FREE Ukraine: World Bank approves major emergency support for country under siege

The World Bank says it has approved more than $700 in emergency support for Ukraine. Dubbed FREE Ukraine, it includes nearly $500 million in loans and guarantees

Latest updates: China’s Xi criticizes sanctions on Russia

BEIJING — China says President Xi Jinping has criticized sanctions imposed on Russia over its war against Ukraine as "harmful to all sides," in a video summit with French President

Ukraine says Russia steps up shelling of residential areas

Russian forces intensified shelling of cities in Ukraine’s center, north and south, a Ukrainian official said, upending attempts to evacuate besieged civilians. With the Ukrainian leader

Blinken assures nervous Baltics of NATO protection against Russia

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday assured Lithuania of NATO protection and American support as he began a lightning visit to the three Baltic states

Russia snubs UN court hearings in case brought by Ukraine

Ukraine pleaded with the United Nations’ top court yesterday to order Russia to halt its devastating invasion, saying Moscow is already committing widespread war crimes and

1972 TWA jet explodes at Las Vegas airport

A bomb has exploded aboard a Trans World Airlines Boeing 707 at Las Vegas airport. No-one was injured in the blast which destroyed the cockpit of the aircraft as

Latest updates: Foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia to meet

The latest developments on the Russia-Ukraine war: ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says the foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine will meet near the Turkish Mediterranean coastal city

Limited Russian cease-fire revived in Ukraine; talks planned

Russian forces will observe a temporary cease-fire yesterday in two Ukrainian cities, an official in one of the country’s two pro-Russia separatist regions said after an

1975 Kidnapped heiress found strangled

The body of Lesley Whittle, the 17-year-old heiress kidnapped from her Shropshire home 52 days ago, has been found at the bottom of a drain shaft. 

At Ukraine’s largest art museum, a race to protect heritage

The director of Ukraine’s largest art museum walked its hallways, supervising as staff packed away its collections to protect their national heritage in case the Russian invasion

Russians besiege Ukrainian ports, war refugees top one million

Russian forces captured the strategic Ukrainian port of Kherson and besieged another yesterday in a bid to cut the country off from the sea, as the two sides headed

Kyiv shrines, memorials with powerful symbolic value at risk

Kyiv, bracing for a potentially catastrophic Russian attack, is the spiritual heart of Ukraine. Among the sites at risk in the Ukrainian capital are the nation’s

1975 Comic genius Chaplin is knighted

Silent film legend Charlie Chaplin has become Sir Charles after a ceremony at Buckingham Palace. The star of such films as The Kid and The Great Dictator was knighted

Tightrope walking on Taiwan question leaves Washington no room for error

On Feb 28, 1972, during then United States President Richard Nixon’s visit to China, the two governments signed in Shanghai the first of three joint communiques that culminated

Russia, Ukraine ready for new talks on war

As Day 7 of the Russia-Ukraine conflict dawned, Russia continued its attacks on crowded Ukrainian cities and a lengthy convoy of Russian tanks and other vehicles advanced

FM Lavrov embodies Moscow’s steely posture

As Russia’s top diplomat during the invasion of Ukraine, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is embodying the Kremlin’s defiant posture with a mixture of toughness and

1966 BBC tunes in to colour

The BBC has announced plans to begin broadcasting television programmes in colour from next year. Britain will be the first country in Europe to offer regular programming in colour.

New Zealand protesters set fires as police break up camp

Thick black smoke billowed across the grounds of New Zealand’s Parliament and sirens blared yesterday as retreating protesters against coronavirus vaccine mandates set fire to tents,

Oil tops $110 a barrel, ruble sinks to cents as Ukraine war rages

Oil prices surged above $110 per barrel yesterday as Russian forces stepped up attacks on Ukrainian cities. Global stock markets were mixed as investors waited to hear the

Russia bombs Kharkiv as convoy nears Kyiv

Russian shelling pounded civilian targets in Ukraine’s second-largest city again yesterday and a 40-mile convoy of tanks and other vehicles threatened the capital — tactics Ukraine’s embattled

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