Stephen Merchant Is an Unsmooth Criminal

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Senators near a deal to slash the stalled Covid aid package to $10 billion.

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India defends buying discounted Russian oil despite appeal by Truss

Foreign secretary urges democracies to join in applying sanctions to Russia after Ukraine invasion

India’s external affairs minister, Dr S Jaishankar, has defended his country’s right to buy discounted oil from Russia following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, despite an appeal from the from his UK counterpart, Liz Truss, for democracies to show solidarity against authoritarians.

He also contrasted the concern the west has shown about the invasion with what he described as the relative uninterest in the Taliban takever of Afghanistan, saying people seemed motivated by the proximity of a crisis, as much as anything.

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The Next Big Addiction Treatment

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Biden to release 1m daily barrels from US oil reserve to ‘ease the pain’ of high gas prices – live

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Biden says his energy plan is twofold, and as well as lowering oil costs and saving American families money by tapping the reserves, he was including a directive “to strengthen our clean energy economy.”

“We need to embrace all the tools and technologies that can help us free us from our dependence on fossil fuels [and] move toward more homegrown clean energy technologies made by American companies and American workers,” he said.

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Canada's Supreme Court upholds C$9m fine on maple syrup thief

Nearly 3,000 tonnes of maple syrup was stolen in the so-called Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist.

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A New Wave of Covid-19 Is Coming. Here’s How to Prepare.

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Suicide vest of Paris attacks defendant was faulty, expert tells court

Salah Abdeslam, main suspect on trial for 2015 terrorist attacks, claims he chose not to detonate vest

A police explosives expert has told a court that the suicide vest worn by the main suspect on trial for the 2015 Paris terror attacks that left 130 people dead and hundreds injured was faulty.

The witness said the detonators on the front and back of the vest abandoned by Salah Abdeslam near a rubbish bin were “defective” and there was no switch or battery present.

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Hubble Space Telescope Spots Oldest and Farthest Star Known

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Hungary accused of inflating number of Ukrainian arrivals to seek EU funds

Claim 540,000 refugees welcomed ‘misleading’ as most travelling on to other countries, say rights groups

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Hungary’s far-right government has been accused of inflating the number of Ukrainian refugees it is sheltering as it seeks to secure European funds to finance their welfare.

Days before what will be a closely-fought general election against a unified opposition bloc, Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz administration – which has previously trumpeted its hostility to those it considers illegal migrants – claimed it had accepted more refugees fleeing Ukraine than any other neighbouring country after taking Hungary’s population of 9.6 million into account.

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Ukraine conflict: Russia to allow unauthorised imports from West

The decision is in response to Western sanctions and surging inflation since the war in Ukraine.

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Today in On Tech: Apple and the streaming mirage.

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Why the Red Cross has to be neutral in the Ukraine conflict

The ICRC is worried that its operations might be undermined by misinformation about its work.

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The U.S. and allies are preparing new sanctions on Russian supply chains.

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Macron kickstarts re-election campaign as Le Pen gains ground

Voters trust French president over his handling of war in Ukraine but accuse him of ducking political debate at home

The French president Emmanuel Macron is aiming to kickstart his re-election campaign this week with walkabouts outside Paris and a big rally in the capital, after the diplomatic pressures of the war in Ukraine limited his canvassing at home – leading to a dip in the polls and worries of a low turn-out.

Macron, 44, is hoping next month to be the first French president to win re-election in 20 years, but he has recently dropped two to three points in the polls as the gap between him and the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen narrows. While he remains favourite the next 10 days of campaigning are seen as fraught and risky amid anger over the cost of living, disillusionment with the level of campaign debate and politics in general.

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Ukraine war: Snake Island soldier receives a medal from his region

The soldier and his colleagues were thought to have been killed on the first day of the war.

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Best actor winner Will Smith took offence at a joke by presenter Chris Rock

The Oscars were halted momentarily when Will Smith took offence to a joke by presenter Chris Rock.

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The budget seeks more money for Treasury to deter cyberattacks and enforce sanctions.

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As Russia tries to focus its offensive, Ukraine seeks to scattergun

Analysis: overstretched Russian forces are trying to concentrate on the east, but Kyiv is doing its best not to let them

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Russia’s military may have announced a change of plan at the end of last week to focus on the “liberation of Donbas”, but the apparent decision reflected the reality that Moscow’s initial multi-front invasion plan has failed in the face of dogged resistance from Ukraine.

The advance on Kyiv became bogged down after less than a week, particularly to the north-west of the city. If Ukraine’s declaration that it has retaken the heavily contested town of Irpin’ on Monday is correct, the advance may now even be going into reverse.

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War in Ukraine: Graphic protest by Russian artist Yevgenia Isayeva

Yevgenia Isayeva doused herself in fake blood and chanted, "my heart bleeds" in the solo protest.

