President Biden on Tuesday announced new sanctions against Russia as a result of President Vladimir Putin’s latest actions concerning Ukraine. “This is the beginning of a Russian invasion of Ukraine … so I’m going to begin to impose sanctions in response,” Mr. Biden said at the White House, …
Read More »Colombia’s Highest Court Legalizes Abortion Up To 24 Weeks
Colombia became the latest country in Latin America to expand access to abortion Monday as the nation’s Constitutional Court voted to legalize the procedure until the 24th week of pregnancy. The decision by the tribunal of nine judges fell short of the expectations of pro-choice groups that had …
Read More »US Diplomats Flee as Putin Claims Independence for 2 Ukrainian Territories, Orders His Troops to Occupy Them
Overnight the few remaining American diplomats in Ukraine were temporarily evacuated to Poland as Russian President Vladimir Putin ratchets up the possibility of war in eastern Europe. On Monday, Putin “recognized” two so-called breakaway territories in eastern Ukraine and then ordered Russian troops to invade those areas. The …
Read More »Russian army to enter Ukraine
Russia have announced it’s plans to send troops to eastern Ukraine to ‘keep the peace’ just after they have officially recognized the independence of the two Russian-occupied territories in eastern Ukraine.The country has already effectively surrounded Ukraine with 200,000 troops. They has also deployed troops in Belarus. ‘Ukraine …
Read More »Putin to recognise 2 Ukraine rebel regions as independent
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday he would decide by the end of the day whether to recognise two rebel regions of Ukraine as independent, a move that could set off a potentially catastrophic conflict with Kyiv’s Western-backed government. – Reports AFP Presiding over a long and …
Read More »5 ki’ll’ed on Ukrainian border by Russian troops firing
Amid ongoing tensions of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, Russia’s military forces have shot dead five people on the Ukrainian border. Russia claims to have “resisted” a group of Ukrainian troops trying to enter Russia through the Ukrainian border in Rostov province. According to Russian media …
Read More »U.S. claims Russia has list of Ukrainians “to be killed or sent to camps” after invasion
The U.S. has “credible information” indicating that Russia is compiling lists of specific Ukrainians “to be killed or sent to camps following a military occupation,” a top diplomat told the United Nations in a letter obtained by CBS News on Monday. The letter to the United Nations High …
Read More »Russia perpetrating a “brutal war of choice” if it invades Ukraine, Jake Sullivan says
President Biden’s National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said Monday that the United States will rally the world to hold Russia accountable should it invade neighboring Ukraine. The U.S. said it has intelligence that Russian commanders have received orders to proceed with an invasion. President Biden has agreed to …
Read More »Possible Biden-Putin summit on the table as U.S. warns Russia preparing “full-scale assault” on Ukraine
U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed in principle on Sunday to meet, either in person or via video link, as diplomatic efforts to ease the crisis on Ukraine’s borders took on new urgency with U.S. officials telling CBS News that Putin had ordered his troops to …
Read More »Trudeau Government Moves to Make Expanded Surveillance Powers over Financial Transactions ‘Permanent’
As all eyes were trained on the aggressive police sweep of the Ottawa trucker convoy this week, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau’s administration was quietly moving to implement a sweeping expansion of surveillance power at the federal level. The Trudeau government’s financial war against the truckers has been …
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