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Canada's NDP agrees to support Trudeau's Liberals until 2025

Canada's NDP agrees to support Trudeau's Liberals until 2025

-- 2022-03-22 21:34:01

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal minority government has reached a deal with the New Democratic Party (NDP) to stay in power until 2025. In exchange, the Liberals will support the lef...

Russian journalist donates his Nobel Peace Prize medal for Ukrainian refugees

Russian journalist donates his Nobel Peace Prize medal for Ukrainian refugees

-- 2022-03-22 21:31:17

Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov, a co-winner of last year's Nobel Peace Prize, said on Tuesday he would donate his Nobel medal to be auctioned to raise funds for Ukrainian refugees. The Novaya Gaze...

China, Pakistan jointly call for diplomatic resolution of Russia-Ukraine crisis

China, Pakistan jointly call for diplomatic resolution of Russia-Ukraine crisis

-- 2022-03-22 21:20:29

China and Pakistan have jointly called for a ceasefire and diplomatic resolution of the crisis between Russia and Ukraine. Old allies China and Pakistan have refrained from condemning Russia over its...

Kremlin critic Navalny sentenced to nine years in prison

Kremlin critic Navalny sentenced to nine years in prison

-- 2022-03-22 19:55:28

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was sentenced to nine years in prison after a Russian court found him guilty of large-scale fraud and contempt of court on Tuesday, and police detained both of his...

Ukraine urges Russia to allow humanitarian supplies into Mariupol

Ukraine urges Russia to allow humanitarian supplies into Mariupol

-- 2022-03-22 19:49:17

Ukraine appealed to Russia on Tuesday to allow humanitarian supplies into Mariupol and let desperate civilians out of the besieged city, which President Volodymyr Zelensky said had been devastated by...

Biden says India 'somewhat shaky' in acting against Russia

Biden says India 'somewhat shaky' in acting against Russia

-- 2022-03-22 17:49:45

US President Joe Biden has said only India among the Quad group of countries was "somewhat shaky" in acting against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, as India tries to balance its ties with Russia...

Parents of Reuters photographer killed in Afghanistan start legal action against Taliban

Parents of Reuters photographer killed in Afghanistan start legal action against Taliban

-- 2022-03-22 15:40:17

The parents of Reuters photographer Danish Siddiqui, who was killed in a Taliban attack in Afghanistan last year, have begun legal action at the International Criminal Court (ICC) against the Islamist...

Over 3.5 million people have fled Ukraine, UNHCR says

Over 3.5 million people have fled Ukraine, UNHCR says

REUTERS 2022-03-22 15:14:41

The number of Ukrainians fleeing abroad is now 3,528,346, the United Nations' Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday, with more than 2 million crossing the border into Poland.

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka deploys troops at gas stations to oversee fuel distribution

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka deploys troops at gas stations to oversee fuel distribution

-- 2022-03-22 14:15:16

Sri Lanka ordered its military to post soldiers at hundreds of gas stations on Tuesday, to help distribute fuel after a sudden rise in prices of key commodities and the accompanying shortages forced t...

India considers Covid booster doses for all adults

India considers Covid booster doses for all adults

-- 2022-03-22 11:53:29

India is considering making all adults eligible for booster doses of Covid-19 vaccine, two sources with knowledge of the matter said on Monday, as infections grow in some countries and some Indians fi...

Grim search for victims, flight recorders after China's worst plane crash in years

Grim search for victims, flight recorders after China's worst plane crash in years

-- 2022-03-22 10:41:37

Rescuers in China scoured heavily forested slopes on Tuesday with hopes fading of finding any survivors from the 132 people aboard a China Eastern Airlines passenger jet that crashed a day earlie...

Ukraine rejects Russia's ultimatums as conflict intensifies

Ukraine rejects Russia's ultimatums as conflict intensifies

-- 2022-03-22 09:15:49

Ukraine said on Monday it would not obey ultimatums from Russia after Moscow demanded it stop defending besieged Mariupol, where hundreds of thousands of civilians are suffering through Russian bombar...

Myanmar army committed genocide against Rohingya, declares US

Myanmar army committed genocide against Rohingya, declares US

-- 2022-03-21 21:02:45

The United States formally determined that Myanmar's army committed genocide and crimes against humanity in its violence against the Rohingya minority, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Mon...

Kyiv shopping centre shelling leaves at least eight dead

Kyiv shopping centre shelling leaves at least eight dead

-- 2022-03-21 20:25:33

Shelling hit a Kyiv shopping centre late on Sunday, killing at least eight people, wrecking nearby buildings and leaving smoking piles of rubble and the twisted wreckage of burned-out cars spread over...

No sign of survivors in China plane crash

No sign of survivors in China plane crash

-- 2022-03-21 20:11:46

A China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in mountains in southern China on a domestic flight on Monday after a sudden descent from cruising altitude. The media said th...

