Category: World News

Ukraine to seek humanitarian corridors in talks with Russia

Summary Companies Russian troops’ advance stalled outside Kyiv Ukraine president says defence lines holding Moscow says it has seized Kherson, mayor says troops in streets UN votes overwhelmingly to censure Russia’s invasion Refugee total exceeds 1 million – UNHCR BORODYANKA, Ukraine, March 3 (Reuters) – Ukraine said it […]

Neutral Finland, Sweden warm to idea of NATO membership

HELSINKI — Through the Cold War and the decades since, nothing could persuade Finns and Swedes that they would be better off joining NATO — until now. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has profoundly changed Europe’s security outlook, including for Nordic neutrals Finland and Sweden, where support for joining NATO has […]

Russia’s war spurs corporate exodus, exposes business risks

LONDON — Car factories idled, beer stopped flowing, furniture and fashion orders ceased, and energy companies cut their pipelines. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has thrown business plans into disarray and forced a growing number of the world’s best known brands — from Apple to Mercedes-Benz and BP — to pull […]

Live updates: Russian forces take first major Ukrainian city

The latest developments on the Russia-Ukraine war: KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces have taken a strategic Ukrainian seaport and set siege to another as Moscow tries to cut its neighbor off from the Black Sea. The Russian military said Thursday it had control of Kherson, which has a population […]

Dramatic call with Ukraine leader prompted historic EU move to provide arms

BRUSSELS, March 2 – Early on Saturday morning, some 48 hours after Russian military forces had pushed into his country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy put in a call from Kyiv to Brussels with a plea for military assistance. During the Feb. 26 phone call with the head of […]

Boeing, Exxon, Apple join Western firms spurning Russia over Ukraine

Summary Companies Ford suspends operations in Russiaew Apple stops iPhone sales in Russian market ESG investors press Western firms to act March 2 (Reuters) – Boeing (BA.N) suspended maintenance and technical support for Russian airlines and U.S. energy firm Exxon Mobil (XOM.N) said it would exit Russia, joining a growing list of […]

Live updates: Malta halts ‘golden passports’ for Russians

The latest developments on the Russia-Ukraine war: ROME — European Union member Malta says it is suspending the processing of applications from Russian and Belarusian nationals for its so-called “golden passport” program in the wake of EU sanctions on Russia. The much-criticized program, which grants citizenship or official residence […]

State of the Union: Biden vows to halt Russia, hit inflation

WASHINGTON — Addressing a concerned nation and anxious world, President Joe Biden vowed in his first State of the Union address Tuesday night to check Russian aggression in Ukraine, tame soaring U.S. inflation and deal with the fading but still dangerous coronavirus. Biden declared that he and all members of […]

Russia takes aim at urban areas; Biden vows Putin will ‘pay’

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s leader decried Russia’s escalation of attacks on crowded cities as a blatant terror campaign, while U.S. President Joe Biden warned that if the Russian leader didn’t “pay a price” for the invasion, the aggression wouldn’t stop with one country. “Nobody will forgive. Nobody will forget,” Ukraine’s […]

Biden steps to State of the Union lectern at fraught moment

WASHINGTON — Facing disquiet at home and danger abroad, President Joe Biden will deliver his first State of the Union address at a precipitous moment for the nation, aiming to navigate the country out of a pandemic, reboot his stalled domestic agenda and confront Russia’s aggression. The speech Tuesday night had initially […]

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