Vladimir Putin 'needs to return to reality' as Russia shells dozens of towns on day he said he was 'ready' for Ukraine talks - Sky News

Ukraine has said Vladimir Putin "needs to come back to reality" in response to the Russian president's claim that he is ready to negotiate.

On a day which saw Russia launch rocket attacks on dozens of frontline towns, Mr Putin had told state broadcaster Rossiya 1 that the Kremlin was "ready to negotiate with everyone involved about acceptable solutions".

"But that is up to them - we are not the ones refusing to negotiate, they are," he claimed.

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Ukrainian officials have dismissed Mr Putin's comments, as the Russian president's forces spent Christmas Day bombarding more than 25 towns along the Kupiansk-Lyman frontline, and nearly 20 in Zaporizhzhia.

At least 10 rocket attacks also struck the Kupiansk district in the Kharkiv region.

Moscow claimed to have killed about 60 Ukrainian servicemen the previous day.

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Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, wrote on Twitter: "Putin needs to come back to reality.

"Russia single-handedly attacked Ukraine and is killing citizens.

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"There are no other 'countries, motives, geopolitics'.

"Russia doesn't want negotiations, but tries to avoid responsibility."

'Russia has lost everything it could this year'

It is 10 months since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

And, with no serious peace talks for months, there is little end in sight.

Millions of people in Ukraine are without electricity, due to Russian attacks on the country's infrastructure.

Mr Zelenskyy has warned his people that Moscow will try to make the last days of 2022 dark and difficult.

He said: "Russia has lost everything it could this year.

"I know darkness will not prevent us from leading the occupiers to new defeats.

"But we have to be ready for any scenario."

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'Defending our national interests'

Ukraine says it will not negotiate until every Russian soldier is gone from its territory, while Russia says it will keep fighting until it achieves its aims.

Mr Putin said on Sunday that he believes he is "defending our national interests…protect(ing) our citizens".

Mr Putin also blames Kyiv and its Western backers for a lack of progress on peace talks, but has made clear that any negotiations must be on his terms.

Ukraine says this would be unacceptable, as it would mean bowing to Russian demands and accepting Mr Putin's annexation of four Ukrainian regions.

'Posturing'

The US State Department has not commented on Mr Putin's latest talks offer, but after a similar speech from Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov in October, spokesman Ned Price dismissed Russia's approach as "posturing".

"We do not see this as a constructive, legitimate offer to engage in the dialogue and diplomacy that is absolutely necessary to see an end to this brutal war of aggression," he added.

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Paris shooting: Suspect admits 'pathological' hatred of migrants - BBC

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The man accused of a deadly attack against the Kurdish community in Paris has admitted to a "pathological" hatred of migrants, French prosecutors say.

The 69-year-old told investigators he had planned to kill "non-European foreigners" as he embarked on his shooting spree on Friday, they say.

The suspect was placed in psychiatric care after being questioned by police.

He is accused of opening fire at a Kurdish cultural centre, killing three people and wounding another three.

The man, retired train driver named as William M., told police he had become "depressed" and "suicidal" after his home was burgled in 2016, the office of the Paris prosecutor said on Sunday.

He admitted that since then, his hatred of foreigners had "become totally pathological", the statement added.

It said that on Friday he first went to Saint-Denis, a high-immigration suburb in northern Paris, in order to kill "non-Europeans" - but found few people there.

He then travelled to the Ahmet-Kaya Kurdish centre in Paris's 10th district, where he carried out the attack.

The man resented that community because Kurdish militiamen involved in the Syrian conflict had "taken prisoners during their fight against Islamic State instead of killing them", the prosecutors say.

A nearby restaurant and a hairdresser also came under fire before the man was arrested without a fight.

He was detained on suspicion of murder, attempted murder, and acting with a racist motive.

He has a history of weapons offences and it has emerged that he was released on bail days before the assault.

Last year he was charged with racist violence over a sword attack at a migrant camp in the French capital.

The shootings sparked unrest on Friday and Saturday. Demonstrators started fires in the streets, smashing car windows and clashing with police.

The violence unfolded after Kurds had gathered peacefully in the Place de la République to pay tribute to the victims.

In the aftermath of the shootings, Kurds have renewed calls to the French authorities for better protection. Community leaders met the Parisian police chief on Saturday.

