Russia has declared victory in its months-long operation to capture the strategic port of Mariupol after Ukraine ordered the last of its troops holed up in the city's Azovstal steelworks to lay down their arms ... The verdict is due Monday ... Smoke rises at a warehouse after shelling in Severodonetsk ... "Attempts to attack Donbas continue ... 'End of operation'.
But what appeared to be a no-brainer for the alliance has quickly hit a roadblock in the form of Turkey’s mercurial president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan... Turkey is no ordinary NATO member ... Erdogan will find once more that his influence has significantly diminished if for no other reason but his own behavior.
We’ve gotten no response.”The division of the Korean peninsula after the Second World War has led to two radically different countries.In South Korea, Mr Biden is touring factories for computer chips and next-generation cars in a democracy and engaging in ...
Moldova should be "equipped to Nato standard" to help it guard against the threat of a Russian invasion, Foreign SecretaryLiz Truss has said. Ms Truss told the Telegraph that talks were under way with allies about how to help smaller nations defend themselves ... Moldova, once a Soviet republic, sits on Ukraine's south-western border ... .
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Turkey claims Greece violated its airspace twice this week, and that it had replied to those violations Friday “based on reciprocity and in accordance with” the Turkish Air Force’s rules of engagement ... Bilgic accused Greece of trying to mislead international public opinion ... .
Photo. AFP/file. BEIJING. Thousands of COVID-negative Beijing residents were forcibly relocated to quarantine hotels overnight due to a handful of infections, as the capital begins to take more extreme control measures resembling virus-hit Shanghai. Beijing has been battling its worst outbreak since the pandemic started ... then disinfect homes ... .
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Chinese engineers will take the ideas of a research paper and turn it into the world's largest 3D-printed project. Popular Mechanics. Within two years, officials behind this project want to fully automate the unmanned construction of a 590-foot-tall dam on the Tibetan Plateau to build the Yangqu hydropower plant -- completely with robots ... .
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When the Russian Federation released an official list of “unfriendly” nations, no country from Africa, Asia, or South America was on the list, and neither was India or China—the two most populous countries in the world—both of which have been pretty chummy with Putin.
Japan has lodged an official protest with China after discovering what it claimed were efforts by Beijing to develop gas fields in disputed waters ... .
Bubba Watson matches course record while Rory McIlroy shares fifth, but biggest crowds follow Woods as he continues comeback after his car crash last year ... .
An extremely complex heart transplant was performed at Hadassah Hospital on Friday when a 76-year-old patient needed one and all the common procedures that the hospital usually provides did not suit the treatment that was required. The patient arrived at Hadassah a few weeks ago with a severe heart defect and suffered from a severe vascular disease.
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