Man City win thriller with Real Madrid 4-3
Manchester City will take a 4-3 lead into the second leg of their Champions League semi-final against Real Madrid after an extraordinary game at the Etihad Stadium on Tuesday.
City ...
Articles
Tensions surge after breakaway Moldovan region reports attacks (Updated)
Ukraine accused Moscow on Tuesday of trying to drag Moldova’s breakaway region of Transdniestria into its war on Kyiv after authorities in the Moscow-backed region said they had been ...
US, allies promise heavy arms for Ukraine, shrug off Russian nuclear warning (Updated)
The United States and its allies promised to send more heavy weaponry to Ukraine during talks at a German air base on Tuesday, brushing off a threat from Moscow that ...
EU to move away from emergency phase of Covid pandemic – document (Updated)
The European Commission is set to say the EU has entered a new post-emergency phase of the pandemic in which testing should be targeted and monitoring of Covid-19 cases should ...
Romania seeks to revive Soviet-era rail line to boost Ukraine shipment
Romania has issued a tender to rehabilitate a Soviet-era train line connecting its port of Galati on the Danube river to Ukraine to help boost grain exports, its transport minister ...
Putin ally says Ukraine heading for collapse into several states (Updated)
One of President Vladimir Putin’s closest allies said on Tuesday that Ukraine was spiralling towards a collapse into several states because of what he cast as a U.S. ...
Turkey’s Erdogan to visit Saudi Arabia on Thursday -two sources
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan plans to visit Saudi Arabia on Thursday and meet Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, two sources with information on the matter told Reuters, as Ankara tries ...
The struggle to save Iraq’s last Persian leopards
Tying a camera trap around a tree trunk on Bamo mountain in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, brothers Bahez and Nabaz Farooq Ali hope to capture footage of the Persian leopard, ...
Russia warns Britain for provoking Ukraine
Russia warned Britain on Tuesday that if it continued to provoke Ukraine to strike targets in Russia then there would be an immediate “proportional response”.
Russia’s defence ministry cited ...
Giant-killers Villarreal can’t rely on surprise factor anymore, Emery says
Villarreal won’t have the luxury of being taken lightly by Liverpool in their Champions League semi-final, first leg this week and will need to execute a perfect game to ...
Putin: Valieva’s skating ‘perfection’ could not be achieved with doping
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that teenage figure skater Kamila Valieva’s performances could not have been achieved with the help of any banned substances.
Valieva, who turned 16 ...
Germany to supply Ukraine with heavy weaponry for first time
Germany announced on Tuesday its first delivery of heavy weapons to Ukraine to help it fend off Russian attacks following weeks of pressure at home and abroad to do so ...
Finland, Sweden could decide together on NATO ties
Finland and Sweden might decide together whether or not they will join NATO following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said on Tuesday.
Russia’s offensive, ...
Cryptoverse: Ether prepares for epic ‘merge’ in quest to eclipse bitcoin
Ether has promised to do better. It has promised to go to the next level, edging out crypto rivals and even outshining the godfather, bitcoin. But the clock’s ticking.
...
Sheriff releases video of Baldwin rehearsing with gun on set
A New Mexico county sheriff has released video of actor Alec Baldwin rehearsing with an old-west style revolver on the set of the film “Rust” before the gun went off ...
N. Korea parades ICBMs, vows to boost nuclear arsenal
North Korea will speed up development of its nuclear arsenal, leader Kim Jong Un said while overseeing a huge military parade that displayed intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and other weapons, ...
Ukraine says Russian rockets flew over Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant
Ukraine’s state-run atomic energy company said Russian missiles flew at low altitude over Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine on Tuesday, and reiterated warnings that Russia’...
Britons look to discounters as grocery inflation hits highest in more than a decade
British grocery inflation hit 5.9 per cent in April, its highest level since December 2011, forcing shoppers to seek out value, increasingly at discounters Aldi and Lidl, industry data showed on Tuesday.
...
British cost of living crisis to have severe impact on economic growth
The cost of living crisis in Britain will have a severe impact on economic growth this year but the Bank of England will still lift interest rates again next week, ...
Turkish philanthropist Kavala jailed for life, activists protest
Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala was jailed for life without parole after he was convicted of trying to overthrow the government by financing protests, in a case that Europe’s top ...
London’s Heathrow raises 2022 passenger forecast to 52.8 million
London’s Heathrow Airport raised its 2022 forecast for passengers to 52.8 million on Tuesday, representing 65 per cent of pre-pandemic levels, driven by demand for leisure travel, but it expected numbers to ...
Russia pummels Ukraine, killing at least 560 fighters – defence ministry
Russia pummelled Ukraine with missiles, aircraft and artillery overnight, killing at least 560 Ukrainian fighters and destroying dozens of armoured vehicles, rocket systems and other military equipment, the defence ministry said.
...
Russian rouble hits near 2-year high vs euro
The Russian rouble strengthened on Monday, firming past 77 against the euro to a near two-year high, helped by tax payments that companies are due to make this week and as ...
All-private astronaut team returns safely from landmark space station visit
The first all-private astronaut team ever flown aboard the International Space Station (ISS) safely splashed down in the Atlantic off Florida’s coast on Monday, concluding a two-week science mission ...