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© PA WireMr Johnson made his remark at the Tory’s spring conference – PA WireBoris Johnson has sparked fury by comparing the war in Ukraine to Britain’s vote to leave the EU, with one European statesmen branding it “disgraceful” and another describing it as offensive to those fighting the Russian invasion. There were calls for the prime minister to be excluded from next week’s European Council meeting, where Mr Johnson is hoping to join EU leaders to discuss the Ukraine crisis with US president Joe Biden. Speaking to the Conservative spring conference in Blackpool on Saturday, Mr Johnson said that the world faced a moment of choice…

© Reuters/POOL FILE PHOTO: Russian FM Sergei Lavrov holds talks with Qatari FM Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani in Moscow By Andrew Mills DOHA (Reuters) – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has opened up diplomatic and commercial opportunities for gas exporter Qatar to expand energy sales to the West and bolster its alliance with Washington amid U.S. tensions with other Gulf Arab states. © Reuters/LEAH MILLIS FILE PHOTO: Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani shakes hands with U.S. President Joe Biden during a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 31, 2022 Qatar has sought…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Just days before Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, President Joe Biden quietly dispatched a team to European Union headquarters in Belgium. These were not spy chiefs or generals, but experts in reading fine print and tracking the flow of money, computer chips and other goods around the world. Their mandate: inflict maximum pain on Russian President Vladimir Putin, making it harder, if not impossible, for him to fund a prolonged war in Ukraine and denying him access to technologies at the core of modern warfare. © Provided by Associated Press FILE – President Joe Biden speaks in…

© JACK GUEZ Zelensky’s appearance was also shown at Habima Square in central Tel Aviv, the scene of several recent anti-Russia rallies Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday urged Israel to abandon its effort to maintain neutrality following Russia’s invasion, saying the time had come for the Jewish state to firmly back his country. © JACK GUEZ People protest in Tel Aviv against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ahead of a televised address by the Ukrainian president Zelensky, who is Jewish, made the appeal during an address to Israeli lawmakers, the latest in a series of speeches by videoconference to foreign legislatures. ©…

By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lankan police said on Sunday two men collapsed and died while waiting in separate queues to secure fuel amid sky-rocketing prices leading to record inflation. © Reuters/DINUKA LIYANAWATTE FILE PHOTO: Sri Lanka pays for fuel imports as crisis leaves pumps dry and causes power outage, in ColomboThe men, in their seventies, died while they were waiting for petrol and kerosene oil in two different parts of the country, said police spokesman Nalin Thalduwa in commercial capital Colombo. For weeks people have been queuing up at pumps, often for hours, and the country has been…

© JUNG YEON-JE South Korea’s president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol promised to relocate the presidential Blue House on the campaign trail South Korea’s president-elect said Sunday he will relocate his office from the “imperial” Blue House, in a move critics charged is linked to his belief in shamanistic spiritual practices. Yoon Suk-yeol, who won a tight election earlier this month, pledged on the campaign trail that he would move presidential business out of the Blue House — home to South Korea’s leaders since 1948. The former prosecutor has accused the hilltop headquarters of fostering an “imperial” presidency and undermining communication with the public. He is…

By Liz Sly, Daniel Lamothe Russia’s attempt to conquer Ukraine could be headed to a stalemate as heavy casualties and equipment losses take a toll on unprepared Russian forces that have failed so far to achieve any of their initial objectives, Western officials and military experts say. ©Atef Safadi/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock Ukrainian soldiers stand guard on a bridge in front of a damaged Russian army car on the road that leads East of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, March 19, 2022. The front lines have barely moved in over a week. Russians are being killed or injured at the rate of up to…

By Julius Mugaga/KMA Updates. Kampala, Uganda: Countrymen and Countrywomen. It is with a lot of sadness that I announce the death of the Rt. Hon. Jacob Oulanyah, the Speaker of Parliament. (R.I.P) Rt. Hon. Jacob Oulanyah, the Speaker of Parliament/Courtesy Photo. I got information of this sad news at 10.30am, East African time from People that have been with him and the doctor that was caring for him in the intensive care unit. He was a good Cadre. I delayed the announcement so that his children would be informed first. May His soul rest in eternal peace. Signed: Yoweri Kaguta…

© Kamran Manafly Kamran Manafly lost his job as a teacher after a post on Instagram For 28-year-old geography teacher Kamran Manafly, it all began with an Instagram post. “I don’t want to be a reflection of state propaganda,” he wrote on the social media site, just a few days before it was restricted in Russia. “I have my own opinion! Lots of teachers do. And you know what? It’s not the same as the opinion of the state.” He felt compelled to write the comment after a staff meeting at his secondary school in central Moscow, in which he and…

© Reuters/Jayne Kamin-Oncea Tennis: BNP Paribas Open-Day 11 By Steve Keating (Reuters) – A defiant Rafa Nadal won an all-Spanish clash of the generations taming teenager Carlos Alcaraz 6-4 4-6 6-3 to stretch his winning run to 20 matches on Saturday and clinch a place in the Indian Wells final. © Reuters/Jayne Kamin-Oncea Tennis: BNP Paribas Open Nadal will take on American Taylor Fritz in Sunday’s championship in the California desert where a victory would see the 35-year-old equal Novak Djokovic’s record of 37 ATP Masters 1000 titles. Earlier Fritz earned a spot in his first Masters 1000 final with a 7-5…