Friday's attack came almost 10 years after the murder of three Kurdish women activists in the French capital - an unresolved crime.

The community was again "afraid", having been "traumatised" by the January 2013 murders, said a lawyer for the Kurdish democratic council in France (CDK-F).

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US storm: Dozens dead as big freeze grips North America - BBC

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At least 38 deaths have now been linked to a severe Arctic freeze that continues to pummel the US and Canada.

Officials say 34 people died across the US, with the worst-hit area being the city of Buffalo, in New York state.

Four fatalities occurred in Canada when a bus rolled over on an icy road near the town of Merritt, in the western province of British Columbia.

The storm has wreaked havoc for days but power has been steadily restored after earlier blackouts.

Fewer than 200,000 customers were without power as of Sunday afternoon EDT, down from a peak of 1.7 million, the Associated Press reports.

Thousands of flights have been cancelled, preventing many people from reaching their families at Christmas.

More than 55 million Americans remained under wind chill alerts on Sunday.

The reach of the blizzard conditions has been unprecedented, stretching from Canada as far south as Texas. 

The "bomb cyclone" winter storm - which occurs when atmospheric pressure plummets, causing heavy snow and winds - has disrupted travel across the country.

New York State Governor Kathy Hochul - a native of Buffalo - said : "This will go down in history as Buffalo's most devastating storm."

Some of the seven dead in the area were found in cars and snow banks, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz told Reuters news agency.

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Storm-related deaths were also reported in Vermont, Ohio, Missouri, Wisconsin, Kansas, and Colorado.

The western US state of Montana is the worst hit by the cold, with temperatures dropping to -50F (-45C).

In Canada, the provinces of Ontario and Quebec are bearing the brunt of the storm.

In Quebec almost 120,000 customers were without electricity on Sunday. Officials say it some could take days for some households to be reconnected.

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'Something I will never forget': Deadly ‘bomb cyclone’ winter storm batters US - FRANCE 24 English

Millions of people hunkered down in a deep freeze overnight and early morning to ride out the frigid storm that has killed at least 20 people across the United States, trapping some residents inside homes with heaping snow drifts and knocking out power to several hundred thousand homes and businesses. 

The scope of the storm has been nearly unprecedented, stretching from the Great Lakes near Canada to the Rio Grande along the border with Mexico. About 60% of the U.S. population faced some sort of winter weather advisory or warning, and temperatures plummeted drastically below normal from east of the Rocky Mountains to the Appalachians, the National Weather Service said. 

Some 1,346 domestic and international flights were canceled as of early Sunday, according to the tracking site FlightAware.

Forecasters said a bomb cyclone — when atmospheric pressure drops very quickly in a strong storm — had developed near the Great Lakes, stirring up blizzard conditions, including heavy winds and snow.

The storm unleashed its full fury on Buffalo, with hurricane-force winds and snow causing whiteout conditions, paralyzing emergency response efforts — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said almost every fire truck in the city was stranded — and shutting down the airport through Monday, according to officials. The National Weather Service said the snow total at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport stood at 43 inches (109 centimeters) at 7 a.m. Sunday.

Two people died in their suburban Cheektowaga, New York, homes Friday when emergency crews could not reach them in time to treat their medical conditions, and another died in Buffalo. Four more deaths were confirmed overnight, bringing the Erie County total to seven. County Executive Mark Poloncarz warned there may be more deaths.

“Some were found in cars, some were found on the street in snowbanks," said Poloncarz. “We know there are people who have been stuck in cars for more than 2 days.”

Freezing conditions and day-old power outages had Buffalonians scrambling to get out of their homes to anywhere that had heat. But with city streets under a thick blanket of white, that wasn't an option for people like Jeremy Manahan, who charged his phone in his parked car after almost 29 hours without electricity.

“There’s one warming shelter, but that would be too far for me to get to. I can’t drive, obviously, because I’m stuck,” Manahan said. “And you can’t be outside for more than 10 minutes without getting frostbit.”

‘I’m going to die here with my kids’

Ditjak Ilunga of Gaithersburg, Maryland, was on his way to visit relatives in Hamilton, Ontario, for Christmas with his daughters Friday when their SUV was trapped in Buffalo. Unable to get help, they spent hours with the engine running in the vehicle buffeted by wind and nearly buried in snow.

