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- Russia-Ukraine latest news: fighting on the streets of Kyiv; Zelenskiy vows ‘we won’t lay down our arms’
- Battle for Kyiv as Ukrainians attempt to hold off Russian forces
- ‘Noise, speed, chaos and fuss everywhere’: diary of evacuation from Kyiv
- Russian forces advance inside Ukraine: what we know so far
- Video of Ukrainian ‘tank man’ trying to block Russian military convoy goes viral
- Russia’s war in Ukraine: complete guide in maps, video and pictures
- Where has fighting been focused on day two of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
- ‘A delicate balance’: experts’ tips on dealing with Ukraine anxiety in children
- Western powers have realised Russia is largely immune to sanctions
- A woman’s boyfriend was holding her captive. Sticky notes helped her escape
- An inch apart: new troubles for San Francisco’s Millennium Tower
- South Africa grants permits to hunt 10 critically endangered black rhino
- Argentina scientists unearth dinosaur with ‘puny arms’ and hard head
- From being called ‘an experiment’ to being propositioned by a rich couple… racist myths have blighted my sex life
- Tucker Carlson leads rightwing charge to blame everyone but Putin
- ‘Listen to what he said’: remembering and honoring the speeches of Frederick Douglass
- Unseen JRR Tolkien paintings, photographs and video clips released
- Tim Dowling: hunting for a tortoise in driving rain will shrink my inflated ego nicely
- Nadal crushes new No 1 Medvedev in Mexico to stay undefeated for 2022
- Chelsea need Kai Havertz to start being more than their sometimes man | Jacob Steinberg
- Humpback whales removed from Australia’s threatened species list but feeding grounds still at risk
- African countries spending billions to cope with climate crisis
- Daisy Edgar-Jones on life after Normal People: ‘Should I be living it up more? Is this how our 20s are supposed to be?’
- The Island of Extraordinary Captives by Simon Parkin review – light amid darkness
- El Salvador’s former president charged over 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests
| Posted: 26 Feb 2022 12:26 AM PST Missile hits apartment block in the capital, as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says 'we will defend our state'
Reuters reports that President Joe Biden has instructed the US State Department to release $350m in military aid to Ukraine as it struggles to repulse a Russian invasion. In a memorandum to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Biden directed that $350m allocated through the Foreign Assistance Act be designated for Ukraine's defence. Fierce fighting has broken out in Kyiv as Russian forces tried to push their way towards the city centre and were met with resistance from the Ukrainian military. Throughout Friday night, explosions rocked the capital. Artillery fire could be heard in the streets and as dawn broke, a post on the Ukrainian Armed Forces' Facebook page said "active combat" was taking place in the city. Continue reading... |
| Battle for Kyiv as Ukrainians attempt to hold off Russian forces Posted: 25 Feb 2022 11:42 PM PST Defence forces wage ferocious resistance in the capital as Zelenskiy says 'we will not lay down our arms' Fierce fighting broke out in Kyiv as Russian forces tried to push their way towards the city centre from multiple directions in the early hours of Saturday, and as the Ukrainian president, Volodomyr Zelenskiy, bluntly rejected a US offer to evacuate him from the country's capital. "The fight is here," Zelinskiy said. By 8am, however, residents were reporting a lull in the attack as it appeared Kyiv's defenders had held out against another night of Russian advances from multiple directions, including both north and south of the main western route from Zhitomyr to Kyiv, and in the area of the motorway towards the country's south. Continue reading... |
| ‘Noise, speed, chaos and fuss everywhere’: diary of evacuation from Kyiv Posted: 25 Feb 2022 09:00 PM PST Larisa Kalik documents the Russian invasion of Ukraine and being forced to leave the city she loves • Russia-Ukraine crisis: live news When Vladimir Putin announced he would recognise the Luhansk and Donetsk "people's republics", I was in the centre of Kyiv. I read the quotes from his speech, but I could not bring myself to look at his face or listen to his voice. It had seemed that he would declare war that very evening, so many people initially exhaled when they heard his words. But then they realised that he would not stop there. Continue reading... |
