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Ukraine to civilians: Leave liberated areas before winter

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-22 11:52:59

Ukrainian authorities have begun evacuating civilians from recently liberated sections of the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions, fearing that a lack of heat, power and water due to Russian shelling will ma...

Ukraine braces for harsh winter as Russian strikes cripple power facilities

-- 2022-11-22 11:32:50

Ukrainians braced for a winter with little or no power in several areas including Kyiv where temperatures have already dropped below freezing as relentless Russian strikes crippled half of the country...

Three killed in Kurdish strikes at Turkish border town 

-- 2022-11-21 18:44:19

Suspected Kurdish militants in Syria fired rockets across the border into Turkey on Monday, killing at least three people and wounding 10 others, officials said.  The rockets struck a high schoo...

British schoolgirl who joined IS likely trafficking victim, court told

-- 2022-11-21 18:20:40

A British-born woman who went to Syria as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State (IS) is challenging the UK government's decision to take away her citizenship, with her lawyers telling a London court that...

UK PM Sunak makes surprise trip to Kyiv, boosts defense aid

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-20 10:46:34

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised 125 anti-aircraft guns and other air-defense technology as he made an unannounced visit Saturday — his first — to Ukraine's snow-blanketed capit...

British PM Rishi Sunak meets Ukraine’s President Zelensky in Kyiv

-- 2022-11-19 20:14:14

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has met Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on his first visit to Kyiv since taking office. The meeting was held to "confirm continued UK support" for Ukraine, a...

Leave if you can to save energy: Ukraine power boss

-- 2022-11-19 19:14:02

The head of Ukraine's biggest private energy firm says people should consider leaving the country to reduce demand on the country's power network. "If they can find an alternative place to stay for a...

Over 400 children killed in war, Ukraine says 

-- 2022-11-19 18:41:17

At least 437 Ukrainian children have been killed as a result of Russia's invasion, Ukraine's Prosecutor General's office said on Saturday.  More than 837 children have also been injured in a tal...

EU would walk away from a bad COP27 deal, warns climate policy chief Timmermans

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-19 15:42:06

The European Union warned it was prepared to walk away from climate negotiations if a satisfactory outcome could not be reached, but said it still believed a deal could be struck on Saturday between n...

Nine die as apartment block collapses in Russia

-- 2022-11-19 15:16:19

Nine people have been found dead in the rubble of a five-storey apartment block that partially collapsed on the Russian Pacific island of Sakhalin, the regional governor said on Saturday, and emergenc...

Traces of explosives found at Nord Stream pipelines

-- 2022-11-18 17:44:46

Investigators have found traces of explosives at the site of the damaged Nord Stream pipelines, confirming that gross sabotage had taken place, a Swedish prosecutor said on Friday. Swedish and Danish...

Ukraine energy supply under persistent Russian attacks

-- 2022-11-18 13:07:53

Russian missiles and shells hit Ukrainian positions in several regions and there was no let up in heavy fighting in Donetsk in the east, the Ukrainian military said on Thursday night as Moscow's o...

Ukrainian investigators find bodies with signs of torture in Kherson

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-17 13:01:55

Investigators in Ukraine's recently liberated southern Kherson region have uncovered 63 bodies with signs of torture after Russian forces left the area, Ukraine's interior minister was quoted as sayin...

Poland, NATO say missile strike wasn’t a Russian attack

-- 2022-11-16 20:24:01

Poland and the head of military alliance NATO on Wednesday said a missile strike in Polish farmland that killed two people did not appear to be an intentional attack, and that air defences in neighbou...

Two residential buildings hit in Russian missile strike on Kyiv

-- 2022-11-15 20:46:20

Two residential buildings in central Kyiv were hit during a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian capital on Tuesday, city mayor Vitali Klitschko said. He wrote on the Telegram messaging app that r...

Turkey makes more arrests in connection with deadly bombing

-- 2022-11-15 17:49:47

Turkish police have apprehended more suspects in connection with the bombing of a bustling pedestrian avenue in Istanbul that killed six people and wounded several dozen others, bringing the number of...

Now is the time to press Russia for peace, Zelenskiy says

REUTERS 2022-11-15 12:10:29

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday urged world leaders to back a plan to end the war in his country, saying now was the time to push for peace after Russia's defeat in the southern...

British monarch enjoys his first birthday as king

-- 2022-11-14 21:32:32

Britain's King Charles III celebrated his 74th birthday on Monday, with the occasion marked by him replacing his late father as The Ranger of Great Windsor Park, a position which dates back more than...

Russia's Lavrov denies report that he was taken to hospital at G20

-- 2022-11-14 16:48:47

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday denied an Associated Press report that he had been taken to hospital with a heart condition, scolding Western journalists for what he cast as false rep...

Zelensky visits Kherson, thanks allies for support

-- 2022-11-14 16:12:13

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Kherson on Monday, days after a Russian troop withdrawal from the southern Ukrainian city after months of occupation, reports Reuters. "We are moving fo...

Slovenia elects first female president

-- 2022-11-14 12:12:11

Natasa Pirc Musar, a lawyer, won the second round of Slovenia's presidential election on Sunday and will become its first female head of state, preliminary results showed. Pirc Musar, 54, won 53.86 p...

Erdogan says bomb explosion in Istanbul 'smells like terrorism'

-- 2022-11-14 11:21:19

Six people were killed and 81 others wounded on Sunday when an explosion rocked a busy pedestrian street in central Istanbul in what Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called a bomb attack that "smells...

Explosion on Istanbul’s pedestrian avenue; deaths reported

-- 2022-11-13 20:49:21

An explosion on Istanbul's popular pedestrian Istiklal Avenue Sunday has left people dead and injured, a senior official said. Istanbul Gov Ali Yerlikaya tweeted that the explosion occurred at about...

Britain must raise taxes and cut spending, Jeremy Hunt says ahead of budget

-- 2022-11-13 20:17:51

British Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt said he will set out tax rises and spending cuts this week to show Britain can fix its public finances and restore its economic credibility after financial market...

Ukraine troops greeted with flowers in Kherson after Russian retreat

-- 2022-11-13 19:01:16

Villagers holding flowers waited on the road to the southern city of Kherson to greet and kiss Ukrainian soldiers on Saturday as they poured in to secure control of the right bank of the Dnipro River...

Russia says it renewed demands over fertiliser exports at UN talks

-- 2022-11-12 19:00:47

Russia on Saturday restated its insistence on unhindered access to world markets for its food and fertiliser exports after what it called a "thorough exchange of views" with UN officials the day befor...

Britain, France set to strike deal to tackle illegal migration

-- 2022-11-12 18:33:33

Britain and France are likely to strike a deal as soon as Monday to ramp up their joint efforts to stop illegal migrants from making perilous crossings of the English Channel. The agreement will sign...

London’s Heathrow rules out passenger limits for Christmas

-- 2022-11-12 15:09:00

London’s Heathrow airport, one of the world's busiest, will not need to cap passenger numbers for the Christmas peak as it works to minimise the impact of strike action at the airport ahead of t...

Ukrainians celebrate soldiers retaking Kherson

-- 2022-11-12 11:42:48

Jubilant residents welcomed Ukrainian troops arriving in the centre of Kherson on Friday after Russia abandoned the only regional capital it had captured since its invasion began in February. "Today...

Russia pulls troops out of Kherson

-- 2022-11-11 17:42:16

Moscow announced on Friday that its forces had completed their withdrawal from the strategic Ukrainian city of Kherson after Ukraine said it had reclaimed dozens of landmine-littered settlements aband...