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A Russian warship takes part in maneuvers in the Black Sea, Crimea
Russian naval ship in Crimea damaged in airstrike by Ukrainian forces
MOSCOW — A Russian naval ship in Crimea was damaged in an airstrike by Ukrainian forces, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday.The landing ship Novocherkassk was hit at a base in the city of Feodosia by plane-launched guided missiles, the ministry said, adding that two Ukrainian fighter jets were destroyed by anti-aircraft fire during the attack.Over the past several months, Ukrainian forces have conducted attacks around Crimea, mostly with sea drones. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy credits those attacks with allowing Ukraine to restore navigation in the Black Sea and allowing the export of millions of tons of grain.There was no immediate report of how badly the Russian ship was damaged, but videos circulating on Ukrainian channels showed an extensive fire in the port...
December 26, 2023

Russian naval ship in Crimea damaged in airstrike by Ukrainian forces

Olivia Taylor tried her very first cup of tea, which was poured by the Queen at Windsor Castle
Queen Camilla hosts Windsor Castle afternoon tea for girl with brain tumor
LONDON — A little girl who has spent most of her life on chemotherapy was invited to Windsor Castle for tea with the Queen.Olivia Taylor has a brain tumor which has left her blind but she leapt up to say "Hello, your Majesty!" as she met Queen Camilla.The seven-year-old tried her first cup of tea as part of her visit to Windsor.She was invited after the Queen learned Olivia had performed with a choir at Buckingham Palace as part of the pre-recorded King's Christmas broadcast.Olivia, part of the Bexley Music Primary Choir, gave the Queen a preview during their tea inside Windsor Castle's White Drawing Room.She stood up and sang Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, receiving a round of applause.Her teddy "Corrie" -- which she was given around the time of the...
December 26, 2023

Queen Camilla hosts Windsor Castle afternoon tea for girl with brain tumor

Students block one of the main streets during a protest in central Belgrade, on December 25, 2023, a week after the parliamentary and local elections in Serbia
Students block key roads in Belgrade as protests continue
BELGRADE — Serbian police said Monday they had detained at least 38 people who took part in Sunday's protest against reported widespread voting irregularities.Several hundred Serbian university students and other citizens have blocked traffic at a key Belgrade street that hosts government headquarters, braving a police warning against the blockades of roads and bridges in the capital.Serbian police said on Monday they have detained nearly 40 people who took part in a protest against what election observers said were widespread irregularities during a recent general ballot.That ballot declared the governing populists winners of the parliamentary and local councils' elections.Claiming election fraud, particularly in the capital, Belgrade, opposition group Serbia Against Violence...
December 26, 2023

Students block key roads in Belgrade as protests continue

Russian State TV showed destroyed buildings and Russian soldiers in what it said were the outskirts of Mariinka
Ukraine denies Russian capture of key town near Donetsk
MOSCOW — Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has said his troops have seized the key town of Mariinka in eastern Ukraine — a claim immediately denied by Kyiv.Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin assault units had taken the "powerfully fortified" area just outside Donetsk, a Russian-held regional capital.But Ukrainian military spokesman Oleksandr Shtupun said "fighting for Mariinka" continued.Mariinka -- seen as a gateway to Donetsk -- has been almost completely destroyed.In a separate development, the Russian-installed head of Crimea, Ukraine's southern peninsula seized by Moscow in 2014, reported an "enemy attack" and a fire in the port of Feodosiya in the early hours of Tuesday.The head of the Ukrainian Air Force said his warplanes had destroyed a...
December 26, 2023

Ukraine denies Russian capture of key town near Donetsk

King Charles
King Charles's Christmas message focuses on shared values in time of conflict
LONDON — King Charles's Christmas message has emphasized the importance of "universal" values shared between major religions, at a time of "increasingly tragic conflict around the world".Against a backdrop of conflicts in Israel, Gaza and Ukraine, he pointed to Jesus's words: "Do to others as you would have them do to you."King Charles also talked of protecting the planet as being a spiritual duty.And he praised the efforts of volunteers helping those in need.The King's second Christmas broadcast, recorded in Buckingham Palace, wove together some of his most personal causes -- building bridges between faiths, protecting the environment and caring for the most vulnerable.He has long campaigned for supporting links between different religious...
December 26, 2023