| Russian forces advance inside Ukraine: what we know so far Posted: 25 Feb 2022 10:52 PM PST Russian forces have entered the outskirts of the capital, Kyiv, as Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, warned of a hard night ahead Fighting has reached Ukraine's capital, Kyiv. Russian forces entered the outskirts on Friday and were threatening from the north-west and east in an attack aimed at seizing the city. Kyiv officials say street fighting is now underway in Kyiv and have urged residents to seek shelter. Throughout Friday night, explosions rocked the city, with reports of rockets, artillery and missiles raining down. Artillery fire was heard in the streets. President Zelenskiy published a new video on Saturday addressing rumours that he had fled the country. "There's a lot of fake information online that I call on our army to lay down arms, and that there's evacuation," he said. "I'm here. We won't lay down our arms. We will defend our state." A Russian shell has hit a residential building in the centre of Kyiv, Ukraine says. Video shared by Volodymyr Zelenskiy's press service shows the missile exploding in a private flat, sending smoke and debris into the living room. On Friday night Zelenskiy had warned of a difficult night ahead for the capital: "This night will be the hardest," the Ukrainian president said in an address. "This night the enemy will be using all available means to break our resistance. This night they will launch an assault." Many Ukrainians have been preparing to fight. City authorities have urged residents to stay home but prepare molotov cocktails for a citizen uprising against Russian fighters if they break through defensive lines. In one district they handed out rifles to any citizen who wanted to fight, and the defence ministry has opened the army to any Ukrainian citizen. Biden has released $350m in military aid to Ukraine. In a memorandum to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, President Joe Biden directed that $350m allocated through the Foreign Assistance Act be designated for Ukraine's defence. The Russian defence ministry claimed its forces had taken control of the strategic Hostomel airfield to the north-west of Kyiv, while Russian tanks were filmed by people in the Obolonskyi district about 10km (6 miles) north of the city centre in the morning. "More than 50,000 Ukrainian refugees have fled their country in less than 48 hours – a majority to Poland and Moldova," said the UN refugee agency head, Filippo Grandi, adding that "many more are moving towards its borders". Photos have shown enormous queues of cars heading for Ukraine's western borders. On Friday, guards fired warning shots to prevent a stampede at Kyiv's central station as thousands of people tried to force their way on to evacuation trains. Continue reading... |
| Video of Ukrainian ‘tank man’ trying to block Russian military convoy goes viral Posted: 25 Feb 2022 03:40 PM PST Thirty-second clip shared by Ukrainian news outlet HB shows a man standing in front of what appears to be military vehicles A video which apparently shows a Ukrainian man attempting to block a Russian military convoy has gone viral online, with comparisons being drawn to the "tank man" of Tiananmen Square. The 30-second clip, shared by Ukrainian news outlet HB, shows a man standing in front of what appear to be military vehicles. As the vehicles try to swerve around him, the man jockeys to the side, seemingly in an attempt to block their progress. Continue reading... |
| Russia’s war in Ukraine: complete guide in maps, video and pictures Posted: 25 Feb 2022 10:59 AM PST Where is fighting happening and how did we get here? Russian forces have reached the outskirts of Kyiv and carried out an amphibious assault from the Sea of Azov near Mariupol, a day after attacking Ukraine from three sides on a massive scale. Continue reading... |
| Where has fighting been focused on day two of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? Posted: 25 Feb 2022 10:50 AM PST Russian forces enter outskirts of Kyiv and – according to the US – launch amphibious assault from Sea of Azov The second day of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine focused on the capital, Kyiv, but in another major development the US said an amphibious assault had been launched by Russia from the Sea of Azov, west of Mariupol. Continue reading... |
| ‘A delicate balance’: experts’ tips on dealing with Ukraine anxiety in children Posted: 25 Feb 2022 11:00 PM PST Psychologists and teachers suggest ways to give reassurance – and say strategies are age-dependent Funmi Alder, the headteacher of Bearwood primary school in Berkshire, is waiting with bated breath to see if her students return from their half-term break next week devastated and convinced that world war three is about to break out in the UK. Alder has got her teachers on the lookout but it is the year 5s and 6s she is most anxious about. "They studied world war two in the autumn term," she said. The comparisons, she fears, could be too much for some. "Their class teachers can discuss the current events as a class, and some children can share any anxiety then." Continue reading... |
