-25 19:39:17

India has no immediate plans to lift a ban on wheat exports but will continue with deals which are done directly with other governments, India’s Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal has said. The wor...

Philippines Congress proclaims Marcos as next president

Philippines Congress proclaims Marcos as next president

-- 2022-05-25 19:39:01

A joint session of Philippines Congress on Wednesday declared Ferdinand Marcos Jr, the son and namesake of the notorious late dictator, the winner of this month's election and confirmed he would becom...

India says Modi-Biden talks yield ‘substantive outcomes’

India says Modi-Biden talks yield ‘substantive outcomes’

-- 2022-05-25 19:30:46

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden reached "substantive outcomes" on Tuesday in talks to strengthen their trade and defence ties, India said, though Modi refrained from con...

Deadliest US school shooting in nearly a decade prompts Biden to call for action

Deadliest US school shooting in nearly a decade prompts Biden to call for action

-- 2022-05-25 19:29:19

A gunman murdered 19 children and two teachers in the deadliest US school shooting for nearly a decade, prompting President Joe Biden to urge Americans to confront the country's gun lobby and pressure...

Russia ready to set up corridor for ships leaving Ukraine with food

Russia ready to set up corridor for ships leaving Ukraine with food

-- 2022-05-25 19:26:38

Russia is ready to provide a humanitarian corridor for vessels carrying food to leave Ukraine, in return for the lifting of some sanctions, the Interfax news agency cited Russian Deputy Foreign Minist...

China wants 10 small Pacific nations to endorse sweeping agreement 

China wants 10 small Pacific nations to endorse sweeping agreement 

-- 2022-05-25 18:56:40

China wants 10 small Pacific nations to endorse a sweeping agreement covering everything from security to fisheries in what one leader warns is a “game-changing” bid by Beijing to wrest co...