Yahoo News Daily politics briefing: March 8
All the latest political developments in the UK, as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak detailed plans for fresh laws to curb Channel crossings.
All the latest political developments in the UK, as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak detailed plans for fresh laws to curb Channel crossings.
Gagik Melkonyan, the deputy of the Armenian National Assembly, said this week that if Putin were to travel there, "he should be arrested."
An entire Ukrainian city has reportedly been levelled by Russian attacks, with more than 80 per cent of its housing stock destroyed.
Ukrainian “hacktivists” have outed the Russian pilots allegedly responsible for brutally bombing the Mariupol theatre by tricking their spouses to pose for a risqué military wives calendar.
The trio on the committee that recommended Margaret Ferrier gets a 30-day suspension will also rule on the fate of Boris Johnson.
STORY: A GoPro camera mounted on a Ukrainian tank shows the vehicle crawling forward. Its massive canon then lobs shells downrange.This video, released by the Ukrainian military, claims to show fighting near the shattered city of Bakhmut in the eastern part of the country, where Kyiv's soldiers have fought Russian invaders for months in a battle both sides have described as a "meat grinder," but neither has so far managed to win.The tank's platoon commander, call-sign "Bender," told Reuters his unit fired on Russian positions, in support of Ukrainian infantry.Russia has claimed in recent days to have made progress in street-by-street fighting. British intelligence on Wednesday said Ukrainian forces had successfully pushed the Russians back from one of the city's main supply routes.The head of a private Russian mercenary group heavily involved in the Bakhmut operation on Wednesday acknowledged that the fighting had badly damaged his forces."The enemies of democracy must lose."Speaking to a summit of democracies sponsored by U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told fellow leaders that they needed to hold firm in the face of Russian aggression.He again pleaded for continued arms and support to help his forces push back Moscow. Ukraine has in recent months begun to receive a suite of modern military hardware promised by the U.S. and NATO to help Kyiv mount an expected spring counter-offensive.It's unclear where and when that operation might take place.Ukraine on Wednesday struck a railway depot and knocked out power in the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol, but Kyiv hasn't said what weapons it might have used. The city just at the edge of the range of American-provided HIMARS rocket-launchers, and within range of newer American armaments.Melitopol is a rail hub and administrative center of the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia region.It's south of the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, visited on Wednesday by U.N. nuclear agency chief Rafael Grossi."It is very very important that we agree on the fundamental principle that the nuclear power plant should not be attacked."Grossi has been pushing for a safety agreement between Ukraine and Russia to protect the facility.Moscow and Kyiv have repeatedly accused each other of shelling the site of the power station over the last year.The sprawling Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant was a prized part of Ukraine's energy network and accounted for around 20% of national power generation before the Russian invasion.It has not produced any electricity since September, when the last of its six reactors was taken offline.
The SNP has been the most united and disciplined party I have seen in my 41 years on the Westminster beat – until now
No one who knows Evan Gershkovich believes he is a spy.
“We are at a perilous crossroads," J. Michael Luttig told conservative commentator Charlie Sykes.
THE official reason given for Kate Forbes’s exit from government has been challenged by one of her key allies.
Politicians returning to Stormont under the revamped pact would be like Nazi collaborators in wartime France, Baroness Hoey said.
A British diplomat has listed a series of catastrophic failings by the Russian military in its invasion of Ukraine.
The US Department of the Treasury has linked the Alfa Nero to Andrey Guryev, who the department said is a "close associate" of Vladimir Putin's.
Saudi Arabia is joining an anti-Western influence bloc formed by Russia and China, in a sign of Riyadh’s deepening ties with Beijing as the US pivots away from the Middle East.
The war is "not simply seen as good guys in the West versus bad guys in Russia."
The International Olympic Committee has launched a fierce public attack on the governments of Britain and other European countries, accusing them of a "deplorable" effort to ban Russia and Belarus.
The actor has a theory to explain what's really going on.
Ministers have been accused of "thrashing around" for headlines as local elections approach.
Teenagers in North Korea are being executed for watching TV shows from the South, a new report has said.
See how Ukraine and Russia's tanks stack up against each other and why Putin's armor force is coming apart.
The Russian service member said female medics were made into "field wives" who had to cook and clean for officers as well as "please" them sexually.