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African Union Chair to ask Putin to allow wheat exports from Ukraine
Dianna Games (Africa At Work) reports back from the latest meeting of the UN Economic Commission for Africa on The Money Show.
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Putin says Russia defending 'Motherland' as Ukraine war rages
Fierce battles raged in eastern Ukraine while Putin made his Victory Day speech against a backdrop of intercontinental ballistic missiles rumbling through Moscow's emblematic Red Square.
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Putin hails 'liberation' of Mariupol
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday hailed Russia's 'liberation' of Mariupol after Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told him Moscow controlled the Ukrainian port city apart from the giant Azovstal steel plant.
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UK spy chief says Putin advisors fear telling truth on Ukraine
Putin had 'massively misjudged' the invasion, the director of Britain's intelligence agency GCHQ Jeremy Fleming said in a prepared speech to the Australian National University in Canberra.
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Trump asks Putin to help dish dirt on Hunter Biden
The former Republican president returned to accusations he had repeated many times during his unsuccessful campaign against US President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.
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Macron fears 'escalation' after Biden calls Putin a 'butcher'
French President Emmanuel Macron has warned against verbal "escalation" with Moscow, after US President Joe Biden called Russian leader Vladimir Putin a "butcher" over his invasion of Ukraine.
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History may explain SA’s refusal to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
South Africa’s refusal to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine may be rooted in the ruling African National Congress (ANC)'s long history with the former Soviet Union, argues Keith Gottschalk.
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Fire at Ukrainian nuclear plant after Russian forces attack
President Volodymr Zelensky accused Moscow of trying to 'repeat' the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and said he had spoken with international leaders, including US President Joe Biden, about the crisis at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.
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'We're cutting off Russia' - US President Biden
US President Joe Biden spoke on the Russia and Ukraine conflict during his State of the Union address. #Biden #RussiaUkraine
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Biden warns 'dictator' Putin, oligarchs as Russia bombards Ukraine
Speaking on day six of Russia's invasion, US President Joe Biden said Putin's aggression was 'premeditated and totally unprovoked' - but hailed the resolve of the Western alliance in responding with brutal sanctions.
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UK warns Putin could be tried for war crimes
The International Criminal Court in The Hague said Monday it was investigating after finding a 'reasonable basis' to suspect alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine since Russia seized the Crimea peninsula in 2014.
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Putin orders nuclear alert as Ukraine fiercely resists Russian invasion
Putin ordered Sunday Russia's nuclear forces onto high alert in response to what he called 'unfriendly' steps by the West. Russia has the world's largest arsenal of nuclear weapons and a huge cache of ballistic missiles.
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Nato condemns Russia's 'reckless and unprovoked' Ukraine attack
The ambassadors of the 30-nation alliance were to hold an emergency meeting early Thursday to discuss the Russian attack, with Stoltenberg expected to give a press conference afterwards, a Nato official said separately.
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Ukraine under attack along Russia, Belarus borders: border guards
The border guards said that Russian forces were supported by Belarus and that an attack had been launched from Crimea, the Russian-occupied peninsula region on Ukraine's southern flank.
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Biden says 'world will hold Russia accountable' over Ukraine attack
In a statement issued shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of military operations in Ukraine, Biden said he would address the US public Thursday to outline the 'consequences' for Russia, calling the attack 'unprovoked and unjustified'.
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Oil breaks $100, havens rally, equities drop as Russia enters Ukraine
Markets have been hammered this week after the Kremlin recognised two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine and said it would provide 'peacekeepers' to the regions, leading to warnings of a conflagration.
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Russia's Putin announces military operation in Ukraine
His announcement of the military operation came ahead of a last-ditch summit involving European Union leaders in Brussels planned for Thursday.
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Ukraine mobilises reserves as Moscow doubles down on demands
The call was issued a day after Russia's upper house of parliament gave President Vladimir Putin permission to send "peacekeepers" into two breakaway regions of eastern Ukraine.
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Putin says Russia's interests 'non-negotiable' amid Ukraine crisis
In a video address to mark the Defender of the Fatherland Day, a public holiday in the country, Putin congratulated the Russian military and praised the battle-readiness of the army after he signalled plans to send troops to Ukraine.
