Defiant president Volodmyr today pledged to ‘destroy the occupiers’ as he said his country’s army had successfully repelled Russian forces advancing on Kyiv. In a video message to the besieged nation, Zelensky accused the Kremlin of attempting to seize the capital, overthrow the government and install a ‘puppet’ regime ‘like in Donetsk’, one of two separatist …
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu defeated President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ally in a controversial 2019 vote Istanbul’s popular opposition mayor faced new hearings Wednesday in a politically-charged trial that could bar him from seeking office months before next year’s general election. Prosecutors want to sentence Ekrem Imamoglu to between 15 months and four years in jail …
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