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Russian missiles have also targeted turbine halls in a bid to cripple the power supply.
Has Putin’s assault on Ukraine’s power grid failed?
KYIV/ MOSCOW — Ukrainians are enjoying the onset of spring. The nights are still cold, but they are emerging from a winter of Russian missile strikes that have cut their power, heating and their water too.The winter was very hard but it was now over, declared President Volodymyr Zelensky. Ukraine still had heat and the country was unbreakable, was the message.Until Thursday, Ukraine had just gone for more than three weeks in a row with no blackouts and even had surplus in the system.There had been no Russian attacks for three weeks either, and it looked as if Vladimir Putin’s battle to bring down Ukraine’s supply was over.“Yes, we’re doing it, but who started it?” he said in December, pinning the blame on Kyiv.It was a far more desperate story at that point. As much as half the...
March 11, 2023

Has Putin’s assault on Ukraine’s power grid failed?

Prince Edward
Prince Edward named new Duke of Edinburgh
LONDON — Prince Edward has been named as the new Duke of Edinburgh, Buckingham Palace has announced.The title, granted by King Charles III on the prince's 59th birthday, will be held for his lifetime.The former Duke of Edinburgh was Prince Philip, who died in 2021, and who was given the title on the morning of his wedding to Princess Elizabeth, who later became Queen Elizabeth II.The new Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, Sophie, will be in Edinburgh later.The couple are expected to attend an event in the Scottish capital on Friday marking the first year of conflict in Ukraine.Prince Edward becomes the Duke of Edinburgh almost two years after the death of his father, Philip, who held the title for more than 70 years.It was understood that Philip had wanted Edward, his youngest son, to...
March 10, 2023

Prince Edward named new Duke of Edinburgh

French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Friday
Macron and Sunak try to put relations back on track at Paris summit
PARIS — The leaders of Britain and France shook hands and briefly posed for photographers, smiling, on Friday morning, as Rishi Sunak arrived at the presidential palace in Paris for a meeting with Emmanuel Macron.It's a sign of how badly eroded relations have been between Britain and France that Friday's summit is the first since 2018. Previously, they were held every two years.Emmanuel Macron and Rishi Sunak will try to repair some of that damage and show a "new chapter" is opening in relations between the neighboring nations, according to Macron's office.Relations between London and Paris chilled amid post-Brexit wrangling over fishing rights and other issues, and hit rock-bottom under Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who took delight in needling the...
March 10, 2023

Macron and Sunak try to put relations back on track at Paris summit

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni presides over a Cabinet session in Cutro's town council hall, southern Italy, Thursday.
Italian PM unveils new plans to crack down on people smugglers
ROME — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni unveiled her right-wing government's plans to crack down on people smugglers following a Cabinet meeting she led Thursday in the southern town near the beach where a wooden boat packed with migrantsBy holding the meeting in Cutro, Calabria, instead of the capital, Rome, Meloni said she was stressing her resolve to “combat the slavery of the Third Millennium.”She announced that her Cabinet had approved a decree establishing a new crime — people smuggling that results in death or serious injury to migrants — punishable by up to 30 years in prison, an exceptionally stiff sentence for crimes involving facilitating illegal immigration.Many of the dead and survivors in the February 26 tragedy had fled Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Syria,...
March 10, 2023

Italian PM unveils new plans to crack down on people smugglers

Armed police storm a building in Hamburg
Several people killed in German church shooting
HAMBURG — A number of people have been killed in a shooting at a Jehovah's Witness meeting hall in the north German city of Hamburg.Police say the gunman acted alone and is thought to be dead. It is unclear if the attacker is among the six or seven fatalities reported by German media.As yet, "there is no reliable information on the motive", police say.A number of people were also injured in the shooting on Deelböge street in the city's Gross Borstel district.Police say they found a dead person at the scene who they believe may have been a perpetrator and investigations are continuing.Police were called around 21:15 (20:15 GMT) to reports that shots had been fired in the building, police spokesman Holger Vehren said.Officers who went in found people who "may have...
March 10, 2023

