Posts tagged russian war
WORLD BRIEFING: April 13, 2024

Israel is on high alert for a possible direct attack from Iran. The former commander of the UK's Joint Forces Command has warned that Ukraine could face defeat by Russia in 2024

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WORLD BRIEFING: April 10, 2024

Europe must prepare for potential war, as a full-scale conflict on the continent beyond Ukraine is “no longer a fantasy”, the EU’s chief diplomat has warned. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approach to the war in Gaza is a “mistake,” said US president Joe Biden

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WORLD BRIEFING: March 19, 2024

The UN warns that the situation in Gaza is catastrophic, with northern Gaza facing imminent famine and the rest of the Strip at risk as well. Vladimir Putin said he is open to French President Emmanuel Macron's plan to propose a ceasefire during this summer's Paris Olympics

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WORLD BRIEFING: March 4, 2024

Rescue workers in Odesa pulled more bodies from the rubble of an apartment building, bringing the death toll in a Russian attack two days ago to 12 - including five children. Donald Trump won a string of Republican presidential contests

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WORLD BRIEFING: February 9, 2024

Ukraine's president has named Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskiy as the country's top military commander. Russia's election commission has rejected anti-war challenger Boris Nadezhdin as a candidate in next month's presidential vote

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WORLD BRIEFING: January 29, 2024

Three US Army soldiers were killed and more than 30 service members were injured in a drone attack overnight on a small US outpost in Jordan, US officials told CNN, marking the first time US troops have been killed by enemy fire in the Middle East since the beginning of the Gaza war

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WORLD BRIEFING: January 22, 2024

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended his Republican presidential campaign on Sunday, ending his 2024 White House bid just before the New Hampshire primary while endorsing his bitter rival Donald Trump

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WORLD BRIEFING: January 20, 2024

An apparent Israeli air strike hits a residential building in Damascus. U.S. Republican bickering lessons chances of Kyiv receiving tens of billions in crucial aid.

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WORLD BRIEFING: January 17, 2024

A wave of Russia drone attacks overnight in Ukraine: the southern port city of Odesa was particularly hard hit. Damage to residential buildings and infrastructure and some injuries. At least 10,600 children have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since October 7

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WORLD BRIEFING: January 16, 2024

Polling in the state has shown former President Donald Trump with a substantial lead, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley in a tight race for second place. The Gaza death toll now passes 24,000. Italian PM Meloni could be headed for trouble with her main ‘frenemy.’

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WORLD BRIEFING: January 15, 2024

The South Pacific nation of Nauru has announced it is severing diplomatic ties with Taiwan and would instead recognise China. Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine almost two years ago, only 517 children of some 20,000 who were illegally taken and held in Russia have been returned

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WORLD BRIEFING: January 8, 2024

Another massive Russian missile & rocket attack early this morning in Ukraine: 59 different types of missiles and drones aimed to points nationwide. Israel says its forces carried out new attacks against Hamas militants in central and southern Gaza, as well as airstrikes against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

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WORLD BRIEFING: January 6, 2024

The so-called biting sanctions introduced against Russia following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine appear to be having limited bit in the elite circles of Moscow and St Petersburg. Belorussian President grants himself lifetime immunity from prosecution 

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WORLD BRIEFING: December 29, 2023

At least 18 people were killed and well over 100 wounded in a wave of Russian strikes across Ukraine - including Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro and Kharkiv. Ukraine's military says Russia launched a "massive" attack with 158 drones and missiles - the air force says it has "never seen so many locations targeted simultaneously"

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WORLD BRIEFING: December 20, 2023

A divided Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday declared former President Donald Trump ineligible for the White House under the U.S. Constitution’s insurrection clause and removed him from the state’s presidential primary ballot. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky hints at mobilisation of up to 500,000

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WORLD BRIEFING: December 10, 2023

Dozens of Hamas terrorists lost contact with the terror group's leadership, leaving them with no option but to lay down their weapons and surrender to Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky travels to Argentina to rally global south support. 

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WORLD BRIEFING: November 10, 2023

Israel has agreed to begin four-hour “pauses” in military operations in northern Gaza to allow humanitarian aid to get in and innocent civilians to safely get out. Meanwhile some 80,000 civilians were said to have fled from the northern to the southern parts of Gaza. A powerful Russian missile strikes a Liberian-flagged bulk carrier off Odesa

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WORLD BRIEFING: November 5, 2023

Israeli protesters reportedly broke through barricades at the prime minister’s residence in Tel Aviv. The U.S. top diplomat’s shuttle diplomacy appears to have produced few results. 

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