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A Soyuz spacecraft carrying an American and two Russians launched, on Tuesday, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to head to the International Space Station. The MS-27 craft, which was decorated to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, took off at 10:47 am (0547 GMT), according to televised images shown by the Russian ...
This is Beirut, 06/04 19:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed disappointment on Sunday over the lack of a "response" from the United States to Russian President Vladimir Putin's "refusal" to agree to a full and unconditional ceasefire in Ukraine, following new deadly strikes, particularly in Kyiv. The United States had proposed a 30-day ceasefire in March, ...
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French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday called for "strong action" if Russia continued "to refuse peace," days after a Russian ballistic missile killed nine children in Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky's hometown. Despite US and European efforts to secure peace in Ukraine, Russia continued "to murder children and civilians," Macron ...
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President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Sunday that Moscow is increasing its aerial bombardment after Russia mounted a "massive" missile and drone attack on Ukraine overnight, killing two people and wounding at least seven. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that "the number of Russian air attacks is increasing," which ...
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Russian superstar soprano Anna Netrebko — shunned on some world stages since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine — will appear at London's Royal Opera House later this year. Netrebko, 53, will star in a production of Puccini's Tosca from September 11, marking her return to Covent Garden after a six-year absence, the Royal Opera said on its ...
This is Beirut, 05/04 16:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday slammed the US embassy for what he called a "weak" statement that did not blame Russia for a missile strike on his hometown that killed 18 people, including nine children. In one of the deadliest strikes in recent weeks, a Russian missile on Friday evening struck a residential area near ...
This is Beirut, 05/04 05:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A Russian ballistic missile strike on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's home city of Kryvyi Rig killed 18 people on Friday, among them nine children, authorities said. The missile struck a residential area near a children's playground and wounded more than two dozen others, according to the head of the city's military ...
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Making incisions and carefully taking samples, the scientists at a laboratory in Russia's far east looked like pathologists carrying out a post-mortem. But the body they were dissecting is a baby mammoth who died around 130,000 years ago. Discovered last year, the calf nicknamed Yana, for the river basin where she was found, is in a remarkable ...
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The most senior Russian official to visit Washington since the start of the Ukraine war said Thursday he had discussed potential cooperation with the United States in the Arctic and on rare earth metals but acknowledged that "disagreements" remain. Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia's sovereign wealth fund and President Vladimir ...
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Russian drone strikes killed at least four people and injured more than 30 in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, authorities said Friday. Russia and Ukraine have stepped up aerial attacks even as US President Donald Trump pushes them to agree to a ceasefire after more than three years of costly fighting. The attack late Thursday targeted ...
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US President Donald Trump has threatened that Iran will be bombed if it persists in developing nuclear weapons. "If they don’t make a deal, there will be bombing," NBC News said the president told one of its correspondents in an interview late Saturday. It said he also threatened to punish Iran with what he called "secondary ...
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On Wednesday, Emmanuel Macron announced an additional €2 billion in military aid from France to Ukraine, accusing Russia of demonstrating a "willingness for war." On the eve of a summit he is organizing in Paris with nearly thirty countries ready to contribute, in various ways, to the "security guarantees" that Europeans wish to offer Kyiv in ...