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No country met WHO air quality standards in 2021 – data
Not a single country managed to meet the World Health Organization’s (WHO) air quality standard in 2021, a survey of pollution data ...Besieged Ukrainian port defies Russian order to drop weapons
Ukraine defied Moscow’s demand for its soldiers to lay down arms before dawn on Monday in besieged Mariupol where hundreds of thousands ...Russian court bans Facebook, Instagram after Meta found ‘extremist’- TASS
A Russian court on Monday banned Facebook and Instagram in the country after finding Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O) “extremist”, TASS news agency reported. Russia ...Russian troops stalled outside Kyiv
Russian forces advancing on the Ukraine capital Kyiv from the northeast have stalled, British intelligence said on Monday, as Ukraine rejected Russian ...Ramos-Horta leads in East Timor election, with chance of runoff
Nobel laureate Jose Ramos-Horta secured a commanding lead in East Timor’s presidential poll at the weekend with two-thirds of the vote counted, ...Algeria recalls ambassador to Spain for consultations
Algeria has summoned its ambassador to Spain back for consultations over Madrid’s recent comments on Western Sahara, the foreign affairs ministry said ...Fighting ongoing inside Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, regional governor says
Fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces is going on inside the eastern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said ...In Sri Lanka, as economic crisis worsens, two men die waiting in queue for fuel
Sri Lankan police said on Sunday two men collapsed and died while waiting in separate queues to secure fuel amid sky-rocketing prices ...Russia uses hypersonic missiles as Zelenskyy calls for talks
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Saturday for comprehensive peace talks with Moscow to stop its invasion of Ukraine, saying it would otherwise ...Morocco says Spain supports Western Sahara plan in shift closer to Rabat
Spain has told Morocco that it regards its autonomy proposal for Western Sahara as “serious, credible and realistic”, Rabat said on Friday, ...














