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A night Kyiv won’t forget? Russia bombs Flamingo, Neptune & FP-9 Factories, Iskander & Zircon fly

A night Kyiv won’t forget? Russia bombs Flamingo, Neptune & FP-9 Factories, Iskander & Zircon fly

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Published on Jul 20, 2026 01:55 am IST Russia has launched one of its largest missile and drone assaults on Ukraine since the war began, according to Ukrainian officials. President Volodymyr Zelensky described it as one of the most massive ballistic attacks on Kyiv, while Ukraine said Russia fired around 1,450 drones, 1,640 guided bombs and 99 missiles over the past week. Moscow said it targeted Ukraine’s missile, drone and military industries. Meanwhile, Kyiv claimed strikes on Russian oil depots and fuel facilities, escalating the cross-border campaign.   Home / Videos / A night Kyiv won’t forget? Russia bombs Flamingo, Neptune & FP-9 Factories, Iskander & Zircon fly Disclaimer: We do not own any of the content, ideas, images, or text presented here. All rights belong to their respective owners. For more information and to view the original source, please visit the following link: Source link

FIFA’s Gianni Infantino, Trump’s favourite sport administrator

FIFA’s Gianni Infantino, Trump’s favourite sport administrator

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In May 2015, as dawn broke over Zurich, plain-clothed FBI agents moved through the corridors of the luxurious Baur au Lac hotel. Curtains were drawn to shield embarrassed football officials from television cameras as they were escorted out. The images travelled around the world: FIFA, football’s untouchable empire, finally under siege. The arrests marked the beginning of the end for the old order. Sepp Blatter would soon be gone. Michel Platini’s succession plans would collapse. FIFA, battered by corruption scandals and criminal investigations, needed a new face. When those curtains were eventually pulled back, another figure emerged from the wreckage: Gianni Infantino. The Swiss lawyer – with a perfectly round bald head – whom most football fans recognised only as the man standing on stage during UEFA Champions League draws, reaching into glass bowls to pull out little balls containing team names. A functionary and master of ceremonies was nobody’s idea of the most powerful man in world sport. But a decade later, Infantino has become precisely that. He is close enough to US President …

Beyond Trending: What is hegemonic stability? 

Beyond Trending: What is hegemonic stability? 

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3 min readNew DelhiMay 22, 2026 04:51 PM IST Calling for an immediate end to hostilities in West Asia, Chinese President Xi Jinping also warned of “unilateral and hegemonic countercurrents running rampant” in the world, as he held talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. The talks, held during Putin’s two-day visit to Beijing (19-20 May), came less than a week after US President Donald Trump concluded his three-day visit. These visits are seen as underlining China’s emergence not just as a central hub of global diplomacy but also for regional and global stability. The US has long been viewed as the guarantor of global order, but the speculation regarding China’s emergence as an alternative has triggered a debate around the idea of hegemonic stability.  What is hegemony  The word hegemony comes from classical  Greek history, which means supreme command or supremacy. In edited volume Two Hegemonies: Britain 1846-1914 and the United States 1941-2001 (2002), S Ryan Johansson notes that the word hegemony was originally used to describe the relationship of Athens to the other Greek …

Pedro Almodovar says artists have duty to speak out against ‘monsters’ Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, Vladimir Putin

Pedro Almodovar says artists have duty to speak out against ‘monsters’ Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, Vladimir Putin

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Oscar-winning Spanish director Pedro Almodovar urged artists to speak out about the crises facing society on Wednesday, describing it as their moral duty against “monsters” like U.S. President Donald Trump. Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump were the targets of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar. Pedro Almodovar on ‘monsters’ “The creator, from their small platform, each from their own, must speak without mincing words,” said Almodovar at the Cannes Film Festival after the premiere of his tragicomedy Bitter Christmas. “Silence and fear – because it is clearly an expression of fear – are a very bad sign; they are a sign of the erosion of democracy,” said the director considered a defining figure of contemporary European cinema. “We are obliged to become a kind of shield against these monsters like Trump, Netanyahu or the Russian,” he said, referring to Israel’s prime minister and Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Trump must know that there is a limit to all his delusions and madness, and that Europe will never bow down to Trump’s policies,” he added. Pedro Almodovar’s latest work …

Javier Bardem slams ‘toxic masculinity’ shown in his Cannes entry The Beloved, compares it to Trump, Netanyahu, Putin

Javier Bardem slams ‘toxic masculinity’ shown in his Cannes entry The Beloved, compares it to Trump, Netanyahu, Putin

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Oscar-winning actor Javier Bardem denounced the aggressive masculinity at the heart of his new Cannes Film Festival competition entry The Beloved on Sunday, calling it a destructive force he hopes growing awareness can help end. Spanish actor Javier Bardem attends a press conference for the film El ser querido (The Beloved) at the 79th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes on May 17, 2026. (Photo by Ian LANGSDON / AFP) (AFP) Javier Bardem on The Beloved Bardem stars in director Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s drama about a hard-driving director who casts his estranged daughter in his new movie, reopening grievances borne of anger and ego. The film is one of 22 competing for the festival’s top prize, the Palme d’Or, which will be handed out on May 23. “The idea of this masculinity that is aggressive, that it has to be also showcasing his power over others, that’s something that resonates with me, because that’s the generation that I grew up with,” the 57-year-old Spanish actor told Reuters. “And it’s wrong. And the fact that …

