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Skip next section Biden says ‘Putin is responsible’ for Navalny’s death02/16/2024February 16, 2024Biden says ‘Putin is responsible’ for Navalny’s deathUS President Joe Biden said he was “outraged” at Navalny’s reported death. “Like millions of people around the world … I am not surprised and outraged at the news,” he said, adding that Navalny had stood against the “corruption” and “violence” committed by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government. He said that Putin was “responsible” for Navalny’s death. “What has happened to Navalny is yet more proof of Putin’s brutality,” he said. The US president said that Washington did not know “exactly…

Senegal’s Constitutional Council on Thursday overturned the postponement of this month’s presidential election, creating a sense of uncertainty across the West African nation. Senegalese President Macky Sall had announced the delay on February 3, just one day before the election campaign was scheduled to get underway. But the council invalidated Sall’s decree to postpone the vote from February 25 to December 15. It acknowledged that it was “impossible to organize the presidential election on the initially scheduled date” but invited “the competent authorities to hold it as soon as possible.”Protesters took to the streets in response to Sall’s decision to delay the elections.…

Alexei Navalny’s wife has said she does not know whether to believe he is dead – but that President Putin and his regime must be held accountable if it is true.Yulia Navalnaya was speaking at the Munich Security Conference hours after Russian authorities said the 47-year-old had died in prison. She said she did not know whether to still speak or fly to her children, but that she asked herself what her husband would have done.Russia-Ukraine latest: Putin blamed for Navalny’s death”I’m confident he would be here on this stage,” she told the audience. Mrs Navalnaya said she was unsure…

The record-breaker was vintage Caitlin Clark: a 3-point shot from such a long-distance that it’s known as a “logo shot” because she is beyond even the extended mid-court logo of the arena at the University of Iowa. The shot was slightly off-balance, but swished through and sent all of those recording the moment on their mobile phones into a state of delirium. “I don’t know if you could script it any better,” Clark said. “Just to do it in this fashion, I’m very grateful and thankful to be surrounded by so many people who have been my foundation in everything I’ve done…

Since the beginning of February, the people of Kosovo are no longer supposed to use the Serbian dinar to make payments. Instead, the government wants all citizens — including those in predominantly Serb communities — to use the euro. Kosovo, which has been an independent state since declaring its independence from Serbia in 2008, adopted the euro as its currency in 2002. In the north of the country, where 95% of the population belongs to the Serb minority and Serbian flags are everywhere, all transactions are conducted in Serbian dinars.Milos Vucinic, a Kosovo Serb who lives in the village of…

On Sunday, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is launching a two-day meeting in Doha bringing together special envoys from UN member states and Afghan civil society representatives in an attempt to chart a course forward for international engagement with Afghanistan. Since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in 2021, the regime has cracked down violently on civil society, dissent to their rule, and women’s rights. International donors have also pulled crucial funding used for development projects compounding an ongoing economic crisis. In November 2023, UN Special Coordinator for Afghanistan Feridun Sinirlioglu submitted a report to the UN Security Council after engaging…

World leaders and critics of Vladimir Putin are in uproar after Alexei Navalny’s death.The 47-year-old lawyer and opposition leader died after falling unwell during a walk at the “Polar Wolf” penal colony on Friday, Russia’s prison service has said. Follow latest:Putin blamed for Navalny’s deathWe asked Sky’s experts about what Mr Navalny’s death means for Russia, and how likely it was that he was assassinated.Here’s what they had to say… Image: Alexei Navalny makes a heart to his wife Yulia during a hearing in Moscow in 2021. Pic: AP ‘Sudden death won’t play well for Putin’Diana Magnay, Sky News’s Moscow…

Calls to ban Israel from international sport because of the Israel-Hamas war have grown ever louder in recent weeks, with a new petition gathering significant backing, a letter in the European Parliament and a row between Israeli and Irish basketballers posing serious questions for major sporting events and organizations. The petition, by ‘The Democracy in Europe Movement 2025’, calls on Israel to be suspended from sports and has gained over 70,000 signatures, as of February 16. And, with the Paris Olympics starting in July and Israel’s male footballers facing playoffs in March to qualify for June’s European Championship in Germany, sporting administrators…

Skip next section Germany and Ukraine sign bilateral security agreement02/16/2024February 16, 2024Germany and Ukraine sign bilateral security agreementGerman Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday signed a bilateral security agreement worth €1.13 billion ($1.22 billion) in Berlin. Germany’s defense ministry said the so-called “Munich Package” focuses on air defense and artillery and includes provisions of 120,000 rounds of 122-millimeter caliber ammunition and an additional 100 IRIS-T SLS missiles this year.  Scholz called the agreement an “historic” step. “Germany will continue to support Ukraine in the face of the Russian war of aggression,” he wrote on X, formerly Twitter. German…

A court in Cambodia on Friday sentenced two Taiwanese men to two years imprisonment for staging a kidnapping from a seaside resort and posting video of it online. Chen Neng-chuan, who goes by the handle “Goodnight Chicken” and Lu Tsu-hsien known as “Anow,” were arrested after posting fake videos on Facebook of themselves being beaten and detained by security guards, according to the Preah Sihanouk provincial court. Streaming from a ‘scam park’ Taiwan’s Central News Agency (CNA) reported that the coastal city of Sihanoukville — in southwestern Cambodia — gained notoriety for harboring numerous scam compounds that enticed people — including some…