Russian envoys are ordered to leave after Moscow said it was downgrading diplomatic relations with Tallinn. Russia and Estonia on Monday were expelling the ambassadors from each other’s countries in a tit-for-tat move, saying that their diplomatic missions will be headed by charges d’affaires as relations between the countries sank…
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The co-pilot of the ill-fated flight that crashed in Nepal on Sunday lost her husband in a plane crash 16 years earlier, it has emerged. Anju Khatiwada was co-piloting Yeti Airlines flight 691 when it smashed into a gorge near the tourist town of Pokhara, killing all on board in…
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Pressure is mounting on President Joe Biden to give further details about the classified documents found at his Delaware home and a Washington office he once used. An independent lawyer, or special counsel, has been appointed by the justice department to investigate whether these papers were mishandled. There are still…
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Russia’s military says it has captured the Ukrainian salt-mine town of Soledar after a long battle, calling it an “important” step for its offensive. The victory would allow Russian troops to push on to the nearby city of Bakhmut, and cut off the Ukrainian forces there, a spokesman said. This…
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Pashinyan is increasingly frustrated by Russia’s failure to secure free transit along a corridor linking Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenia has refused to host military drills by the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), a Russian-led alliance of post-Soviet countries, in an announcement that reflects Yerevan’s growing tensions with Moscow. Russia had…
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On Sunday, the world watched, stunned, as thousands of supporters of Jair Bolsonaro stormed Brazil’s Congress, Supreme Court and presidential palace. In echoes of the attacks on the United States Capitol almost exactly two years ago, they tore through buildings shouting the false accusation that the presidential election had been…
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Former US president slams FBI raid, calls Joe Biden an ‘enemy of the state’ in his first public appearance since the search of Mar-a-Lago. Former US President Donald Trump has slammed the FBI’s raid on his Florida home as a “travesty of justice” as he made his first public appearance…
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Speaking in Singapore, Noeleen Heyzer says she will make no second visit to the country unless she can see the deposed leader. Noeleen Heyzer, the United Nations special envoy on Myanmar, has said she is “very concerned” about the health of Myanmar’s deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi who has…
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Redacted document provides more information about evidence that led to unprecedented search of Mar-a-Lago this month. The US Department of Justice has released the highly anticipated affidavit that underpinned this month’s search of Donald Trump’s Florida home, confirming that the United States is investigating the alleged mishandling of classified documents by the…
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Fires at a nearby coal-powered plant reportedly forced the nuclear station’s two working power units offline. The Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) has been disconnected from Ukraine’s energy grid for the first time in its history after nearby fires damaged overhead power lines, according to the country’s state nuclear power company.…
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