Turkey’s opposition leader loses power over unpaid bills

opposition

Turkey’s opposition leader stated on Thursday that his power supply had been reduced after he stopped paying energy payments in protest at utility bill hikes that he blamed squarely on the president. Kemal Kilicdaroglu of the secular Republican People’s Party (CHP) has seized on Turkey’s monetary travails to try to mount a serious venture against … Read more

Russia’s economic outlook worsens: central bank survey

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Russia’s monetary outlook has worsened as a critical bank survey on Thursday confirmed a deeper contraction than previously anticipated and inflation soaring to 22 percent this year. While President Vladimir Putin insists the economy has managed to climate the barrage of unprecedented sanctions imposed in view that he sent troops to Ukraine on February 24, … Read more

Pope meets with Hungary’s Orban at Vatican

Pope

Pope Francis received Hungary’s nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban for the primary time at the Vatican on  Thursday and expressed his gratitude for the safe haven given to refugees fleeing the Ukraine warfare. Francis spent about  40 mins with Orban,  a right-wing populist who received a fourth time period in the workplace in elections in … Read more

Biden announces new $800 million military package for Ukraine

Biden

US President Joe Biden introduced Thursday a brand new package deal of $800 million in military useful resources for Ukraine, pronouncing it might assist Kyiv’s forces in the combat in opposition to Russian forces in the Donbas location. Biden stated the latest spherical of US aid will include heavy artillery, dozens of howitzers, 144,000 rounds … Read more

Europol says 17 kingpins arrested in anti-cocaine sting

Europol

Belgian, Dutch, and German police have arrested 17 suspected cocaine kingpins related to a record bust in the ports of Hamburg and Antwerp, the EU policing enterprise Europol stated Thursday. Federal and regional police in a three-country Operation swooped on extra than 35 premises and confiscated four residences, four automobiles, electronic systems, watches, and cash … Read more

Taiwan pledges to protect migrant fishermen after abuse claims

Taiwan

Taiwan said Thursday it will spend extra than Tw$2 billion ($sixty eight.5 million) to enhance the welfare of foreigners operating in its fishing enterprise, which has been accused of tremendous abuse of migrants. The island operates the sector’s 2nd-biggest deep-sea fishing fleet, with boats spending months — and every so often years — crossing far-flung … Read more

Two dead in Russian military research institute fire: agencies

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A fire at a Russian military research institute inside the northwestern town of Tver killed two people on Thursday and injured dozens greater, countries’ news organizations pronounced. Russian TV showed photographs of thick black smoke rising from inside the yellow four-storey building of the Central Research Institute of the Russian Air and Space Forces Several … Read more

Ukraine says 4 buses carrying evacuees have left Mariupol

Mariupol

Four buses carrying evacuees from Mariupol have left the besieged and destroyed port metropolis wherein Ukrainian forces are combating to preserve control, the authorities said Thursday. “Four evacuation buses managed to leave the city the day before today through the humanitarian hall,” Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said on social media, including that evacuations of … Read more

Ukraine says 9 bodies found outside Kyiv, some ‘with signs of torture’

Kyiv

The bodies of 9 civilians, a few showing signs and symptoms of torture, had been located in the metropolis of Borodyanka out of doors of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, police stated. “These were killed by way of the occupiers and some show signs and symptoms of torture. I need to emphasize that those people were … Read more

Sri Lanka deploys military ahead of protester’s funeral

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka called out the military on Thursday to strengthen safety beforehand of a funeral for the first person killed currently, after weeks of running anti-government protests within the island state. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa ordered the three-day deployment to maintain order in the principal metropolis of Rambukkana, where police dispersed an indication with stay rounds … Read more

At least 16 dead as blasts rock Afghan cities

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At least 16 humans were killed with the aid of bomb blasts in two Afghan towns Thursday. counting in  12 at a Shiite mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif claimed  Islamic State (IS) group. The wide variety of bombings in Afghanistan has faded for the reason that the Taliban again to strength in August, but the jihadist and … Read more

Putin hails ‘liberation’ of Mariupol

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President Vladimir Putin on Thursday hailed Russia’s “liberation” of Mariupol after Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told him Moscow managed the Ukrainian port city other than the giant Azovstal steel plant. Taking full management of Mariupol at the Azov Sea could be a chief strategic victory for Russia, assisting it to attach annexed Crimea to the … Read more

Russia fines Google for Ukraine videos

Google

A Russian court on Thursday slapped a sequence of small fines on Google for failing to take down contentious YouTube movies approximately the Kremlin’s army operation in Ukraine. The Moscow court ordered the USA tech behemoth to pay a complete of eleven million rubles ($135,000) for ignoring the country media regulator’s orders to cast off … Read more

1,020 civilian bodies in Kyiv morgues: Ukrainian official

Kyiv

The bodies of more than 1,000 civilians are being saved in morgues in the Kyiv area after Russian troops withdrew from areas around the capital, a senior Ukrainian respectable told AFP Thursday. “1,020 bodies (of) civilians, best civilians, in the areas of all of the Kyiv vicinity,” had been discovered, Olga Stefanishyna, Deputy Prime Minister … Read more

Ramos-Horta wins East Timor presidential election: officials

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Nobel laureate Jose Ramos-Horta scored a landslide victory in East Timor’s presidential election, according to initial outcomes posted Wednesday with the aid of the election secretariat. The 22 -yr-old secured 397,145 votes, or 62.09 percent, against incumbent Francisco “Lu-Olo” Guterres’ 242,440, or 37.91 percent, the secretariat’s internet site confirmed in spite of everything ballots have … Read more

Germany, Portugal, Spain leaders urge French to back Macron

Germany

The leaders of Germany, Portugal, and Spain  urged France to back centrist President Emmanuel Macron against far-right leader Marine Le Pen in elections current weekend, in a highly uncertain  intervention in the domestic politics of a fellow EU state on Thursday The run-off vote on Sunday is “for us not an election like others,” German … Read more

Britain gears up to watch TV in self-driving cars

Britain

Motorists can take a seat again and watch TV as soon as self-using cars are authorized on British roads but could be banned from the usage of handheld mobile telephones, authorities plans found out Wednesday. The Department for Transport set out changes to The Highway Code to “help ensure the primary wave of self-riding vehicles … Read more

Monaco surge towards Europe with fifth straight win

Monaco

Monaco beat neighborhood opponents Nice 1-zero on Wednesday as the resurgent principality facet claimed a fifth immediately win and moved above their buddies within the combat for European qualification in Ligue 1. Russia’s Aleksandr Golovin scored the handiest goal of the sport in first-half stoppage time within the Cote d’Azur derby, turning inside the loose … Read more