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Inside the 2022 Vanity Fair Oscars Party

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Australia news live updates: severe weather warnings for flood-hit regions of NSW and Queensland, federal budget previewed

The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a warning for more heavy rainfall and potentially life-threatening flash floods from Noosa down to northern NSW. Follow all the day’s news

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Karvelas asks if “the shine has come off” the Morrison government, and Birmingham (again, masterfully) turns to budget and election talking points.

“This is a budget for Australia’s future ... the choice will be a real choice,” he says.

This budget is the next stage in our long-term economic plan ...

You and pretty much every other commentator is asking me what the government is going to do about cost of living pressures ... we’re getting the balance right.

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Army boss raises partition fears: Ukraine round-up

Ukraine's military intelligence chief fears a Korea-style outcome as Biden's jab at Putin makes further waves.

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DeSantis Is Trump 2.0

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Afghanistan: Taliban bars BBC TV programmes from schedules

Radio and online are unaffected as the regime stops local TV showing international partner content.

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Red Carpet Oscars Fashion From Best Actor and Actress Nominees

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Stars in Brazil voice fury as judge orders festival to ban ‘political demonstrations’

Electoral judge outlaws leftist ‘propaganda’ at Lollapalooza, months before October election

Artists and celebrities in Brazil have voiced outrage after an electoral judge ordered one of the country’s biggest music festivals to outlaw “political demonstrations” by performers after a legal challenge from President Jair Bolsonaro’s political party.

Lawyers representing Bolsonaro’s Liberal party made their petition to the supreme electoral court on Saturday after Brazil’s far-right leader was pilloried at this weekend’s Lollapalooza event by pop stars and rappers, including the British singer Marina.

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El Salvador: State of emergency after 62 gang killings in a day

The 62 deaths recorded on Saturday make it the country's most violent 24-hour period for 30 years.

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Biden denounces Russian invasion, casting it as part of a decades-long attempt to crush democracies.

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Kherson diary: ‘We have more deaths from lack of medication than from bullets’

Week four of two female journalists’ first-hand account of the Russian occupation of the Ukrainian city

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As Kherson approaches one month under Russian occupation, residents continue to protest and resist. But as people continue to disappear, Russians open fire on protesters and medicines run low, two female journalists, whose identities we are protecting, say the people of Kherson are coming under increasing strain.

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Ukraine war: Five wounded after explosions hit western city of Lviv

Lviv has become a hub for thousands of refugees fleeing other parts of Ukraine since Russia's invasion.

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Kharkiv citizens: ‘They can bomb us for as long as they want: we will withstand it’

In the second most shelled city in Ukraine, defiant residents are set on keeping their beloved city running

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The rubbish collectors in Kharkiv wear flak jackets now. Several of their trucks are peppered with shrapnel holes from shells that landed during their rounds. The bins they empty are packed with the shattered, twisted remains of homes destroyed by explosions.

But still, every morning they go out to keep Kharkiv clean. Ukraine’s second city is perhaps the most-shelled target in the country after besieged Mariupol. Every day brings a hail of Grad rockets, cluster bombs, shells and missiles.

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War in Ukraine: Musicians perform emotional concert in Kharkiv metro station

Musicians performed the concert at a metro station in Kharkiv, being used as a makeshift shelter.

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Mutinous Russian troops ran over their own commander, say western officials

Officials describe reported incident during fighting in Ukraine as sign of ‘morale challenges’ faced by invading forces

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Western officials have said they believe a Russian commander was run over and killed by mutinous forces during the fighting in Ukraine, in a sign of what they described as the “morale challenges” faced by the invading forces.

They highlighted – and repeated – reports from earlier this week from a Ukrainian journalist that a colonel of the 37th separate guards motor rifle brigade was run over by a tank and subsequently died of his injuries.

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Spotify stops streaming in Russia over safety concerns

New laws threaten jail for people accused of spreading "fake news" about Russia's armed forces.

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Yemeni Rebel Attack Sets Saudi Oil Facility Ablaze

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US plan to provide 15bn cubic meters of natural gas to EU alarms climate groups

The deal is intended to decrease reliance on Russia but will entrench reliance on fossil fuels, environmentalists say

A major deal that will see the US ramp up its supply of gas to Europe in an attempt to shift away from Russian fossil fuel imports risks “disaster” for the climate crisis, environmental groups have warned.

Under the agreement, unveiled on Friday, the US will provide an extra 15bn cubic meters of liquified natural gas (LNG) to the European Union this year. This represents about a tenth of the gas the EU now gets from Russia, which provides 40% of the bloc’s total gas supply.

