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Ukraine isn't naive, Zelenskiy says after Russia pledges to scale down attack on Kyiv

Published On: March 30, 2022 07:49 AM NPT By: Reuters

LVIV, Ukraine/KYIV OUTSKIRTS March 30: Ukraine reacted with skepticism to Russia's promise in negotiations to scale down military operations around Kyiv and another city as some Western countries expected Moscow to intensify its offensive in other parts of the country.

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Russia promises to scale down operations in northern Ukraine

Published On: March 29, 2022 07:33 PM NPT By: Reuters

ISTANBUL/KYIV OUTSKIRTS/MARIUPOL, Ukraine, March 29: Russia promised at peace talks on Tuesday to scale down its military operations around Kyiv and northern Ukraine, while Ukraine proposed adopting a neutral status but with international guarantees that it would be protected from attack.

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Ukraine sets ceasefire goal for new Russia talks, but breakthrough looks distant

Published On: March 29, 2022 07:55 AM NPT By: Reuters

LVIV/KHARKIV, Ukraine, March 29: Air raid sirens sounded across Ukraine before dawn on Tuesday as Ukrainian and Russian negotiators prepared to meet in Turkey for face-to-face talks, with Kyiv seeking a ceasefire without compromising on territory or sovereignty.

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Ukraine says Russian forces near Chernobyl could pose new radiation threat

Published On: March 28, 2022 07:49 AM NPT By: Reuters

March 28: A senior Ukrainian official accused Russia on Sunday of "irresponsible" acts around the occupied Chernobyl power station that could send radiation across much of Europe, and urged the United Nations to dispatch a mission to assess the risks.

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Ukraine leader demands Western nations give arms, asks if they're afraid of Moscow

Published On: March 27, 2022 07:15 AM NPT By: Reuters

LVIV, Ukraine, March 27: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, visibly irritated, on Saturday demanded Western nations provide a fraction of the military hardware in their stock piles and asked whether they were afraid of Moscow.

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Drugmakers, scientists begin the hunt for long COVID treatments

Published On: March 26, 2022 04:00 PM NPT By: Reuters

March 26: After producing vaccines and treatments for acute COVID-19 in record time, researchers and drugmakers are turning to finding a cure for long COVID, a more elusive target marked by hundreds of different symptoms afflicting millions of people.

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Russia reframes war goals as Ukrainians advance near Kyiv

Published On: March 26, 2022 07:00 AM NPT By: Reuters

BUCHA/LVIV, Ukraine, March 26: Moscow signalled on Friday it was scaling back its ambitions in Ukraine to focus on territory claimed by Russian-backed separatists in the East as Ukrainian forces went on the offensive to recapture towns outside the capital Kyiv.

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Ukrainian forces advance east of Kyiv as Russians fall back

Published On: March 25, 2022 03:25 PM NPT By: Reuters

LVIV, Ukraine, March 25: Ukrainian troops are recapturing towns east of the capital Kyiv and Russian forces who had been trying to sieze the city are falling back on their overextended supply lines, Britain said on Friday.

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Ukraine urges halt to Russia's assault as Biden heads to Poland

Published On: March 25, 2022 08:40 AM NPT By: Reuters

LVIV/MARIUPOL, Ukraine, March 25: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that Ukrainians "need to achieve peace" and halt Russian bombardment that has forced millions to flee to countries like Poland, where U.S. President Joe Biden is due to visit and witness the crisis first hand.

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Russian space chief says cooperation with Europe now impossible

Published On: March 25, 2022 07:13 AM NPT By: Reuters

March 25: Russia's space director said on Thursday that Europe had wrecked cooperation by imposing sanctions against his agency, and rockets that were meant to launch European satellites would now be used for Russian companies or countries friendly to Moscow.

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On invasion milestone, Ukraine urges solidarity as Western leaders gather

Published On: March 24, 2022 02:00 PM NPT By: Reuters

LVIV/KHARKIV, Ukraine/ BRUSSELS, March 24: Ukraine's leader called for solidarity on Thursday, a month since Russia's invasion began, warning he would see who sells out at summits in Europe where bolstering sanctions and NATO is planned but restrictions on energy could prove divisive.

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Putin plans to attend G20 summit in Indonesia, says Russia's ambassador

Published On: March 23, 2022 03:55 PM NPT By: Reuters

JAKARTA, March 23: Russian President Vladimir Putin intends to attend a G20 summit in Indonesia later this year, Russia's ambassador to Indonesia said on Wednesday, dismissing suggestions by some G20 members that Russia could be barred from the group.

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Chinese Boeing jet crashes in mountains with 132 on board, no sign of survivors

Published On: March 22, 2022 07:31 AM NPT By: Reuters

GUANGZHOU, China, March 22: A China Eastern Airlines (600115.SS) Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in mountains in southern China on Monday after a sudden plunge from cruising altitude at about the time when it would normally start to descend ahead of its landing.

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China Eastern Airlines Boeing with 132 on board crashes in China

Published On: March 21, 2022 03:19 PM NPT By: Reuters

BEIJING, March 21: A China Eastern Airlines (600115.SS) aircraft with 132 people on board crashed in mountains in south China on Monday while on a flight from the city of Kunming to Guangzhou, China's Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said.

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Zelenskiy calls for peace talks with Moscow, urges Swiss to target oligarchs

Published On: March 20, 2022 07:29 AM NPT By: Reuters

LVIV/ODESSA, Ukraine, March 20: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Saturday for comprehensive peace talks with Moscow and also urged Switzerland to do more to crack down on Russian oligarchs who he said were helping wage war on his country with their money.

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Putin appears at big rally as troops press attack in Ukraine

Published On: March 19, 2022 07:45 AM NPT By: Reuters

March 19: Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared at a huge flag-waving rally at a packed Moscow stadium Friday and lavished praise on his troops fighting in Ukraine, three weeks into the invasion that has led to heavier-than-expected Russian losses on the battlefield and increasingly authoritarian rule at home.

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U.S. warns China not to fuel Russia's assault on Ukraine as fears for Mariupol grow

Published On: March 19, 2022 07:00 AM NPT By: Reuters

KYIV/LVIV, Ukraine, March 19: Russia said its forces were "tightening the noose" around the besieged Ukrainian port of Mariupol on Friday and concern grew over mass civilian casualties as the United States again warned China against aiding Moscow in its invasion.

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COVID-19 pandemic is 'far from over' -WHO official

Published On: March 18, 2022 06:45 PM NPT By: Reuters

GENEVA, March 18: A World Health Organization spokesperson said on Friday that the end of the COVID-19 pandemic was a long way off, citing a rise in cases in its latest weekly data.

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Russian missiles strike Lviv

Published On: March 18, 2022 03:55 PM NPT By: Reuters

KYIV/LVIV, Ukraine, March 18: Russia fired missiles at an airport near Lviv on Friday, a city where hundreds of thousands of refugees are sheltering far from Ukraine's battlefields, as Moscow tries to regain the initiative in its stalled campaign against Ukraine.

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Biden calls Putin a war criminal as Russia says mission 'going to plan'

Published On: March 17, 2022 07:22 AM NPT By: Reuters

KYIV/LVIV, Ukraine, March 17: U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday called Russian leader Vladimir Putin a war criminal in comments the Kremlin said were "unforgivable" as it insisted the war in Ukraine was "going to plan" amid talk of compromise at peace talks.

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