United States still doubts that Russia is serious in talks with Ukraine: Blinken
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday (March 29) has not seen "signs of real seriousness" by Russia in pursuing peace after its inva

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Dozens of Russian diplomats expelled
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Four states have accused Moscow’s envoys of espionage and of posing a threat to security, sending home more than 40

Belgium, Ireland, the Czech Republic, and the Netherlands are together to expel more than 40 Russian diplomats, having accused them of espionage.

Belgium is to send home 21 Russian nationals who worked at Moscow’s embassy in Brussels and its consulate in Antwerp. Officials allege that, while they had all been accredited as diplomats, they were in fact engaged in spying and influence operations, according to a spokesperson.

The Dutch Foreign Ministry has announced that it is...

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Macron goes on campaign trail, gets hammered over fuel prices
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Amid war in Ukraine and spiraling costs at home, the French president is facing an angry electorate

French President Emmanuel Macron took to the streets of Dijon on Monday ahead of next month’s elections, and was hammered over the rising cost of fuel and electricity. He defended his government’s efforts to keep prices down, but insisted that he has “no magical answer” to the problem, and that the public will “without a doubt” have to deal with some hardship.

Since Russian troops entered Ukraine over a month ago, Macron has portrayed himself as one of Europe’s foremost geopolitical pla...

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China issues US with ‘containment’ warning
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Washington has reportedly classified Beijing as its “most consequential strategic competitor”

Beijing has condemned US attempts to “contain and suppress” China and Russia, saying they would not succeed, after it was reported that the Biden administration had described China in its new National Defense Strategy as its “most consequential strategic competitor.”

President Joe Biden briefed members of Congress on the classified version of the new strategy on Monday, which comes as Washington looks to increase its defense budget to $773 billion. Responding to a summary of the strategy d...

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Biden used printed ‘cheat sheet’ to answer questions on anti-Putin statements – media
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The president’s detractors have repeatedly questioned his mental fitness

After an apparent call for the ouster of Russian President Vladimir Putin, US President Joe Biden read from a pre-prepared ‘cheat sheet’ to assure reporters that he wasn’t actually suggesting regime change in Moscow. However, Biden, whose cognitive health Republicans say is declining, ended up doubling down on his original remarks.

Speaking to reporters at the White House on Monday, Biden said that his declaration in Poland last week that Putin “cannot remain in power” was not a call for regime change in M...

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Workers at Southern Poverty Law Center protest discriminatory working conditions
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The Southern Poverty Law Center is a historic civil rights organization that, for 50 years, has been advancing social justice through legal, educational, and advocacy efforts, primarily in the Deep South. However, after overwhelmingly voting to unionize in 2019, staff at SPLC say the organization has been stalling negotiations over their first union contract and unfairly treating its lowest-paid and most marginalized workers. On Monday, March 28, as noted in a press release from the SPLC Union, workers held an informational picket outside the or...

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US job open­ings, quit­ting at near-record high in Feb­ru­ary
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Many Amer­i­cans are tak­ing ad­van­tage of nu­mer­ous op­por­tu­ni­ties to switch jobs, of­ten for high­er pay.
Published On 29 Mar 2022

Eu­ro­pean states ex­pel Russ­ian diplo­mats over spy­ing al­le­ga­tions
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Bel­gium ex­pels 21 Russ­ian diplo­mats over al­leged spy­ing amid sim­i­lar moves else­where in the Eu­ro­pean Union.
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US reg­u­la­tors ap­prove 2nd COVID boost­er for those aged 50 and up
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US has seen a small uptick in new COVID-19 cas­es over the past week, rais­ing con­cern that in­fec­tions could surge again.
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Rus­sia draws up cas­es against Google for not re­mov­ing banned info
Rus­sia warned that Google could be fined as 20 per­cent of the com­pa­ny’s an­nu­al rev­enue in Rus­sia for re­peat of­fences.
Published On 29 Mar 2022

WNBA star Brittney Griner is a political prisoner in Russia
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As the Russian military invasion of Ukraine enters its second month and diplomatic relations between the US and Russia are at their most strained point in decades, seven-time WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner is being held as a political prisoner by Russian authorities. As famed sports analyst and journalist Dave Zirin recently wrote for MSNBC News, “While Griner’s detention has received a measure of media attention, the fact that she was in Russia in the first place demands its own examination… Like most professional women’s players, who make a microcosmic fracti...

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Ukraine Crisis: Three killed in Mykolaiv as rocket blasts in regional headquaters
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A Russian rocket hit the regional administration building in the southern Ukrainian port city of Mykolaiv on Tuesday (March 29), killing at least t

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Tunisian President Kais Saied condemns parliament sessions as 'illegal'
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Tunisian President Kais Saied has condemned "illegal" meetings of a parliament he suspended last July, saying those responsible for the planned vir

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Campaign pushes for change in Bitcoin mining method to save environment
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It can not be denied that Bitcoin singlehandedly popularised the concept of cryptocurrency and huge rise in its prize since its inception means tha

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Biden’s ‘cognitive decline’ is a ‘national security risk,’ says Republican senator
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Rand Paul said the president’s gaffes could escalate the Ukrainian conflict into “a world war”

Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) said on Monday that President Joe Biden’s apparently declining mental faculties present a “national security risk” that could see the US dragged into a war with Russia. Biden earlier appeared to call for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s removal from power, before walking back the statement, then making it again....

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Five dead in Israel shooting
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The attacker targeted ultra-Orthodox Jews in Bnei Brak, east of Tel Aviv

At least five people have been killed in a shooting in the Tel Aviv suburb of Bnei Brak on Tuesday evening. Israeli authorities said the attacker was riding a motorcycle when he opened fire into the Haredi Jewish community.

Initial reports spoke of four people killed and one seriously injured, but it appears the fifth person has since succumbed to their wounds.

There were conflicting reports about the shooter, with some Israeli media outlets saying he had been “neutralized” and others reporting he was still on the run. His identity has not...

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Asia is ‘not a chessboard’ for major powers, China says
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“Neither war nor sanctions are good solutions” in Ukraine and it should not be used as a pawn

Asia is not a “chessboard” on which great powers should confront each other, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said, referring to the geopolitical standoff over Russia’s offensive in Ukraine.

On his return from a working trip to Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, and Nepal, Wang told the media on Monday that many developing countries, including those in Southeast Asia, were “highly concerned” about the development of the conflict.

Those nations are “...

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