Heating restored in freezing Kyiv, Mayor Klitschko says
Dec 18 (Reuters) – Heating has been fully restored to Kyiv after the latest Russian bombardment that targeted water and power infrastructure, the capital’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Sunday. “The city is restoring all services after the latest shelling,” Klitschko said on the Telegram messaging app. “In particular, the capital’s heat supply system was […]
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Ban TikTok? How Republicans are ‘playing to the Fox News crowd’ with attacks on the social media app | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
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New York CNN — Republicans are escalating their attacks on TikTok. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio became the latest GOP politician to target the ubiquitous Chinese-owned short-form video platform, proposing a bill on Tuesday with a pair of bipartisan House members that aims to ban the app used by millions of Americans. The legislation, of course, […]
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House passes defense bill with more Taiwan, Ukraine security aid | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday passed 350-80 the fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act after making several concessions to the Senate, which did not pass its own version of the bill for the second straight year in a row. The $858 billion NDAA amounts to an 8% increase over FY22 defense levels and is […]
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Kyiv mayor trades verbal jabs with Ukraine president and allies
Nov 27 (Reuters) – The mayor of Kyiv, former professional boxer Vitali Klitschko, traded rhetorical punches on Sunday with Ukraine’s president and his allies over how to help residents withstand power cuts, deriding their disputes as “senseless” amid Russia’s military campaign. Klitschko said 430 “warming centres” were helping residents cope with the effects of Russian […]
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Rocket attack near Iraq’s Erbil kills one, wounds 10 – mayor
BAGHDAD, Nov 14 (Reuters) – At least one person was killed and 10 others were wounded on Monday after rockets hit the headquarters of the Iranian Kurdish party in the city of Koye, near the capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region Erbil, the mayor of Koye Tariq Haidari said. Reporting by Ahmed Rasheed; Writing by […]
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Russian missile strike kills six in Ukraine’s Mykolaiv – mayor
KYIV, Nov 11 (Reuters) – Six people were killed in a Russian missile attack on an apartment building in the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv early on Friday, Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych said. Rescuers were digging through the debris for survivors, Senkevych wrote on the Telegram messaging app. A Reuters reporter in the area heard three […]
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Ukraine warns of more attacks on infrastructure, as mayor urges Kyiv to prepare for the worst
Russia could be preparing more attacks on energy sites -Zelenskiy 4.5 mln Ukrainians without power as winter closes in Biden aide held talks with top Russian officials U.S. urges Ukraine to be open to talks with Russia -report KYIV/WASHINGTON, Nov 7 (Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned on Sunday against more potential Russian attacks […]
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Ukrainians in occupied Melitopol fear Russian call-up, exiled mayor says
A flag flies in a square in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict in the Russian-controlled city of Melitopol in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine August 3, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko/File Photo Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Ukrainians in occupied Melitopol fear Russian call-up City has been voting in referendum on joining Russia Exiled […]
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Senate approves treaty to combat climate change | #alaska | #politics
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CNN — The Senate ratified an international climate treaty to phase out hydrofluorocarbons – potent greenhouse gases used in air conditioning and refrigeration. The vote was 69-27, with more than half of Republican senators objecting. In 2016, the United Nations struck an agreement known as the Kigali Amendment to the 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances […]
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Former Russian mayor appointed head of Russian-occupied Kharkiv -TASS citing local administration
LONDON, Aug 19 (Reuters) – A former mayor of a Russian city has been appointed to head a new Russian-installed government in northeastern Ukraine, the latest in a string of such appointments which Kyiv says are part of attempts to annexe its territory. Andrei Alekseyenko resigned as mayor of Krasnodar, Russia’s sixteenth-largest city, on Thursday. […]
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