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North Korea Hwasong-17 launch gets Hollywood-style effects

The Hwasong-17 is a new, powerful intercontinental ballistic missile - and the country's largest weapon.

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Ukraine war: The dangers faced by front line fighters in Kharkiv

A month into the war, Mark and Vlad, both 22, show the BBC the perils they face every day in Kharkiv.

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Weekly Health Quiz: A Great Exercise, Boosters and a New Psychiatric Diagnosis

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Chemical weapon use would be ‘catastrophic’ for Russia, says Johnson

PM warns Putin after Nato and G7 meetings as Zelenskiy pleads for western tanks and jets

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Boris Johnson has warned of “catastrophic” consequences for Russia should Vladimir Putin use chemical weapons in Ukraine, though stopped short of saying that would include a military escalation.

Speaking after two extraordinary meetings of Nato and the G7, the prime minister also admitted allies were constrained in delivering tanks and jets to Ukraine, despite a direct plea by the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

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Ukraine war: Digging a grave for my stepfather, killed in Mariupol

Viktoria’s stepfather died when the car taking him to hospital was blown up during fighting in Mariupol.

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Russian defence minister resurfaces on TV – but for just a few seconds

Kremlin rolls out Sergei Shoigu for brief airing in response to media rumblings over his whereabouts

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For just a few seconds on Thursday, Sergei Shoigu was back on Russians’ television screens, sitting in the corner box of a teleconference with Vladimir Putin.

The Russian defence minister, arguably the man most responsible for the floundering war effort in Ukraine, had not been seen in public for 12 days. Nor had the chief of the general staff of Russia’s armed forces, Valery Gerasimov.

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Australia news live updates: Moderna to produce mRNA vaccines in Victoria from 2024; first truth-telling commission meets

Australia will have southern hemisphere’s first mRNA vaccine manufacturing hub in a new agreement with Moderna, in what Scott Morrison described as a ‘shot in the arm’ to protect nation from future pandemics. Follow all the day’s news

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Ukraine war: Russian journalist Oksana Baulina killed in Kyiv shelling

Oksana Baulina died while filming destruction caused by Russian shelling in a Kyiv neighbourhood.

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What to Do When There Is a Tornado Warning

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Madeleine Albright: First female US secretary of state dies

Tributes are being paid to the Czech immigrant who became the first woman to hold the top post in US diplomacy.

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A top virologist who visited a Wuhan market in 2014 said he found it to be a ‘pandemic waiting to happen.’

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Albright - a trailblazer for women on the world stage

Originally born in Czechoslovakia, Albright became a trailblazer for women on the world stage.

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Russia’s combat force has shrunk, a Pentagon official says, reflecting casualties and other struggles.

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Russian invaders have three days of supplies left, says Ukraine military

Ukrainian commanders say fuel, food and ammunition in short supply after breakdown in Russian supply chains

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Russian forces have only three further days of fuel, food and ammunition left to conduct the war after a breakdown in their supply chains, Ukrainian military commanders have alleged.

The claims of major shortages were described as “plausible” by western officials although they said they were unable to corroborate the analysis.

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The 3 Russian cyber-attacks the West most fears

US intelligence says Russia could launch cyber-attacks on the West. What is the worst-case scenario?

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A Dance Company Looks to the Future With a New Artistic Team

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Thunberg condemns ‘racist’ decision to allow UK firm to mine on Sami land

Climate campaigner says Swedish government is violating indigenous rights and waging ‘war on nature’

Environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg denounced as “racist” and “colonial” the decision by the Swedish government on Tuesday to allow a British company to dig an open-cast iron ore mine on land belonging to the indigenous Sami people.

Beowulf Mining, headquartered in London, has fought for nearly a decade to win approval for the mine, but has consistently faced stiff opposition from Sami and environmentalists.

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Decoding Jane Campion’s Joke About the Williams Sisters

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Over a third of all Australians live in childcare ‘deserts’, research says

Report also shows women’s participation in workforce lower in areas where children outnumber available places by 3:1 or more

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When Nicole Greem decided to return to her job as a nurse after maternity leave, her biggest stumbling block wasn’t whether she could find work, but whether she could access childcare.

Like many places in regional New South Wales, Bourke, where Greem and her family live, had been crying out for healthcare workers. But even those who lived there were struggling to take up the shifts they wanted.

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W.T.O. chief calls for deeper global trade to address supply chain disruptions.

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Russian attack on Kharkiv kills Holocaust survivor, 96

Boris Romanchenko died after rocket hit building where he lived in Ukrainian city

A 96-year-old man who survived a string of Nazi concentration camps including Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen has been killed by an explosion during the Russian assault on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, a spokesperson for the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial foundation has confirmed.

