KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Fresh off securing a plan to receive more U.S. weaponry, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed a new prime minister – the key negotiator of his country’s deal…
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‘Preparation is our only option’: sirens wail as Taiwan simulates China attack in city streets | Taiwan
Usually people in Taipei walk quite slowly. Notoriously so. But at 1.27pm on Thursday some were almost sprinting through the busy shopping district of Ximen. They knew they had three minutes to get where they needed to be or they would be stuck…
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Europe’s best theme park turns 50 – and it’s not Disneyland
These are great days for theme parks, at home and abroad. Universal Studios has announced…
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23,800 residents remain in active combat zone in Donetsk Region
23,800 residents, including 115 children, remain in the active combat zone in the Donetsk Region.
This information was provided during an online briefing by Dmytro Petlin, Head of the Department of Civil Protection, Mobilization, and Defense of the Donetsk Regional Military…
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Rada appoints Kachka as dpty PM for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration
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The Verkhovna Rada appointed Taras Kachka as Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration.
The decision to appoint ministers to the new…
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In a historic gathering, 12 countries announce Israel sanctions and renewed legal action to end Gaza genocide – Mondoweiss
Speaking about Palestine is speaking about resistance in the heart of horror. That is how Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, summed it up at an emergency…
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16 and 17-year-olds to be able to vote in next general election as government says it will lower voting age in UK
BBC Bitesize’s three top tips for making big decisionspublished at 16:19 British Summer Time
Image source, Getty ImagesWhen 16 and 17-year-olds – as well as those a lot older – arrive at the ballot box at the next general election,…
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This Is the Biggest Mistake American Tourists Make When Traveling to Europe
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European cities often have narrow streets, cobblestones, limited elevators, and small doorways that make large suitcases difficult to manage.
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Some people recommend traveling light to avoid judgment and logistical headaches.
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Others,…
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Georgian leader scoffs at EU threat to visa-free travel – POLITICO
“Georgia’s democratic backsliding will come at [a] cost,” the EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas said Tuesday.
Kobakhidze, however, told the media that visa-free travel to Europe is not “existential” for his country, and once again defended the foreign agents law, claiming it was…
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Eswatini: Outrage over arrival of foreign US deportees in tiny African nation
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Across Africa, and in the tiny nation of Eswatini, fury has erupted over the arrival of foreign deportees from the United States, after its government confirmed that…
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