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Heavy fighting in Kyiv outskirts as Russia, Ukraine signal possibility of talks
Hong Kong Standard 26 Feb 2022
The Ukrainian military said Russian troops attacked an army base on a main Kyiv Avenue but the assault was repelled. ... The Standard Channel ... Putin says Ukraine, a democratic nation of 44 million people, is an illegitimate state carved out of Russia, a view Ukrainians see as aimed at erasing their more than thousand-year history. ... But U.S ... .
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Biden orders $600mn in aid to Ukraine
Russia Today 26 Feb 2022
The package would include $350mn in military assistance ... Read more Washington offers to evacuate Zelensky – report ... Russia argued that military action was a necessary measure to protect the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics in the Donbass, which had requested Russian military assistance against “Ukrainian aggression” this week.
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China’s Xi Jinping assures North Korean leader of cooperation under ‘new situation’
South China Morning Post 26 Feb 2022
Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un the significance of cooperation ...
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U.S. warship transits sensitive Taiwan Strait
FX Empire 26 Feb 2022
TAIPEI (Reuters) – A U.S. warship sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Saturday, part of what the U.S. military calls routine activity, which nonetheless irritates China. The U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet said the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ralph Johnson was conducting a “routine” transit through international waters ... Navy ... ....
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China shared U.S. intelligence on Ukraine crisis with Russia - The Washington Times
WorldNews.com 26 Feb 2022
China’s government shared U.S. intelligence with Russia in a diplomatic bid to convince Beijing to join American-led efforts to head off a military attack on Ukraine, according a person familiar with the activity. Intelligence-sharing with a major U.S. adversary is unusual but was part of repeated diplomatic efforts by the ...read full story. .
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International Space Station no longer above geopolitcal fray
Asiatimes 26 Feb 2022
New US sanctions on Russia will encompass Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, according to a speech US President Joe Biden gave on February 24, 2022 ... The International Space Station has often stayed above the fray of geopolitics ... The station has been continuously occupied for over 20 years and has hosted more than 250 people from 19 countries ... ....
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Russia attacks Ukraine: Russian forces open new route of advance towards Kyiv
Gulf News 25 Feb 2022
Russian missiles and shelling rained down on Ukrainian cities on Thursday after President Vladimir Putin unleashed a full-scale military operations, forcing civilians to shelter on metro systems, with 100,000 people displaced ... Military and civilian,” Zelensky said in a video address, adding that another 316 people had been injured.
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Why Biden won't send troops to Ukraine
BBC News 25 Feb 2022
President Joe Biden has spent enormous diplomatic capitol on countering Russian aggression toward Ukraine. His administration relentlessly broadcast doomsday warnings about an impending invasion - which proved to be correct - and declared that no less than the international order was at stake ... The danger of a superpower confrontation ... More coverage ... .
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Indonesian rescuers search for survivors after deadly earthquake
Urdu Point 26 Feb 2022
Rescue teams in Indonesia were searching Saturday for six people still missing after a strong earthquake rocked Sumatra island a day earlier, killing at least eight people and injuring dozens, an official said ... At least 86 people were injured in the quake, with 10 suffering serious injuries, according to the BNPB.
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Australia Defence Minister's dig at only man who can stop Putin
NewstalkZB 25 Feb 2022
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Thursday announced sanctions to an additional 25 people, including army commanders, defence ministers and Russian mercenaries along with entities involved in the sale of military technology and weapons.
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China is Russia’s best hope to blunt sanctions, but wary
Federal News Radio 26 Feb 2022
and European markets by doing too much ... Insight by Rancher Government Solutions ... “It’s just not that big a market.” ... Read more. World News ... Also this week, China announced it would allow imports of wheat from all parts of Russia for the first time ... Shipments must be kept free of a fungus that led China earlier to avoid Russian wheat ... ___ ... .
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Putin willing to hold talks with Ukraine after phone call with China's Xi
Dawn 25 Feb 2022
Xi said China respects the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries ... According to the Kremlin, Putin told Xi that Russia's military operation in Ukraine was necessary to protect people against “genocide”, an accusation that the West calls baseless propaganda ... He said that Moscow did not want "neo-Nazis" to govern Ukraine ... .
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Russia threatens 'military and political consequences' if Finland, Sweden try joining NATO
Democratic Underground 25 Feb 2022photo: AP / Eduardo Verdugo
Nadal crushes new No 1 Medvedev in Mexico to stay undefeated in 2022
The Guardian 26 Feb 2022
Medvedev only yesterday learned that he had broken the five-year stranglehold of ‘The Big Three’ on men’s tennis’s No 1 ranking ... ....
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Bitcoin is behaving as a risk asset at the moment – will this change?
Independent online (SA) 26 Feb 2022
The Bitcoin price has dropped on the Russian invasion of Ukraine because it’s being treated as a risk asset – but this is likely to be temporary. The observation comes as Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, has already shed 12% in under 24 hours as military aggression in Ukraine ramped up ... But this might all change again ... BUSINESS REPORT .