The number of people fleeing Russia’s advance into Ukraine has reached two million, the UN refugee chief said on Tuesday. © Provided by Evening Standard Refugees wait in freezing cold temperatures to get on a bus after crossing the Ukrainian border into Poland (AFP via Getty Images)The grim total, announced by United Nations High Commissioner for […]
About 900 Russians took chartered flights home from a Cuban resort town on Sunday as airspace bans imposed after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine complicated travel for tourists around the world. © YAMIL LAGE About 900 Russian passengers flew to Moscow from Cuba on Sunday© YAMIL LAGE Nordwind will operate four weekly charter flights from Moscow to the
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The World Bank has approved $723m (£551m) in loans and grants for Ukraine, as the country fights against a Russian invasion. © Getty Images Refugees arriving at the Polish borderThe bank said it is continuing to work on another $3bn package of support in the coming months for the country.It also promised extra help for neighbouring
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Her voice shaking, 26-year-old Balqees recounts her ordeal at a Huthi rebel checkpoint in northern Yemen, where experts say repression of women is rampant after years of civil war. © MOHAMMED HUWAIS Yemeni women shop in the the Sanaa in March 2020. The capital is controlled by the Iran-backed Huthi rebels who have imposed their austere
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The International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday it has received reports of artillery shells damaging a nuclear research facility in Ukraine’s besieged second city Kharkiv, but there was no “radiological consequence”. © Sergey BOBOK A Ukrainian serviceman looks at the destruction caused by shelling in Kharkiv on March 7The Vienna-based UN body said Ukrainian authorities reported
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(Bloomberg) — China warned the U.S. against trying to build what it called a Pacific version of NATO, while declaring that security disputes over Taiwan and Ukraine were “not comparable at all.” Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his annual news briefing Monday that the “real goal” of the U.S.’s Indo-Pacific strategy was to form Asia’s
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© Dimitar DILKOFF Kyiv accused Moscow of making it impossible for innocent people to escape besieged cities Moscow’s offer to evacuate residents was condemned because most of the routes led into Russia or its ally Belarus, and as the invading forces maintained a devastating shelling campaign. The Ukrainian military said Tuesday, nearly two weeks into the
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Tens of thousands of Sydney residents have been told to evacuate their homes as severe storms and flash flooding inundated swathes of Australia’s largest city Tuesday. © Muhammad FAROOQ The scale of the damage to property and wildlife in Australia has been compared to devastating bushfires in 2019 and early 2020The national weather bureau warned of
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Sean Penn was startled by what he witnessed on the border between Poland and Ukraine. The Oscar-winning actor recently returned to the US after spending time on the Ukrainian border, and he’s shared his experience of the refugee crisis that’s taking place in eastern Europe. © Bang Showbiz Sean Penn has just returned from the Ukraine
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(Reuters) – Novak Djokovic has offered financial support and any other help required to Ukrainian former world number 31 Sergiy Stakhovsky, who has enlisted in his country’s reserve army amid Russia’s invasion of its neighbour. © Reuters/SUHAIB SALEM ATP 500 – Dubai Tennis Championships© Reuters/Matthew Childs FILE PHOTO: WimbledonStakhovsky, who won four ATP titles and had a
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