Tag: crisis
China’s Two-Year Tech Crackdown Winds Up: What’s Changed? | Tech News Briefing Podcast | WSJ
Beijing appears to be nearing the end of a two-year crackdown on the county’s big tech companies. Some of China's most well-known and influential internet companies have been forced to make significant changes.
Can positivity help tackle the global climate emergency? | The Stream
Growing numbers of people are experiencing climate anxiety as scientists, campaigners, and diplomats speak with increasing alarm about the unparalleled scale of the global climate breakdown and news reports cover the impact of extreme weather and the loss...
Belarus' Lukashenko warns Ukraine, forms joint military group with Russia • FRANCE 24 English
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said Belarus and Russia will deploy a joint military task force in response to what he called an aggravation of tension on the country's western borders, the state-run Belta news agency reported on Monday. Lukashenko...
Russian men flee to Turkey to avoid Putin’s mobilisation for Ukraine war • FRANCE 24 English
Russian men have been fleeing in large numbers since the Kremlin announced a partial military draft to sustain its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. Turkey, where some 50,000 Russian nationals have applied for residency since February, is one of their desti...
Watch live: Vladimir Putin gives rare address to Russia
Vladimir Putin is giving a rare address to his nation. The last time he gave a live address was on 24 February, when Russia invaded Ukraine.
Ukraine counter-offensive: 'Kupyansk cannot yet be considered as a consolidated gain' • FRANCE 24
Moscow has been forced to pull back troops from swathes of the northeast, particularly in the Kharkiv region, following Kyiv's dramatic assault since the beginning of September to wrest back terrain. FRANCE 24's Gulliver Cragg reports from the retaken cit...
Explosions rock Crimea in suspected Ukrainian attack • FRANCE 24 English
Explosions and fires ripped through an ammunition depot in Russian-occupied Crimea on Tuesday in the second suspected Ukrainian attack on the peninsula in just over a week, forcing the evacuation of more than 3,000 people. Russia blamed the blasts in the...
Large explosions rock Russian military air base in Crimea • FRANCE 24 English
At least one person was killed and several others wounded as powerful explosions rocked a Russian air base in Crimea. Russia’s Defense Ministry denied the base had been shelled and said instead that munitions had blown up there. But Ukrainian social netwo...
Sri Lanka’s President flees country as state of emergency declared - BBC News
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled Sri Lanka in a military jet, amid mass protests over the island's economic crisis. The country's air force confirmed the 73-year-old flew to the Maldives with his wife and two security officials.
Battle for Donbass: Ukraine pulls out of Severodonetsk • FRANCE 24 Français.
Ukraine's forces will have to retreat from Severodonetsk, a regional governor said Friday, after weeks of fierce fighting against Russian forces in the battleground eastern city.