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300 dead in Russian airstrike on theatre in Mariupol 

300 dead in Russian airstrike on theatre in Mariupol 

-- 2022-03-25 17:17:28

About 300 people died in a Russian airstrike last week on a theater being used as a bomb shelter in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol, the city’s government said Friday, citing eyewitnesse...

No-confidence motion against Imran Khan adjourned till Monday

No-confidence motion against Imran Khan adjourned till Monday

-- 2022-03-25 16:32:30

The speaker of Pakistan's parliament adjourned a motion of no-confidence against Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday, provoking opposition accusations he was buying time for the ex-cricketer to muster...

India presses China for early, complete disengagement of troops in Ladakh

India presses China for early, complete disengagement of troops in Ladakh

-- 2022-03-25 15:53:37

India sees the complete disengagement of Chinese and Indian troops facing off on a remote stretch of their border as key to better relations, two sources in New Delhi said after China's foreign minist...

US assesses up to 60pc failure rate for some Russian missiles

US assesses up to 60pc failure rate for some Russian missiles

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-03-25 14:17:11

The United States assesses that Russia is suffering failure rates as high as 60 per cent for some of the precision-guided missiles it is using to attack Ukraine, three US officials with knowledge of t...

Western sanctions won't sway Kremlin, says Russia's former president Medvedev

Western sanctions won't sway Kremlin, says Russia's former president Medvedev

-- 2022-03-25 13:50:33

It is "foolish" to believe that Western sanctions against Russian businesses could have any effect on the Moscow government, Russian ex-president and deputy head of security council Dmitry Medvedev wa...

Chinese foreign minister to meet Indian counterpart in New Delhi

Chinese foreign minister to meet Indian counterpart in New Delhi

-- 2022-03-25 13:04:52

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will meet his Indian counterpart in New Delhi on Friday, India's foreign ministry said, after he arrived in the city unannounced in the first such visit since deadly b...

West assails Russian 'barbarism' as Ukrainians shelter from bombardment

West assails Russian 'barbarism' as Ukrainians shelter from bombardment

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-03-25 10:37:06

Western leaders piled on military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine on Thursday and denounced Moscow's invasion of its neighbour as "barbarism" as thousands in besieged cities sheltered underground fro...

US to welcome up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees

US to welcome up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees

-- 2022-03-25 10:21:05

The United States plans to accept up to 100,000 Ukrainians fleeing Russia's invasion, the Biden administration announced on Thursday, after a month of bombardments touched off Europe's fastest-moving...

Biden, Western allies open first of three summits on Russian war

Biden, Western allies open first of three summits on Russian war

-- 2022-03-24 18:32:59

US President Joe Biden and world leaders opened a trio of emergency summits on Thursday with a sober warning from NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg that the alliance must boost its defences to c...

North Korea tests banned intercontinental missile

North Korea tests banned intercontinental missile

-- 2022-03-24 18:10:58

North Korea has tested a banned intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) for the first time since 2017, South Korea and Japan say. Japanese officials estimated it flew 1,100 km (684 miles). It fell...

US to accept up to 100,000 Ukrainians fleeing war

US to accept up to 100,000 Ukrainians fleeing war

-- 2022-03-24 18:04:33

The United States plans to accept up to 100,000 Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion, two sources familiar with the forthcoming announcement told Reuters. The expected announcement comes as US Pre...

Ukraine urges Western nations to take 'serious steps' in trio of summits

Ukraine urges Western nations to take 'serious steps' in trio of summits

-- 2022-03-24 15:06:44

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged Western nations gathering in Brussels on Thursday to take "serious steps" to help Kyiv fight Russia's invasion, as an unprecedented one-day trio of NATO,...

Turkey calls for more Ukraine ceasefire efforts, vows to continue mediation

Turkey calls for more Ukraine ceasefire efforts, vows to continue mediation

-- 2022-03-24 14:18:25

Turkey called for ramped up efforts to achieve a ceasefire in Ukraine and vowed to continue its "mediation and facilitation" work between Moscow and Kyiv, ahead of a NATO summit where leaders will dis...

NATO likely to ramp up eastern flank forces

NATO likely to ramp up eastern flank forces

-- 2022-03-24 12:48:35

NATO will likely decide on Thursday to ramp up military forces on its eastern flank, the head of the alliance said, while also warning Russia against using nuclear weapons after its February 24 invasi...

Ukraine refugee exodus exceeds 3.6 million

Ukraine refugee exodus exceeds 3.6 million

-- 2022-03-24 11:34:46

Kateryna Mytkevich endured four weeks living with the fear of planes, rockets and missiles raining on her native city of Chernihiv in northern Ukraine before deciding to flee with her child. "I have...

