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Women turn to sex work to survive UK cost-of-living crisis

Women turn to sex work to survive UK cost-of-living crisis

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-19 10:23:34

Online sex worker Martha blames Britain's cost-of-living crisis for her dwindling earnings - partly due to increased competition as soaring household bills push more women to sell sex, Thom...

Kyiv plans to cut ties with Tehran after Russian attacks using ‘Iranian-made’ drones

Kyiv plans to cut ties with Tehran after Russian attacks using ‘Iranian-made’ drones

-- 2022-10-18 21:54:39

Ukraine's foreign minister said on Tuesday he was submitting a proposal to President Volodymyr Zelensky to formally cut diplomatic ties with Tehran after a wave of Russian attacks using what Kyiv says...

EU faces battle to keep energy prices from tanking economy

EU faces battle to keep energy prices from tanking economy

-- 2022-10-18 19:30:44

European Union leaders enter a crucial stretch this week to make sure runaway energy prices and short supplies do not further tank their struggling economies and foment unrest. At the same time, they...

France probes murder of 12-year-old girl in Paris

France probes murder of 12-year-old girl in Paris

-- 2022-10-18 18:51:04

French police are investigating the murder of a 12-year-old girl whose body was found last week near her home in eastern Paris and a young suspect has been detained, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin...

Missiles, exploding drones again hit Ukraine's power, water

Missiles, exploding drones again hit Ukraine's power, water

-- 2022-10-18 18:32:18

Airstrikes cut power and water supplies to hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians on Tuesday, part of what the country's president called an expanding Russian campaign to drive the nation into the cold a...

This is not the time to change Conservative leader, minister argues

This is not the time to change Conservative leader, minister argues

-- 2022-10-18 18:19:02

This is not the time to be changing leader, Armed Forces Minister James Heappey has argued, as he defended the prime minister, reports BBC. Suggestions that there is a candidate to replace Liz Truss...

Road near UK PM's office closed over suspicious package

Road near UK PM's office closed over suspicious package

-- 2022-10-18 18:15:57

A road in the centre of London's government district, near Prime Minister Liz Truss's Downing Street office and residence, was closed on Tuesday due to a suspicious package, police said on Tuesd...

Russia fighter crashes into apartments in city near Ukraine, killing 13

Russia fighter crashes into apartments in city near Ukraine, killing 13

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-18 12:51:10

A Russian fighter plane crashed into a residential building in the southern city of Yeysk shortly after take-off on Monday, engulfing apartments in a fireball and killing at least 13 people, Inter...

Russian fighter plane crashes into apartments in southern city near Ukraine

Russian fighter plane crashes into apartments in southern city near Ukraine

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-18 10:20:07

A Russian fighter plane crashed into a residential building in the southern Russian city of Yeysk on Monday, engulfing apartments in flames, the regional governor said, Reuters reports....

Over 100 British lawmakers ‘trying to oust’ PM Liz Truss

Over 100 British lawmakers ‘trying to oust’ PM Liz Truss

-- 2022-10-17 20:50:32

British lawmakers will try to oust Prime Minister Liz Truss this week despite Downing Street's warning that it could trigger a general election, Reuters reported citing the Daily Mail and The Times....

Ukraine: Explosions rock Kyiv a week after Russian strikes

Ukraine: Explosions rock Kyiv a week after Russian strikes

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-17 13:44:33

Explosive-laden suicide drones struck Ukraine’s capital as families were preparing to start their week early Monday, the blasts echoing across Kyiv and sending people scurrying to shelters. Kyi...

Russian drones attack Ukraine's Kyiv; intense fighting in east

Russian drones attack Ukraine's Kyiv; intense fighting in east

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-17 13:17:42

Russian forces attacked Ukraine's capital on Monday for the second time in a week while Russian and Ukrainian forces battled it out in heavy fighting around two towns in the Donbas region in the...

11 Russian troops slain at shooting range as fighting rages

11 Russian troops slain at shooting range as fighting rages

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-16 09:00:53

At least 11 Russian soldiers were killed Saturday in a shooting incident that underlined the challenges posed by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hasty mobilization, just as Ukrainian troops p...

German chancellor calls for EU reforms, military autonomy

German chancellor calls for EU reforms, military autonomy

-- 2022-10-15 20:00:53

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday called for reforms of the European Union to make it fit for the admission of new countries as well as more military autonomy of the 27-country bloc. Speaking...

Turkish mine blast death toll rises to 40

Turkish mine blast death toll rises to 40

-- 2022-10-15 18:46:38

An explosion in a coal mine in Turkey's northern Bartin province on Friday killed 40 people, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Saturday, adding that search and rescue operations were continuing...

