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The US central bank has pushed interest rates to the highest level in almost 15 years as it fights to rein in soaring prices in the world’s largest economy. The Federal Reserve announced it was raising its key rate by another 0.75 percentage points, lifting the target range to 3% to 3.25%. Borrowing costs are […]
- UK to be one of worst performing economies this year (Category: Breaking News)
- Fed raises US interest rates to highest in 16 years (Category: Breaking News)
- Prince Harry makes sensational claims in memoir Spare (Category: Breaking News)
- A divided Japan bids farewell to its slain ex-PM (Category: Breaking News)
Ukrainian forces have seized even more territory from Russia as they continue their counter-offensive, the country’s president has said. Volodymyr Zelensky said troops have now retaken more than 6,000 sq km (2,317 sq miles) from Russian control in September, in the east and the south. The BBC
- Russian rocket strike on Ukrainian train station kill 22 (Category: Breaking News)
- Ukraine launches counter-offensive actions (Category: Breaking News)
- Ukraine launches counter-offensive actions (Category: Breaking News)
- Russia blocks nuclear treaty agreement over Ukraine reference (Category: Breaking News)
Russia wants to destroy the normal life of every European citizen, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said, according to a BBC dispatch.It said: “It is trying to attack with poverty and political chaos where it cannot yet attack with missiles,” Mr Zelensky said in his regular
- Russia “Responsible” For Ongoing Crisis In Sri Lanka: Ukraine’s Zelensky (Category: Breaking News)
- COP27: India’s updated NDCs insufficient for cutting emissions, shows report (Category: Breaking News)
- Plan for setting up nuclear power plants in SL (Category: Breaking News)
- Russian Ambassador encourages Sri Lanka to consider nuclear energy collaboration (Category: Breaking News)
Russia has blocked the adoption of a joint declaration by a United Nations conference on nuclear disarmament. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which is reviewed by its 191 signatories every five years, aims to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. Russia objected to a draft text citing “grave concern” over military activities around Ukraine’s nuclear plants, in particular [...
- Russian rocket strike on Ukrainian train station kill 22 (Category: Breaking News)
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- Powerful storms wreak havoc in Europe (Category: Breaking News)
- Ukraine retakes 6,000 sq km from Russia (Category: Breaking News)
A Russian rocket strike on a Ukrainian train station has killed 22 people, Ukraine says, on the day marking six months since Moscow’s invasion began. It says five of the victims of the attack in the eastern town of Chaplyne burnt to death in a vehicle. An 11-year-old boy also was killed. President Volodymyr Zelensky […]
- Ukraine retakes 6,000 sq km from Russia (Category: Breaking News)
- EU blames Russia for food crisis prompting walkout (Category: Breaking News)
- Pope tells Zelensky he is ‘praying for peace’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Russia denies it plans to declare war on 9 May (Category: Breaking News)
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- Why I Don’t Support The Aragalaya (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil-Gota Twosome: One Gone, The Other Is Acting Up (Category: Breaking News)
- Futility Of Transforming A Nation Built Over A Political Cesspit (Category: Breaking News)
- Saying No To Authoritarian Governance (Category: Breaking News)
One person has been killed after blasts rocked a military base in Crimea, the head of the Russia-appointed regional administration there said. Sergei Aksyonov wrote on social media that the blasts had taken place at the Saky military base near Novofedorivka on the peninsula’s western coast. Footage circulating on social media appeared to show multiple […]
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- Two blasts kill 28 in Balochistan day before Pakistan election (Category: Breaking News)
- Twin bomb blasts near Iran general Qasem Soleimani’s tomb kill 73 – state TV (Category: Breaking News)
- Russia blocks nuclear treaty agreement over Ukraine reference (Category: Breaking News)
Taiwan’s Defence Minister Chiu Kuo-chang expressed concern that China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) would have the ‘complete capability’ to attack Taiwan by 2025. The Minister expressed concern while also highlighted sanctions as the means to deter aggression during a virtual seminar titled “Taiwan: is it key to the continuing world order?” organised by The Democracy […]
- Xi Jinping’s Suppression of Hong Kong Democracy Pushes Taiwan Further From China (Category: Breaking News)
- China avoids imposing harsh sanctions against Taiwan as both economies are interdependent (Category: Breaking News)
