Police registered 349,355 cases of domestic violence from January to May 2023, compared with 231,244 over the same period in 2022 and 190,277 in the first five months of 2021.
A video posted by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy showed smoke billowing from a gaping hole smashed in the side of a 9-storey building, and another 4-storey almost levelled.
President Zelenskyy Friday signed a law to drop Russian Orthodox practice of celebrating Christmas on 7 January. Dates of 2 other state holidays also changed.
India has strategic interest in Nepal and Bangladesh so it is possible that export of white non-basmati rice to these countries will be allowed on diplomatic considerations.
The deal, brokered by UN and Turkey last July, aimed to alleviate a global food crisis by allowing Ukrainian grain blocked by the Russia-Ukraine conflict to be exported safely
Burns and Naryshkin have maintained contact since Ukraine-Russia war began, even though ties between the two countries are at their lowest point since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.
The US Department of State spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a separate statement that the two diplomats discussed also 'progress in Ukraine's counteroffensive'.
Pakistan lacks capacity to deliver aircraft at pace suggested by its claimed contracts as it depends on China for avionics, electronic warfare, weapons, and on Russia for engines.
UK, EFTA already in the bag and EU on the way, many members of RCEP except China signed up, and even restrictions on China being lifted, India has changed its mind on trade.
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