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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
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, […]
Texas(US)- A teen gunman killed at least 19 children and two adults, the latest instance of gun-fueled mass murder in the United States and the country’s worst school shooting in nearly a decade. Several people are hurt, including children. Some of them are in critical condition. After initially conflicting reports of the death toll, the […]
London (U.K.)- WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is expected to be confirmed by the U.N. health agency’s member countries for a second five-year term on Tuesday. No other candidate challenged Tedros for the post amid the ongoing difficulties of responding to the devastating coronavirus pandemic. Tedros, a former government minister from Ethiopia, has directed
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 […]
Boris Johnson is facing fresh accusations he lied to Parliament after photographs emerged of him raising a glass at a Downing Street leaving the party during the lockdown. London(UK)- The images – obtained by ITV News – were taken at a do for departing communications chief Lee Cain on 13 November 2020, just days after […]
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 […]
Kyiv (Ukraine)- A Ukrainian court sentenced a captured Russian soldier to the maximum penalty of life in prison for killing a civilian. The Kremlin hinted that it might put on trial some of the fighters who surrendered at Mariupol’s steelworks. Meanwhile, in a rare public expression of opposition to the war from the ranks of […]
An Inquiry by MPs has found that the UK’s withdrawal from Afghanistan last year was a betrayal. And will damage the nation’s interests for years. London (UK)- The Taliban quickly took over Afghanistan, likely costing lives soon after the withdrawal of the UK. Mismanagement of the evacuation helped the Taliban to turn back. There were […]
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
