Lisbon (AFP) – Sebastien Haller kept up his remarkable scoring record in this season’s Champions League, finding the target at the right end shortly after putting through his own net as Ajax drew 2-2 with Benfica in their last 16, first leg on Wednesday. Haller’s 26th-minute own goal cancelled out Dusan Tadic’s opener for the […]
CHAIRMAN MAO, China's revolutionary tyrant, declared that "power comes from the barrel of a gun." That is the pitiless spirit that now motivates Vladimir Putin. His increasing aggression against Ukraine is nothing more than a brutal exercise in military might and imperialist ambition. Infused with a sense of deranged megalomania after 20 years in charge of the Kremlin, he is willing to plunge eastern Europe into a blood-soaked war in his quest to crush his neighbour's independence.
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The Ukraine crisis has entered a phase of maximum danger. In an address to the nation Monday night, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the recognition of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of eastern Ukraine as independent states.
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Russia's assault has echoes of 1939 and underlines the importance of ensuring that democracy wins over dictatorship
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UK retailers should sell fresh uncut fruit and vegetables without best before dates or plastic packaging to prevent 14 million shopping baskets worth of food from going to waste, a report has recommended.
TWO of Europe’s most historically successful clubs played out a stalemate in the Champions League. Ajax took the lead through Dusan Tadic before the hosts equalised with a Sebastian Haller own goal. But Haller then netted at the right end to put the champions of Holland back in front. However, Roman Yaremchuk headed in an […]
The top prosecutors in charge of the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation into former President Trump and his business dealings resigned Wednesday, Fox News has learned, bringing into question the future of the probe.
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HOMES blown to smithereens and abandoned children’s —playgrounds marked the frontline of Ukraine’s spiralling war with Russia yesterday. The Sun met grandmothers cowering in basements, and others resigned to their fate, as artillery blasts and machine-gun fire echoed over empty courtyards peppered with shrapnel marks. “This is the worst it has been since 2014,” said Svetlana Kovalova, […]