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Italy seizes world's biggest sailing yacht owned by Russian billionaire

-- 2022-03-12 17:54:07

Italian police have seized a superyacht from Russian billionaire Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko, the prime minister's office said on Saturday, a few days after the businessman was placed on the EU sanct...

Belarus denies plans to join Russia in war with Ukraine

-- 2022-03-12 17:48:50

Belarus has no plans to join the Russian-Ukraine war but is sending five battalion tactical groups (BTGs) to its border on rotation to replace forces already stationed there, its Chief of General Staf...

Threats of Russian air attacks hamper evacuations, says Ukraine

-- 2022-03-12 17:01:04

Conflict raged northwest of Kyiv on Saturday and other cities were encircled and under heavy shelling, while Ukrainian officials said fighting and threats of Russian air attacks were endangering attem...

China reports 1,500 Covid-19 cases, most since initial outbreak

-- 2022-03-12 16:39:05

Mainland China reported more than 1,500 new local COVID-19 infections on Saturday, the most since the initial nationwide outbreak at the start of 2020, as the Omicron variant prompts cities across the...

US imposes new sanctions on Russian billionaire, family members of Putin's spokesman

-- 2022-03-12 09:00:13

The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg, three family members of President Vladimir Putin's spokesperson and lawmakers in the latest punishment for Russi...

Zelenskiy defiant as Russian troops, despite setbacks, regroup near Kyiv

-- 2022-03-12 08:45:41

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday Ukraine was at a "strategic turning point" in the war as Russian forces bombarded cities across the country and appeared to be regrouping for a possible as...

Russia widens attack, targets new cities in Ukraine

-- 2022-03-11 21:38:46

Russian forces launched multiple missile attacks on a wide range of targets across Ukraine in the early hours of Friday, striking airfields in the far west of the country and, for the first time, hitt...

Warsaw overwhelmed by refugees amid Russia-Ukraine war

-- 2022-03-11 20:58:16

Warsaw's mayor is appealing for international help as the city becomes overwhelmed by refugees, with more than a tenth of all those fleeing the war in Ukraine arriving in the Polish capital. Some see...

Putin hints at some progress in talks with Ukraine

-- 2022-03-11 20:54:35

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday some progress had been made in Moscow's talks with Ukraine, while the Kremlin said the conflict would end when the West took action to address Moscow's...

India says technical malfunction caused accidental firing of missile into Pakistan

-- 2022-03-11 20:47:39

India said on Friday it accidentally fired a missile into Pakistan this week because of a "technical malfunction" during routine maintenance, giving its version of events after longtime foe Pakistan w...

Asia's Covid deaths surpass 1.0m, shows Reuter’s tally

-- 2022-03-11 20:01:22

Asia passed the grim milestone of 1.0 million coronavirus-linked deaths on Friday, a Reuters tally showed, as a spike in omicron variant infections spreads across the region after starting in nations...

Russia uses cluster weapons in Ukraine’s populated areas, alleges UN rights office

-- 2022-03-11 19:00:26

The UN human rights office said on Friday it has received "credible reports" of several cases of Russian forces using cluster munitions in populated areas in Ukraine, adding that indiscriminate use of...

China locks down a city amid new spike in Covid-19 cases

-- 2022-03-11 18:42:02

China on Friday ordered a lockdown of the 9.0 million residents of the northeastern city of Changchun amid a new spike in COVID-19 cases in the area attributed to the highly contagious omicron variant...

Sri Lanka trials 5G technology

-- 2022-03-11 18:38:57

Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata PLC has become the first company in South Asia to successfully trial "the most advanced" 5G Standalone (5G SA) network, local media reported on Friday. The latest breakthr...

Putin-Zelensky talks require some preparatory works, says Lavrov

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-03-11 18:31:51

Admitting the necessity of direct talks between Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said the tal...

EU to boost military support to Kyiv, mulling new sanctions

-- 2022-03-11 18:03:06

European Union leaders said on Friday they will continue applying pressure on Russia by devising a new set of sanctions to punish Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine while stepping up military support...

Russia threatens to halt activities of Meta platforms

-- 2022-03-11 17:55:48

Russia will end the activities of Meta Platforms, operator of social media sites Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, if a report that the company will allow users in some countries to call for violence...

Russia deploys 16,000 volunteers from Middle East to fight in Ukraine

-- 2022-03-11 17:25:04

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the green light on Friday for up to 16,000 volunteers from the Middle East to be deployed alongside Russian-backed rebels to fight in Ukraine, doubling down an in...

Indian high-altitude supersonic object crashes in Pakistan territory

-- 2022-03-11 16:50:55

An unidentified high-altitude supersonic object, originating in India, crashed in Pakistani territory on Wednesday. Pakistan’s military has sought an explanation from India’s government o...

Britain says Russia may attack Ukraine’s capital within days

-- 2022-03-11 16:17:37

Russian forces bearing down on Kyiv are regrouping northwest of the Ukrainian capital, satellite pictures showed, and Britain said on Friday Moscow could now be planning an assault on the city within...

More than 2.5 million people flee Ukraine, UN agency says

-- 2022-03-11 16:07:08

More than 2.5 million people have fled Ukraine as of March 11 following Russia’s invasion, the UN migration agency said on its website on Friday. That represents around 200,000 additional refug...

Facebook allows Ukraine war posts urging violence against invading Russians, Putin

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-03-11 11:41:40

Meta Platforms will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in the context of the Ukraine invasion, according to internal emails...

European Union refuses Ukraine's appeal for fast-track membership

-- 2022-03-11 11:21:07

European Union leaders on Thursday condemned the "unspeakable suffering" Russia was inflicting on Ukraine but at a summit in France they refused Kyiv's appeal for rapid accession to the bloc and diffe...

WHO advises Ukraine to destroy pathogens in health labs to prevent disease spread

FE REPORT 2022-03-11 09:43:14

The World Health Organization advised Ukraine to destroy high-threat pathogens housed in the country's public health laboratories to prevent "any potential spills" that would spread disease among the...

Putin says sanctions will rebound on West

-- 2022-03-11 09:21:23

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that sanctions imposed against his country would rebound against the West, including in the form of higher food and energy prices, and Moscow would so...

Russia snubs plea for humanitarian access to Ukraine

-- 2022-03-10 20:33:44

Ukraine said on Thursday Moscow had snubbed its plea for humanitarian access to rescue hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped under bombardment, as the opposing sides yielded nothing at the highes...

Katalin Novak to become Hungary's first woman president

-- 2022-03-10 19:27:26

Hungary's parliament elected ruling Fidesz party lawmaker Katalin Novak as the country's first woman president on Thursday, buttressing Prime Minister Viktor Orban's nationalist agenda which has trigg...

BJP wins big in India's largest state election

-- 2022-03-10 18:16:02

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party won the country's most populous state with a big majority, according to the count on Thursday of a state assembly vote that could offer clues to the nationa...

No progress in Russia-Ukraine talks as war enters third week

-- 2022-03-10 18:02:02

Russia's war in Ukraine entered the third week on Thursday with none of its stated objectives reached, despite thousands of people killed, more than two million made refugees and thousands cowering in...

Ukraine hospital attack killed three, wounded 17

-- 2022-03-10 17:32:22

An airstrike on a hospital in the port city of Mariupol killed three people, including a child, the city council said Thursday, as Russian forces intensified their siege of Ukrainian cities, as the to...