Leaked US intelligence suggests a pro-Ukrainian group may be behind the September 2022 attacks on the gas pipelines.NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has called for caution following media reports that a pro-Ukrainian group may be responsible for blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines supplying Russian energy to Europe. While not pointing to any official Ukrainian involvement, a New York Times report published on Tuesday said intelligence reviewed by United States officials found a pro-Kyiv group may be behind the attacks in September, which became a flashpoint between the West and Russia after last year’s Russian invasion of Ukraine. “There are ongoing…
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Winnipeg Jets head coach Rick Bowness said forward Pierre-Luc Dubois will be a game-time decision for their Wednesday night game against the Minnesota Wild. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; Dubois returned on Monday from an upper-body injury, and saw 20:40 of ice time in the Jets’ 3-2 overtime loss to the San Jose Sharks. Before the game against San Jose, Dubois missed the team’s previous three games with the injury. Dubois, 24, has 24 goals and 31 assists for 55 points for the Jets this season. The Jets have stumbled a bit of late, losing six of their…
Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi, for a second consecutive day to protest against a controversial “foreign agents” draft law. The latest demonstration on Wednesday came a day after the bill was passed in a first reading in parliament. At least 66 people were arrested on Tuesday evening as protests against the proposed legislation turned violent. Here is what you need to know. What does the law entail? The draft law “On Transparency of Foreign Influence” officially targets the disclosure of money flows from abroad, but critics feared it was a way for the…
Scott Parker has been sacked as manager of Club Brugge after only 12 games, following Tuesday night’s 5-1 thrashing at Benfica.Parker won just twice in his brief time in charge of the Belgian champions, a run that has seen them drop 19 points off league leaders Genk. The final straw proved to be Tuesday’s Champions League last-16 defeat in Lisbon, which saw them knocked out of the competition 7-1 on aggregate.Parker told reporters after the game: “For me it’s been challenging, but the players have been brilliant and wanting to do everything they can to turn this around.”I understand people…
Last April, 12-year-old Masha Moskalyova was asked to draw a picture for art class showing support for Russia’s “special operation” in Ukraine. Instead, she drew a mother and a child standing in the path of missiles with the captions “no to war” and “glory to Ukraine”. The following day, her father Alexey Moskalyev, who was raising her alone in the town of Yefremov, in the Tula region, about 200km (125 miles) south of Moscow, was called to her school. Both father and daughter were taken away in police cars. Alexey was interrogated by local officers, who found disparaging comments he…
One year ago, hopes were high for what was considered to be the most important environmental legislation in Europe. The European Union’s taxonomy regulation was meant to become the global “gold standard” for science-based policy that directs investment towards climate-friendly goals. But a long-delayed decision was made by the European Commission (EC) that ultimately included nuclear power and gas as “environmentally sustainable economic activities”. The Climate Complementary Delegated Act, a non-legislative supplement to the regulation, was adopted on March 9, 2022, and came into effect on January 1 this year. It is being challenged by Austria, a number of NGOs,…
Hyderabad: Annepaka Ellaiah, 52, a daily labourer committed suicide at Saidabad over alleged harassment by the police for clearing traffic challans. After his bike was allegedly detained by the traffic police, Ellaiah went home and consumed poison. His family rushed him to a nearby private hospital, where he was declared dead. A note purportedly written by Ellaiah, in which he addressed Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and Minister KT Rama Rao and detailed how he was harassed by the cops to clear the challans pending on his bike, was found at his home. The note said “SI Ganesh stopped my…
Millions of Afghan female students have been unable to attend secondary schools and universities for over a year following a ban by the ruling Taliban. The United Nations on Wednesday said Afghanistan under the Taliban government is the “most repressive country in the world” for women’s rights, with authorities effectively trapping women and girls in their homes. “It has been distressing to witness their methodical, deliberate, and systematic efforts to push Afghan women and girls out of the public sphere,” Roza Otunbayeva, head of the UN mission in Afghanistan, said in a statement marking International Women’s Day. 2.5 million girls…
New intelligence reviewed by officials in the United States suggests that a pro-Ukraine group attacked the Nord Stream gas pipelines in September last year, according to the New York Times. The US officials said they had no evidence that Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy or other Ukrainian government officials were involved in the pipeline bombings, the Times reported on Tuesday. The explosions on the pipelines connecting Russia and Germany happened on September 26 in the exclusive economic zones of Sweden and Denmark. Both countries have concluded the blasts were deliberate but have not said who might be responsible. The US and NATO…
The administration of United States President Joe Biden has spoken out in support of a recently filed lawsuit against Texas’s abortion ban, led by five women who were denied reproductive healthcare in the state. On Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris issued a statement calling the women’s stories “devastating”. “As the President and I have long made clear: taking away the right of women to make their own reproductive health care decisions endangers women’s health, with potentially life-threatening consequences,” Harris said. The lawsuit, filed late on Monday, seeks an injunction against Texas’s abortion ban because of what it calls “uncertainty” in…