| Western powers have realised Russia is largely immune to sanctions Posted: 25 Feb 2022 08:57 AM PST Analysis: Only the financial equivalent of unleashing a nuclear arsenal will dent Russia's foreign assets war chest The war against Russia is one western countries want to fight with only economic sanctions, not guns. Russia's conflict with Ukraine, despite its long gestation and planning by Vladimir Putin and his supporters in the Kremlin, was supposed to end quickly once financial retaliation began. Yes, there would be military skirmishes on the ground, but little more than a few casualties were expected once a range of penalties began to bite. Continue reading... |
| A woman’s boyfriend was holding her captive. Sticky notes helped her escape Posted: 25 Feb 2022 06:27 PM PST Brandon Toseland has been charged after Las Vegas police discovered the woman and her daughter – and the body of her son On Tuesday, a 7-year-old girl arrived at her Las Vegas elementary school with a stash of sticky notes in her hand, which she gave to her teacher. The notes, from her mother, were a cry for help. The woman wrote that she was being held captive by her boyfriend and feared that her 4-year-old son, who she had not seen for weeks, was dead, according to her attorney. After the teacher notified authorities, police went to the home of Brandon Toseland, where they found the body of Mason Dominguez in Toseland's freezer. Continue reading... |
| An inch apart: new troubles for San Francisco’s Millennium Tower Posted: 25 Feb 2022 02:28 PM PST Engineer overseeing the luxury tower's retrofit discovered the space between it and a smaller building had widened by an inch San Francisco's troubled Millennium Tower, which has continued to sink despite multimillion dollar efforts to correct it, has developed yet another problem. The luxury tower, popular among star athletes and retired Google employees before the tilting issues were widely publicized, has sunk 18in since its construction was completed in 2009 and has a 26in tilt at the top. Now, the engineer overseeing the retrofit of the tower has said the movement caused the formation of a one-inch gap between the building and a smaller 12-story adjacent structure. Continue reading... |
| South Africa grants permits to hunt 10 critically endangered black rhino Posted: 25 Feb 2022 06:38 PM PST Government says black rhino population is growing and also gives permission to hunt 10 leopards and 150 elephants The South African government has granted annual hunting and export permits for big game including 10 critically endangered black rhinoceros and a similar number of leopards. It also gave permission for more than 100 elephants to be killed, in keeping with international laws on the trade of endangered species, saying its elephant population was growing and that fewer than 0.3% were hunted each year. Continue reading... |
| Argentina scientists unearth dinosaur with ‘puny arms’ and hard head Posted: 25 Feb 2022 02:56 PM PST Dinosaur probably belongs to carnivorous group called abelisaurs and may have used its head to ram its prey Scientists in Argentina have unearthed the remains of a previously unknown species of meat-eating dinosaur that lived about 70m years ago that had puny arms and may have used its powerful head to ram its prey. The fossil skull of the Cretaceous period dinosaur, named Guemesia ochoai, was discovered in Argentina's north-western Salta province. The researchers said it likely belongs to a carnivorous group of dinosaurs called abelisaurs, which walked on two legs and possessed only stub-like arms, even shorter than those of North America's Tyrannosaurus rex. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 25 Feb 2022 11:00 PM PST My first girlfriend said she either wanted to sleep with 'a girl or a Black guy' – since then my experience of dating has been tainted by toxic stereotypes My first serious girlfriend was a year older than me and educated at an expensive private school in south London. She had recently broken up with her long-term boyfriend. I was still a virgin, although among my teenage peers I maintained the fiction of being an experienced conqueror of the opposite sex. After our first meeting at a Saturday music course where we sang a duet of The Lady Is a Tramp, the flirtation graduated from MSN Messenger nudges and hour-long conversations, to texting, to kisses on an ice rink in west London, to finally being welcomed into her empty house. Her parents were away at a function in the country. Armed with a bottle of port pilfered from my parents' drinks store, we loaded The Notebook into the DVD player, valiantly attempting to uphold the pretence that the very thing we had spent hours late at night discussing and imagining was definitely not going to happen. Soon enough, small talk began to peter out. So it was that Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams became muted witnesses to my deflowering. Continue reading... |
