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Skip next section How Zelenskyy has been seeking help in Munich 02/18/2024February 18, 2024How Zelenskyy has been seeking help in Munich While standing ovations are commonplace for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the one he received at the Munich Security Conference was still an important boost. Ukraine’s fight against the Russian invasion tops the agenda at the annual gathering of politicians and policy experts. The topic has gained all the more urgency with recent setbacks on the battlefield and fears that allies like the United States could withdraw aid. DW takes a look at how the Ukrainian leader has been seeking to…

Thousands of people marched in Mexico on Sunday to support the country’s electoral authority. Demonstrators at the “March for Democracy” accuse President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, known as AMLO, of trying to weaken the authority ahead of an election in June. Also on Sunday, presidential front-runner Claudia Sheinbaum officially registered as a candidate for the ruling Morena party. She has promised to largely maintain Lopez Obrador’s policies. Sheinbaum leads polls by 64%. Her biggest competitor, Xochitl Galvez, has polled at around 31%. What else do we know about the protests? Organizers said 700,000 people took part in the event. The protests…

In the days since Alexei Navalny’s death, people have kept coming to lay flowers at two sites in the heart of Moscow which commemorate the victims of Soviet repression.One is the Solovetsky Stone, right beside the FSB’s headquarters on Lubyanka Square; the other is the so-called ‘Wall of Grief’, a more recent memorial site, which is as harshly emotive as the name suggests. Police tell them to move on, not to linger.Navalny’s wife shares goodbye photograph – latest updatesAfter close to 400 arrests in cities across the country, people are aware they risk being detained if they outstay their welcome…

The United States conducted five self-defense strikes in areas of Yemen controlled by the Iranian-backed Houthi militia, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Sunday. CENTCOM said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the attacks targeted “three mobile anti-ship cruise missiles, one unmanned underwater vessel (UUV), and one unmanned surface vessel (USV).” It’s the first case of the US military reporting the Houthis using an underwater drone. The strikes occurred between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. local time (1200 and 1700 GMT) on Saturday. CENTCOM said its forces determined that the missiles and vessels “presented an imminent threat to US Navy ships and…

For months, the Israeli government has been telling Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip to flee south. According to aid organizations, there are now around 1.5 million people in Rafah, a city of usually only around 300,000 people close to the border with Egypt. Many of those now sheltering in Rafah have already been displaced several times. The living conditions in and around Rafah are catastrophic. Many of the refugees endure the cold in makeshift shelters and tents. There’s a shortage of food, drinking water and medicines. And the situation could soon get worse. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning a ground offensive…

The fall of Avdiivka has handed Russia its most important battlefield victory since it seized Bakhmut following nine months of gruelling attritional warfare.But was a lack of Ukrainian ammunition to blame for this battlefield loss, and is this rare Russian success the start of a dangerous new phase of the war? Avdiivka has been the scene of some of the fiercest and most bloody battles of the war. Russian forces have laid siege to the small Ukrainian city for the past four months.Navalny’s wife shares goodbye photograph – follow latestThe Ukrainian forces have been significantly overmatched by Russian troops, with…

Protests in which the wives of Russian soldiers deployed to Ukraine lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow while calling for the return of their husbands have become a regular ocurrence. Similar scenes are also playing out in other cities across Russia. Thus, the families of Russian men sent to fight in Ukraine are garnering ever more attention. Meanwhile, Russian opposition groups have pledged support for soldiers’ relatives as they believe recruiting has become an Achilles’ heel for the Kremlin. Still, when it comes to the war in Ukraine — it is almost two years since…

It was just around noon on the first day of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) when news of the death of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny popped up in the smartphone notifications of the participants from all over the world. The best-known challenger to Russian President Vladimir Putin and a prominent opponent of Russia’s war against Ukraine had died in a prison camp in Siberia. The news would set the tone for all three days of the 60th Munich Security Conference, even if the organizers tried to maintain a more diverse focus on other crises around the world.’You will be punished for…

Alexei Navalny’s body has been transferred to a morgue, according to a Russian news outlet, with guards reportedly “mysteriously” searching prison cells the night before his death.Many have blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for the opposition leader’s death, which was reported on Friday, and calls are growing for an independent investigation. His body has been taken to the Salekhard District Clinical Hospital’s morgue, Novaya Gazeta Europe reports, but as of Saturday no post-mortem examination had been performed.Latest as Russians defy authorities to lay flowersA paramedic for the Salekhard ambulance service told the news outlet usual procedure did not appear to…

German police halted a train carrying football fans between the northern German cities of Rostock and Hamburg on Saturday night, recording the identities of 855 Hamburg supporters in an operation that lasted around six hours. The Hamburg (HSV) fans were returning from their team’s second-division fixture away at Hansa Rostock (2-2) when some 400 officers stopped the train at around 8 p.m. local time in the town of Bergedorf, just outside Hamburg. Police said they were looking for 60 people allegedly involved in an incident on September 16, 2023, when a brawl broke out at Mannheim main station between HSV fans who…