West needs strategy to tie Ukraine aid to corruption progress, thinktank says

West needs strategy to tie Ukraine aid to corruption progress, thinktank says

German Marshall Fund says oligarchs biding their time until after war ends to reassert their influence

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Western powers will only protect Ukraine’s multibillion-dollar postwar recovery if they agree a unified strategy to make aid conditional on clear progress on combating judicial corruption, reinstating the obligation on Ukrainian public officials to declare assets and ensuring all recovery finds can be digitally traced, according to an authoritative report from the German Marshall Fund.… Read the rest

Russia declines UN request for aid access to areas flooded by Ukraine dam breach

Russia declines UN request for aid access to areas flooded by Ukraine dam breach

A senior United Nations relief official said on Sunday that Russia has so far declined requests to help residents of Russian-controlled areas of southern Ukraine impacted by the breach of the Kakhkova dam. 


The destruction earlier this month of the Soviet-era dam and hydroelectric plant in an area reportedly under Russian control since its invasion in 2022, has caused widespread flooding across southern Ukraine, washing away homes, destroying sanitation and sewage systems and crippling water supplies.

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World now listens to what India says: Indian Defence Minister

World now listens to what India says: Indian Defence Minister

KOHIMA, Jun 18 (NEPS): Defence Minister, Rajnath Singh has said that the stature of India in the international forum has risen in the past nine years and the world now listens to it attentively.

Addressing a gathering of successful candidates of UPSC Civil Services Exam in an event organised in Lucknow on June 18, 2023, the Minister stressed that the idea of developed India is not mere a dream now, but is becoming reality under the dynamic leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.… Read the rest

Sudan: warring sides agree to new ceasefire after fighting intensifies

Sudan: warring sides agree to new ceasefire after fighting intensifies

Mediators from the US and Saudi Arabia broker pause after airstrikes on Khartoum kill 17 civilians including five children

Agence France-Presse

Sudan’s warring generals agreed to a new 72-hour truce to take place from Sunday, US and Saudi mediators said, after fighting intensified with deadly airstrikes in Khartoum and an exodus of wounded from Darfur over the border into Chad.

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