A British national has been killed in Ukraine and a second is missing, the UK Foreign Office has said. The BBC has been told the dead man is Scott Sibley, who is understood to have been fighting for Ukrainian forces. He is the first British national confirmed to have been killed in the conflict and
Month: April 2022
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Biden is asking Congress for $33bn (£27bn) in military, economic and humanitarian assistance to support Ukraine – although he insisted that the US was not “attacking Russia”. Mr Biden said it was “critical” for US lawmakers
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A minority of men in politics “behave like animals”, Attorney General Suella Braverman has said, as female MPs share experiences of sexism and harassment. Speaking to BBC’s Woman’s Hour, Ms Braverman said the problem started in wider
Getty Images One of Germany’s biggest energy firms has said it is preparing to buy Russian gas using a payment system that critics say will undermine EU sanctions. Uniper says it will pay in euros which will be converted into roubles, meeting a Kremlin demand for all transactions to be made in the Russian currency.
Three weeks since his release, Volodymyr Khropun still looks visibly shaken by the trauma he’s endured. A Red Cross volunteer, he was captured by Russian forces, and deported to Russia. On 18 March, Volodymyr was driving a school bus to the village of Kozarovychi, about 40km (25 miles) north-west of Kyiv, to evacuate a few
Getty Images Police in the US city of Minneapolis have engaged in a pattern of race discrimination for at least the past decade, a state inquiry has found. The investigation was launched following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020. Minnesota’s civil rights enforcement agency looked into how officers used force, stopped,
Getty Images Any country trying to intervene in the Ukraine war will face a “lightning-fast” response, Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned. “We have all the tools no-one can boast of… we will use them if necessary”, he said, in what is seen as a reference to ballistic missiles and nuclear arms. Ukraine’s allies have
EPA Facebook stopped losing users as 2022 got under way, even as its owner reported its slowest revenue growth in a decade. The number of daily active Facebook users grew to 1.96 billion in the first three months of the year, parent company Meta reported on Wednesday. That marked a turnaround from last year, when
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Russian forces must be pushed out of “the whole of Ukraine”, the Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said. In a keynote speech in London, Ms Truss said victory for Ukraine was now a “strategic imperative” for the
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Conservative Party is calling for an independent investigation into claims a Tory MP watched porn on his phone while sitting next to a female minister in Parliament. The incident was raised by a minister at a
Elon Musk’s rocket company, SpaceX, launched four more astronauts into orbit on the Crew Dragon capsule on Wednesday morning. The crew includes Jessica Watkins, who becomes the first black woman to serve on an extended mission on the International Space Station (ISS). In orbit, the crew will work on science experiments and space station maintenance.
Reuters Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett says he will now pay for his family’s food bills from his own pocket. He faced criticism after a TV report alleged extravagant expenditure at his private home, which currently functions informally as his official residence. He later disclosed that $26,400 (£21,000) of taxpayers’ money was spent each month,
Getty Images A former US marine held in a Russian jail since 2019 has been released in a prisoner swap. US and Russian officials confirmed on Wednesday that Trevor Reed is on his way back to the US. In exchange, Russia’s foreign ministry secured the release of Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian national jailed on drug
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Government policies on discharging untested patients from hospital to care homes in England at the start of the Covid pandemic have been ruled unlawful by the High Court. The ruling comes after two women took former Health
Getty Images Poland and Bulgaria have accused Moscow of “blackmail” after the Russian energy giant Gazprom said it had cut off gas exports to the countries. Poland’s deputy foreign minister, Marcin Przydacz, told the BBC that Russia was seeking to “foster divisions” between Western allies. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the move
Reuters/Transnistria Interior Ministry Mysterious explosions in Transnistria, a breakaway Russian-controlled territory in Moldova bordering on Ukraine, have raised fears that the Ukraine conflict may be spreading. Separatist authorities said Ukrainian “infiltrators” were responsible. But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has blamed Russian special services. Russia says it is concerned. It has about 1,500 troops in Transnistria.
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