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With Agency Reports Russian forces have begun an attack on Ukraine, with reports of troops crossing the border to the north and south, explosions in multiple cities including the capital Kyiv and Russian President Vladimir Putin warning of bloodshed unless Ukrainian forces lay down their arms. Reports of military action came as world leaders attempted…
A Russian anti-submarine destroyer has fenced off a US submarine near the Kuril Islands, forcing it to leave the country’s territorial waters, Moscow said Saturday, amid rising tensions over Ukraine. The US military however denied this. Russia’s defence ministry said that during planned military drills the Marshal Shaposhnikov destroyer had detected a US Navy Virginia-class…
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Efforts to defuse the crisis in Ukraine via a frenzy of telephone diplomacy failed to ease tensions Saturday, with the White House insisting that Russia faces “swift and severe costs” if its troops carry out an invasion. Russian President Vladimir Putin slammed Western claims that such a move might be on the horizon, calling the…
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The leader of the Islamic State (IS) group has been k!lled in an overnight US special forces raid in north-west Syria, President Joe Biden has announced.. Qurayshi detonated a bomb that k!lled himself and members of his own family “in a final act of desperate cowardice”, the president said. The operation by US special forces…
Tens of thousands of people awoke on Christmas morning to a surprise from an unexpected benefactor – Santander. The bank mistakenly deposited £130m into 75,000 accounts on 25 December. Santander’s staff are now rushing to claw back the money, although the job is being made more difficult because much of it was deposited in accounts…
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US President Joe Biden revoked an existing proclamation Tuesday that banned travel last month from eight African countries because of the omicron variant of the coronavirus. “The travel restrictions imposed by that proclamation are no longer necessary to protect the public health,” Biden said in a new proclamation. Accordingly, the restrictions on Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho,…
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