Russian troops launched an offensive in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine on Saturday. Earlier, the region’s nuclear power plant was seized by Russia. In other news, New Zealand Minister Chris Hipkins, who has led the country’s response to the pandemic, will replace Jacinda Ardern as the country’s next prime minister. Meanwhile, a large number of demonstrators gathered in Madrid to protest against the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, and demand his resignation.
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The Russian military said on Saturday (January 21) that its troops have launched an offensive in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region. Earlier in the conflict, Russia had captured the nuclear power plant in the region, where fighting had stalemate for weeks but has reportedly intensified recently.
Minister Chris Hipkins, who led New Zealand’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, is set to replace Jacinda Ardern as the country’s next prime minister.
Thousands of people gathered in the Spanish capital Madrid to protest against the left-wing government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Saturday in a demonstration supported by the far-right Vox party. The protest took place in the year in which the elections are to be held.
The chances of China facing a major resurgence of COVID-19 in the next two to three months are unlikely as 80 percent of the country’s population has been infected by the virus, a major official said on Saturday. government scientist.
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been fined for not wearing a seatbelt in a moving car. Lancashire police, without specifying by name, said they had issued a fixed penalty with a conditional offer to a 42-year-old London man, the BBC reported.
On Friday (January 19), the US administration designated the Russian mercenary group Wagner as an international criminal organization and White House national security spokesman John Kirby said the group is committing widespread atrocities and abuses against human rights.
The Turkish government canceled the upcoming visit of Swedish Defense Minister Pal Jonson on Saturday, following the planning of a demonstration by right-wing extremists in Stockholm.
A Palestinian was shot dead by an Israeli civilian at a settler farm on Saturday in the occupied West Bank after an attempted stabbing, the army which reported the latest incident said as violence escalated in the region.
The Western ally was unable to finalize supplies of German-made Leopard tanks to help Ukraine in its fight against Russia. During talks by defense ministers at the Ramstein airbase in Germany on Friday, the United States, including other allies, agreed to send massive military assistance for Kyiv’s fight against Russian forces, but the package did not include the much-debated tanks. germans.
Negotiations for an ambitious Free Trade Agreement between Britain and India are “well advanced”, UK Foreign Secretary for South Asia Lord Tariq Ahmed told a parliamentary debate in the House of Lords in London.
