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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…
‘Hold the line’: Canada truckers dig in despite new police powers
OTTAWA, Feb 16 — Trucker-led protesters occupying the Canadian capital showed no sign of backing down yesterday, despite a newly invoked state of emergency granting wide new powers to end their weeks-long protest over Covid rules.A…
Taliban warn will ‘reconsider’ policy towards US if assets not freed
KABUL, Feb 15 — Afghanistan will be forced to reconsider its policy towards the United States unless Washington reverses a decision to freeze part of the country’s assets as compensation for victims of the 9/11 attacks, the Taliban said…
Ukrainian veterans in Poland prepare to re-enlist as Russia tensions mount
WROCLAW : Dmytro Dovzhenko, 40, has been living in Poland with his wife and two children since 2019, running a business handling anything from hairdressing to beauty to food.But he still wears a large signet ring with the…