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Myanmar beauty queen in Thai airport limbo, fears arrest at home
A beauty queen who spoke out against Myanmar’s military rulers was stranded at Thailand’s international airport for a third day on Friday, ...Some Russians flee Ukraine conscription as Moscow remains defiant at U.N.
Some draft-age Russians rushed to leave the country on Thursday to escape their country’s biggest conscription drive since World War Two, as ...U.N. showdown looms as Ukraine calls for Russia to be stripped of veto rights
Ukraine demanded the United Nations punish Russia for its invasion and strip it of its security council veto as a showdown loomed ...Europe’s vegetable farmers warn of shortages as energy crisis bites
Emmanuel Lefebvre produces thousands of tonnes of endives on his farm in northern France annually, but this year he may abandon his ...Putin orders troop conscription in Ukraine war escalation | Hundreds arrested at anti-mobilisation protests in ...
President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia’s first wartime mobilisation since World War Two on Wednesday, shocking citizens with what Western countries described as ...Internet restricted in Iran as crackdown grows on spreading protests
Iranian authorities said three people had been killed on Tuesday as anger at the death of a woman detained by the morality ...Putin mobilises more troops for Ukraine, says West wants to destroy Russia
President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered Russia’s first mobilisation since World War Two, warning the West that if it continued what he ...Iran’s Khamenei gives second televised speech after report of illness
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke for the second time in less than a week in a televised speech on Wednesday ...Ukraine’s separatist Luhansk, Donetsk regions to vote on joining Russia
Two Russian-controlled regions in eastern Ukraine announced plans to hold referendums on joining Russia later this week and an ally of President Vladimir Putin ...Ukraine marches farther into liberated lands, separatist calls for urgent referendum
Ukraine said its troops have marched farther east into territory recently abandoned by Russia, paving the way for a potential assault on ...














