Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched a military operation in Ukraine, with explosions heard across the country and Ukraine’s foreign minister warning a “full –scale-invasion” was under way.
What do we know about the invasion so far?
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President Joe Biden made an impassioned appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin to step back from war with Ukraine on Tuesday, speaking starkly of the “needless death and destruction” Moscow could cause and international outrage Putin would face.
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The UK government is urging Britons in Ukraine to leave and advised against all travel there as fears of war in eastern Europe intensify.
The advice was issued by the Foreign Office amid the huge Russian troop build-up.
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Joe Biden
President Joe Biden vowed Thursday to retaliate for a terrorist attack that killed a dozen US service members outside Kabul’s international airport.
“We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay,” Biden … Read the rest
Taliban
One of the first things I picked up very early in this business of public affairs analysis is something senior colleagues referred to as Afghanistanism. If you were told a column, story or essay, you had submitted for publication reeked … Read the rest
Kamala Harris
And with a final “so help me God,” Kamala Harris was sworn in Wednesday as the new vice president — the first woman, first Black person and first person of Asian descent to hold the office.
Harris, 56, took her … Read the rest
Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr, 78, officially became the oldest president of the United States in the nation’s history when he was sworn in as commander in chief Wednesday.
Millions of Americans watched from home as Chief Justice John Roberts administered … Read the rest
Lil Wayne, Donald Trump, Kodak Black
Lil Wayne received a full presidential pardon and Kodak Black received a commutation from Donald Trump in the president’s final hours in office, CNN and Reuters report. The two rappers’ reprieve comes amid a flurry of pardons as some of … Read the rest
On November 2, 2016, a week before the US Presidential elections of Nov. 8, 2016, Wole Soyinka, Africa’s first Nobel Laureate in Literature told a group of students at Oxford University’s Eretgun House that if Donald Trump was elected President … Read the rest
After watching the carnage visited on the US Congress last week, violent protesters storming the premises in the middle of a session, ransacking various offices including that of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Senate, overwhelming law … Read the rest