| Tucker Carlson leads rightwing charge to blame everyone but Putin Posted: 25 Feb 2022 11:00 PM PST The Fox News host has defended the Russian leader's invasion of Ukraine, saying 'Has Putin ever called me a racist?' As Russian troops encircled Ukraine, politicians and media pundits in the US were largely united in their condemnation of Vladimir Putin's imminent attack. Tucker Carlson, however, took a different approach. Hours before Putin ordered his forces into Ukraine, Fox News' biggest star was still praising the Russian president. Continue reading... |
| ‘Listen to what he said’: remembering and honoring the speeches of Frederick Douglass Posted: 25 Feb 2022 11:11 PM PST In new HBO documentary Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches, actors read some of the orator and abolitionist's most powerful words "I have no love for America, as such; I have no patriotism. I have no country. What country have I? The institutions of this country do not know me – do not recognise me as a man. I am not thought of or spoken of except as a piece of property. Now, in such a country as this I cannot have patriotism." The words are spoken by The Harder They Fall actor Jonathan Majors, wearing a hoodie before a bare brick wall, at the opening of Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches, an HBO documentary that makes a case that the fugitive slave turned celebrity abolitionist was also one of America's great prose poets. Continue reading... |
| Unseen JRR Tolkien paintings, photographs and video clips released Posted: 25 Feb 2022 11:01 PM PST Estate of Lord of the Rings author also publishes unseen draft manuscripts and letters on its website Unseen photographs and paintings of JRR Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings fantasy books, have been released by the writer's estate, along with draft manuscripts and letters. Its website has been relaunched with new material, including sections on Tolkien's calligraphy and a timeline of his life. Continue reading... |
| Tim Dowling: hunting for a tortoise in driving rain will shrink my inflated ego nicely Posted: 25 Feb 2022 10:00 PM PST Every season he adds a new hiding place to his rotation, to make him just a little bit harder to find I am sitting in the kitchen in front of my laptop, drinking coffee in the sluggish morning light, just back from the southwestern leg of the band's 2022 tour. I am exhausted, my stuff is still piled in a big pyramid in the sitting room, and my shoulder aches where the banjo strap catches it. "Would you care to know," I say, "where our album currently sits on the official UK Folk chart?" The oldest one looks up, composing his features into a careful, blank expression. Continue reading... |
| Nadal crushes new No 1 Medvedev in Mexico to stay undefeated for 2022 Posted: 25 Feb 2022 11:19 PM PST
Last month, Rafael Nadal shocked the world when the 35-year-old Spaniard fought back from two sets down against Daniil Medvedev to win an epic five-set victory in the 2022 Australian Open and claim his 21st – and greatest – major championship. Nadal has now underlined that famous triumph with a 6-3, 6-3 straight-sets win in the rematch, crushing his Russian rival – and recently crowned ATP world No 1 – to advance to the Mexico Open final and remain undefeated in his 14 matches this year. Medvedev only yesterday learned that he had broken the five-year stranglehold of 'The Big Three' on men's tennis's No 1 ranking. One of Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Nadal had held the top slot since Briton Andy Murray ceded it on August 20, 2017. Medvedev, the 2021 US Open champion, was all set to ascend to the top of the pile when the next batch of rankings was released Monday February 28. Continue reading... |
| Chelsea need Kai Havertz to start being more than their sometimes man | Jacob Steinberg Posted: 25 Feb 2022 02:46 PM PST A talent capable of rising to the biggest occasions enters Sunday's Carabao Cup final having not pushed on as expected Up in the posh seats, one extremely astute judge of talent was watching with interest. Chelsea were taking on Al-Hilal in the semi-finals of the Club World Cup and, as far as Arsène Wenger was concerned, the chance to have a close look at Kai Havertz was not to be missed. For those near Wenger at the Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium, it was impossible not to notice how much the former Arsenal manager appreciated Havertz's game: the elusive movement, the way he kept popping up in unexpected positions, the sense that the Chelsea attacker was always on the verge of producing something special. Continue reading... |