Why a long-term ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine may be closer than it seems

Why a long-term ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine may be closer than it seems

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In a reprieve from the conflict, Russia and Ukraine have agreed to halt the hostilities for three days and exchange 1,000 prisoners from each side. The request for the ceasefire came from Russia to commemorate the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in World War II in 1945. Ukraine demands a permanent ceasefire, a condition Russia refuses to accept without a formal peace deal. Nonetheless, they have agreed to a short-term ceasefire, raising expectations of a long-term ceasefire. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin announced a ceasefire preceding Victory Day, celebrated annually on May 9. The day honours the defeat of Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War. It signifies a landmark moment in the nation’s collective memory, showcasing a story of resistance against fascism, a demonstration of its military might, and an indomitable determination to sacrifice for the nation’s security. Just to put things in perspective, an estimated 75 million people died in World War II. Out of this, about 26 million people were from the Soviet Union. In other words, one-third of all deaths in this …

Why a long-term ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine may be closer than it seems

Why a long-term ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine may be closer than it seems

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In a reprieve from the conflict, Russia and Ukraine have agreed to halt the hostilities for three days and exchange 1,000 prisoners from each side. The request for the ceasefire came from Russia to commemorate the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in World War II in 1945. Ukraine demands a permanent ceasefire, a condition Russia refuses to accept without a formal peace deal. Nonetheless, they have agreed to a short-term ceasefire, raising expectations of a long-term ceasefire. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin announced a ceasefire preceding Victory Day, celebrated annually on May 9. The day honours the defeat of Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War. It signifies a landmark moment in the nation’s collective memory, showcasing a story of resistance against fascism, a demonstration of its military might, and an indomitable determination to sacrifice for the nation’s security. Just to put things in perspective, an estimated 75 million people died in World War II. Out of this, about 26 million people were from the Soviet Union. In other words, one-third of all deaths in this …

Russia and Ukraine are now fighting over ceasefire dates. Here’s why

Russia and Ukraine are now fighting over ceasefire dates. Here’s why

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Russia and Ukraine are currently engaged in a unique rival-ceasefire declarations amid Russian Victory Day celebrations on May 9. A steam armoured train arrives at the station during a historical reenactment depicting the arrival of trains after the end of the war as a part of celebrations ahead of the 81st anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany during World War II. (Photo for representation) (AP) While, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday declared a ​two-day ceasefire in the conflict with Ukraine on May 8-9 to mark Russia’s World War Two victory, his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky counter-proposed his own pause in fighting starting earlier, on the night of May 5‑6. But Moscow on Thursday bluntly ignored Kyiv ceasefire proposal that would start earlier. It even warned foreign diplomats in Kyiv that if Russia’s May 9 events are targeted, Ukrainian capital of Kyiv might get hit in retaliatory attacks. “Yes, we are talking about the 8th and 9th of May,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in response to a question by the AFP. …

‘Slave to war’: Zelensky slams Putin in Munich days before Russia-Ukraine war enters fifth year

‘Slave to war’: Zelensky slams Putin in Munich days before Russia-Ukraine war enters fifth year

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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced Russia’s Vladimir Putin as a “slave to war” in a speech to the Munich Security Conference Saturday, adding that Russia’s attacks had damaged every power plant in the country. Russia and Ukraine will hold US-brokered talks next week, and Zelensky said Kyiv was doing “everything” to end the war. (AFP File) Zelensky also drew parallels between the current talks between Russia and Ukraine over territorial concessions and the 1938 Munich Agreement, when Hitler forced territorial concessions from the European powers — a year before World War II. Zelensky was speaking days before the fourth anniversary of Moscow’s invasion, which has killed hundreds of thousands, decimated eastern Ukraine and forced millions to flee. Moscow’s attacks on the country’s power infrastructure have left millions in the cold. Kyiv and its Western allies have accused Moscow of deliberately freezing Ukraine’s population with the energy grid strikes. “There is not a single power plant left in Ukraine that has not been damaged by Russian attacks,” Zelensky said. “Not one.” “But we still generate electricity,” …

Except Trump, nobody else has declared that India will stop buying Russian oil: Lavrov | India News

Except Trump, nobody else has declared that India will stop buying Russian oil: Lavrov | India News

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Stating that “sky is the limit” as far as India-Russia relations go, Russia Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday said that except US President Donald Trump, nobody else has declared that India will stop buying Russian oil. Responding to a lawmaker in the State Duma (Lower House of Russian Parliament), Lavrov said, “You mentioned that Donald Trump announced India’s agreement to no longer purchase Russian oil. I have not heard such a statement from anyone else, including Prime Minister (Narendra) Modi and other Indian leaders.” As India kicks off its BRICS presidency this year with the first Sherpa meeting held in New Delhi recently, Lavrov said that External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar told the first meeting of Sherpas that energy security will be one of the top items of the summit that Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to attend. A new meeting between the leaders of the two countries is expected to take place on the sidelines of the BRICS summit, Lavrov told the Russian Parliament. “Russia is ready to go as far in …