“We are shocked to confirm the violent death of Boris Romanchenko, whose niece informed us on Monday morning that he died last Friday after a bomb or rocket hit the multistorey building where he lived in Kharkiv and his apartment was burned out,” a spokesperson told the Guardian.

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How One Oligarch Used Shell Companies and Wall Street Ties to Invest in the U.S.

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Mariupol: Four reasons the city matters so much to Russia

The most bombarded city in Ukraine’s war with Russia is key to Moscow’s military campaign.

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Inside a children's hospital and pressure on Russian artists - Ukraine war round-up

Ukrainian children suffer in hospital, and musicians are banned from Russian radio for opposing the war.

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Religion-Fueled Mobs on the Rise Again in Pakistan

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Rosario v Newell’s Old Boys delayed after ‘number of grenades’ damage pitch

• Fierce football derby in Argentina forced to kick off late
• Explosives had been thrown on to the field by fans

The derby game in Argentina’s top flight between Rosario Central and Newell’s Old Boys kicked off late on Sunday after “a number of grenades”, which had been thrown on to the field by fans, blew holes in the playing surface.

The fixture, a local derby between two fierce rivals in the Santa Fe province, is one of the major dates in the country’s football calendar.

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Geelong ensemble win one of the world’s richest theatre prizes

Back to Back, an ensemble of disabled actors, wins DK2.5m Ibsen prize for their ‘exciting, unsettling and thought-provoking’ work

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A small Australian theatre company made up of neurodiverse and disabled actors has won one of the world’s richest theatre prizes, the DK2.5m (AU$384,000) Ibsen award.

Back to Back, which was established in 1987 and is based in Geelong, were announced as the winners of the biennial prize on Sunday night in Norway. The pioneering theatre company is the first Australian recipient of the award, dubbed “the Nobel prize for theatre”, which goes to an individual or company “that has brought new artistic dimensions to the world of drama or theatre”.

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War in Ukraine: Backlash in Russia against anti-war musicians

Banned from radio stations and rumoured black lists, artists against the war face a difficult moment.

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‘There is no escape’: inside a hospital in Ukraine

Fifty miles from Kyiv, doctors prepare a bomb shelter for the casualties to arrive on their doorstep, while their own lives are on the line

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Bila Tserkva’s No2 hospital was emptied of patients and its cold-war-era bomb shelter filled with beds to prepare for the horror its doctors have watched overwhelm medics in other cities. The few dozen patients they have taken in since war broke out are harbingers of the storm to come.

One lost an eye to an explosion as he chatted with friends. Another faces months of recovery after a sniper bullet shattered his thigh bone. A third interviewed by the Observer was so badly wounded by a shell that forming a short sentence leaves him breathless with exhaustion.

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Some U.S. states are reducing daily reporting of coronavirus data, raising fears of blind spots.

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Battle for control of Mariupol hinders rescue of civilians trapped in theatre

Ukrainian forces hold out against larger Russian force but lose access to Sea of Azov

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Intense street fighting hampered attempts to free hundreds of survivors trapped inside a bombed theatre on Saturdayas Ukrainian forces held out against a larger Russian force inside the strategically important southern port city of Mariupol.

In a day of scant battlefield gains for Vladimir Putin, Ukraine did admit that following fierce fighting in Mariupol it had lost access to the Sea of Azov for the first time, a potentially significant prize for Russia.

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Russian Rocket Attack Turns Ukrainian Marine Base to Rubble, Killing Dozens

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Kyiv calling: famous Clash anthem reborn as call to arms

Ukrainian punk band Beton win blessing of the Clash to record new version of song to raise funds for support network

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The Clash have given their blessing to a new version of their song London Calling by a Ukrainian punk band called Beton. Kyiv Calling, recorded near the frontline, has lyrics that call upon the rest of the world to support the defence of the country from Russian invaders.

All proceeds of what is now billed as a “war anthem” will go to the Free Ukraine Resistance Movement (FURM) to help fund a shared communications system that will alert the population to threats and lobby for international support.

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Gay rights activist among latest known victims of Ukraine war

Details emerge of deaths of a Kharkiv Pride volunteer, an actor, and an American visiting his partner

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A gay rights activist from Kharkiv, Shchemur was killed during the Russian bombardment of the city centre, her colleagues at Kharkiv Pride said on Thursday. She was killed at the local territorial defence office where she volunteered, they said.

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Roman Abramovich's jet among 100 planes grounded by US

The US government has grounded 100 Russia-affiliated aircraft believed to have violated US export controls

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Review: In ‘What You Are Now,’ Memory Is a Dangerous Thing

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Are the P&O Ferries mass sackings a result of Brexit?

Analysis: UK government claimed EU exit would let it change employment law, but it has not yet done so

To the layperson, the unceremonious sacking of 800 P&O Ferries workers may look like a consequence of Britain leaving the EU, with any legal action by the trade unions turning into the first big test of workers’ rights post-Brexit.

