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US-based satellite firm: Images show military activity in Belarus, Crimea and western Russia
NEW YORK, Feb 19 — Satellite imagery taken this week shows military activity in multiple locations across Belarus, the annexed Crimea region of Ukraine and western Russia near Ukraine’s border, a private US company said yesterday.…
US says 40pc of Russian forces on Ukraine border in attack position
WASHINGTON, Feb 19 — More than 40 per cent of the Russian forces on the Ukraine border are now in position for attack and Moscow has begun a campaign of destabilisation, a US defence official said yesterdayThe United States, which…
Ukraine leader flying to Munich despite invasion fear
KYIV, Ukraine, Feb 19 ― Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has not changed his plans to personally attend today’s Munich Security Conference, his office said, despite US warnings of a Russian invasion.Without referring to US…
India sets up control rooms in Kyiv, Delhi to help families amidst Ukraine crisis
New Delhi, Feb 16 (UNI): With the situation in Ukraine continuing to be uncertain, India on Wednesday set up control rooms in its embassy in Kyiv and in the Ministry of External Affairs in Delhi to respond to queries of anxious Indian…
Myanmar military jet crashes, killing pilot
Yangon, Feb 16 (UNI/Xinhua): A military fighter jet crashed on Wednesday during a routine training, killing its pilot, a military spokesperson told Xinhua.
The fighter jet crashed into a lake east of Ohn Taw village, Sagaing region at…
Ukraine hit by cyber attack as US questions Russian troop pullback
KYIV, Feb 16 — Kyiv appeared to blame Russia for a cyber attack yesterday as US President Joe Biden warned that more than 150,000 Russian troops were still amassed near Ukraine’s borders after Moscow’s announcement of a partial pullback was…
Biden to Putin: Step back from the brink of war with Ukraine
WASHINGTON, Feb 16 — US President Joe Biden made an impassioned appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin to step back from war with Ukraine yesterday, speaking starkly of the “needless death and destruction” Moscow could cause and…
South Korea’s daily Covid-19 count tops 90,000, basketball league halted
SEOUL, Feb 16 — South Korea’s daily count of new coronavirus cases topped 90,000 for the first time, driven to a record by the fast-spreading Omicron variant that has seen daily tallies nearly double in just a week.The 90,443 cases…
Volcano damage to Tonga undersea cable worse than expected
NUKU’ALOFA (Tonga), Feb 16 — The volcanic eruption near Tonga shredded an 80-kilometre (50 mile) stretch of undersea cable, complicating efforts to reconnect the Pacific kingdom after a month of digital darkness, the company overseeing…
China’s Xi sets Hong Kong’s leaders ‘overriding mission’ to control Covid-19
HONG KONG, Feb 16 — China’s President Xi Jinping has told Hong Kong’s leaders that their “overriding mission” was to stabilise and control a worsening Covid-19 outbreak, pro-Beijing media reported, as infected patients lay in beds outside…