'Russia will pay': West to warn Putin in trio of summits

'Russia will pay': West to warn Putin in trio of summits

-- 2022-03-24 10:50:27

Western nations will warn Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday that his country will pay "ruinous" costs for invading Ukraine during an unprecedented one-day trio of NATO, G7 and EU summits th...

Singapore to ease more Covid curbs including for overseas arrivals

Singapore to ease more Covid curbs including for overseas arrivals

-- 2022-03-24 10:45:48

Singapore is easing more COVID-19 curbs including lifting most restrictions for fully vaccinated visitors arriving in the country and dropping requirements to wear masks outdoors, Prime Minister Lee H...

Ukraine uses facial recognition to identify dead Russian soldiers, minister says

Ukraine uses facial recognition to identify dead Russian soldiers, minister says

-- 2022-03-24 10:12:37

Ukraine is using facial recognition software to identify the bodies of Russian soldiers killed in combat and to trace their families to inform them of their deaths, Ukraine's vice prime minister told...

Veteran Putin aide quits over Ukraine war and leaves Russia

Veteran Putin aide quits over Ukraine war and leaves Russia

-- 2022-03-24 08:47:17

A veteran aide of President Vladimir Putin has resigned over the Ukraine war and left Russia with no intention to return, two sources said on Wednesday, the first senior official to break with the Kre...

Reuters removes Russian news agency from business-to-business marketplace

Reuters removes Russian news agency from business-to-business marketplace

-- 2022-03-23 21:19:23

Reuters has removed TASS from its business-to-business marketplace for customers, according to a Reuters message to staff on Wednesday, amid growing criticism of how Russia's state-owned news agency i...

Russia will sell gas to ‘unfriendly’ countries in roubles, says Putin

Russia will sell gas to ‘unfriendly’ countries in roubles, says Putin

-- 2022-03-23 21:05:54

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday Russia would start selling gas to "unfriendly" countries in roubles, after a freeze on Russia's assets by foreign nations had destroyed Moscow's trus...

NATO head says Russia must understand that it can never win a nuclear war

NATO head says Russia must understand that it can never win a nuclear war

-- 2022-03-23 20:20:07

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned on Wednesday against Russia's war in Ukraine sliding into a nuclear confrontation between Moscow and the West. "Russia should stop this dangerous irresp...

WikiLeaks' Assange to get married in prison

WikiLeaks' Assange to get married in prison

-- 2022-03-23 18:49:53

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will marry his long-term partner Stella Moris inside a high-security prison in southeast London on Wednesday at a small ceremony attended by four guests, two official...

Black box found from crashed China Eastern jet 

Black box found from crashed China Eastern jet 

-- 2022-03-23 17:59:28

Chinese searchers have found one of two black boxes from a China Eastern Airlines plane that crashed this week in forest-clad mountains with 132 people onboard, the aviation regulator said.  The...

Russia would only use nuclear weapons if existence threatened, Kremlin says

Russia would only use nuclear weapons if existence threatened, Kremlin says

-- 2022-03-23 16:11:28

Russia's security policy dictates that the country would only use nuclear weapons if its very existence were threatened, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview on Tuesday. The comment,...

Taliban orders girls high schools remain closed; students left in tears

Taliban orders girls high schools remain closed; students left in tears

-- 2022-03-23 14:40:16

The Taliban on Wednesday backtracked on their announcement that high schools would open for girls, saying they would remain closed until a plan was drawn up in accordance with Islamic law for them to...

Under pressure over Ukraine, Putin plans to attend G20 summit

Under pressure over Ukraine, Putin plans to attend G20 summit

-- 2022-03-23 13:48:12

Russian President Vladimir Putin intends to attend a G20 summit being hosted by Indonesia later this year, Russia's ambassador in Jakarta said on Wednesday, following calls by some members for the c...

US, Western allies to review Russia's G20 membership

US, Western allies to review Russia's G20 membership

-- 2022-03-23 12:49:16

The United States and its Western allies are assessing whether Russia should remain within the Group of Twenty (G20) grouping of major economies following its invasion of Ukraine, sources involved in...

Heavy rain halts China's search for jet crash victims, black boxes

Heavy rain halts China's search for jet crash victims, black boxes

-- 2022-03-23 11:59:55

Heavy rain in southern China on Wednesday halted the search for victims and flight information black boxes that could tell why a China Eastern Airlines passenger plane plunged into a mountainside...

Zelensky says 'confrontational' Russia talks moving forward

Zelensky says 'confrontational' Russia talks moving forward

-- 2022-03-23 09:25:44

Talks between Ukraine and Russia are confrontational but moving forward, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday, as the West plans to announce more sanctions against the Kremlin amid a worseni...