Putin says Ukraine mobilisation should be finished in two weeks

Putin says Ukraine mobilisation should be finished in two weeks

-- 2022-10-15 10:15:55

Russia should be finished calling up reservists in two weeks, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, promising an end to a divisive mobilisation that has seen hundreds of thousands of men summ...

Turkish mine blast's death toll rises to at least 22

Turkish mine blast's death toll rises to at least 22

-- 2022-10-15 10:08:12

An explosion in a coal mine in Turkey's northern Bartin province on Friday killed 22 people, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said, but it was not clear how many people were still trapped due to the bla...

Zelensky seeks further steps from Western partners to isolate Russia

Zelensky seeks further steps from Western partners to isolate Russia

-- 2022-10-14 19:53:40

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky made a new plea to Western partners to help beef up Ukraine's air defences on Thursday and called for further steps to isolate Russia. In comments deliver...

Jeremy Hunt appointed UK finance minister

Jeremy Hunt appointed UK finance minister

-- 2022-10-14 19:07:39

Former UK foreign minister Jeremy Hunt has been appointed finance minister, Prime Minister Liz Truss's office said on Friday, following Kwasi Kwarteng's resignation from the post, according to Reuters...

UK PM Truss fires finance minister Kwarteng

UK PM Truss fires finance minister Kwarteng

-- 2022-10-14 18:01:22

British Prime Minister Liz Truss will fire her finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng and scrap parts of their economic package, the Times newspaper reported on Friday, in a bid to survive the market and pol...

Russia to repair damaged Crimea bridge by July next year

Russia to repair damaged Crimea bridge by July next year

-- 2022-10-14 17:18:05

Repairs to the bridge between the annexed Crimean peninsula and southern Russia, which was damaged in an explosion last Saturday, are to be finished by July 2023. The information was found in a docum...

Russia to evacuate Kherson residents as Ukraine advances

Russia to evacuate Kherson residents as Ukraine advances

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-14 15:30:02

In a sign that continuing and sustained Ukrainian military gains along the southern front are worrying the Kremlin, Russia is promising free accommodation to residents of the partially occupied Kh...

Civilians in 'annexed' Kherson flee to Russia as Ukrainians advance

Civilians in 'annexed' Kherson flee to Russia as Ukrainians advance

-- 2022-10-14 12:11:46

Evacuees from Ukraine's southern Kherson region were expected to begin arriving in Russia on Friday after a Moscow-installed official suggested residents should leave for safety, a sign of Moscow's we...

Kremlin says its goals in Ukraine can be achieved through talks

Kremlin says its goals in Ukraine can be achieved through talks

-- 2022-10-14 10:18:28

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying on Thursday that the goals of Moscow's "special military operation" in Ukraine were unchanged, but that they could be achieved through negoti...

Ukraine says more than 600 settlements liberated in past month, including 75 in Kherson

Ukraine says more than 600 settlements liberated in past month, including 75 in Kherson

REUTERS 2022-10-14 08:57:02

Ukraine's armed forces have liberated more than 600 settlements from the Russian occupation in the past month, including 75 in the highly strategic Kherson region, Ukraine's Ministry for Reintegration...

Russia is prepared to quit Black Sea grains deal

Russia is prepared to quit Black Sea grains deal

-- 2022-10-13 20:59:07

Moscow has submitted concerns to the United Nations about an agreement on Black Sea grain exports, and is prepared to reject renewing the deal next month unless its demands are addressed, Russia's Gen...

Putin puts 'gas hub' plan to Turkey's Erdogan

Putin puts 'gas hub' plan to Turkey's Erdogan

-- 2022-10-13 17:38:12

Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday that Turkey was the most reliable route to deliver gas to the European Union and proposed to build what he call...

Russia pounds dozens of Ukraine towns, warns of escalation

Russia pounds dozens of Ukraine towns, warns of escalation

-- 2022-10-13 17:02:12

Russian missiles pounded more than 40 Ukrainian cities and towns, officials said on Thursday, as NATO allies meeting in Brussels unveiled plans to beef up Europe's air defences after committing more m...

Russian nuclear strike likely to provoke 'physical response,' NATO official says

Russian nuclear strike likely to provoke 'physical response,' NATO official says

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-13 10:03:28

A Russian nuclear strike would change the course of the conflict and almost certainly provoke a "physical response" from Ukraine's allies and potentially from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a...

UN denounces Russian 'annexation' while West backs Ukraine with more air defences

UN denounces Russian 'annexation' while West backs Ukraine with more air defences

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-13 08:25:17

The United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly condemned Russia's attempted annexation of four Ukrainian areas while Kyiv's allies committed more military aid after intense Russian missile strikes...