Turkey defuses mine after Russia warns of strays from Ukraine ports
Turkey’s military deactivated a mine on Saturday that had drifted in from the Black Sea, setting off a loud explosion north of Istanbul, days after Russia warned several of ...
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Lviv mayor reports further strike after rockets hit outskirts of western Ukrainian city (Update 2)
The mayor of Lviv said another rocket had hit the city in western Ukraine on Saturday, not long after two rockets struck its outskirts in what appeared to be the ...
Tunisia says it has dismantled 150 militant cells in past 6 months
Tunisian police forces have dismantled about 150 militant cells in the past six months, a spokesman for the National Guard said on Saturday.
He added that some of the foreign militants ...
Xavi can stay in Barcelona as long as he wants, says Laporta
Barcelona coach Xavi Hernandez can remain at the LaLiga side for as long as he wants following his superb start in the job, club president Joan Laporta said, adding that ...
Japan’s Kishida sees growing chance of Russia using nuclear weapons
Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Saturday the prospect of Russia using nuclear weapons was “increasingly real”, welcoming a visit by the U.S. ambassador to Hiroshima, the ...
Bologna coach Mihajlovic to undergo treatment for leukaemia
Bologna coach Sinisa Mihajlovic will return to hospital to undergo another round of treatment for leukaemia after scans showed a risk of a relapse, the Serbian said on Saturday.
The 53...
Iraq parliament fails to elect new state president over lack of quorum
Iraq’s parliament failed again on Saturday to vote for a president after Iran-backed groups boycotted the session, in a setback to an alliance led by cleric Moqtada al-Sadr which ...
UK retail sales and consumer confidence fall as inflation mounts
Britons cut back on their shopping in February and consumer confidence levels tumbled this month as accelerating inflation cast a shadow over the world’s fifth-biggest economy, data released on ...
Biden meets top Ukrainian officials in Poland (Update 2)
U.S. President Joe Biden spoke with top Ukrainian government officials in Warsaw on Saturday during his visit to Poland to show support for the NATO alliance’s eastern flank ...
Costs of going unvaccinated in America are mounting for workers and companies
Nearly a year after COVID vaccines became freely available in the US., one fourth of American adults remain unvaccinated, and a picture of the economic cost of vaccine hesitancy is ...
Saudi Grand Prix to go ahead despite Houthi attacks say organisers
Formula One’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix will go ahead after teams received safety assurances and drivers met for more than four hours following attacks on an oil facility near ...
Western sanctions won’t sway Kremlin, says Russia’s former president Medvedev
It is “foolish” to believe that Western sanctions against Russian businesses could have any effect on the Moscow government, Russian ex-president and deputy head of security council Dmitry Medvedev was ...
Four weeks of war scar Russia’s economy
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 sparked sweeping sanctions that ripped the country out of the global financial fabric and sent its economy reeling.
A month on, Russia’s ...
Saudi-led coalition launches operation against Yemen’s Houthis
The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen began a military operation on Saturday to stop attacks on its oil facilities and “protect global energy sources,” Saudi state media reported.
The coalition ...
Russia conducts military drills on isles disputed with Japan
Russia was conducting drills on islands claimed by Tokyo, Japanese media said on Saturday, days after Moscow halted peace talks with Japan because of its sanctions over Russia’s invasion ...
China’s Sinopec pauses Russia projects, Beijing wary of sanctions
China’s state-run Sinopec Group has suspended talks for a major petrochemical investment and a gas marketing venture in Russia, sources told Reuters, heeding a government call for caution as ...
Lebanon banks to sell dollars at approved rate starting March 28
Lebanese banks will be allowed to sell the local currency for US dollars and vice-versa starting March 28, on the basis of the rate determined by the central bank’s “Sayrafa” ...
HSBC steps up scrutiny of Russian clients worldwide as sanctions ratchet up
HSBC (HSBA.L) is shunning prospective Russian clients and declining credit to some existing ones, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, as the bank seeks to shield ...
Putin says West trying to cancel Russian culture including Tchaikovsky
President Vladimir Putin on Friday accused the West of trying to cancel Russian culture, including the works of great composers such as Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Dmitry Shostakovich and Sergei Rachmaninov.
At ...
Germany ready to peak at Qatar World Cup, says Gundogan
Germany will look to extend their winning run under coach Hansi Flick when they face Israel and Netherlands in the coming days but the team’s priority is to peak ...
Russia warns West: gas bills in roubles are just days away
Russia warned the West on Friday that billing in roubles for billions of dollars of natural gas exports to Europe could be just days away, Moscow’s toughest response yet ...
US, EU strike LNG deal as Europe seeks to cut Russian gas
The United States will work to supply 15 billion cubic metres of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the European Union this year to help it wean off Russian energy supplies, the ...
Irish foreign minister taken off stage in Belfast after security alert
Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney was taken off stage by officials during a speech in Belfast on Friday after the event organiser said a suspicious device had been discovered in ...
UN rights office says evidence growing of Mariupol mass graves
The head of the U.N. human rights team in Ukraine said on Friday that monitors had received more information about mass graves in the besieged port city of Mariupol, ...