Key words : british visit
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv and promised further military assistance.
Johnson made the visit without prior notice to media on Saturday. Zelenskyy greeted him in English.
The British Prime Minister's Office says Johnson set out new military assistance of 120 armored vehicles and new anti-ship missile systems.
This is in addition to about 130-million-dollars' worth of military support Johnson announced on Friday.
In a video message released after the meeting, Johnson described what Russian President Vladimir Putin has done in places like Bucha and Irpin as war crimes.
He said the retreat of Russian forces is tactical and Putin is going to intensify the pressure now in Donbas and in the east.
Zelenskyy expressed his gratitude for the UK's support. He also urged Britain and other countries to intensify sanctions on Russia and to ban energy imports from Russia totally.
Johnson walked around the city with Zelenskyy and told those he met on the street that Britain will support the Ukrainian people.
His visit is viewed as a show of solidarity with Ukraine following a similar visit by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Friday.
Key words : roadside
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Britain's Defence Ministry is warning that Russian forces continue to attack infrastructure targets in eastern Ukraine with a high risk of collateral harm to civilians.
In an update on the situation in Ukraine on Saturday, the ministry condemned Russia for blowing up a storage tank holding nitric acid in the city of Rubizhne in the Luhansk region.
The ministry also said that Russian forces continue to use roadside bombs called improvised explosive devices, or IEDs.
Ukrainian media outlets have reported that the bodies of 132 civilians have been found in the town of Makariv, about 50 kilometers west of Kyiv.
On Friday, at least 52 people, including five children, were killed in the missile attack on Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region. Ukraine says Russia is responsible for the fatal attack.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed his intention to seek a ceasefire through negotiations, despite Russian attacks on civilians.
Zelenskyy spoke to the Associated Press at the presidential office in Kyiv on Saturday.
The president said that no one wants to negotiate with people who tortured Ukrainians, but that he does not want to lose opportunities for a diplomatic solution if he has them.
Key words : beautiful hometown
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A Ukrainian woman who had evacuated from northern Ukraine to Poland says she has witnessed atrocities committed by Russian soldiers.
Speaking to NHK on Thursday, 26-year-old Tatyana Harkusha said that she and her family left their home town of Bucha, which is near the capital Kyiv, by car two days after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February.
Harkusha said that she had seen a vehicle engulfed in flames moving backward. She said that she could not save the people in the car as they appeared to be dead.
She and her family were hoping to survive and evacuate to safety.
It took two weeks for them to reach Poland, where they are now. During their way to escape, she said, she and her family feared they could be killed if they were found by Russians.
She recalled stories that she had heard from an acquaintance who had remained in Bucha.
She said the acquaintance told her a number of people had died due to a shortage of food and water as they hid in shelters for weeks.
She also quoted her acquaintance as saying that some residents lost their lives when they tried to move the bodies for burial as Russian soldiers had booby trapped the dead bodies.
The witness told Harkusha that he was watching the street in the town while hiding behind a fence and he saw a resident shot to death by gunfire from a tank. He said the pedestrian was killed for no reason while just walking on the street.
Harkusha said she has been informed that Russian soldiers fatally shot people in front of their children. The soldiers then threatened to kill the children too, unless they followed their instructions.
She said she wondered how the children could survive without their parents.
She said angrily that Russian soldiers were animals and their acts were inhuman, disrespecting human lives.
Recalling the devastation in Bucha, she said that Russian forces have leveled almost all the houses and buildings there, and they deprived the town of everything.
She said people cannot even walk in the parks as the Russians mined them.
She said that her beautiful hometown was erased from the face of the Earth by the Russians, and they destroyed her dreams.
Key words : france poll
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Voters in France are heading for the polls on Sunday for the first round of the presidential election which is held every five years.
President Emmanuel Macron enjoyed solid support in the beginning as he tried to achieve a diplomatic solution to the situation in Ukraine and led talks on economic sanctions against Russia.
But his rival, far right leader Marine Le Pen, whose support base includes low income voters, edged up, threatening Macron's aspirations for a second term.
She vied for wider support with pledges to improve the economy and living standards in the face of soaring prices of goods such as fuel.
Twelve candidates are on the ballot. They have held debates centering on what to do about the Ukrainian situation and how to bring economy back on track from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
The average of opinion polls as of Friday night shows that Macron, who is a centrist, kept his lead with 26 percent support and Le Pen got 23 percent.
Jean-Luc Melenchon on the far left garnered 17 percent support.
Some polls show that about 30 percent of voters are still undecided.
A preliminary result will be known on Monday. If no candidate receives a majority of votes, the two candidates who garner the most votes will qualify for a run-off on April 24.
