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US notified Russia about Biden's Ukraine visit 'hours before:' top aide 20 Feb 2023 - 06:42 pm
US President Joe Biden is greeted by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a visit in Kyiv on February 20, 2023. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP)
Paris transport to hire thousands to get in shape for Olympics 20 Feb 2023 - 05:17 pm
Olympic rings to celebrate the IOC official announcement that Paris won the 2024 Olympic bid are seen in front of the Eiffel Tower at the Trocadero square in Paris, France, on September 16, 2017. (Reuters file photo)
EU imposes new Myanmar sanctions two years after coup 20 Feb 2023 - 04:47 pm
Japan PM pledges $5.5 billion in additional Ukraine aid 20 Feb 2023 - 04:40 pm
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, Japan, October 14, 2021. (Eugene Hoshiko/Pool via REUTERS)
Some of Venice’s canals are nearly dried up from low tide 20 Feb 2023 - 04:07 pm
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Russian pranksters call Merkel posing as Ukraine's ex-leader 20 Feb 2023 - 03:56 pm
Former German chancellor Angela Merkel
French minister urges $16 bn IMF programme for Ukraine 20 Feb 2023 - 03:48 pm
Volodymyr, 55, a gas supply system operator, pulls a trolley with a container holding 40 liters of water after fetching it from a well, in Siversk on February 17, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP)
Navalny documentary wins BAFTA after security row 19 Feb 2023 - 11:20 pm
File Photo: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is seen on a screen via a video link from the IK-2 corrective penal colony in Pokrov during a court hearing to consider an appeal against his prison sentence in Moscow, Russia, May 24, 2022. (REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina)
UK police find body in case that led to social media circus 19 Feb 2023 - 09:54 pm
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Big tech descends on Munich Conference in support of Ukraine 19 Feb 2023 - 09:03 pm
Japan's Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi delivers a speech at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich, southern Germany, on February 18, 2023. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)
Moldova protesters want energy subsidies, president to quit 19 Feb 2023 - 08:08 pm
Moldova's President Maia Sandu (left) and Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen talk as they attend the Munich Security Conference in Munich, southern Germany, on February 18, 2023. (Photo by Odd Andersen / AFP)
Beijing wants to meet EU leaders as US ties fray 19 Feb 2023 - 05:38 pm
China's Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Wang Yi delivers a speech at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich, southern Germany, on February 18, 2023.  (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)
Cardiac implants reused from the dead in Romania: prosecutors 19 Feb 2023 - 01:20 pm
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Sunak’s margin for UK tax cuts set to narrow with deficit jump 19 Feb 2023 - 11:55 am
Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak gives a tv interview on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich, southern Germany, on February 18, 2023.
UK PM splashes cold water on prospects of quick trade deal 18 Feb 2023 - 07:37 pm
Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak gives a tv interview on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich, southern Germany, on February 18, 2023.  (Photo by Ben Stansall / POOL / AFP)
Bulgaria detains 7 over deaths of 18 migrants found in truck 18 Feb 2023 - 07:26 pm
This handout photograph released by the Bulgarian Prosecutor's Office on February 18, 2023, shows the abandoned truck, in which eighteen migrants have been found dead inside the day before, near the village of Lokorsko, some 20 kilometres (12 miles) north-east of Sofia.  (Photo by HANDOUT BULGARIAN PROSECUTORS OFFICE / AFP
Finland could join NATO ahead of Sweden: Defence minister 18 Feb 2023 - 05:38 pm
Finland's President Sauli Niinisto (left) shakes hands with Former Prime Minister of Sweden Carl Bildt at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich, southern Germany, on February 18, 2023.  (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)
It's time to double down on support for Ukraine, says Sunak 18 Feb 2023 - 04:43 pm
Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak attends a Q&A after his speech at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich, southern Germany, on February 18, 2023.  (Photo by Ben Stansall / POOL / AFP)