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April 08, 2024
UN body urges restraint after Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant hit
April 07, 2024
‘Worst floods in decades’ hit Kazakhstan and Russia
PRAGUE — Populist Peter Pellegrini has been elected president of Slovakia, succeeding the liberal Zuzana Caputova.Pellegrini, 48, defeated the pro-Western Ivan Korčok, a former diplomat, with 53% of the vote.A former prime minister, he is an ally of Prime Minister Robert Fico, and shares the PM’s dovish attitude towards Russia.Fico and his allies now control Slovakia’s parliament, government, and soon the president’s office.Slovakia had been one of Ukraine’s staunchest allies before Fico came to power in October on a pledge to halt supplies of Slovak Army military stocks to Kyiv.With Pellegrini replacing Caputova, Ukraine has now definitively lost a voice of support in an EU and NATO capital.Fico has called for an end to Western military support for Ukraine, an immediate...
April 07, 2024
Peter Pellegrini: Russia-friendly populist elected Slovak president
April 07, 2024
Scholz warns of the rise of right-wing populists ahead of EU elections
April 07, 2024
Storm Kathleen: Dozens of flights canceled in UK following weather alert
April 07, 2024
Activist Thunberg arrested at Hague climate protest
April 07, 2024
West facing ‘authoritarian’ alliance, says NATO chief
April 06, 2024
Thousands evacuated as Orsk dam burst worsens Russia floods
KYIV — At least six people have been killed in a Russian drone attack on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, local officials say.Mayor Ihor Terekhov said Iranian-made Shahed drones had hit several buildings, including apartment blocks, early on Saturday.Attacks on Kharkiv, the closest big city to the Russian border, have been intensifying in recent weeks.Ukrainian officials have said the city might be the target of a future Russian offensive.“This attack on peaceful residents of Kharkiv once again proves that Russia is a terrorist state,” Terekhov wrote on the Telegram messaging app.At least 11 people were injured by the attack in the residential Shevchenkivskyi district, according to the local prosecutor’s office.It said high-rise buildings, administrative buildings, dormitories, a...
April 06, 2024
Ukraine war: Russian drone strikes on Kharkiv kill six, officials say
April 06, 2024
Royal Navy: Nearly £17m worth of drugs seized in Caribbean