ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan opened a massive suspension bridge across Turkey’s Dardanelles Strait today, the latest in a series of major infrastructure projects which he has prioritised during his two decades in power.
KYIV/LVIV/WASHINGTON, Ukraine, (Reuters) – As Russian troops appeared to stall in their advance on Ukrainian cities, the United States voiced concern yesterday that China might assist Moscow with military equipment as the war entered its fourth week.
(Reuters) – A 13-year-old was driving the pickup truck that collided with a van in Texas, killing nine people, including six members of a New Mexico college’s men’s and women’s golf team and a coach, the U.S.
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa yesterday blamed NATO for the war in Ukraine and said he would resist calls to condemn Russia, in comments that cast doubt over whether he would be accepted by Ukraine or the West as a mediator.
TASHKENT, (Reuters) – Uzbekistan, a Central Asian republic with close ties to Russia, called yesterday for a diplomatic resolution of the conflict in Ukraine and said it would not recognise Moscow-backed separatist statelets there.
(Reuters) – A group of seven U.S. members of Congress on Wednesday called on President Joe Biden to withdraw support for Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry, saying he lacks legitimacy to organize the elections needed to resolve the country’s political crisis.
UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council will no longer vote on Friday on a Russian-drafted call for aid access and civilian protection in Ukraine as Russia’s U.N.
LKYIV/LVIV, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Rescue workers today dug survivors out of the rubble of a theatre in the besieged city of Mariupol which Ukraine said had been hit by a Russian air strike as people sheltered there from bombardments.
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa today blamed NATO for the war in Ukraine and said he would resist calls to condemn Russia, in comments that cast doubt over whether he would be accepted by Ukraine or the West as a mediator.
BERLIN, (Reuters) – Invoking the fall of the Berlin Wall, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy today urged German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to tear down what he called a wall between “free and unfree” Europe and stop the war in Ukraine.
KYIV/LVIV, Ukraine, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden yesterday called Russian leader Vladimir Putin a war criminal in comments the Kremlin said were “unforgivable” as it insisted the war in Ukraine was “going to plan” amid talk of compromise at peace talks.
TOKYO, (Reuters) – A powerful magnitude 7.3 earthquake jolted Japan’s northeast coast off Fukushima late yesterday, leaving two dead and 94 injured and reviving memories of a quake and tsunami that crippled the same region just over a decade earlier.
(Reuters) – Former CNN primetime host Chris Cuomo filed a request for arbitration yesterday, seeking $125 million in damages for alleged wrongful termination.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain said yesterday it had agreed its biggest-ever civil infrastructure export finance deal to underwrite a high-speed rail line between the Turkish capital Ankara and the port of Izmir in the west of the country.
PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Three Panamanian-flagged ships have been hit by Russian missiles in the Black Sea since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last month, Panama’s Maritime Authority said yesterday.
THE HAGUE, (Reuters) – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) today ordered Russia to cease military actions in Ukraine immediately, in a preliminary decision in a case brought by Kyiv.
KYIV/LVIV, Ukraine, (Reuters) – New talk of compromise from both Moscow and Kyiv on a status for Ukraine outside of NATO lifted hope today for a potential breakthrough after three weeks of war.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy today urged the U.S.
LONDON, (Reuters) – A Russian woman who burst into a TV studio to denounce the Ukraine war during a live news bulletin told Reuters today she was worried for her safety and hoped her protest would open Russians’ eyes to propaganda.
LVIV, Ukraine/KYIV, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will make his first visit to Europe since the invasion of Ukraine to discuss the crisis with NATO allies next week, the White House said yesterday as the refugee tally hit 3 million amid more Russian air strikes.
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