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Warsaw: Cezary Kulesza, the President of the Polish Football Association, announced on Saturday that the Poland side will not play their FIFA World Cup qualifier match against Russia, scheduled for March 24, due to its invasion of Ukraine. Kulesza, through the announcement on Twitter, also indicated that Poland is in talks with Sweden and the […]
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Vienna: After a barrage of airstrikes on cities and military bases around the country, Russian forces were closing in on Ukraine’s capital on Saturday. The city warned of street fighting and urged residents to stay inside and take cover. With growing signs that Russia aims to overthrow him, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on Ukrainians to […]
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New Delhi: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday over the current situation in his country and urged India for its political support in United Nations Security Council (UNSC) against Russia which is continuing its military operations in Ukraine. Taking to Twitter, Zelenskyy said, “Spoke with Indian Prime Minister Narendra […]
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Bitcoin, which nosedived below $34,000 when the war began on Thursday, was flat on Saturday at nearly $39,000 per coin, compared with a 5 per cent gain in XRP digital asset and a 10 per cent rise in Terra's LUNA token, reports CoinDesk.
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Moscow: Moscow continued to exert hefty pressure on Kiev by striking more military targets in Ukraine, while the two sides have expressed intention to start direct dialogue. The Russian armed forces have disabled 211 military infrastructure facilities in Ukraine since the operation began on early Thursday, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Friday […]
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Nick Clegg, Global Affairs VP at Meta, tweeted that ordinary Russians are using Meta's apps to express themselves and organize for action.
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said, "Visuals of Indian students in bunkers are disturbing. Many are stuck in eastern Ukraine which is under heavy attack. My thoughts are with their worried family members. Again, I appeal to GOI to execute urgent evacuation."
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The company said it is proactively reviewing Tweets to detect platform manipulation and taking enforcement action against synthetic and manipulated media that presents a false or misleading depiction of what's happening.
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The assault represented Putin's boldest effort yet to redraw the world map and revive Moscow's Cold War-era influence. It triggered new international efforts to end the invasion, including direct sanctions on President Putin.
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The resolution proposed by the US and Albania with the backing of nearly 60 countries received 11 votes in favour, giving it a majority in the 15-member Council, but was nullified by the Russian veto on Friday evening.
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New Delhi: A radiation spike has been recorded near Chernobyl’s nuclear power plant which has been seized by Russian forces, monitoring data shows, BBC reported. Invading Russian troops took control of the plant — the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 1986 — on Thursday, Ukraine said. Radiation levels increased about 20-fold on […]
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New Delhi: The sound of gunfire has echoed through Ukraine’s capital Kiev as Russian tanks were filmed entering the city for the first time, BBC reported. Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence called on those living in the northern outskirts, where the tanks were seen, to make fire bombs “to neutralise the enemy”. The European Union has […]
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New Delhi: Russias communications watchdog Roskomnadzor said on Friday that it is partially restricting access to Meta platforms Facebook in response to restrictions the US social media giant has imposed on Russian media, accusing Facebook of censorship, The Guardian reported. “On February 25, the prosecutor general’s office, in agreement with the foreign ministry, decided that […]
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As Russian missiles rain down relentlessly on Ukraine, the fiercest attack on Europe since the Second World War, the shocks are being felt all over the world. Political polemics apart, the key question that needs to be asked is whether the world can afford a full-blown war and what impact it could have on the […]
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By Juliette McIntyre, Douglas Guilfoyle The world was treated to a grotesque spectacle this week. Russia, the current president of the UN Security Council, launched an invasion of Ukraine while the Security Council was holding an urgent meeting to try to resolve the crisis. This has many people asking whether there is any point to […]
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New Delhi: China could invade Taiwan after seeing the West’s response to Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine, a leading historian has warned, Daily Mail reported. Professor of European studies at the Oxford University, Timothy Garton Ash, said that Xi Jinping taking over the island militarily would be a ‘worst case scenario’, the report said. The […]
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New Delhi: Russia on Friday said it expects support from India at the UN Security Council when the global body takes up a crucial resolution on the Russian military operation in Ukraine. Russia’s Charge d’affaires Roman Babushkin said India has a deep understanding of the reasons that led to the current situation in Ukraine and […]
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Adilabad: Miranmayi Biswas and Polipelli Gajanand, studying MBBS III and IV year, respectively, were stranded in Ukraine which was undergoing war against Russia. Both Biswas and Gajanand are natives of Adilabad town. While Biswas is pursuing medicine at Vinnitsa National Medical University, Gajanand is a student at Zaporozhye State Medical University. The students informed their […]
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Hyderabad: There has been panic and chaos since Russia ordered an attack on Ukraine. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service announced that all male citizens aged 18 to 60 are now prohibited from leaving the country. In a viral clip, a father can be seen seeing off his daughter to find a safe shelter. He […]
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New Delhi: The Russia-Ukraine military conflict, which has increased energy prices globally, will reduce the propensity to import coal by power plants and will further hamper the supply of fuel to captive power plants and industries like steel, aluminium from state-owned Coal India, ICPPA said on Friday. According to the Indian Captive Power Producers Association […]
