Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit means for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Two holidaymakers from Sussex, both aged 79, should have woken up on Monday morning on the first full day of their 10-day spring holiday in …
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ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Flak jackets are piled up at Ukraine’s Zaporizhstal steel plant, and anti-tank traps guard the entrance. Whenever air raid sirens sound — and they go off every day — most workers head to one of the 16 bomb shelters scattered across the sprawling grounds. But some keep working — braving not …
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Jim McKee is standing at the end of a line that snakes through five aisles of fiction inside the Books-A-Million store in Florida’s capital city. He is smiling because in a matter of minutes, the book he’s holding will be signed by its author. Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor who McKee …
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Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Saturday that the Kremlin plans to station nuclear weapons in Belarus, drawing claims of “nuclear blackmail” from Ukraine and condemnation from the United States and NATO. Putin said the move would counter the US’s deployment of nuclear weapons in different European countries, placing nuclear weapons across the border from …
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Some 200 protesters gathered beneath Rio de Janeiro’s world-famous Sugarloaf Mountain to protest the ongoing construction of ziplines aimed at boosting tourism, alleging it will cause unacceptable impacts. The four steel lines will run 755 meters (almost 2,500 feet) over the forest between Sugarloaf and Urca Hill, and riders will reach speeds of 100 km/h …
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The manager of Martha Reeves, pictured, has launched a public fundraising campaign in hopes of securing the necessary funds for the singer’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. When Martha Reeves was selected in 2021 for a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fameher journey to one of the most famous destinations in showbiz …
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko – Vladimir Astapkovich/AP The West has condemned Vladimir Putin’s decision to send tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus as the bully-boy posturing of a desperate despot. Less than 24 hours after Mr Putin promised to move his nuclear arsenal closer to Europe and Ukraine, the US, …
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s government on Sunday called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to “counter the Kremlin’s nuclear blackmail” after Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed plans to station tactical atomic weapons in Belarus. One Ukrainian official said Russia “took Belarus as a nuclear hostage.” Further heightening tensions, an explosion deep …
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CHICAGO (AP) — Ken Kunz used to know everyone in the North Side Chicago neighborhood where he’s lived for more than 40 years. But crossing paths with old friends is rare these days because longtime residents have been pushed out by new development and soaring property taxes. When they do meet, the 64-year-old says, they …
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The United Nations (UN) issued its latest climate change report which warned the “climate time bomb is ticking,” sparking renewed calls for nations including the US to take more aggressive actions to curb carbon emissions. The report, published Monday by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), concluded that sustained global fossil fuel usage …
