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Russian missiles rain down on military sites across Ukraine
Asahi News 25 Jun 2022
KYIV--Dozens of Russian missiles rained down on military facilities in western and northern Ukraine on Saturday, local officials said, as Europe’s biggest land conflict since World War II entered its fifth month ... Chaus did not specify what had been hit, but said there had been “infrastructure damage.” There were no casualties, he added ... .
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Macron's tense, last-gasp Putin call on eve of Ukraine invasion
The Times of India 25 Jun 2022
PARIS. "Vladimir, firstly one thing!" says President Emmanuel as he seeks to make a point to his Russian counterpart. "Listen Emmanuel," interjects the Russian leader ... The call took place on the morning of February 20 as the French leader made what turned out to be a fruitless attempt to stop Russia from going to war ... .
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Ukraine reports 'massive' attack from Belarus
The Times of India 25 Jun 2022
KYIV. Ukraine said it came under "massive bombardment" Saturday from neighbouring Belarus, a Russian ally not officially involved in the conflict, the day after announcing a retreat from the strategic city of Severodonetsk ... US President Joe Biden will be attending the G7 and a summit of the Nato military alliance in Madrid next week ... .
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Two dead, several wounded in Norway nightclub shooting, police say
FX Empire 25 Jun 2022photo: Creative Commons / Ibama
The Amazon rainforest is disappearing quickly and threatening indigenous people who live there
The Times of India 25 Jun 2022
Forests throughout the world are shrinking year after year - and is the epicentre. According to the World Wildlife Fund, more than a quarter of the Amazon will be devoid of trees by 2030 if cutting continues at the same speed. If nothing is done to stop it, an estimated 40 per cent of this unique forest will be razed by 2050 ... Start a Conversation. .
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Pressure mounts on Boris Johnson amid Tory backlash over byelection defeats
The Guardian 25 Jun 2022
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What does Russia’s capture of Severodonetsk mean for Ukraine?
Al Jazeera 24 Jun 2022
Kyiv, Ukraine – The loss of the southeastern town of Severodonetsk is far more significant and symbolic to Russia than to Ukraine, military analysts have told Al Jazeera. On Friday, Ukrainian forces were abandoning the town in the Luhansk region, after weeks of fierce fighting ... Western and Russian analysts agree with him ... “Aviation is working ... .
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China's Xi to visit Hong Kong for handover anniversary
The Times of India 25 Jun 2022
BEIJING ... Xi also will attend the inaugural meeting of the territory's newly installed government, said. It gave no indication how long Xi would stay in Hong Kong or other details ... Start a Conversation. .
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Afghan quake misery intensifies
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 25 Jun 2022
A new aftershock Friday took five more lives and deepened the misery ... He said close to 70 children were injured ... At Urgan, the main city in Paktika province, U.N ... While they are rushing to help the quake victims, aid groups said keeping Afghanistan just above catastrophe through humanitarian programs is not sustainable ... U.N ... .
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US abortion ruling sparks global debate, polarizes activists
Asahi News 25 Jun 2022
NAIROBI, Kenya--The end of constitutional protections for abortions in the United States on Friday emboldened abortion opponents around the world, while advocates for abortion rights worried it could threaten recent moves toward legalization in their countries. The U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of the landmark Roe v ... Ahead of U.S ... The U.N ... Dr ... ...
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Chinese military says US plane in Taiwan Strait endangered peace
The Times of India 25 Jun 2022
SHANGHAI. China's military said on Saturday that the recent fly through of a US maritime plane through the deliberately disrupted the regional situation and endangered peace and stability ... He added that they firmly opposed the actions by the United States and that their troops remained high on alert ... Start a Conversation. .
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Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque ‘in danger of collapsing’ due to Israeli excavation work: Site official
Arab News 25 Jun 2022
RAMALLAH. Officials at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem have raised deep concerns over Israeli excavation work at the holy site which they claim has caused cracks and other damage to the building’s structure ... Al-Khatib said. “There are dangerous and unknown excavations, and no one knows what they are and what their goals are ... He said ... ....
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USS Samuel B Roberts: World's deepest shipwreck discovered
BBC News 24 Jun 2022
Explorers have found the deepest shipwreck ever identified, a US navy destroyer sunk during World War Two. The USS Samuel B Roberts went down during the Battle of Leyte Gulf off the Philippines' coast in October 1944 ... Features ... .
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World’s dirtiest oil and gas fields are in Russia, Turkmenistan and Texas
The Jerusalem Post 25 Jun 2022
The dirtiest fields emit more than 10 times as much carbon dioxide equivalent as the least emissions-intensive sites, it finds ... cnxps.cmd.push(function () { cnxps({ playerId ... RMI estimates that the US Environmental Protection Agency’s greenhouse gas reporting program undercounts oil and gas industry emissions by a factor of two ... (credit ... .
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Supreme Court Ends 50 Years of Abortion Rights by Overturning Roe V. Wade
The Source 24 Jun 2022
On Friday, The Supreme Court overruled Roe V. Wade, terminating the constitutional right of women to abortion. Roe V. Wade was put in place nearly 50 years ago. The ruling will now result in total bans of abortion in nearly half of the states in America ... Three of Trump’s appointees were in the majority for the decision ... .