Despite Boris Johnson’s assurances that Britain’s departure from the EU would be better for UK workers, there have been fears it would be seen by the government as an opportunity to erode workers’ rights in a bid to increase competitiveness.

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‘More Than Robots’ Review: An International Battle

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The Joy of Terrible Gardening

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Boris Johnson open to attending European Council, say sources

EU leaders and Joe Biden will meet next week to discuss war in Ukraine, but PM has not yet been invited

Boris Johnson is understood to be open to accepting an invitation to attend the European Council next week when EU leaders meet to discuss the war in Ukraine, though one has yet to be extended.

A Downing Street source said Johnson would be in Brussels next week for a Nato summit, along with the US president, Joe Biden, who will attend the council meeting later that afternoon. They said it remained a possibility for Johnson to attend the council meeting – which would be a major symbolic step post-Brexit.

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Ukraine: The troops holding the front line as Russia pounds Kharkiv

BBC's Quentin Sommerville reports from alongside the troops defending Ukraine's second city.

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35 companies sign on to produce generic versions of Pfizer’s Covid pill.

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Is an outright Russian military victory in Ukraine possible?

Analysis: Looking at the fighting so far, some think Putin will be unable to conquer and occupy, but others see ominous signs

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is already more than three weeks old, and the death toll in the bitter conflict is already likely to have exceeded 10,000. But there is also no sign of a decisive military breakthrough on either side, which could have important consequences for what is to come.

On the one hand, Russia’s attack on its neighbour has been so poorly coordinated, that it has left many military experts baffled. Yet while Ukraine’s defence has been exceptionally determined, it is also clear that it cannot force out the 150,000 invading troops from its territory.

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Rate increases will cool inflation but could bring political costs for Democrats.

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The Video That Changed the N.C.A.A.

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Equality was key to ancient Zapotec city’s success, study suggests

At its peak the city, founded in 500BC, was home to 17,000 people, despite a lack of water supplies or fertile land

Greater equality than that experienced in other Mesoamerican cities may have been key to the successes of an ancient Zapotec community in Mexico which survived far longer than any contemporaneous metropolis, a new study suggests.

The ruins of Monte Albán – which include pyramids, canals and a ballgame court – sit on a semi-arid hilltop above the city of Oaxaca. At its peak the city, founded in 500BC, was the administrative and religious capital for the Zapotec people, and home to 17,000 people, despite a lack of water supplies or fertile land.

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Hopes rise for Ukraine talks, but experts doubt Russia will pull out

Analysis: Putin’s rhetoric remains uncompromising and analysts are sceptical negotiations will yield a lasting solution

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As Russia has pursued its war with Ukraine, it has held parallel negotiations with Kyiv ostensibly seeking a peace deal from its own invasion of a neighbouring country.

Those talks, which appeared to be a sideshow to the continuing war, received an unexpected boost on Wednesday as both sides indicated that discussions had yielded some progress.

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NATO defense ministers vow to enhance deployments near Russia.

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Portugal to change law under which Roman Abramovich gained citizenship

Government says it will modify legislation giving nationality to descendants of expelled Jews to prevent it being ‘manipulated’

The Portuguese government is to tighten the law granting nationality to the descendants of Jews who were expelled from the Iberian peninsula 500 years ago, as concerns grow over the controversial decision to award Roman Abramovich citizenship because of his apparent Sephardic Jewish heritage.

The Russian oligarch and Chelsea FC owner, who is now subject to UK and EU sanctions because of his ties to Vladimir Putin, was granted Portuguese citizenship last year under a 2015 law designed to make amends for the mass banishments at the end of the 15th century.

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Denmark considers ban on cigarette sales to anyone born after 2010

Health ministry says it may limit the sale of nicotine products to prevent next generation from taking up smoking

Denmark has unveiled plans to ensure that future generations are tobacco-free, and is considering banning the sale of cigarettes and other nicotine products to anyone born after 2010.

“Our hope is that all people born in 2010 and later will never start smoking or using nicotine-based products”, health minister Magnus Heunicke told reporters.

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Russia sanctions Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and others

The measures block their entry into Russia but will not impede necessary high-level contacts.

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Ukraine war: Hostages as Russian forces occupy hospital, official says

Doctors and patients are prevented from leaving Mariupol's main hospital, the deputy mayor says.

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They Just Can’t Quit: Athletes Who Un-Retire

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Australia should grant temporary visas for all jobs earning over $70,000, report says

Grattan Institute says targeting higher-wage migrants will better address skills shortages and workers should be able to change employers

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Australia should abandon skills shortage lists and labour market testing in favour of granting temporary visas for all jobs earning more than $70,000, the Grattan Institute has argued.

