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Türkiye Closes Airspace to Flights Using North Iraqi Airport

Türkiye has closed its airspace to flights to and from an airport in Kurdish-administered northern Iraq, a top Turkish official announced Wednesday, citing an alleged increase in Kurdish militant activity threatening flight safety. The airspace was closed Tuesday to flights taking off from and landing at Sulaymaniyah International Airport, in…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Polish-Ukrainian friendship masks a bitter, bloody history

Poland has emerged as one Ukraine’s most ardent supporters during Russia’s invasion despite historical grievances between the neighboring nations that stir up bad feelings to this day

The Independent UK

Shakhtar Donetsk fund surgery for badly-injured soldiers and find new families for orphans

Shakhtar Donetsk has effectively become an aid agency, finding new families for children orphaned by the conflict, and shelter for those made homeless in towns and cities laid to waste by Putin's war

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Israeli airstrikes on Syria see tensions simmer with Iran

Israel has intensified its airstrikes in Syria in recent weeks, killing two Iranian military advisers and temporarily putting the country’s two largest international airports out of service

The Independent UK

Top Russian energy boss mysteriously found dead after being arrested ‘for taking bribe’

Igor Shkurko, deputy general director of firm Yakutskenergo, had been detained over bribery allegations but the day after he issued an appeal was found dead in his cell

Daily Mirror

German chancellery defends record on sending arms to Ukraine

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s spokesman has defended Berlin’s record on delivering arms to Ukraine after the vice chancellor said he was “deeply ashamed” that it took Germany so long to shift its position

The Independent UK

Putin berates US and EU envoys, top official says US aid fuelling Ukraine war's 'hot phase'

Russian President Vladimir Putin told the new U.S. and EU ambassadors in blunt language on Wednesday that their countries were responsible for a dramatic deterioration in relations since Russia sent its armed forces into Ukraine last year.

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Russian Bakhmut capture claims ‘pretty desperate’, officials say

The Wagner mercenary group claims to have captured Bakhmut – but fighting continues in the destroyed city

Evening Standard

Turkey closes airspace to Iraq’s Sulaimaniyah, cites PKK presence

Turkey based its decision on the alleged rise of PKK-linked activity in the northern Iraqi city.

Al Jazeera

Ukraine will take 'corresponding' decisions if troops risk encirclement in Bakhmut - Zelenskiy

Ukrainian troops face a really difficult situation in the eastern city of Bakhmut, but Kyiv will take the "corresponding" decisions to protect them if they risk being encircled by Russian forces, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday.

Reuters

Are energy bills going down this year?

Household energy bills are set to fall this winter – but many people may not feel the benefit.

The Week

Devastated city in eastern Ukraine 'completely destroyed' and 'unliveable'

The horrific scale of destruction which the city of Bakhmut has suffered has been laid bare as fighting continues to rage in eastern Ukraine

Daily Mirror

Bulgaria's GERB party urges lawmakers to create a government after inconclusive vote

Bulgaria's centre-right GERB party, which came first in an election last Sunday, urged the country's political parties to put a new government in place "whatever the cost" following the fifth inconclusive poll in two years.

Reuters

Russian defector sheds light on Putin paranoia and his secret train network

Former security officer tells of president’s strict quarantine and says he has ‘lost touch with the world’

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Russia demands that Ukraine free Orthodox 'martyr' cleric from house arrest

Russia on Wednesday demanded that Ukraine free a top Orthodox cleric placed under house arrest by a Kyiv court this month in connection with allegations he had glorified Russia's invasion and stoked religious divisions.

Evening Standard

Suspect in cafe attack that killed pro-Putin blogger is jailed

Darya Trepova, 26, will spend two months in custody pending investigation

Reuters

Ukraine trains 40,000 storm brigade troops for counter-offensive

More than a year into Russia's full-scale invasion, Aleks, a translator with no prior military experience, was advancing through forest with rifle raised, training to ambush enemy forces in one of Ukraine's newest military units.

The Independent UK

Leaked recording reveals Israel police chief making racist comments about Arabs

Israeli police commissioner Kobi Shabtai allegedly made the racist remark in a private meeting with far-right national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir last week

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The Independent UK

Takeaways from AP's report on elite Russian defector

In October, an officer in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s elite personal security service defected while on a business trip in Kazakhstan

Al Jazeera

France to try Syrian regime officials for crimes against humanity

French judges charge three senior advisers to Bashar al-Assad with complicity in crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Chicago Tribune

Editorial: Evan Gershkovich is not a spy. He must be freed immediately.

The Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich is a top-flight journalist, courageously reporting from Vladimir Putin’s Russia at a time when the Russian leader’s illegal invasion of Ukraine has the world’s attention intently trained on virtually every move Moscow makes.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Fears of ‘Poisoning’ Attacks Haunt Schools in Iran amid Hijab Controversy

Fears of chemical attacks targeting female students resurfaced in Iran as schools resumed after a three-week Nowruz holiday. Iranian parliament and top religious figures are pressuring the government to enforce hijab laws following a rebellion by Iranian women against wearing headscarves. Twenty female students were transported to the hospital after…

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UN Human Rights Council Extends Mandate of Iran Rapporteur on Human Rights

The United Nations Human Rights Council extended Tuesday the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Javaid Rehman, for an additional year. The extension was passed with 23 of the council's 47 members, as 16 members abstained from voting, and eight were against, including…

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Ukraine’s Zelenskiy Arrives in Poland to Deepen Ties with Key Western Ally

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy arrived in neighboring Poland on Wednesday, a Polish presidential aide said, as he begins an official visit to a close ally that has galvanized Western military and political support for Kyiv. The visit, which was announced this week by Poland but has not been officially confirmed…

The Independent UK

Israeli strikes on Syria intensify, raise tensions with Iran

Israel has intensified its airstrikes in Syria in recent weeks, killing two Iranian military advisers and temporarily putting the country’s two largest international airports out of service

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