Posts tagged odesa
World Briefing: December 6, 2024

Large-scale rallies are set to take place at multiple locations in Seoul on Saturday where citizens will protest President Yoon Suk Yeol’s declaration of martial law and call for his resignation, or if he refuses, impeachment.

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World Briefing: November 27, 2024

A cease-fire deal to stop the fighting between Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah has been announced.

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World Briefing: November 18, 2024

US President Joe Biden has given the green light for Ukraine to use long-range US missiles to strike inside Russia. A top UN official warns of a mass displacement crisis in Ukraine after Russian attacks on critical infrastructure as winter takes hold

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World Briefing: November 6, 2024

Here in Eastern Europe, it’s the day after of the last day of voting in the U.S. elections - and perhaps nowhere else are the results being watched as anxiously as in Ukraine. Thousands of people in Tel Aviv took to the streets late Tuesday after the beleaguered Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, fired the hugely popular defense minister Yoav Gallant

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World Briefing: October 27, 2024

The pro-Russian Georgian Dream party is set to extend its control of parliament, but there are cries of a "stolen election" from the pro-Western opposition. Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a linchpin of U.S. space efforts has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since late 2022

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World Briefing: September 27, 2024

U.S. intelligence believe that Russia is likely to retaliate with greater force against the United States and its coalition partners, possibly with lethal attacks, if they agree to give the Ukrainians permission to employ long-range missiles for strikes deep inside Russia

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WORLD BRIEFING: July 27, 2024

The Olympics get underway in Paris with an unprecedented outdoor ceremony but marred by an arson attack on the French high-speed rail system and athletes complaining of lousy food 

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WORLD BRIEFING: July 14, 2014

Poland is considering a Ukrainian proposal to intercept Russian rockets that are on course to hit cities in Ukraine or enter Polish territory, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said. The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says at least 90 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a designated humanitarian area

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WORLD BRIEFING: June 17, 2024

Swedish fighter jets intercepted a Russian military aircraft after it briefly violated Sweden's airspace on Friday east of the Baltic island of Gotland  

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WORLD BRIEFING: April 13, 2024

Israel is on high alert for a possible direct attack from Iran. The former commander of the UK's Joint Forces Command has warned that Ukraine could face defeat by Russia in 2024

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WORLD BRIEFING: April 10, 2024

Europe must prepare for potential war, as a full-scale conflict on the continent beyond Ukraine is “no longer a fantasy”, the EU’s chief diplomat has warned. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approach to the war in Gaza is a “mistake,” said US president Joe Biden

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WORLD BRIEFING: April 8, 2024

A new drone attack on Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia power plant has raised the risk of a "major nuclear accident", the UN's atomic watchdog has warned. Israel ‘pulls out troops’ from southern Gaza as attacks enter seventh month

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WORLD BRIEFING: April 3, 2024

World Central Kitchen says it is pausing its efforts to feed Palestinians in Gaza after seven of its workers were killed by an Israeli strike. NATO is drawing up plans to secure a five-year military aid package of up to $100bn, in an attempt to shield Ukraine from “winds of political change” that could usher in a second Trump presidency

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WORLD BRIEFING: March 22, 2024

A huge Russian attack overnight using at least 60 drones and 90 rockets targeted several Ukrainian regions. European leaders have agreed on a unified statement on the Middle East, calling for an immediate humanitarian pause in Gaza leading to a sustainable ceasefire.

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WORLD BRIEFING: March 8, 2024

President Biden used his State of the Union address on Thursday to launch a series of fiery attacks against former President Donald Trump  French President Emmanuel Macron repeats suggestion of troops on Ukraine soil. Sacked Ukraine army chief becomes Kyiv’s envoy to London. 

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WORLD BRIEFING: March 7, 2024

The war in Sudan is “triggering the world’s largest hunger crisis,” with more than 25 million people “trapped in a spiral” of food insecurity. Deadly explosions have rocked Odesa as President Volodymyr Zelensky was meeting Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

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WORLD BRIEFING: March 4, 2024

Rescue workers in Odesa pulled more bodies from the rubble of an apartment building, bringing the death toll in a Russian attack two days ago to 12 - including five children. Donald Trump won a string of Republican presidential contests

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WORLD BRIEFING: February 9, 2024

Ukraine's president has named Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskiy as the country's top military commander. Russia's election commission has rejected anti-war challenger Boris Nadezhdin as a candidate in next month's presidential vote

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WORLD BRIEFING: January 22, 2024

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended his Republican presidential campaign on Sunday, ending his 2024 White House bid just before the New Hampshire primary while endorsing his bitter rival Donald Trump

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WORLD BRIEFING: January 20, 2024

An apparent Israeli air strike hits a residential building in Damascus. U.S. Republican bickering lessons chances of Kyiv receiving tens of billions in crucial aid.

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