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New this week: 'Better Call Saul,' Bonnie Raitt and 'Barry'

This week’s new entertainment releases include a new album from Bonnie Raitt, Bob Odenkirk starts the long farewell season of “Better Call Saul” and “The Batman,” the biggest box-office hit so far this year, lands Monday on HBO Max

The Independent UK

Why does Russia keep poisoning people? The wild history of Moscow's chemical assassination plots

Billionaire Roman Abramovich is just the latest in a long line of people who suspect they may be the target of a Kremlin poison plot. Russia is well-practised in the art of chemical assassinations, but carrying out a murder using poison is inherently risky.

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Autocracies and fossil fuels go hand in hand

Democracies are making more progress than autocracies when it comes to climate action. But divestment campaigns can put pressure on the most recalcitrant of political leaders.

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Ukrainian FM Kuleba urges France to call atrocities in Ukraine a 'genocide'

In an interview with FRANCE 24, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba urged France and President Emmanuel Macron to call atrocities committed by Russian forces in Ukraine a "genocide”. Macron earlier this week refused to use the term, a decision that Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky called "painful". Kuleba welcomed the latest…

France 24

EU sanctions on Russia: Increasing pressure on Putin as cost of living bites in Europe

The past few days have delivered more reports of atrocities committed by the Russian military in Ukraine: women and girls raped, civilians locked up and shot, plus reports of chemical weapons being deployed in Mariupol. Calls continue for more to be done to stop Russian President Vladimir Putin. In the…

France 24

Dropped by Met, Netrebko to sing at Monte Carlo Opera

Soprano Anna Netrebko has been hired by the Monte Carlo Opera to sing this month following the Metropolitan Opera’s decision to drop her for failing to repudiate Russia President Vladimir Putin

The Independent UK

Ukraine braces for revenge attacks from Russia after Moskva sinking

Kremlin yet to release details of possible casualties on Black Sea flagship, as Ukrainians hail its demise

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Russian state TV pundit admits Putin wants to erase the very idea of being Ukrainian

The chilling statement was made last night on Russian state television as the pundit admitted the idea of being a Ukrainian "needs to be totally eradicated"

Daily Mirror

Loss of Moskva strikes serious blow to Russian military’s prestige

Analysis: ship’s sinking will shock Russian public and is latest sign war in Ukraine will not end soon

The Guardian - UK

Johnson to stay because of Ukraine? Nonsense. The war makes it more urgent that he go

The people of Ukraine are fighting for values that the British prime minister tramples on, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian - UK

Putin’s Pollock: US seafood imports fuel Russian war machine

A U.S. ban on seafood imports from Russia over its invasion of Ukraine was supposed to sap billions of dollars from Vladimir Putin’s war machine

The Independent UK

Putin’s Pollock: US seafood imports fuel Russian war machine

A U.S. ban on seafood imports from Russia over its invasion of Ukraine was supposed to sap billions of dollars from Vladimir Putin’s war machine

The Independent UK

Putin thought Ukraine war was a missile to Nato. It may be a boomerang

Analysis: To turn stolidly non-aligned Finland and Sweden into members would join pantheon of great strategic blunders

The Guardian - UK

Zelenskiy reportedly asks Biden to name Russia a state sponsor of terrorism – as it happened

Washington Post reports request made in recent phone call between two leaders – follow the day’s news

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The Independent UK

What is Nato and why was it formed?

Military alliance created in aftermath of Second World War in hope of bringing an end to bloody conflict between nations

The Guardian - UK

Russia near to defaulting on overseas debts, says rating agency

Attempts by Moscow to pay creditors in roubles as a result of being cut off from foreign currency reserves could breach loan terms

Axios

CIA director says U.S. can't "take lightly" Russian nuclear threat in Ukraine

He stressed the intel community has seen nothing to suggest an imminent strike.

Reuters

Russian Deputy PM says several buyers agree to pay in roubles for Russian gas

Several buyers of Russian gas have agreed to switch to payments in roubles, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Friday.

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Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin's next move revealed as Russian President plans May 9 victory day

Russia observes May 9 as the anniversary of the end of the Second World War and the date appears to have been earmarked by Vladimir Putin to declare the end of the Ukraine invasion, an expert told the Mirror

Daily Mirror

Russian soldier admits shelling own country so they can blame Ukraine

In a telephone call, recently released by Ukrainian security services, what they claimed was a Russian soldier confessed to firing on his own country and blaming Ukraine for the attack

The Independent UK

Russian state TV says Ukraine invasion ‘has already escalated into World War 3’

Viewers were told to ‘recognise’ that Russia is now ‘fighting against Nato infrastructure, if not Nato itself’

Daily Record

Huge bombing in several Ukrainian cities as ‘livid’ Putin seeks ship ‘revenge’

Loud bombs have been heard going off in Kyiv and other cities across Ukraine after the sinking of Russia’s Black Sea flagship.

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Russia’s Black Sea flagship sinks

Kremlin says it will reinforce borders including nuclear weapons if Sweden and Finland join Nato. Plus, Islamic State ‘Beatles’ member convicted

The Independent UK

Footage of British POW held over Ukraine resistance is ‘propaganda’, family say

Aiden Aslin, 28, appeared to blame Ukraine for not ending the war with Russia in an interview allegedly broadcast on Kremlin-controlled television.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Dropped by Met, Netrebko to Sing at Monte Carlo Opera

Soprano Anna Netrebko has been hired by the Monte Carlo Opera to sing this month following the Metropolitan Opera’s decision to drop her for failing to repudiate Russia President Vladimir Putin. The Monte Carlo Opera said Thursday that Netrebko will sing the title role in Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut” in performances…

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