World

(Reuters) – Virginia Thomas, the wife of conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, urged former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to work to overturn the results of the 2020 election in a series of text messages, the Washington Post and CBS News reported on Thursday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, inflicted “exorbitant” domestic abuse against his ex-wife, a senior British judge has concluded as he awarded her sole responsibility for looking after their children.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – Almost three-quarters of the U.N. General Assembly demanded aid access and civilian protection in Ukraine today, and criticized Russia for creating a “dire” humanitarian situation after Moscow invaded its neighbour one month ago.

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – Western leaders showcased their unity against Russia’s war in Ukraine today, with Washington seeking more military aid for Kyiv, NATO assigning more troops to its eastern flank and London imposing fresh sanctions against Moscow.

BRUSSELS/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States plans to accept up to 100,000 Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s invasion, the Biden administration announced today, after a month of bombardments touched off Europe’s fastest-moving refugee crisis since the end of World War Two.

KABUL, (Reuters) – The Taliban yesterday backtracked on their announcement that high schools would open for girls, saying they would remain closed until a plan was drawn up in accordance with Islamic law for them to reopen.

LVIV/KHARKIV, Ukraine/ BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – Ukraine’s leader called for solidarity on Thursday, a month since Russia’s invasion began, warning he would see who sells out at summits in Europe where bolstering sanctions and NATO is planned but restrictions on energy could prove divisive.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Madeleine Albright, who fled the Nazis as a child in her native Czechoslovakia during World War Two then rose to become the first female U.S.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Nestle is to halt the sale of a wide range of brands in Russia, including KitKat chocolate bars and Nesquik, amid Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s criticism of the world’s biggest food company for its continued presence in the country.

OAKLAND, Calif., (Reuters) – Ukraine is using facial recognition software to identify the bodies of Russian soldiers killed in combat and to trace their families to inform them of their deaths, Ukraine’s vice prime minister told Reuters.

PANAMA CITY,  (Reuters) – Panama will become the setting for the filming of five Bollywood movies after an actor from India, the country that produces the world’s largest number of feature films per year, signed an agreement with an Indian production company.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Republicans yesterday pressed their attacks on a range of issues against Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s nominee to become the first Black woman on the U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Anatoly Chubais, the architect of Russia’s post-Soviet economic reforms, has quit his post as a Kremlin special envoy and left the country due to the war in Ukraine, two sources told Reuters, the highest profile protest by a Russian figure against the invasion.

LVIV/MYKOLAIV/KHARKIV, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – A veteran aide of President Vladimir Putin has resigned over the Ukraine war and left Russia with no intention to return, two sources said today, the first senior official to break with the Kremlin since Putin launched his invasion a month ago.

WARSAW,  (Reuters) – Poland is expelling 45 Russian diplomats suspected of working for Russian intelligence, the foreign ministry said today.

(Reuters) – Search and rescue crews combed through rubble overnight in New Orleans after a tornado blasted the east side, killing at least one person, destroying homes and knocking down power lines.

LVIV/KYIV, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – Talks between Ukraine and Russia are confrontational but moving forward, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said yesterday, as the West plans to announce more sanctions against the Kremlin amid a worsening humanitarian crisis.

GRUENHEIDE, Germany,  (Reuters) – Elon Musk was cheered as he oversaw the handover of Tesla’s TSLA.O

PARIS/LONDON,  (Reuters) – French oil major TotalEnergies TTEF.PAsaid on Tuesday it would not renew its Russian gasoil and crude oil supply contracts for its German refinery, but would source gasoil from Saudi Arabia and crude via Poland instead.

UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres yesterday urged an end to the “absurd war” started by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine one month ago, warning that the conflict is “going nowhere, fast” and that the Ukrainian people are “enduring a living hell.”