The United States has imposed a fresh round of sanctions on high-ranking Russian officials and oligarchs, including the family of Vladimir Putin’s spokesman. The US Treasury announced the new sanctions, which include three immediate family members of Dmitry Peskov, the spokesperson of the Kremlin, on Friday. © Reuters U.S. President Joe Biden reacts at the House Democratic […]
Compared with two weeks ago, portions of eastern Australia look almost unrecognizable. Over 16 days, unprecedented amounts of rain flooded Queensland and New South Wales. Blue waters became muddy brown and homes turned into swamps. The flooding event forced thousands to evacuate and caused at least 20 deaths. These images show the town of Beenleigh,
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People in Japan’s northeast offered prayers and carried out searches for the missing on Friday, 11 years after an earthquake and tsunami left 18,500 people dead or unaccounted for and triggered a devastating nuclear meltdown in Fukushima. © STR In the Tohoku region devastated by the tsunami, some met in the early morning along the coast
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By Elaine Lies and Hyonhee Shin © Reuters/KIM KYUNG-HOON FILE PHOTO: Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a news conference in Tokyo TOKYO/SEOUL (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol said they had agreed on Friday to ramp up three-way ties with the United States in responding to North Korea’s
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Warsaw’s mayor is appealing for international help as the city becomes overwhelmed by refugees, with more than a tenth of all those fleeing the war in Ukraine arriving in the Polish capital. © Provided by Associated Press Ukrainian refugees wait at Przemysl train station, southeastern Poland, on Friday, March 11, 2022. Thousands
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Russia has moved to block Instagram after its parent company, Meta, said it would allow calls for violence against Vladimir Putin and Russian soldiers involved in the invasion of Ukraine to appear on the social media platform. © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Chesnot/GettyRussian prosecutors demanded that access to Instagram be blocked on Friday after
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Earth’s interior is not a uniform stack of layers. Deep in its thick middle layer lie two colossal blobs of thermo-chemical material. To this day, scientists still don’t know where both of these colossal structures came from or why they have such different heights, but a new set of geodynamic models has landed on a possible answer
Dozens of companies have posted job ads for tech roles on a website called Remote Ukraine that’s been set up to help firms around the world hire Ukrainians. A surprisingly large amount of tech that enables our every day lives is built by engineers and software developers in Ukraine. WhatsApp, Grammarly, Gitlab and Solana were
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Negotiations in Vienna aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear deal were called off indefinitely on Friday after Russia upended the talks by raising objections to Moscow’s participation while under the new U.S. sanctions imposed in punishment for its invasion of Ukraine. © Stephanie Lecocq/AP European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.The European Union’s foreign affairs chief
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A drone that is likely to have been used in the fighting within Ukraine has crashed in Croatia after possibly traveling over multiple NATO countries. © AP/Darko Bandic Police inspect site of a drone crash in Zagreb, Croatia, FridayThe drone is predicted by experts to be a Soviet-era Tu-141 “Strizh” reconnaissance drone, with the Croatian government saying
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