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EU agrees on compromise deal on banning imports of Russian Oil

Editorial Bureau May 31, 2022

European Council leaders have agreed on a plan to block more than two-thirds of Russian oil imports. Brussels(Belgium)- European Council chief Charles Michel said the deal cut off “a huge source of financing” for the Russian war machine. It is part of the sixth package of sanctions

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Fleeing the Russians: Evacuations are slow, arduous, fraught

Editorial Bureau May 28, 2022

Bakhmut(Ukraine)- To a threatening soundtrack of air raid sirens and booming artillery, civilians flee towns and cities in eastern Ukraine as Russian forces advance. Negotiating narrow apartment building staircases, volunteers carry the elderly and infirm in their arms, in stretchers or wheelchairs to waiting minibuses, driving them to central staging areas and eventually

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‘Relentless’: Russia squeezes Ukrainian strongholds in eastern Ukraine

Editorial Bureau May 27, 2022

Kyiv(Ukraine)-Russian forces on Friday pounded the last Ukrainian strongholds in a separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine, including a city where authorities said 1,500 people have been killed and 60% of residential buildings destroyed since the start of the war. Ukraine’s foreign minister warned that without a new injection of foreign weapons, Ukrainian forces would

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Delegations from Sweden and Finland; An effort to overcome Turkey’s objections

Editorial Bureau May 25, 2022

Ankara (Turkey)-Delegations from Sweden and Finland were scheduled on Wednesday to hold talks in Ankara with senior Turkish officials to overcome Turkey’s objections to their historic bids to join the NATO alliance. Sweden and Finland submitted their written applications to join NATO last week in a move that marks one of the most significant geopolitical […]

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Ukraine: 200 bodies found in a basement in Mariupol’s ruins

Editorial Bureau May 25, 2022

Kyiv (Ukraine)- Workers digging through the rubble of an apartment building in Mariupol found 200 bodies in the basement, Ukrainian authorities said Tuesday, as more horrors come to light in the ruined city that has seen some of the worst sufferings of the 3-month-old war. The bodies were decomposing, and the stench hung over the neighbourhood, […]

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Georgia voters navigate rules passed after the 2020 election

Editorial Bureau May 24, 2022

Atlanta (Georgia)- Tuesday’s election in Georgia marks the biggest test yet of new voting restrictions enacted by Republicans in one of the nation’s most important battleground states as voters decide hotly contested primary races for governor and the U.S. Senate. Election officials, poll workers and voters were navigating new rules put in place by the […]

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A New Zealand air force plane discovered seven missing people with two boats in Pacific

Editorial Bureau May 24, 2022

Wellington (New Zealand)- The military of New Zealand announced on Tuesday that an air force plane had discovered seven people who had gone missing aboard two small boats near the remote Pacific nation of Kiribati. The military said the crew of an Orion plane saw the two boats within 10 nautical miles (18.5 kilometres) of […]

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Zelenskyy urges ‘maximum’ sanctions on Russia in Davos talk

Editorial Bureau May 23, 2022

Davos (Switzerland)- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for “maximum” sanctions against Russia during a virtual speech on the first day of the World Economic Forum gathering of corporate executives, government officials and other VIPs in Davos, Switzerland. He said sanctions needed further to stop Russia’s aggression, including an oil embargo, blocking all its

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Russian forces step up shelling in Ukraine’s east

Editorial Bureau May 23, 2022

Kyiv(Ukraine)- Russian forces have stepped up shelling in Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland as they press their offensive in the region that is now the focus of fighting in the 3-month-old war. Meanwhile, a Ukrainian court is expected to sentence a Russian soldier on Monday in the first war crimes trial of the conflict. The 21-year-old sergeant, […]

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German weather service says storm-generated 3 tornadoes

Editorial Bureau May 21, 2022

Berlin(Germany)- A storm that swept across parts of Germany generated three tornadoes, the country’s weather service said Saturday. More than 40 people were injured in one western city. Meteorologists had warned of heavy rainfall, hail and strong gusts of wind in western and central Germany on Friday, and people in the western state of North […]