- Taiwan’s voice needs to be heard internationally: Canadian PM (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘One China’ principle and ‘One Country, Two Systems’ policy are ironical (Category: Breaking News)
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has ordered all civilians still living in parts of eastern Donetsk region under Ukrainian control to evacuate. Speaking during a late-night address from Kyiv, Mr Zelensky warned of an intensification of fighting. “The more people leave Donetsk region now, the fewer people the Russian army will have time to kill,” he […]
- Every bridge leading to key Ukraine city destroyed (Category: Breaking News)
- Ukraine reports heavy Russian missile strikes in east and south (Category: Breaking News)
- Bodies of some Ukrainian fighters arrive in Kyiv (Category: Breaking News)
- Ukraine reports 15,000 suspected war crimes (Category: Breaking News)
Russia plans to annex more Ukrainian territory using a similar “playbook” to its takeover of Crimea, the US says. Citing US intelligence, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Russia is already laying the groundwork for annexation. Occupied regions of Ukraine could hold “sham” referenda on joining Russia as soon as September, he said. Russia […]
- EU blames Russia for food crisis prompting walkout (Category: Breaking News)
- Russian missile strikes kill 21 in Odesa region (Category: Breaking News)
- Ukraine invasion could cause global food crisis, UN warns (Category: Breaking News)
- Russia denies it plans to declare war on 9 May (Category: Breaking News)
A cargo plane has crashed near the city of Kavala in northern Greece, local officials say. The Antonov-12 operated by a Ukraine-based company was flying from Serbia to Jordan when it went down on Saturday. It was not immediately known how many people were on board and whether there were any survivors. Greece’s ERT state […]
- More evacuations as Mediterranean wildfires spread (Category: Breaking News)
- Gunman targets homeless people in Canada shooting (Category: Breaking News)
- Man arrested after 4 July mass shooting in US (Category: Breaking News)
- Million in lockdown in Wuhan after four cases (Category: Breaking News)
By Michael Rowand As Sri Lankan protesters stormed the presidential residence in Colombo, the Chinese Embassy released no statements and did not tweet. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs offered no comment until Monday afternoon, well behind others such as India, the European Union, and the United States. The French Embassy even retweeted a tweet […]
- Chinese role in the Sri Lankan crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- China a mute spectator as Sri Lanka’s political upheaval poses long-term implications for Beijing (Category: Breaking News)
- Unelected Team At The BRI Forum: Speaking From Both Sides Of Mouth (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka should prevent Chinese vessel from reaching Hambantota port (Category: Breaking News)
Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak has won the first round of voting by MPs to choose the next Conservative leader and prime minister. He got 88 votes, with Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt in second place on 67 and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss third on 50. Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi and former health secretary Jeremy Hunt were eliminated […]
- Boris Johnson fights for political survival as cabinet ministers quit (Category: Breaking News)
- Sajid Javid and Jeremy Hunt join Conservative Party leadership race (Category: Breaking News)
- Race to replace Boris Johnson begins (Category: Breaking News)
- Gunman targets homeless people in Canada shooting (Category: Breaking News)
Russian missile and rocket strikes have caused more widespread damage in towns and cities across eastern and southern Ukraine, regional officials say. Four civilians died in a strike on Siversk, a town in Donetsk region, local governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said. Civilian areas of Druzhkivka, in the same region, were also hit. A supermarket was destroyed […]
- Zelensky orders civilians to evacuate Donetsk region (Category: Breaking News)
- EU blames Russia for food crisis prompting walkout (Category: Breaking News)
- Russian missile strikes kill 21 in Odesa region (Category: Breaking News)
- Every bridge leading to key Ukraine city destroyed (Category: Breaking News)
The heads of UK and US security services have made an unprecedented joint appearance to warn of the threat from China. FBI director Christopher Wray said China was the “biggest long-term threat to our economic and national security” and had interfered in politics, including recent elections. MI5 head Ken McCallum said his service had more […]
- China Covid app restricts residents after banking protests (Category: Breaking News)
- Hong Kong’s John Lee: Ex-security chief set to become new leader (Category: Breaking News)
- North Korea orders strict lockdown with first official Covid cases (Category: Breaking News)
