Ukraine's foreign minister on new Russian general: "They have another plan, but we have our plans"
From CNN's Radina Gigova in Atlanta
Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Sunday that Russia's initial plan of the invasion of Ukraine "failed" and that "history will demonstrate whose plan will prevail," after Russia appointed a new general to lead its military invasion.
When asked to comment on the appointment of Russia's Army Gen. Alexander Dvornikov to direct the war in Ukraine, Kuleba said: "'now they have another plan, but we have our plans."
"Whatever Russia is planning to do, we have our strategy and this strategy is based on the assumption that, on the confidence that we will win this war and we will liberate our territories," Kuleba said in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press."
After fires, floods and a pandemic, Australians once again head to national election
Australia’s prime minister, Scott Morrison, has called a general election for May, hoping for a second victory against the odds as he faces accusations of lying and bullying from within his own party.
An informal campaign has been under way for weeks, but Morrison pulled the trigger on the election on Sunday, with opinion polls showing his personal popularity plummeting and his party losing ground with voters.
In a highly produced video released on Saturday, Morrison admitted his government had not been perfect but appealed to voters to stick with the status quo, saying the ruling conservative Coalition had kept unemployment low, Covid deaths down and the economy stable during the pandemic.
Arrests as protesters blockade West Virginia coal plant where Senator Joe Manchin makes $500,000 a year
The Democratic senator has opposed Biden’s $2 trillion spending package which contains an array of measures to tackle the climate crisis
More than a dozen people have been detained as hundreds of activists gathered in West Virginia to blockade a coal plant which earns the state’s Senator Joe Manchin around half a million dollars a year.
The West Virginia Rising coalition said it intended to hold a non-violent protest at the Grant Town Coal Waste Power Plant on Saturday, 9th April, dubbing it “The Coal Baron Blockade”.
The Times West Virginian said that 16 protesters had been arrested.
Weapons for UkraineThe German Government’s Hesitance over the War Is Angering Allies
By Giorgos Christides, Matthias Gebauer, Konstantin von Hammerstein, Martin Hesse, Steffen Lüdke, Ralf Neukirch, Jan Petter, Marco Schulz und Gerald Traufetter
A state secret. It can be seen behind the security gate of the Marie Elisabeth Lüders Building, one of the many offices in Berlin of the German parliament, the Bundestag. Mobile phones and digital watches are prohibited in parliament’s Secret Protection Unit. Anyone who wants to read confidential documents here has to turn in their notes after reading them. They are kept locked until the next visit.
Members of parliament often send their staff to the room if they have the appropriate security clearance. But the document currently displayed in the red folder is classified as being so secret by the federal government that only the parliamentarians themselves are allowed to read it.
Voter turnout at 65% at 5pm in first round of French presidential election
French voters are voting in the first round of presidential elections after a campaign overshadowed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Interior ministry figures estimated turnout at 65 percent at 5pm local time on Sunday, down four points from corresponding figures for the first round in 2017. Follow FRANCE 24’s live blog for full coverage of election day.
Eleven challengers – from a Communist on the left to anti-immigration candidates on the far right – are looking to unseat the incumbent, Emmanuel Macron, as he seeks to become the first French president to win re-election since Jacques Chirac in 2002. The two candidates who garner the most votes will qualify for the election’s second and final round on April 24.
Purchasing power and the war in Ukraine have topped voter concerns in the final stretch of an unusually subdued campaign, which has largely been overshadowed by the outbreak of war. Some 48.7 million people are registered to vote, though surveys have warned that as many as one in four may abstain from voting.
Thousands in Sri Lanka insist Rajapaksa family quit politics
Protesters angry over a worsening economic crisis take aim at Sri Lanka’s all-powerful Rajapaksa family
Thousands of people demanding “total system change” have rallied in Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, calling for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his powerful brothers to quit politics amid a deepening economic crisis.
At the Galle Face Green on Colombo’s waterfront on Saturday, students, teachers, lawyers, actors and architects – many of whom said they were protesting for the first time – chanted “madman Gota” and “Go home Gota”, referring to the president’s nickname, as they gathered under a blistering sun.
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