Several people killed in German church shooting

Refugees walk through a deportation center in Bamberg, Germany. (File photo)
German cities struggling with winter influx of migrants from the Western Balkans
BERLIN — This winter, cities in Germany faced yet another influx of refugees but this time it was not Ukrainians fleeing war but people from Western Balkan countries seeking to escape their countries' harsh winters and poor social living conditions.Cologne has, for instance, recorded more migrants from the Western Balkans in recent months than during the Yugoslav Wars that occurred from 1991 to 2001, according to the western city's press officer, Katja Reuter."The number of people from the West Balkans in Cologne city housing is over 1,000. Due to fluctuation, a more exact number is not available."Around 40 percent of the refugees come from Ukraine, and the other nationalities are well over 60 percent. The majority of them come from Albania," said Reuter.Now, the...
March 09, 2023

German cities struggling with winter influx of migrants from the Western Balkans

Protesters accused the Georgian government of trying to steer the country away from the EU
Georgia drops 'foreign agents' law after protests
TBILISI — Georgia's ruling party has said it will withdraw a controversial draft law, in the face of mass protests and widespread international criticism.Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in Tbilisi this week in anger as a Russian-style law began its passage through parliament.Under the bill, non-government groups and media would be targeted if they take over 20% of funding from abroad.The main ruling party said it was pulling the bill "unconditionally".Describing itself as a party of government responsible to all members of society, Georgian Dream referred to the need to reduce "confrontation" in society.Georgia has applied for candidate status of the European Union and sought to join Nato. EU officials had condemned the draft legislation as...
March 09, 2023

Georgia drops 'foreign agents' law after protests

Cars damaged by the Russian missile strikes in Kyiv
Russian air strikes cut power at Ukraine nuclear plant
KYIV — At least nine people have been killed and power at Europe's largest nuclear plant has been lost after Russia launched missiles across Ukraine.The attacks hit cities from Kharkiv in the north to Odesa in the south and Zhytomyr in the west.Buildings and infrastructure were hit in Kharkiv and Odesa, with power blackouts in several areas. Attacks on the capital Kyiv are also reported.Ukraine said Russia fired 81 missiles, in what is the biggest strike in weeks.The military claimed it successfully shot down 34 cruise missiles and four of the eight Iranian-made Shahed drones fired.In western Ukraine, at least five people were killed in Lviv after a rocket hit their home, the region's governor Maksym Kozytskyi said on Telegram.Russian shelling killed three people in the southern...
March 09, 2023

Russian air strikes cut power at Ukraine nuclear plant

Protesters took to the streets of Athens on Wednesday to protest last week’s crash. — courtesy Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP
Greek transport minister announces safety measures to improve national railway system
ATHENS — Greece’s Minister of Transport Giorgos Gerapetritis said that February’s tragic train crash would not have happened if there had been a complete rail telecommunications system in the country at a press conference on Wednesday.His comments came amid an announcement on new rail safety measures which will upgrade the network’s security system and technology.The recently-appointed Gerapetritis also expressed his sorrow for the “unprecedented national tragedy that has left its mark on us all”.“I must again apologize, as I have done from the very first moment I took office, on behalf of the government and myself, personally, to the families of the victims, to all Greek citizens, for not being able to prevent this tragic accident. The apology is completely sincere, not...
March 08, 2023

Greek transport minister announces safety measures to improve national railway system

A makeshift camp, in Iskenderun city, southern Turkey, on Feb. 14, 2023. — courtesy Hussein Malla/ The AP
Discrimination allegations mar Turkey quake response
ANKARA — In the early hours of the morning Daria Gilani, who asked that we not use her real name, awoke to the earth shattering beneath her.She and some friends — all Iranian asylum-seekers — came onto the “tense” and “sleepless” streets of Mersin, a port city on southeastern Turkey’s Mediterranean coast, eventually finding refuge at an improvised shelter set up for survivors of the devastating earthquake and aftershocks.But they were met with hostility. The group said they were told there was “no place for foreigners” and kicked out by a security guard.While they were eventually allowed in, after complaining to the manager of the center, Gilani and her friends say they were separated from Turkish citizens, and put in a different part of the building with other...
March 08, 2023

Discrimination allegations mar Turkey quake response

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