King Charles's Christmas message focuses on shared values in time of conflict

Sweden's Deputy Prime Minister and Energy & Industry Minister Ebba Busch (left) and France's Energy Minister Agnés Pannier-Runacher (right) sign the nuclear cooperation declaration in Brussels. — courtesy @AgnesRunacher on X
France and Sweden plan nuclear cooperation
BRUSSELS — France and Sweden have signed a declaration of intent to develop long-term cooperation in the field of nuclear energy.The declaration was signed in Brussels on Dec. 19 by Sweden's Deputy Prime Minister and Energy & Industry Minister Ebba Busch and France's Energy Minister Agnés Pannier-Runacher.The declaration calls for the two countries, among other things, to exchange experiences regarding financing models for the expansion of new nuclear power and encourage increased cooperation between the Swedish and French nuclear power industries.In addition, the countries will exchange technical experience in reactor maintenance, as well as lifetime and power upgrades of existing nuclear power reactors.It says France and Sweden will “promote a regulatory, industrial and...
December 25, 2023

France and Sweden plan nuclear cooperation

Alexei Navalny during a court hearing in September. — courtesy Reuters
Navalny: Russian opposition leader found, says team
MOSCOW — Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is alive and being held in a penal colony in Siberia, according to his spokeswoman."We found Alexei Navalny," Kira Yarmysh said on Monday, adding that he was now in northern Russia.His team had had no contact with him since Dec. 6, after he was moved from a previous prison.Navalny, considered one of Vladimir Putin's leading opponents, has been imprisoned since 2021."His lawyer saw him today. Alexei is fine," Yarmysh wrote on the Telegram messaging app.She said he had been moved to the IK-3 penal colony in Kharp in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, in northern Russia.He had previously been held in Melekhovo, 235 km (145 miles) east of Moscow.Navalny's aide Ivan Zhadov said the colony was one of the "most remote...
December 25, 2023

Navalny: Russian opposition leader found, says team

Gendarmes patrol by the plane grounded by police based that it could be carrying trafficking victims, at the Vary airport
Plane stuck in France for trafficking probe allowed to depart for India
PARIS — A charter plane grounded in France for a human trafficking investigation is scheduled to leave Monday for India, after an exceptional holiday ordeal that left some 300 Indians en route for Central America blocked inside a rural French airport for four days.French authorities are still investigating the aim of the original flight, en route from the United Arab Emirates to Nicaragua, and two passengers have been detained.Prosecutors wouldn’t comment on what kind of human trafficking was alleged, or whether the passengers’ ultimate destination could have been the US, which has seen a surge in Indians crossing the Mexico-US border this year.French authorities worked through Christmas Eve and Christmas morning on formalities to allow passengers to leave the Vatry airfield in...
December 25, 2023

Plane stuck in France for trafficking probe allowed to depart for India

A Ukrainian T-64 tank goes on combat duty in the area of Bakhmut district on December 8, 2023 in Bakhmut Region, Ukraine. — courtesy Getty Images
Ukraine arrests senior Defense Ministry official accused of embezzling $40 million
KYIV — A senior Ukrainian Defense Ministry official has been detained over allegations he embezzled 1.5 billion Ukrainian hryvnia ($40 million) relating to an artillery shells contract, according to the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU).The SBU says the official signed an agreement with a special export company to purchase a wholesale batch of artillery shells in December last year.However, a more favorable contract for the supply was later signed with the same manufacturer — one that did not involve intermediaries. The SBU said this significantly shortened the delivery time and reduced the cost of the products.According to the SBU, the defense official extended the original — more expensive — contract and funds totaling 1.5 billion Ukrainian hryvnia ($40 million) were transferred...
December 25, 2023

Ukraine arrests senior Defense Ministry official accused of embezzling $40 million

Around 100 Airbus Atlantic employees fell ill after a Christmas lunch, according to a spokesperson for the European aeronautics company
Around 100 Airbus employees fall ill after company Christmas party
PARIS — A holiday celebration for employees of an Airbus subsidiary in France took a turn for the worse earlier this month as dozens of employees became sick after a company Christmas party.“Around 100 Airbus Atlantic employees were taken ill after contracting a food-borne illness after eating the company-organized Christmas lunch,” a spokesperson for the European aeronautics company said in an emailed statement to CNN.The spokesperson did not specify the type of food.Nobody at Airbus was rendered seriously ill by the December 15 incident, and all employees were back at work by the next Monday, according to the spokesperson.Airbus Atlantic, established in January 2022, is a wholly owned Airbus subsidiary specializing in airplane seats. Airbus Atlantic has 13,000 employees in five...
December 25, 2023

Around 100 Airbus employees fall ill after company Christmas party

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