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Kiev, Ukraine | Xinhua | Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday refuted reports that the country’s army will disarm and evacuate. “We will not lay down any weapons, we believe in our army and our country. We will protect it. Glory to Ukraine!” Zelensky said, noting that he did not leave …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday that he’s nominating Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court, setting in motion a process for the first African American woman to sit on its bench. Announcing from the White House, Biden introduced Jackson as “a daughter of …

Moscow, Russia | Xinhua | Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine has seized a large quantity of weapons supplied by Western countries in recent months, said Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov on Friday. The seized weapons include the U.S. Javelin anti-tank missile systems and British NLAWs, the spokesman said. “In total, …

Beijing, China | Xinhua | Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on Friday held a phone conversation. During the phone conversation, Xi thanked Putin again for coming to China to attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and congratulated the Russian athletes on finishing …

Beijing, China | Xinhua | China’s Foreign Ministry on Friday urged the United States to unconditionally return assets belonging to the Afghan people and take concrete actions to repair the damage caused to them. Global Times, an English-language Chinese newspaper, launched an online petition on Thursday, calling on the U.S. government …

Beijing, China | Xinhua | The so-called British National Overseas (BNO) passport is not recognized by China, and Britain should stop meddling in Hong Kong affairs in any form, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said in Beijing on Friday. It has been reported that Britain will in October put forward a new …

Beijing, China | Xinhua | Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, has sent a verbal message to Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), to express warm congratulations on the successful Beijing Winter Olympics. In the message, Kim …

Kiev, Ukraine | Xinhua | The Russian Armed Forces have attacked multiple locations since Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized on Thursday morning “a special military operation” in Donbass. Moscow expressed its willingness to talk with Kiev with a focus on obtaining a guarantee of neutral status and non-deployment of offensive weapons …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The UEFA Executive Committee today held an extraordinary meeting following the grave escalation of the security situation in Europe. The UEFA Executive Committee decided to relocate the final of the 2021/22 UEFA Men’s Champions League from Saint Petersburg to Stade de France in Saint-Denis. The game …

  Former Minneapolis police officers J Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao are accused of depriving Floyd of medical care Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | Three former police officers of Minneapolis, the U.S. state of Minnesota, accused of violating the civil rights of George Floyd, were found guilty by a …