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Vladimir Putin: ‘The Old World is Over’
Principia Scientific 20 Jun 2022
The following extract from the latest speech by the Russian leader is widely banned on all social media platforms, but is crucial to understanding the context in which current affairs – economic, technological, military and scientific – are headed ... The old world order is gone with the wind ... Energy prices and inflation are self-inflicted.
photo: AP / Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP
Britain and Russia are enemies in Ukraine - but both want to disrupt Europe
The Guardian 21 Jun 2022
The British government has taken the first steps to unravelling its agreement with the EU on Northern Ireland – the so-called Northern Ireland protocol. Many Europeans are baffled by this ... Not really ... .
photo: NARA / US Navy
No nukes? Ukraine-Russian war will shape world’s arsenals
Wtop 21 Jun 2022
The headlines on the newsstands in Seoul blared fresh warnings of a possible nuclear test by North Korea. Out on the sidewalks, 28-year-old office worker Lee Jae Sang already had an opinion about how to respond to North Korea’s fast-growing capacity to lob nuclear bombs across borders and oceans ... As important, they say, is how well the U.S ... ___.
photo: AP / Michael Sohn
Germany vows to keep providing weapons to Ukraine
Anadolu Agency 21 Jun 2022
Germany will continue to provide weapons to Ukraine for as long as necessary, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Tuesday. In his speech at the Federation of German Industries’ (BDI) Industry Day, Scholz said ... Germany has recently reduced this share to 35%. .
photo: AP / Win McNamee
Attorney General Merrick Garland arrives in Ukraine for talks on Russia war crimes
Stars and Stripes 21 Jun 2022
(Tribune News Service) — U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland jetted into Ukraine on Tuesday in a surprise visit for talks with prosecutors on Russian war crimes. The top U.S. law enforcement official made the unannounced trip to the war-ravaged country to discuss efforts hold Russia accountable for the unprovoked invasion of its neighbor ... .
photo: AP / Evgeniy Maloletka, File
Kyiv braces for heavier fighting as Russia-EU tensions climb
The Jordan Times 21 Jun 2022
KYIV — Moscow's blockade of Ukrainian grain exports and a rail transit row sparked fresh tensions between Russia and the European Union on Monday, as Kyiv warned that Russian troops were intensifying their battle for control of eastern Ukraine ... Oil site strike ... Kyiv also reported heavier Russian shelling in the Kharkiv region in the northeast ... Right .
photo: AP / Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP, File
On the way out: Why is Israel’s government about to fall?
Al Jazeera 21 Jun 2022
Israel’s governing coalition announced on Monday that it will dissolve parliament, or the Knesset, next week, which means that the government will disband, and the country will hold elections for the fifth time in three years. Here’s a closer look at why this is happening, and what comes next. The Israeli government is collapsing – again? ... .
photo: AP / Ben Curtis
More than 250 killed in Ethiopia's Oromia region
Tamil Guardian 21 Jun 2022
More than 250 people mostly from the Amhara ethnic group, have been killed in an attack in the Oromia region of Ethiopia on Saturday. The attack reportedly began around 09.00 on Saturday and continued until about 13.00. Calls were made by residents to district authorities but help only came hours later ... #Ethiopia ... Read more at Al Jazeera and BBC News ... .
photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo
Hong Kong’s famous Jumbo Floating Restaurant capsizes at sea
Irish Independent 21 Jun 2022
Hong Kong’s famous Jumbo Floating Restaurant has capsized in the South China Sea less than a week after it was towed away from the city, its parent company said ... The company said no-one was injured, but efforts to save the vessel failed and it capsized on Sunday ... .
photo: AP / Sergei Chirikov/ Pool photo via AP
More 'Chatter' About Vladimir Putin's Health In Russia, Say Western Officials
Huffington Post 21 Jun 2022
There is “more chatter” about Vladimir Putin’s health in Russia and increased speculation about who will replace him, Western officials have said. But one official said there was not an “immediate threat” to Putin’s grip on power despite some 20,000 Russian soldiers having been killed so far in Ukraine ... “There is more chatter about his health ... .
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Lebanon threatens to return Syrian refugees by legal means without proper aid
Xinhua 20 Jun 2022
BEIRUT, June 20 (Xinhua) -- Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Monday warned that Lebanon will resort to legal means to return Syrian refugees to their homeland if the international community fails to help, according to a statement by the Council of Ministers ... ■ ... .
photo: AP / Ross D. Franklin
Hundreds of homeless die in extreme heat in US
NewstalkZB 21 Jun 2022
Hundreds of blue, green and grey tents are pitched under the sun's searing rays in downtown Phoenix, a jumble of flimsy canvas and plastic along dusty sidewalks. Here, in the hottest big city in America, thousands of homeless people swelter as the summer's high temperatures arrive ... Highs reached 47.7C last year ... Photo / AP ... It's not just a U.S. problem.
photo: AP / Dake Kang
Hundreds of thousands evacuated in China after heaviest rains in decades
Hindustan Times 21 Jun 2022photo: AP / Alexander Zemlianichenko
Indonesian president due to meet Putin this month -state media
Reuters 21 Jun 2022
June 21 (Reuters) - Indonesian President and current chair of the G20 Joko Widodo is due to visit Moscow later this month to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indonesia's state news agency cited the country's security minister as saying ... Register ... U.S ... Register. Reporting by Kate Lamb; Editing by Ed Davies. Our Standards ... ....
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Mali government says jihadi rebels kill 132 civilians
Yahoo Daily News 21 Jun 2022
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Recent attacks by jihadi rebels in central Mali have killed 132 civilians, the government announced Monday. The killings happened when several villages in the Bankass area were attacked on Saturday and Sunday, the government said in a statement Monday ... Assimi Goita ... In a separate incident, a U.N ... mission to Mali said in a statement.