Reports: Ukrainian forces pummel Russian army in Kharkiv, cut off supplies and inflict damage
Ukraine has launched a surprise counterattack in the north-east Kharkiv region, stretching Russian forces who are also facing Ukrainian attacks in the south. An official representing the Russian-controlled Donetsk People’s Republic said on Tuesday that Ukrainian forces “encircled” Balakliia, an eastern town of 27,000 people situated between Kharkiv and Russian-occupied...
Sacked Chelsea manager Tuchel was frustrated new club owners wanted to be everything
Chelsea’s humiliating defeat at Dinamo Zagreb was simply the moment Todd Boehly had been waiting for. Losing a Champions League group game by the odd goal is an embarrassment – but even under the Roman Abramovich regime managers were given time to turn things around. Which highlights the clear sense...
One of world’s lungs, Amzon rainforest – the other is Congo Forest – has reached tipping point
Indigenous leaders from the nine countries and territories that encompass the Amazon region have presented a report today that says so much of the rainforest has been lost that it has reached a crucial tipping point, that would turn forest to savannah, earlier than expected. Vast swathes of the southern...
Burundi parliament elects new prime minister on back of president alleging imminent coup
Burundi’s parliament on Wednesday approved the appointment of a new prime minister after President Evariste Ndayishimiye warned last week of a possible coup plot against him. Security Minister Gervais Ndirakobuca has replaced Alain Guillaume Bunyoni as prime minister after a unanimous vote in parliament, the national broadcaster RTNB said. Mr...
US President Biden, Obama reunite at White House to unveil latter’s portrait shunned by Trump
Former US president Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama were finally be honoured on Wednesday with the official unveiling of their portraits in the White House, resuming a tradition that fell by the wayside under Donald Trump. Biden, who served as vice president throughout Obama’s two terms, is “looking...
Electricity politics take centre stage as France weighs viable options to nuclear energy
Pro-nuclear energy activists often use Germany as an example of a country that drastically cut its nuclear energy production – in response to safety concerns raised by the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011 – only to end up buying electricity from France. Although there’s a lot of talk...
Torn between energy independence and risks posed by nuclear risks France faces uncertain future
Around 70 per cent of French electricity is derived from the splitting of atoms, and no other country produces more nuclear power per capita. More than a means of keeping the lights on, France’s prowess in the nuclear space is also a source of national pride – the amalgamation of...
Ukraine says it’s dispatched grain to Somalia, but Russia disagrees and accuses EU hoarding food
Ukraine’s president says tonnes of grain from his country will arrive in the coming weeks in Somalia, where famine approaches and the global crises of food security and climate change put millions at risk. President Volodymyr Zelensky’s comment came as Russian President Vladimir Putin accuses the West of sending most...
Ruthless Chelsea new owners pull the trigger, sack manager Thomas Tuchel after loss in Croatia
Chelsea have ruthlessly confirmed the departure of Thomas Tuchel following the club’s sobering 1-0 Champions League defeat to Dinamo Zagreb in Croatia on Tuesday evening. The 49-year-old German tactician, who replaced Stamford Bridge legend Frank Lampard in January 2021 after spells in charge of Mainz, Borussia Dortmund and Paris Saint-Germain,...
After bumbling and rumbling, Man United looks to have sealed leaking rearguard with Varane and Lisandro
Finally, after eight expensive, calamity-ridden years, Manchester United appear to have found a partnership with the potential to belatedly replace one of the best pairings the Premier League has ever seen. Of course, four games is not evidence enough to crown Raphael Varane and Lisandro Martinez as the new Rio...