Australia’s temporary migration system is delivering the “worst of both worlds”, with employers bringing fewer high-skilled workers in while those earning as little as $53,900 are vulnerable to exploitation, the thinktank argues in a report released on Tuesday.

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Marina Ovsyannikova: TV protest 'was my own decision'

The Russian state TV employee who staged an anti-war protest during a live bulletin speaks to reporters outside court.

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Volodymyr Zelenskiy expected to urge jet transfer in address to US Congress

Leaders prepare to welcome Ukraine president before Wednesday speech amid divisions over question of planes

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Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the president of Ukraine, will address Congress on Wednesday in what could prove his most powerful plea yet for the west to take a tougher line against Vladimir Putin.

Zelenskiy is expected to use the virtual address to urge members of the House of Representatives and Senate to intensify pressure on Joe Biden to allow the transfer of MiG-29 fighter jets from Poland.

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Ukraine war: Missile explodes in front of civilian walking in Kyiv

Footage shows the moment a missile explodes in the street, in front of a person walking through a park.

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US astronaut’s return hangs in the balance as tensions with Russia escalate

Mark Vande Hei, who is set to break the US single spaceflight record, will be riding a Russian capsule back to Earth

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The US astronaut Mark Vande Hei has made it through nearly a year in space, but now faces what could be his trickiest assignment: riding a Russian capsule back to Earth in the midst of deepening tension between the two countries.

Nasa insists Vande Hei’s homecoming at the end of the month remains unchanged, even as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has resulted in canceled launches, broken contracts and an escalating war of words from the leader of the Russian Space Agency.

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Review: ‘A Song of Songs’ Makes a Sacrament of Remembrance

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Tanks, bombs, shootings: Ukrainians describe Russian takeover of villages

Witnesses describe soldiers shooting people dead in the street and confiscating phones and laptops

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Russian soldiers have shot people dead in the street as they took over Ukrainian villages, according to fleeing residents.

Soldiers shot randomly at buildings, threw grenades down roads and went from house to house confiscating phones and laptops, witnesses said.

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Benedict Cumberbatch says he will take part in ‘homes for Ukraine’ scheme

Actor says Britain must ‘create a haven’ for refugees and wants to help via programme announced by Michael Gove on Sunday

Benedict Cumberbatch wants to be part of the government’s “homes for Ukraine” scheme that will enable British people to take in Ukrainian refugees.

Speaking on the red carpet before the Baftas ceremony at the Albert Hall in London, where he is nominated for best leading actor for The Power of the Dog Cumberbatch urged for action to help Ukrainians displaced by the Russian invasion.

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Brent Renaud: Friend of US journalist killed in Ukraine speaks to BBC

Maya last spoke to Brent four days ago, and says he was excited to work on a documentary in Ukraine.

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Russian default on debts no longer ‘improbable’, says IMF head

Fund says a default from Russia after sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine would not trigger a global financial crisis

A Russian default on its debts after western sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine is no longer ‘improbable’, but would not trigger a global financial crisis, the head of the International Monetary Fund said on Sunday.

The Washington-based fund’s managing director Kristalina Georgieva said the sanctions imposed by the United States and other nations were already having a “severe” impact on the Russian economy and would trigger a deep recession there this year. The war in Ukraine will also drive up food and energy prices, leading to hunger in Africa, she added.

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Arms shipments are a legitimate military target, Kremlin warns west

Volodymyr Zelenskiy reveals that at least 1,300 Ukrainian troops have died as French and German talks with Vladimir Putin fail

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Russia has said it will treat arms shipments to Ukraine from Nato countries as “legitimate targets” for military action in a dangerous new escalation of tensions.

The warning from the deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, came as supporters of Ukraine, including the UK, Germany and the United States, have been urgently shipping thousands of anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles to Kyiv in response to Moscow’s aggression.

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The White House approves $200 million in arms and equipment for Ukraine.

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Shaky footage in Ukraine shows this is a tale of two ways of waging war: stealth versus brute force

Ukrainian troops with anti-tank weapons set ambushes, while their enemy slowly encircles cities to besiege them

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In the snow-dusted woods outside Kyiv a column of Ukrainian troops moves, identifiable by the soldiers’ yellow armbands.

In the rare footage, captured by Maryan Kushnir, a journalist with the Ukrainian service of Radio Free Europe, one of the soldiers says they are going to clear an unidentified village of “orcs”– slang for the Russian troops now rapidly encircling the Ukrainian capital – who have occupied it with armoured vehicles. A commander warns that two tanks are coming, and as the men appear to fall back to a better position, there is an exchange of heavy fire. The video’s ending is as sudden as it is inconclusive.