Key words : pakistan first
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Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has been ousted after losing a no-confidence vote.
Opposition parties accused Khan of mismanaging the economy and brought a motion against him at the end of March, but the vote was blocked.
The opposition put the matter to the Supreme Court. The court ruled on Thursday that Khan acted unconstitutionally and ordered the vote to go ahead.
With some members of Khan's party dissenting, the no-confidence vote was passed on Sunday.
Local media say that Khan is the first prime minister in Pakistan to lose the post through a no-confidence vote.
The parliament will soon select a new prime minister. But as Pakistan's military continues to wield power in politics, observers say that the country's policy of favoring China and the Taliban interim government in Afghanistan is unlikely to change.
Key words : sri lanka protester
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People in Sri Lanka have staged a massive protest amid mounting frustration caused by the serious impact of inflation and shortages of essential items.
Due to the country's declining foreign reserves, Sri Lankans are suffering drastic inflation and shortages of fuel and medicines. Frequent power outages are forcing people to be without electricity for up to 13 hours a day.
The Associated Press news agency reports that thousands of protesters gathered in the center of the country's largest city, Colombo, on Saturday.
The crowd, including young and elderly people, protested for more than six hours, holding the national flag and placards demanding the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. They said the government is responsible for the economic crisis.
A woman accompanied by her adult daughter said they have no gas and electricity now and want the president to step down.
A 39-year-old man who participated in the demonstration for the first time said he joined the protest because there was no other way to voice people's anger. He added that the government should find someone to take charge of the situation if it cannot handle it.
A temporary nationwide state of emergency had been in place following a clash between demonstrators and police near the president's residence on March 31.
Key words : evacuee weekly study
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Ukrainians who fled the Russian invasion and came to Japan have attended a weekly study program in Tokyo primarily designed for Ukrainian children.
The program, called Sunday School, started in 2009 to offer lessons on Ukrainian language and culture.
This Sunday, six Ukrainian evacuees, including children and their parents, participated in the class.
Lessons are divided into different subjects and different age groups. Children aged four and five studied Ukrainian through watching videos.
Outside the classroom, a 71-year-old woman who evacuated from Zaporizhzhia in southeastern Ukraine spoke about handicrafts made in the Ukrainian national colors of blue and yellow. She also asked about life in Japan. She is still worried about the situation in her country.
She said she was happy to be able to talk in Ukrainian, and said she prays for peace to arrive soon.
Key words : language ukrainian user
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Software for learning the Ukrainian language has grown popular in Japan as the number of evacuees from that country to Japan increases.
One of the firms which operate language learning apps says that the number of new users seeking to learn Ukrainian using the software has dramatically increased since the invasion.
During the week in late March when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave an online speech at the Japanese Diet, the number leaped by 18-fold from that before the invasion.
The company says about 500 million people use the free apps around the world and that learners of the Ukrainian language now number more than 6 times the figure about a month ago.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says more than 4.3 million people have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion. More than 400 people came to Japan.
Mizutani Sho, a representative of Duolingo in Japan, says he hopes the software will help people communicate with Ukrainians who fled from their country to Japan.
The company plans to donate some of its advertising revenue to support Ukraine.
Key words : government raise arrival
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The Japanese government has raised the daily cap on the number of arrivals from abroad to 10,000. The figure includes Japanese and foreign nationals.
The goal is to revive social and economic activities despite the continuing coronavirus pandemic.
The cap was raised on Sunday for the third time since March 1. On that day, new entries of foreign visitors other than tourists resumed and the number of entries was raised from 3,500 to 5,000 a day including Japanese nationals. The cap was raised further to 7,000 on March 14.
Officials say it is now possible to accept 10,000 a day because of stepped-up measures against the coronavirus, such as quarantine controls.
The government plans to further raise the limit step by step to accept more foreign students, technical trainees, and business people. It hopes to reopen the country also for foreign tourists at some point.
The timing and scale of the increase remain uncertain as new daily cases of the coronavirus are currently rising again in Japan.
Key words : ba.1 ba.2
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Researchers in Japan say the more transmissible BA.2 Omicron coronavirus subvariant is expected to account for 93 percent of all cases of the Omicron variant by the first week of May in Japan.
The National Institute of Infectious Diseases has reported the results of its analysis of data from two firms in Japan that conduct coronavirus testing.
Its estimate shows that the Omicron variant is expected to be completely dominated by BA.2 by the first week of June.
Experts say BA.2 is believed to be more transmissible than BA.1, the previously major subvariant. They add that the number of cases involving serious symptoms and deaths have risen in some countries where BA.1 had been largely replaced by BA.2.
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