France is trying to limit the diplomatic fallout after President Emmanuel Macron said that Europe should reduce its dependence on the U.S. and avoid ‘getting caught up in crises that are not ours’ after a state visit to China earlier this month. Henry Ridgwell reports from London. …
The daughter of an environmentalist imprisoned by Iran said on Saturday she had lost confidence in U.S. President Joe Biden’s efforts to free her father. Morad Tahbaz, an Iranian American who also holds British citizenship, has served five years of a 10-year sentence after being convicted of spying. He was briefly released to house arrest with an electronic tag in March 2022 when two other dual nationals, including British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, were allowed to leave Iran. In July his lawyer was quoted as saying he had been granted bail, but his daughter said he was now back in …
За даними розвідки НАТО, Росія втрачає поблизу Бахмута вп’ятеро більше солдатів, ніж Україна …
«Можливо, містер Маск міг би додати ще трохи» – американський письменник …
У Генштабі попередили, що й далі високою залишається ймовірність завдавання військами РФ ракетних та авіаційних ударів по всій території України …
A State Department spokesperson could not firm reports the Sudanese Army has agreed to help evacuate U.S. and other nationals from Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, a State Department spokesperson told VOA early Saturday Washington time. “We continue to remain in close contact with our embassy in Khartoum and have full accountability of our personnel. For their safety, I cannot discuss the details of their movements or whereabouts,” said the spokesperson. The Associated Press is reporting that the Sudanese army said Saturday it was coordinating efforts to evacuate diplomats from the United States, Britain, China and France on military airplanes, as fighting …
New developments: The Wagner Group founder is concerned about a Ukrainian counteroffensive. The United States will be training Ukrainian soldiers on Abrams tanks, while Germany will build a tank repair hub in Poland. Ukraine grain exports are still banned by European countries. In its daily intelligence update on Ukraine, then British Defense Ministry said Saturday that Russia is “struggling to maintain consistency in a core narrative it uses to justify the war in Ukraine.” The narrative is that the invasion of Ukraine is similar to the Soviet experience in World War II. Earlier this month, Russia cited safety issues as …
«На даний час гідрологічна ситуація контрольована та перебуває під посиленим контролем ДСНС» …
«У Києві утримується підтоплення заплавних територій та низьких ділянок садово-дачної забудови, присадибних ділянок» …
Людей вивезуть у місця, де є вода та харчування, на це місцева влада регіону виділила 90 одиниць транспорту, каже російський губернатор …
«Попередньо двома виходами було збито ворожий об’єкт над Азовським морем. Мешканці найближчих районів чули гучні звуки» …
A prominent Kurdish leader has added a new wrinkle to Turkey’s tense election campaign from his prison cell, suggesting the defeat of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could open the door to a resolution of the nation’s decades-old struggle against a Kurdish militant group. Selahattin Demirtas, the former co-leader of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), is pledging to use his influence to get the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to give up its armed resistance to Turkish rule if a new administration takes office in Ankara after parliamentary and presidential elections on May 14. “As a promise to our people, we …
The guardians of Champagne will let no one take the name of the bubbly beverage in vain, not even a U.S. beer behemoth. For years, Miller High Life has used the “Champagne of Beers” slogan. This week, that appropriation became impossible to swallow. At the request of the trade body defending the interests of houses and growers of the northeastern French sparkling wine, Belgian customs crushed more than 2,000 cans of Miller High Life advertised as such. The Comité Champagne asked for the destruction of a shipment of 2,352 cans on the grounds that the century-old motto used by the …
Площа пожежі охопила 1500 квадратних кілометрів, уточнили рятувальники …
The European Union is reportedly preparing emergency curbs on Ukrainian food products. Some Eastern European states have imposed their own import bans in recent days, complaining that a glut of cheap Ukrainian produce is hitting their own farmers. Ukraine’s struggles to export grain following Russia’s February 2022 invasion have raised fears of a global shortage, as Henry Ridgwell reports. …
The European Union is reportedly preparing emergency curbs on Ukrainian food products after several member states bordering Ukraine imposed their own import bans in recent days, complaining that a glut of cheap produce is hitting their own farmers. Following a virtual meeting with EU officials on Wednesday, Romanian Minister of Agriculture Petre Daea outlined the bloc’s plans. “The [European] Commission is making available to the five countries [Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia] 100 million euros [$109.32 million] from its crisis reserve. … It provides for the activation of exceptional safeguarding mechanisms, which means stopping imports until June 5 for …
Бахмут залишається в епіцентрі бойових дій …
Троє підозрюваних отримали таке обмеження до 19 червня, ще один – до 19 травня …
New developments: Kyiv acknowledges Russian advances in Bakhmut. U.S. will be training Ukrainian soldiers on Abrams tanks, while Germany will build a tank repair hub in Poland. Britain sanctions a Russian judge and four others linked to the arrest and alleged poisoning of Kremlin critic and activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was sentenced to 25 years for alleged treason and other offenses. Four European Union member states have banned Ukraine’s food exports to protect their own markets. Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Bulgaria say that an influx of Ukrainian food imports is harming their own farmers, who can’t compete with Ukraine’s low …
Russia’s military acknowledged that a bomb accidentally dropped by one of its warplanes caused a powerful blast in a Russian city not far from Ukraine’s border, injuring two and scaring local residents. Belgorod, a city of 340,000 located about 40 kilometers (25 miles) east of the Russia-Ukraine border, has faced regular drone attacks during Russia’s current military operation in Ukraine. Russian authorities blamed the earlier strikes on the Ukrainian military, which refrained from directly claiming responsibility for the attacks. The explosion late Thursday was far more powerful than anything Belgorod residents had experienced before. Witnesses reported a low hissing sound …