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KYIV:  Russian artillery bombarded residential districts of Ukraine’s second largest city Kharkiv on Monday, killing possibly dozens of people, Ukrainian officials said, as Moscow’s invading forces met stiff resistance from Ukrainians on a fifth day of conflict. As a first round of peace talks concluded at the Ukraine-Belarus border on Monday, Ukrainian cities including Kharkiv in the east were continuing to face some of the heaviest shelling of the war thus far, with reports of significant civilian casualties.

NEW DELHI: India’s economy lost momentum in the final quarter of 2021, with growth slowing from previous two quarters, data showed on Monday, as fears mount that soaring costs in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will further sap growth.

TOKYO : Toyota is suspending production at all 28 lines of its 14 plants in Japan starting Tuesday, because of a “system malfunction” that a domestic supplier suspects is a cyberattack. Kojima Industries Corp., based in Toyota city in central Japan, said Monday the problem could be a cyberattack as an error was detected in its computer server system. As a result, the company said its system could not communicate properly with Toyota or monitor production, although there was nothing physically wrong with the production equipment. Kojima spokesman Tomohiro Takayama said the company was investigating and working to fix the…

Bahrain : Special Envoy for Climate Affairs, Vice-President of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) and Chief Executive of the Supreme Council for Environment (SCE), Dr. Mohammed bin Mubarak bin Daina, participated in the second segment of the Fifth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5.2). The meeting, held virtually at the UN headquarters in Nairobi, under the theme “Strengthening Actions for Nature to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals”, started today, and will continue until March 2. Addressing the session, Dr. Bin Daina asserted that the Kingdom of Bahrain attaches great importance to the issue of environment and climate change,…

Bahrain : The Royal Command, Staff and National Defence College held yesterday a celebration marking 61st anniversary of Kuwait National Day and the 31st anniversary of the Liberation Day.

Berlin : Henrik Kristoffersen completed a turnaround of his World Cup slalom season Sunday with his second win in two days. The Norwegian was coming off a below-par start to his 2021-22 campaign, which included no top-10 results and two DNFs in his first four races, prompting him to replace his long-term ski technician. Now, the Norwegian is the first skier this season with multiple slalom victories with the previous seven races featuring seven different winners. And leading the slalom standings by 49 points with two races remaining, he is on course to win his third career season title. Kristoffersen…

Bahrain : The second International Conference will be held on March 24-26 at the Diplomat Radisson Blu Hotel. Forty-four speakers from overseas countries will take part in the three-day forum, which will be organised by the Arabian Gulf University. More than 400 participants are expected to take part in the conference, including internal medicine practitioners, medical students, researchers, nurses and health professionals. The three-day event will focus on internal diseases, subspecialties in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), and highlight the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) on human health. AGU Internal Medicine Department Chief, Conference Chief Dr. Amjad Al Baz…

Washington : The Biden Administration will ask Congress for $6.4 billion dollars in economic and military aid to help Ukraine as it fights the Russian invasion, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Sunday. Schumer said the request would be added to a spending bill expected to reach the Senate floor next week.

Moscow: Russia’s state communications regulator on Sunday said it had written to Alphabet Inc’s Google and demanded that access to Russian media’s YouTube channels be restored on Ukrainian territory. The regulator, Roskomnadzor, said it wanted all restrictions imposed on the Russian-language YouTube channels of media outlets RBC, TV Zvezda and Sputnik to be removed. Moscow on Friday said it was partially limiting access to Meta Platforms Inc’s Facebook, accusing it of “censoring” Russian media. USN

KYIV:  In a dramatic escalation of East-West tensions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian nuclear forces put on high alert Sunday in response to what he called “aggressive statements” by leading NATO powers. The directive to put Russia’s nuclear weapons in an increased state of readiness for launch raised fears that the crisis could boil over into nuclear warfare, whether by design or mistake. Putin’s step is “potentially putting in play forces that, if there’s a miscalculation, could make things much, much more dangerous,” said a senior U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity. Amid…