- Nancy Pelosi Taiwan trip labelled as ‘extremely dangerous’ by Beijing (Category: Breaking News)
At least 21 people, including one child, have died in overnight Russian missile strikes on Ukraine’s southern Odesa region, Ukrainian officials say. The state emergency service, DSNS, says 16 people were killed in a nine-storey building hit by one missile in the village of Serhiyivka. Another five people, including the child, were killed in a […]
- Gunman targets homeless people in Canada shooting (Category: Breaking News)
- Man arrested after 4 July mass shooting in US (Category: Breaking News)
- More evacuations as Mediterranean wildfires spread (Category: Breaking News)
- Man charged with terrorism after deadly Oslo attack (Category: Breaking News)
Nato member Turkey has agreed to support Sweden and Finland’s membership of the alliance. It had initially opposed the Scandinavian countries’ bids to join. Turkey was angered by what it saw as their willingness to host Kurdish militants. Sweden and Finland could not join Nato without Turkey’s support. Russia strongly opposes the two states joining […]
- Taliban forces clash with Iranian border guards (Category: Breaking News)
- Queen pulls out of Platinum Jubilee service (Category: Breaking News)
- EU awards Ukraine and Moldova candidate status (Category: Breaking News)
- EU blames Russia for food crisis prompting walkout (Category: Breaking News)
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- War On China? – III: Pivot To East (Category: Breaking News)
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- War On China? – II: US Military-Industrial Complex & The War Without End (Category: Breaking News)
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- The Aragalaya & Morality (Category: Breaking News)
- Whither Lanka? (Category: Breaking News)
- Futility Of Transforming A Nation Built Over A Political Cesspit (Category: Breaking News)
- Unarmed but not peaceful (Category: Breaking News)
Ukraine and Moldova have both been granted EU candidate status, President of the European Council Charles Michel has announced. “Today marks a crucial step on your path towards the EU,” Mr Michel said, describing the European Council’s decision as a “historic moment”. Ukraine applied days after the Russian invasion in February, and the process moved […]
- EU blames Russia for food crisis prompting walkout (Category: Breaking News)
- Ukraine invasion could cause global food crisis, UN warns (Category: Breaking News)
- Macron defeats Le Pen and vows to unite divided France (Category: Breaking News)
- Ukraine reports 15,000 suspected war crimes (Category: Breaking News)
The US central bank has announced its biggest interest rate rise in nearly 30 years as it ramps up its fight to rein in soaring consumer prices. The Federal Reserve said it would increase its key interest rate by three quarters of a percentage point to a range of 1.5% to 1.75%. The rise, the […]
- Taliban appeals for help after earthquake kills over 1000 (Category: Breaking News)
- Man charged with terrorism after deadly Oslo attack (Category: Breaking News)
- Queen pulls out of Platinum Jubilee service (Category: Breaking News)
- China Covid app restricts residents after banking protests (Category: Breaking News)
Thousands of civilians are trapped in the Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk with essential supplies running out, the United Nations is warning. Many of them are sheltering in bunkers beneath the city’s Azot chemical plant. The last bridge leading out of the city was destroyed in fighting earlier this week – effectively trapping its 12,000 remaining […]
- EU blames Russia for food crisis prompting walkout (Category: Breaking News)
- Hundreds of besieged Ukrainian soldiers evacuated from Mariupol (Category: Breaking News)
- Every bridge leading to key Ukraine city destroyed (Category: Breaking News)
- Taliban appeals for help after earthquake kills over 1000 (Category: Breaking News)
All bridges to the embattled Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk have now been destroyed, the local governor says. With the city effectively cut off, Serhiy Haidai says delivering supplies and evacuating civilians are now impossible. Fierce fighting is taking place in the eastern city where Ukrainian officials said Russian artillery had driven its forces out of […]
- EU blames Russia for food crisis prompting walkout (Category: Breaking News)
- Russia denies it plans to declare war on 9 May (Category: Breaking News)
- EU awards Ukraine and Moldova candidate status (Category: Breaking News)
- Ukraine reports 15,000 suspected war crimes (Category: Breaking News)
Russia has killed hundreds of civilians in the north-eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv using indiscriminate shelling and widely-banned cluster munitions, according to new research by Amnesty International. Amnesty said it had found evidence of Russian forces repeatedly using 9N210/9N235 cluster bombs, as well as “scatterable” munitions – rockets that eject smaller mines that expl...