Russian court rejects Meta attempt to dismiss 'extremism' case

Russian court rejects Meta attempt to dismiss 'extremism' case

-- 2022-03-21 19:44:55

A Moscow court on Monday rejected an attempt by Facebook owner Meta Platforms to have extremism charges against it dismissed, Russian news agencies reported, in a case that could force the US tech gia...

Several hundred mines from Ukraine drift into Black Sea, says Russia

Several hundred mines from Ukraine drift into Black Sea, says Russia

-- 2022-03-21 19:28:10

Several hundred mines have drifted into the Black Sea after breaking off from cables near Ukrainian ports, Russia's main intelligence agency and shipping market participants said. The Black Sea is a...

Global study suggests investment, institutional support for groundwater development

Global study suggests investment, institutional support for groundwater development

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-03-21 19:19:54

Groundwater has the potential to save hundreds of thousands of lives and be the world’s insurance policy against climate change, according to a global report. The report mentioned groundwater c...

New Zealand to provide non-lethal military assistance to Ukraine 

New Zealand to provide non-lethal military assistance to Ukraine 

-- 2022-03-21 19:11:23

New Zealand has said it will provide Ukraine with a further NZ$5 million ($3.46 million) in funds and non-lethal military assistance including some surplus equipment.  Prime Minister Jacinda Ard...

Kremlin says peace talks yield no progress as Ukraine makes unacceptable proposals

Kremlin says peace talks yield no progress as Ukraine makes unacceptable proposals

-- 2022-03-21 18:21:27

The Kremlin said on Monday that peace talks between Russia and Ukraine had not yet made any significant progress. Moscow has accused Kyiv of stalling peace talks by making proposals unacceptable for...

Ukraine defies Russian demand of laying down arms in Mariupol

Ukraine defies Russian demand of laying down arms in Mariupol

-- 2022-03-21 18:12:54

Ukraine defied a Russian demand that its forces lay down arms before dawn on Monday in Mariupol, where hundreds of thousands of civilians have been trapped in a city under siege and already laid to wa...

Ammonia leak contaminates area in east Ukraine

Ammonia leak contaminates area in east Ukraine

-- 2022-03-21 17:45:03

An ammonia leak at a chemical plant in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy has contaminated an area with a radius of more than 2.5 kilometres (about 1.5 miles), officials said early Monday. Sumy regio...

Chinese Red Cross will offer additional 10m yuan of aid to Ukraine

Chinese Red Cross will offer additional 10m yuan of aid to Ukraine

-- 2022-03-21 16:04:05

The Chinese Red Cross will offer an additional 10 million yuan ($1.57 million) of humanitarian assistance to Ukraine, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told reporters on Monday. Accordin...

Boeing jet with 132 aboard crashes in China

Boeing jet with 132 aboard crashes in China

-- 2022-03-21 15:13:59

A China Eastern Airlines aircraft with 132 people on board crashed in mountains in south China on Monday while on a flight from the city of Kunming to Guangzhou, China's Civil Aviation...

Shelling in Kyiv's Podil district kills at least four

Shelling in Kyiv's Podil district kills at least four

-- 2022-03-21 11:17:43

Shelling hit residential houses and a shopping district in Kyiv's Podil district late on Sunday, killing at least four people, city authorities said. "According to the information we have at the mome...

Biden to travel to Poland to discuss Ukraine crisis with Duda

Biden to travel to Poland to discuss Ukraine crisis with Duda

-- 2022-03-21 11:06:25

US President Joseph Biden will travel to Poland on Friday to discuss the international response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine that has sparked a "humanitarian and human rights crisis," White House s...

Ukraine rejects Russian calls to surrender Mariupol

Ukraine rejects Russian calls to surrender Mariupol

-- 2022-03-21 10:52:26

Ukraine on Monday rejected Russian calls to surrender the port city of Mariupol, where residents are besieged with little food, water and power in a humanitarian crisis that is increasing pressure on...

Shanghai closes Disney resort amid record daily local Covid infections

Shanghai closes Disney resort amid record daily local Covid infections

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

China's financial hub of Shanghai reported on Monday a record daily surge in local COVID-19 infections as authorities scrambled to test residents and rein in the Omicron variant, while closing its Dis...

Zelensky appeals for help from Israel

Zelensky appeals for help from Israel

-- 2022-03-21 10:10:00

Russian and Ukrainian forces fought for the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol on Sunday, where residents are trapped with little food, water and power, while Ukraine's president appealed to Israel for h...

US rules Myanmar army committed genocide against Rohingya

US rules Myanmar army committed genocide against Rohingya

-- 2022-03-21 09:44:38

The Biden administration has formally determined that violence committed against the Rohingya minority by Myanmar's military amounts to genocide and crimes against humanity, US officials told Reuters...