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In effect, this means that unaccompanied non-citizen children will not be expelled from the United States under CDC’s(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) order.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: US eases border policy from Trump era for unaccompanied migrant children

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will host leaders from countries along Russia’s northwestern flank next week to discuss ways they can respond to President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, including finding new ways to isolate Russia’s economy.For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.The leaders from countries in the Joint Expeditionary Force, a British-led grouping made up of Denmark, Estonia, Finland and Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden will meet for talks in London on Tuesday. The leaders are expected to agree to more military exercises in the North Atlantic and Baltic Sea and will discuss the war in Ukraine and energy security, Johnson’s office said. “European security has been shaken by the attack of Russia on Ukraine, and alongside our partners, we will take action to ensure we emerge stronger and more united than before,” Johnson said in a statement. “Ensuring we are resilient to Putin’s threats needs to go beyond our military footing - together alongside our North and Baltic Sea partners we must ensure we are insulated from Russia’s interference and impact on our energy supplies, economy and values.” Britain has imposed sanctions on hundreds of Russian individuals and entities, promised to phase out Russian oil imports and banned Russian companies from raising debt and equity in its financial center. Read more:US President Biden authorizes $200 mln in additional military equipment for UkraineBrits to get around $456 a month to open homes to Ukraine refugees fleeing invasionUS warns UN that Russia may use biological, chemical weapons
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: UK to host talks with Nordic, Baltic leaders to find new ways to isolate Russia

Russian forces launched a missile attack on a large Ukrainian military facility near the Polish border on Sunday, officials said, in what appeared to be the westernmost attack of the war, and air raid sirens again woke residents in the capital Kyiv. “The occupiers launched an air strike on the International Center for Peacekeeping and Security” in Yavoriv, the Lviv regional military administration said in a statement. “According to preliminary data, they fired eight missiles.”For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app. Initial reports indicated “there are no dead, but information about the injured and wounded is being clarified,” said Anton Mironovich, spokesman for the Academy of Land Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, according to Interfax Ukraine news agency cited. The 360 square-km (140 square-mile) facility less than 25 km (15 miles) from the Polish border, is one Ukraine’s biggest and the largest in the western part of the country. Ukraine holds most of its drills with NATO countries there. The mayor of another city in western Ukraine, Ivano-Frankivsk, said Russian troops also continued to hit its airport, with no initial reports of casualties. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiyy has warned Russian forces they face a fight to the death if they try to occupy the capital Kyiv, as air raid sirens again woke residents on Sunday morning. “If they decide to carpet bomb and simply erase the history of this region ... and destroy all of us, then they will enter Kyiv. If that’s their goal, let them come in, but they will have to live on this land by themselves,” Zelenskiyy said on Saturday. The president, who has repeatedly appeared on social media from the capital, said some small towns no longer existed in the third week of Russian attacks, the biggest assault on a European country since World War Two. Russian shelling has trapped thousands of people in besieged cities and sent 2.5 million Ukrainians fleeing to neighboring countries. Ukraine accused Russian forces on Saturday of killing seven civilians in an attack on women and children trying to flee fighting near Kyiv. France said Russian President Vladimir Putin had shown no readiness to make peace. The Ukrainian intelligence service said the seven, including one child, were killed as they fled the village of Peremoha and that “the occupiers forced the remnants of the column to turn back.” Reuters was unable immediately to verify the report and Russia offered no immediate comment. Moscow denies targeting civilians since invading Ukraine on February 24. It blames Ukraine for failed attempts to evacuate civilians from encircled cities, an accusation Ukraine and its Western allies strongly reject. Zelenskiyy said Moscow was sending in new troops after Ukrainian forces put 31 of Russia’s battalion tactical groups out of action in what he called Russia’s largest army losses in decades. Reuters could not verify his statements. “We still need to hold on. We still have to fight,” Zelenskiyy said in a video address late on Saturday, his second of the day. Saying about 1,300 Ukrainian troops had been killed, he urged the West to get more involved in peace negotiations. The United States said it would rush up to $200 million in additional small arms, anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons to Ukraine, where officials have pleaded for more military aid. The Kremlin describes its actions as a “special operation” to disarm Ukraine and unseat leaders it calls neo-Nazis. Ukraine and Western allies call this a baseless pretext for a war of choice that has raised fears of wider conflict in Europe. Zelenskiyy discussed the war with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron, who urged Putin to order an immediate ceasefire. A Kremlin statement on their 75-minute call made no mention of a ceasefire. A French presidency official said: “We did not detect a willingness on Putin’s part to end the war.” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov accused the United States of escalating tensions and said the situation had been complicated by convoys of Western arms shipments to Ukraine that Russian forces considered “legitimate targets.” In comments reported by the Tass news agency, Ryabkov made no specific threat. Any attack on such convoys before they reached Ukraine would risk widening the war. Crisis talks between Moscow and Kyiv have been continuing by video link, said Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, according to Russia’s RIA news agency. He gave no details, but Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Kyiv would not surrender or accept any ultimatums. Humanitarian corridors Russian rocket attacks destroyed a Ukrainian airbase and hit an ammunition depot near Vasylkiv in the Kyiv region, Interfax Ukraine quoted its mayor as saying. The exhausted-looking governor of Chernihiv, around 150 km (100 miles) northeast of Kyiv, gave a video update in front of the ruins of the city’s Ukraine Hotel. “There is no such hotel any more,” Viacheslav Chaus said, wiping tears from his eyes. “But Ukraine itself still exists, and it will prevail.” Britain’s defense ministry has said Russian ground forces were massed 25 km (15 miles) from the center of Kyiv, while Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, and the key Black Sea port of Mariupol remained encircled under heavy Russian shelling. The general staff of the Ukraine armed forces said Russia had slowed its offensive and in many places its forces had been stopped. The military’s Facebook post did not give details. Ukrainian officials had planned to use humanitarian corridors from Mariupol in the south as well as towns and villages in the regions of Kyiv, Sumy and some other areas on Saturday. Around 13,000 people were evacuated from Ukrainian cities on Saturday, said Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk. The Donetsk region’s governor said constant shelling was complicating bringing aid into Mariupol. Fires were burning in the western section of the city and dozens of apartment buildings heavily damaged, according to images taken on Saturday by private US satellite firm Maxar. At least 1,582 civilians in Mariupol have been killed as a result of Russian shelling and a 12-day blockade, the city council said on Friday. Reuters could not verify casualty figures. “There are reports of looting and violent confrontations among civilians over what little basic supplies remain in the city,” the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said. People were boiling ground water for drinking, using wood to cook food and burying their dead near where they lay, a staff member for Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) in Mariupol said.Read more:UN to hold more meetings this week on Ukraine warUK to host talks with Nordic, Baltic leaders to find new ways to isolate RussiaUS warns UN that Russia may use biological, chemical weapons
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: Russia launches missile strike on western Ukraine as Zelenskiyy warns of desolation