| Humpback whales removed from Australia’s threatened species list but feeding grounds still at risk Posted: 25 Feb 2022 04:24 PM PST Sussan Ley says number of humpback whales in Australian waters has grown from 1,500 at height of the commercial whaling industry to estimated 40,000 Humpback whales have been removed from the threatened species list after a significant increase in numbers in the 60 years since they were first protected, but green groups warn populations could decline again as oceans warm. Global heating is predicted to have a significant impact on krill populations in Antarctica, a major feeding ground for humpback whales. Continue reading... |
| African countries spending billions to cope with climate crisis Posted: 25 Feb 2022 04:01 PM PST Report says average 4% of GDP will be spent on adapting to climate breakdown, risking deeper poverty African countries are being forced to spend billions of dollars a year coping with the effects of the climate crisis, which is diverting potential investment from schools and hospitals and threatens to drive countries into ever deeper poverty. Dealing with extreme weather is costing close to 6% of GDP in Ethiopia alone, equating to a spend of more than $1 repairing climate damage for every $20 of national income, according to research by the thinktank Power Shift Africa. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 26 Feb 2022 12:00 AM PST The steamy lockdown smash turned the actor into a star overnight. Just one problem: she couldn't leave the house. Can she belatedly adjust to fame? 'I've been told," says Daisy Edgar-Jones, "that the trick for posing at film premieres is to put one foot forward, lift your chin, and basically try to emanate with your face that you're a top-class lawyer who's won a big case." We're standing together in a London park, not far from where the 23-year-old actor grew up, on a cold but sunlit morning in February. Soon, Edgar-Jones will fly to Los Angeles for the premiere of a gory and provocative new thriller she has made called Fresh. Although her career exploded in spring 2020, when she starred with Paul Mescal in the TV adaptation of Sally Rooney's Normal People, the years since then have been Covid-straitened and quite weird ("smudged" is how Edgar-Jones puts it), and she has not yet had any red carpet practice. This will be her first premiere. Continue reading... |
| The Island of Extraordinary Captives by Simon Parkin review – light amid darkness Posted: 25 Feb 2022 11:30 PM PST The story of how art and intellect triumphed in Britain's bleak internment camps for 'enemy aliens' on the Isle of Man When war broke out in 1939, the British government was faced with a giant and immediate problem: what to do with the 73,000 Germans and Austrians living in Britain who had become "enemy aliens" overnight. The answer was mass internment, a policy authorised by Churchill days after he took office as prime minister in May 1940. Police around the country were dispatched to arrest male nationals of axis powers – which would soon include Italy – aged between 16 and 60 and cart them off to prison. Some of these internees would be sent on perilous voyages to Canada and Australia, but the majority were taken to camps on the Isle of Man. One of these, Hutchinson camp, is the subject of Simon Parkin's excellent new book. The policy of detaining civilians en masse without trial represents a dark chapter in Britain's war. It grew out of the fear, stoked by the press, that "fifth columnists" had been sent to infiltrate the country and undermine British defences against the coming German invasion. Churchill realised as early as August that the threat was exaggerated, but by this time the arrests had been made, and many of the internees, who included women and children, would not be released for years. The most shameful aspect of internment was that it predominantly picked up Jewish refugees who had fled to Britain to escape the terror visited on them by Hitler's stormtroopers. Continue reading... |
| El Salvador’s former president charged over 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests Posted: 25 Feb 2022 11:20 PM PST Alfredo Cristiani and former military officers to face trial in long process to bring killings' masterminds to justice Prosecutors in El Salvador have charged the former president Alfredo Cristiani over the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests that sparked international outrage. Prosecutors also announced charges against a dozen other people, including former military officers, over the massacre. The list of charges will apparently include murder, terrorism and conspiracy. Continue reading... |
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