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With Bombings and a Funeral, the War Arrives in Ukraine’s West

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Kherson diary: ‘The poultry all had to be slaughtered. Now the city smells of chicken soup’

A first-hand account of the Russian occupation of the city by two female journalists

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For 12 days the Ukrainian city of Kherson has been under Russian occupation. In their second dispatch for the Observer, two female journalists, whose identities we are protecting, describe how tension and fear are rising.

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EU leaders announce intention to collectively rearm in face of Putin threat

Versailles declaration says Russia’s war in Ukraine has heralded ‘tectonic shift in European history’

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EU leaders have announced their intention to collectively rearm and become autonomous in food, energy and military hardware in a Versailles declaration that described Russia’s war as “a tectonic shift in European history”.

At a summit in the former royal palace, the 27 heads of state and government said on Friday that the invasion of Ukraine had shown the urgent need for the EU to take responsibility for its own security and to rid itself of dependencies on others.

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Battle for Mykolaiv: 'We are winning this fight, but not this war'

In the southern city of Mykolaiv, Ukrainian forces are battling to stop the Russian advance.

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Saudi Blogger, Jailed and Flogged for Liberal Views, Is Freed From Prison

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The global supply chain’s pandemic recovery is another casualty of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Yes, You Can Make Salmon on the Stovetop Without the Smell

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Russian convoy stalled near Kyiv has moved into the woods, Pentagon says.

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Love Letter: What an Illness Reveals

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Man returns to totally destroyed neighbourhood

In Kharkiv, a former resident takes a look around and sees the damage from Russia's assault.

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No longer scared – just tired: conditions in Mariupol now ‘medieval’

Under constant bombardment, without power or water, and unable to collect the dead from the streets, residents of the besieged Ukrainian port are focused solely on survival

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Russia’s siege of Mariupol resumed in the dark hours of the morning, residents said, at around 3am. “The windows are shaking. It’s fucking early today,” Angela Timchenko posted on Facebook.

She described the latest bombardment of the Ukrainian city – now in its ninth day – as a “heavy downpour”. She added: “I think about where to find some tea and a drop of sugar.”

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IS confirms leader Qurayshi's death and names successor

The US says Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi blew himself up during a raid in Syria last month.

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‘Violence, Fear, Sex and Manipulation’: Sarah Lawrence Cult Trial Begins

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Will the EU start to take Ukraine’s membership seriously?

Analysis: Zelenskiy once played a TV president turned down by Merkel, but how real are his country’s prospects?

The phone rings and Volodymyr Zelenskiy reaches into his pocket. The German chancellor is on the line, to inform him that “we decided to take your country into the European Union”.

“Oh fuck,” Zelenskiy says, as Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, the EU anthem, soars into life.

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‘Pure genocide’: civilian targets in Mariupol ‘annihilated’ by Russian attacks

Deputy mayor of southern Ukrainian city says people living in ‘medieval conditions’ after week of continuous shelling

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Speaking via a blurry video connection, the deputy mayor of Mariupol painted a grim picture of life and death on Wednesday inside his besieged city.

Russian forces surrounded Mariupol a week ago. They have been shelling it “continuously” ever since, Sergiy Orlov said, in a call with the Guardian and other foreign media.

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West fears Russia could use non-conventional weapons

Officials are "very concerned" about the risk of war between Russia and Ukraine escalating.

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Austria Does a U-Turn on Mandatory Vaccinations, Citing Milder Variant Cases

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British American Tobacco to continue selling cigarettes in Russia

London-based Rothmans maker says it will abide by sanctions instead of halting operations in country

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British American Tobacco will continue selling cigarettes in Russia, defying a gathering movement among global brands to halt operations there in response to the invasion of Ukraine.

The London-based cigarette manufacturer, whose brands include Lucky Strike and Rothmans, said it would “continue to operate” in Russia, one of its key growth markets for cigarettes and heated tobacco, according to the company’s latest annual report.

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Kamala Harris heads to Poland amid Nato fighter jet rift

The US rejected an offer by Poland to transfer jets to the US as a step to sending them to Ukraine.

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McDonald’s bows to pressure and closes all its Russian restaurants

‘Our values mean we cannot ignore the needless human suffering unfolding in Ukraine,’ says chief executive

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McDonald’s is temporarily closing its 850 restaurants in Russia and pausing all operations in the country, a decision that will affect 62,000 jobs, after mounting calls for action after the invasion of Ukraine.

The burger chain said it would continue to pay the salaries for all employees in Russia and its charitable arm, Ronald McDonald House Charities, would also continue in the country.

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Ukraine war: Civilians leave Irpin after days of fighting

The town of Irpin has been devastated after days of heavy fighting and bombardment from Russian forces.

