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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that the city of Mariupol is being “reduced to ashes” by Russian airstrikes, but that it will “survive.” © Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP krainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks from Kyiv, Ukraine Zelensky also urged Ukrainian citizens in his recorded video address to “do everything you can to defend our country, to save our people,” CNN reported. “We are seeing more and more heroes. Once ordinary Ukrainians, and now true fighters,” he said. Zelensky reportedly added that Russian forces are surprised by the resilience Ukrainians have shown since the invasion began late last…

Finland was voted the happiest country in the world for the fifth straight year, and it is joined by other European countries in the annual World Happiness Report. A publication of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, the 10th edition of the report published on Friday ranked 146 countries in their overall happiness. Researchers say past data has looked at how citizens’ trust in government and large institutions has played a major factor in a country’s level of happiness. © 2020 Anadolu Agency A group of people walk in the central park of Esplanadi in Helsinki, Finland. (Photo by Alessandro Rampazzo/Anadolu Agency via Getty…

 By Asif Shahzad  ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s government asked the Supreme Court on Monday to advise if it could seek lifelong disqualification of dissidents from Prime Minister Imran Khan’s ruling party ahead of a no-confidence vote that weakens his prospects of retaining power. With parliament set on Friday to take up the motion filed this month by opposition parties, the nuclear-armed nation faces constitutional and administrative crises that threaten political turmoil.© Reuters/SAIYNA BASHIR FILE PHOTO: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan gestures during an interview with Reuters, in IslamabadSpeaking after filing a petition to the Supreme Court, Attorney General Khalid Jawed…

Nearly 3.5 million Ukrainians have now fled the country following Russia’s invasion, the United Nations said Monday, praising neighbouring countries for showing overwhelming compassion towards their “extreme plight”. More than 10 million people — over a quarter of the population in regions under government control — are now thought to have fled their homes, including the millions of internally displaced people. UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, said 3,489,644 Ukrainians had fled the country since Russia invaded on February 24 — a figure up 100,600 on Sunday’s update. “Over the last four weeks, the world has watched in disbelief. Countless lives…

ON BOARD THE SUPPLY SHIP ELBE, Latvia (Reuters) – Hours after Russian missiles first struck Ukrainian cities on Feb. 24, German naval commander Terje Schmitt-Eliassen received notice to sail five warships under his command to the former Soviet Republic of Latvia to help protect the most vulnerable part of NATO’s eastern flank. © Reuters/INTS KALNINS NATO warships moored for Baltic MCM Squadex 22 exercise in Riga portThe hasty dispatch was part of Germany’s scramble to send “everything that can swim out to sea,” as the navy’s top boss phrased it, to defend an area military strategists have long deemed the weakest…

As a teenager in northwest China during the tumultuous Cultural Revolution, Yu Bin was drafted into the army where for four years his training focused on how to repel a feared Russian invasion. In 1969, the height of the Sino-Soviet split, Soviet-Chinese skirmishes over an islet in the middle of the Ussuri River threatened to escalate into a wider conflict as each side deployed troops and artillery to the region. If war had broken out, Yu, now a political scientist at Wittenberg University, says he likely would have faced advanced Soviet battle tanks with little more than a machine gun.…

ONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) said on Monday it had summoned the Russian defence attaché for a second time in relation to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and the conduct of Russia’s armed forces. © Reuters/PETER NICHOLLSBritish Defence Secretary Ben Wallace arrrives at the Ministry of Defence in London “The 2nd Permanent Under Secretary Laurence Lee protested in the strongest terms against the persistent and unjustified acts of violence being committed against innocent civilians by Russian forces,” the MoD said on Twitter. Related video: Russian forces lay siege to Ukraine’s cities (Reuters) Video Player is loading. Pause Ad Loaded: 0.00%…

Twenty-six passengers reported missing when a fishing boat carrying undocumented migrant workers sank off the coast of Indonesia have been found alive, some after drifting for two days, officials said Monday. Two of the vessel’s 86 passengers, who were seeking work in neighbouring Malaysia, were killed when it capsized Saturday, said Rully Ramadhiansyah, spokesman for the Belawan naval base on Sumatra island. Here’s What 35 Historical Figure Actually Looked Ad Ad PrettyWomanMag The captain and three crew members all survived. “We found some of the passengers tightly holding to floats, jerry cans and other floating objects to survive in the…

Ukraine has rejected out of hand an ultimatum from Moscow to surrender the devastated city of Mariupol, as authorities in Odesa accused Russia of striking residential areas in what would be the invading forces’ first attack on the Black Sea port. Odesa city council said on Monday apartment blocks in the city’s outskirts had been hit by airstrikes, causing no casualties but starting a fire. Overnight shelling in Kyiv, reduced a large shopping mall to rubble and killed at least eight people.Ukraine’s deputy prime minister, Iryna Vereshchuk, said the government had “of course” rejected a Russian ultimatum for people in…

https://twitter.com/BJP4India/status/1505800745953918978 PM Shri @narendramodi inspects the 29 antiquities, repatriated to India by Australia, ranging in 6 broad categories as per themes: Shiva and his disciples, worshipping Shakti, Lord Vishnu & his forms, Jain tradition, portraits & decorative objects. Australia has returned 29 religious and cultural artefacts to India, among them several stolen or illegally exported from the country, earning thanks from Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a Monday summit. New Delhi has pushed Western governments and museums to identify and return objects of India’s “stolen heritage”, and hundreds of items from overseas collections have already been repatriated. Thirteen of the…