Death toll in Russia concert terrorist attack rises to 143 as Putin vows to punish perpetrators of the massacre
In a televised address, Putin said 11 people had been detained, including the four gunmen. “They tried to hide and moved towards Ukraine, where, according to preliminary data, a window was prepared for them on the Ukrainian side to cross the state border,” he said.
Prince William’s wife announces she’s undergoing preventive chemotherapy after cancer diagnosis
King Charles, 75, underwent a corrective procedure for an enlarged prostate at the same hospital as Kate in January. Buckingham Palace then revealed in February that he was to have treatment for cancer, meaning he has had to postpone his public royal duties.
World unites in condemning attacks, killing of 60 people near Moscow by Islamic State militants
Hours before the embassy warning, the FSB said it had foiled an attack on a Moscow synagogue by Islamic State’s affiliate in Afghanistan, known as ISIS-Khorasan or ISIS-K, and seeks a caliphate across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Iran.
Black football managers are 50 per cent likely to be sacked or not promoted than Whites in England – report
In the latest report, academics Sam Hoey from the University of Liverpool, Thomas Peeters from Erasmus University, Rotterdam and Stefan Szymanski from the University of Michigan studied a sample of about 3,500 players from England’s top two divisions from 1990 to 2010 and who stopped playing in 2013 or earlier.
Britain’s Sunak awaits with bated breath legislature’s verdict to relocate assylum seekers to Rwanda
The plan is key to Sunak’s pledge to “stop the boats” bringing unauthorized migrants to the U.K. Sunak argues that deporting unauthorized asylum-seekers will deter people from making risky journeys and break the business model of people-smuggling gangs.
West calls Russia’s ‘election was an election without choice’ but China, India back Putin
Arriving in Brussels on Monday, EU foreign ministers roundly dismissed the election result as a sham ahead of agreeing sanctions on individuals linked to the mistreatment and death of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
Putin shocks world with landslide win in Russia poll West says was not free and fair
First official results indicated the polls were accurate. The United States, Germany, the United Kingdom and other nations have said the vote was neither free nor fair due to the imprisonment of political opponents and censorship.
Looming Armageddon: Putin warns America and allies Russia is ‘technically ready’ for nuclear war
Putin’s nuclear warning came alongside another offer for talks on Ukraine as part of a new post-Cold War demarcation of European security. The US says Putin is not ready for serious talks over Ukraine.
Pope hints he can mediate between Moscow and Kyiv as he urges Ukraine to have ‘courage of the white flag’
Erdogan made the fresh offer after a meeting in Istanbul with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Zelenskiy has said while he wants peace he will not give up any territory. The Ukrainian leader’s own peace plan calls for the withdrawal of Russian troops from all of Ukraine and the restoration of its state borders.
Ireland defuses pressure to replace ‘sexist’ constitutional language about mother’s role
Prime Minister Leo Varadkar had pitched the referendum vote, held on Friday to coincide with International Women’s Day, as a chance to delete some “very old-fashioned, very sexist language about women”.