- Man charged with terrorism after deadly Oslo attack (Category: Breaking News)
- China Covid app restricts residents after banking protests (Category: Breaking News)
- EU blames Russia for food crisis prompting walkout (Category: Breaking News)
- Gunman targets homeless people in Canada shooting (Category: Breaking News)
Russia’s Daniil Medvedev has replaced Novak Djokovic at the top of the world rankings, two weeks before a Wimbledon at which he will not be allowed to play. Wimbledon has been stripped of its ranking points over its decision to ban Russian and Belarusian players over the Russian invasion of Ukraine. However, that decision means […]
- Djokovic beats Ben Shelton to reach US Open final (Category: Breaking News)
- Emma Raducanu loses in Cincinnati (Category: Breaking News)
- WTA keeps rankings points for Nottingham, Birmingham and Eastbourne (Category: Breaking News)
- Nordic nations join calls for ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes to be upheld (Category: Breaking News)
The bodies of some Ukrainian fighters killed defending the key south-eastern port of Mariupol have arrived in Kyiv, the soldiers’ families say. They say this was part of a swap with Russia, with each side receiving 160 bodies. Moscow has not commented. The fighters spent weeks holed up in the city’s Azovstal steelworks. In May, […]
- Russia denies it plans to declare war on 9 May (Category: Breaking News)
- Zelensky orders civilians to evacuate Donetsk region (Category: Breaking News)
- Hundreds of besieged Ukrainian soldiers evacuated from Mariupol (Category: Breaking News)
- US accuses Russia of depravity and brutality (Category: Breaking News)
Russia’s UN ambassador has stormed out of a UN Security Council meeting after the European Council president blamed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for causing a global food crisis. Charles Michel said Russia was using food supplies as a “stealth missile” against the developing world, forcing people into poverty. The Russian envoy Vassily Nebenzia accused Mr […]
- EU awards Ukraine and Moldova candidate status (Category: Breaking News)
- Taliban appeals for help after earthquake kills over 1000 (Category: Breaking News)
- Ukraine invasion could cause global food crisis, UN warns (Category: Breaking News)
- Man charged with terrorism after deadly Oslo attack (Category: Breaking News)
A US jury has found Amber Heard defamed ex-husband Johnny Depp with an article in which she claimed she was a victim of domestic abuse. Jurors awarded Depp – who denied abusing Ms Heard – $15m (£12m) in compensatory and punitive damages. Ms Heard, 36, won one of three counter-claims against Mr Depp, 58, and […]
- China Covid app restricts residents after banking protests (Category: Breaking News)
- Hong Kong’s John Lee: Ex-security chief set to become new leader (Category: Breaking News)
- Man charged with terrorism after deadly Oslo attack (Category: Breaking News)
- Rishi Sunak wins first round of Tory leadership vote (Category: Breaking News)
Around 15,000 suspected war crimes have been reported in Ukraine since the war began, with 200 to 300 more reported daily, its chief prosecutor said. Some 600 suspects have been identified and 80 prosecutions have begun, Iryna Venediktova told reporters in The Hague. The list of suspects includes “top military, politicians and propaganda agents of […]
- EU blames Russia for food crisis prompting walkout (Category: Breaking News)
- EU awards Ukraine and Moldova candidate status (Category: Breaking News)
- Russia denies it plans to declare war on 9 May (Category: Breaking News)
- Every bridge leading to key Ukraine city destroyed (Category: Breaking News)
By Nick Beake Billions of dollars of Chinese money are boosting some European economies – but some of the deals being struck have a catch. Critics say they are “debt traps”, where China gets to choose what happens if loans aren’t repaid. China insists it is a reliable investment partner – but it is also […]
- China urges EU to reach debt deal without delay (Category: Business)
- Beijing envoy warns Dutch of retaliation for chip curbs: ‘China won’t just swallow this’ (Category: Breaking News)
- China to keep investing in euro zone debt – China c.bank gov. (Category: Business)
- China signs forced labour treaties as Xinjiang scrutiny grows (Category: Breaking News)
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