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The UN secretary-general warned Thursday that the situation around a major nuclear plant in southern Ukraine "could lead to catastrophic consequences" and appealed for an end to military operations near the facility. "Regrettably, instead of de-escalation, over the past several days there have been reports of further deeply worrying incidents…

The prisoners at the penal colony in St. Petersburg were expecting a visit by officials, thinking it would be some sort of inspection. Instead, men in uniform arrived and offered them amnesty — if they agreed to fight alongside the Russian army in Ukraine. Over the following days, about a…

In November 1994, Boris Yeltsin wrote to his counterpart, Bill Clinton. The Russian president urged the US and the west to support a “historic Russian-Ukrainian treaty on friendship, cooperation and partnership”. At the time, Yeltsin had forged a close working relationship with Ukraine’s president, Leonid Kuchma. The Russian leader spoke…

Russian authorities on Wednesday detained a former state TV journalist who quit after making an on-air protest against Moscow's war in Ukraine, and charged her with spreading false information about Russia's armed forces, her lawyer said on social media. Marina Ovsyannikova was charged over a protest she staged last month,…

The Toronto International Film Festival is rounding out its Canadian slate with titles including a film by Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq, an Indigenous romance and a documentary about the downing of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 in Iran. Homegrown talent is also behind TIFF's closing night film Daliland, directed by…

Ethereum’s prolific creator has admitted to using the now U.S.-sanctioned privacy protocol Tornado Cash to donate to Ukraine. Key Takeaways Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin has publicly acknowledged using Tornado Cash's privacy protocol to donate to Ukraine's war efforts. Buterin's admission comes a day after the U.S. Treasury added Tornado Cash's…

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Published on August 8th, 2022 at 08:00am EDT Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has created a new permanent residency program for families of the Canadian victims of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 and Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752. The new permanent residency pathway applies to those who wish to come…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Six more ships carrying agricultural cargo held up by the war in Ukraine received authorization Sunday to leave the country’s Black Sea coast as analysts warned that Russia was moving troops and equipment in the direction of the southern port cities to stave off a Ukrainian…

Ukraine accused Russia on Sunday of again shelling Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, the Zaporizhzhia, and called for new international sanctions on Moscow for “nuclear terror." Ukraine‘s state nuclear power firm said Russian forces damaged three radiation sensors at the facility in renewed shelling on Saturday night, wounding a worker with…