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‘We will fight to the end’: Zelensky invokes Churchill in a telelink address to the British Parliament.

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Zelenskiy invokes Churchill as he calls on UK to do more to help Ukraine

President tells Commons Ukraine will fight Russia ‘in the forests, the fields, the shores and in the streets’

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The president of Ukraine echoed Winston Churchill and invoked the fight against Nazism as he made a direct plea to Britain to do more to help protect his country in the fight against the Russian invasion.

In an unprecedented and emotional speech broadcast live to the House of Commons, Volodymyr Zelenskiy channelled Churchill when he told a packed chamber: “We will continue fighting for our land, whatever the cost. We will fight in the forests, the fields, the shores and in the streets.”

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In full: Ukrainian President Zelensky's message to UK

President Zelensky makes an historic address in the House of Commons about the invasion by Russia.

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Dizzee Rascal smashes camera after guilty verdict in assault case – video

Musician Dizzee Rascal, real name Dylan Mills, smashed a photographer’s camera outside court on Monday after he was found guilty of assaulting his ex-fiancee. Mills hurled the camera across the road outside Wimbledon magistrates court just moments after a verdict of guilty was returned for a charge of assault against Cassandra Jones, the mother of his two children

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McDonald's and Coca-Cola boycott calls grow over Russia

Food and drink giants have been criticised on social media for failing to speak out on Ukraine's invasion.

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With New Limits on Media, Putin Closes a Door on Russia’s ‘Openness’

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Biden criticized over report of planned Saudi trip to discuss global oil supply

Senior advisers considering spring Saudi Arabia visit to propose potential increase in oil exports, Axios reports

Joe Biden attracted criticism from both progressives and Republicans after a report indicated the White House was planning a visit to Saudi Arabia to discuss global oil supply.

Axios reported on Sunday that Biden’s senior advisers were considering a spring trip to Saudi Arabia in an effort to improve relations and to propose a potential increase in oil exports. The Biden administration did not confirm. The White House did not respond to a Guardian request for a comment.

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Family separated by war in Ukraine finally reunited

Rita and her children were trapped in Ukraine when Russia invaded. After spending a week in their basement, they've finally been reunited with Rita's husband and their father Andy.

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Truck convoy loops around Washington DC to protest Covid restrictions

The ‘people’s convoy’ of around 1,000 vehicles threaten a week of traffic disruptions around US capital

A long line of huge semi-articulated trucks, recreational vehicles and cars was circling Washington DC, on Sunday, in preparation for what their protesting drivers have pledged will be a week of traffic disruption around the US capital aligned around a loose collection of demands, including the end to all coronavirus pandemic-related restrictions.

From its temporary base at a speedway vehicle racing site in Hagerstown, 80 miles north-west in Maryland, organizers of what they term the “People’s Convoy” of around 1,000 vehicles have said they plan to welcome the new work week by driving slowly around Washington on the already notoriously-congested Beltway, or ring road, at the minimum legal speed in an attempt to get their message across to national politicians.

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NHS surgeon censured for vandalising colleagues’ cars

Maxillofacial surgeon Andrew Baker given formal warning by GMC and suspended by General Dental Council

A leading NHS surgeon has been censured by two medical regulators, and suspended by one of them, for repeatedly vandalising colleagues’ cars in their hospital car park, the Guardian can reveal.

Andrew Baker has been given a formal warning by the General Medical Council (GMC) after being cautioned by police on six charges of causing criminal damage by dragging a key along the vehicles.

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Tornadoes in Iowa Leave at Least 7 Dead

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‘Grave concern’ as Ukraine Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant under Russian orders

International Atomic Energy Agency says Russian military orders of staff at nuclear plant violate international safety protocols

Staff at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant are being told what to do by the Russian military commander who seized the site last week, in violation of international safety protocols.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) expressed “grave concern” at the situation at the six-reactor plant, the largest in Europe. The agency was told by the Ukrainian nuclear regulator that “any action of plant management – including measures related to the technical operation of the six reactor units – requires prior approval by the Russian commander”.

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Accused Leader in Sarah Lawrence Cult Case Is Set to Stand Trial

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Poutine not Putin: classic Quebec dish off the menu in France and Canada

French restaurant threatened for selling fries, cheese and gravy snack that sounds like the Russian leader

Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine has prompted demonstrations around the world, with hundreds of thousands taking to the streets to condemn the war.

But anger towards the Russian leader has also ensnared an unlikely casualty: a French-Canadian delicacy of potato fries, cheese curds and gravy.

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Ukraine invasion: Military couple marry on the frontline

Lesya and Valeri, both civil defence volunteers, tied the knot at a checkpoint near Kyiv.

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Alice von Hildebrand, Conservative Catholic Philosopher, Dies at 98

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