A drone Bayraktar is seen during a rehearsal for the Independence Day military parade in central Kyiv, Ukraine August 18, 2021. REUTERS
Russia has complained to Turkey over its sale of Bayraktar TB2 armed drones to Ukraine, a high level Turkish bureaucrat said on Friday, but added the sales were by a private Turkish company and not state-to-state deals.
Yesterday Japan announced it is expelling eight Russian diplomats and trade officials and will phase out imports of Russian coal and oil. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Japan will also ban imports of Russian lumber, vodka and other goods, and will prohibit new Japanese investment in Russia.
Residents of Ivankiv which lacks electricity, mobile communications and the internet, are connecting with their relatives for the first time thanks to #Starlink and volunteers who brought it to the city.
A top FSB intelligence official has been moved to a high security jail in Moscow as Vladimir Putin purges his secret services over the botched Ukraine invasion. Col-General Sergei Beseda, 68, head of the 5th Service of the Federal Security Service (FSB), was previously under house arrest.
Roman Catholic clergy carry palm branches as they circle the aedicule during the Palm Sunday procession at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City. AFP
A Ukrainian mother reacts after the body of her son was discovered in a manhole at a petrol station in the outskirts of the Buzova village, west of Kyiv. At least two bodies, appearing to be clad in a mix of civilian and military clothing, were discovered in a manhole at the back of a destroyed motorway petrol station.
FRENCH ELECTION: A voter wearing a robe and slippers arrives at a polling station in Reims during the first round of the French presidential election. Photograph: Francois Nascimbeni/AFP via Getty Images
JIG IS UP: Dancers wait to be called to the stage during the opening day of the World Irish Dancing Championships at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast. Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images
Irina Borisevich, mother of two who has fled Kherson amid the Russian invasion, smiles while watching a dolphin show during their stay at a hotel in Odesa, Ukraine April 9, 2022. Reuters/Ueslei Msarcelino
This photo makes me think there is a deep division between the haves and have nots in Ukraine.
As residents in the locked-down city of Shanghai struggle to obtain groceries, China's Twitter-like Weibo platform appears to have censored content linked to the city's food crisis.
Searches for the popular hashtag "buying groceries in Shanghai" have been blocked, with users receiving a message that "no results can be found" when they attempted to do so.
ROME, April 11 (Reuters) - Italy has seized properties worth some 105 million euros ($114.45 million) owned by Russian former Formula One driver Nikita Dmitrievich Mazepin and his oligarch father. Reuters
Emergency personnel gather at the entrance to a subway station in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Multiple people were shot and injured at the subway station during a morning rush hour attack. AP
Ukrainian authorities have captured Viktor Medvedchuk, a close friend of President Putin who is godfather to his youngest daughter Darya. President Zelenskyy has proposed releasing him to Russia in exchange for Ukrainians captured by Russian forces
This photo, released by the North Korean Central News Agency, shows the newly completed Songhwa District in eastern Pyongyang that contains 50,000 new apartments, resolving the capital city's housing shortage.
DESTRUCTION OF MARIUPOL: A Russian soldier takes a photo at the Mariupol drama theatre, Mariupol, Ukraine, hit last March 16th by an airstrike, as Russian troops intensify a campaign to take the strategic port city. This picture was taken during a trip organised by the Russian military. Photograph: Alexander Nemenov/AFP/Getty
South Korean Buddhist monks and members of civic groups prostrate themselves on a road heading to the Russian Embassy in Seoul to wish for peace and stop the war in Ukraine.
An American general who speaks fluent Russian is to be named the most senior NATO commander in Europe, taking charge of 140,000 allied troops. General Christopher Cavoli, who has a master’s degree in Russian from Yale, is expected to succeed General Tod Wolters as US European Command, a position that will also make him supreme allied commander in Europe.
Somerset, UK
Police forces are offering GPS tracking devices to people with dementia who are at high risk of going missing. Avon and Somerset police have secured 30 devices developed by MindMe, a Somerset-based company, after a donation by local water companies.
South Africa
A rescued pangolin named Stevie looks for food as part as his rehabilitation process in an undisclosed location. Pangolins are believed to be the most trafficked mammals because of their supposed medicinal properties
Photograph: Guillem Sartorio/AFP/Getty Images
Western lowland gorilla Fatou, the world’s oldest according to the Berlin zoo receives a rice cake with d=fruit on her 65th birthday in Berlin, Germany. Reuters/Lisi Niesner
Injured people are seen on the platform of the 36th Street subway station on Tuesday. This photo was taken by photojournalist Derek French who told CNN he leveraged his Red Cross first aid training to help victims. While helping them, French also discovered that he himself had been shot in the ankle and was bleeding. Editor’s note: A blur has been applied here by CNN to protect the identity of the victim. Derek French/Shutterstock