No serious injuries were reported from the strike, outside the city of Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan, and an American official said the consulate site was undamaged..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Missiles Fired From Iran Hit Near U.S. Consulate Site in Iraq

The Gulf state has long called for the resumption of the 2015 nuclear accord..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Qatar's Foreign Minister heads to Moscow for talks over nuclear deal and the war in Ukraine

Iraqi officials reject Iran's claim that it hit an Israeli facility near the US consulate in Irbil..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Irbil attack: Iran launches missiles at northern Iraqi city

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards released on Sunday a statement taking responsibility for missile attacks against what they claim are Israeli “strategic centers” in Iraq’s northern Kurdish regional capital of Erbil, Iran’s state media reported.For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.“Any repetition of attacks by Israel will be met with a harsh, decisive and destructive response,” the statement added.Israel killed two Iranian members of the Revolutionary Guards earlier this week in Syria.Read more: Missiles launched from Iran targeted new US consulate in Erbil: ReportUS pays $2 million every month to protect Pompeo, aide from Iran threatSaudi Arabia and Iran should ‘coexist’, Israel is a ‘potential ally’: Crown Prince
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards claim responsibility for missile attack on Iraq’s Erbil

The prestigious tour had total prize money amounting to QR80,000..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Qatar's Al Marri wins Medium Tour astride Navaronne

EU is ending its reliance on Russian gas, intensifying its economic response to the invasion of Ukraine..
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Germany discusses energy cooperation with Qatar

The High Court of Justice denied the petition that claimed Israel Police, the Mossad, the Shin Bet, the Health Ministry and the CIA murdered the woman.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Live woman sues CIA, Mossad, Shin Bet for her murder