By 4 a.m. Saturday, with their fuel nearly gone, Ilunga made a desperate choice to risk the howling storm to reach a nearby shelter. He carried 6-year-old Destiny on his back while 16-year-old Cindy clutched their Pomeranian puppy, stepping into his footprints as they trudged through drifts.

“If I stay in this car I’m going to die here with my kids,” he recalled thinking, but believing they had to try. He cried when the family walked through the shelter doors. “It’s something I will never forget in my life."

The storm knocked out power in communities from Maine to Seattle. But heat and lights were steadily being restored across the U.S.

According to poweroutage.us, less than 300,000 customers were without power at 8 a.m. EDT Sunday — down from a peak of 1.7 million. In North Carolina, less than 6,600 customers had no power — down from a peak of 485,000 or more.

Utility officials said rolling blackouts would continue for the next few days.

Across the six New England states, about 121,300 customers remained without power on Sunday, with Maine still the hardest hit.

Storm-related deaths were reported in recent days all over the country: seven in Erie County, New York; six dead in Ohio, including four in an Ohio Turnpike pileup involving some 50 vehicles, a man whose sport utility vehicle ran into a snowplow and an electrocuted utility worker; four motorists killed in separate crashes in Missouri and Kansas; a Vermont woman struck by a falling branch; an apparently homeless man found amid Colorado's subzero temperatures; a woman who fell through Wisconsin river ice. 

In Florida, the thermometer plunged below freezing for the first time in almost five years at Tampa International Airport, and temperatures dropped into the 20s and 30s in other parts of the central Florida area, according to the National Weather Service.

In South Florida, temperatures dropped to as low as 43 degrees (6.1 degrees Celsius) in West Palm Beach. The temperature drop was conducive to iguanas falling out of trees since the cold-blooded reptiles typically become immobilized in unusually cold weather.

‘A different Christmas’

Along Interstate 71 in Kentucky, Terry Henderson and her husband, Rick, weathered a 34-hour traffic jam in a rig outfitted with a diesel heater, a toilet and a refrigerator after getting stuck trying to drive from Alabama to their Ohio home for Christmas.

“We should have stayed,” Terry Henderson said after they got moving again Saturday.

Vivian Robinson of Spirit of Truth Urban Ministry in Buffalo said she and her husband have been sheltering and cooking for 60 to 70 people, including stranded travelers and locals without power or heat, who were spending Saturday night at the church.

Many arrived with ice and snow plastered to their clothes, crying, their skin reddened by the single-digit temperatures.

“It’s emotional just to see the hurt that they thought they were not going to make it, and to see that we had opened up the church, and it gave them a sense of relief,” Robinson said. “Those who are here are really enjoying themselves. It’s going to be a different Christmas for everyone.”

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US bomb cyclone: At least 28 dead and hundreds of thousands of homes without power in brutal storm - Sky News

At least 28 people have died in the US as the country grapples with a brutal winter storm.

Blizzard conditions have left almost 300,000 homes and businesses without power, as temperatures plunge to well below freezing.

More than 3,000 flights were cancelled on Saturday, with some airports closed.

On Friday more than 200 million people were under some form of weather warning.

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Image: Four people died in a pile-up of 46 cars on an icy Ohio road. Pic: State Highway Patrol Ohio

Warning of 90mph winds and 20cm of snow

Icy conditions on the roads prompted many authorities to warn against non-essential travel, and hundreds of people who did venture out found themselves stranded in their vehicles.

Among those who have died are three people in car crashes in Kentucky, and another three in Oklahoma, two of which happened as winds blew the drifting snow.

In Montana, the National Weather Service warned that the eastern slope of Glacier National Park and nearby foothills and plains could see up to 20.3cm of snow and winds of up to 90mph.

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Montana saw a temperature of -45.6C (-50F) earlier in the storm, while yesterday's low belonged to the remote town of Havre - also in Montana - which saw -39C (38F).

In Maine, more than 107,000 properties are without power and utility bosses have warned it could take days before supply is fully-restored, while some other states have asked customers to cut back on their usage to avoid rolling blackouts.

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One company told its 65 million customers in 13 states that power plants were struggling to operate under the pressure of the weather and the extreme demand.

Another power company asked customers to drop their thermostats from 15.6C to 16.7C because a pipeline equipment failure had temporarily cut the gas coming from one of its suppliers by 30%.

Emergency shelters are being opened for those who are homeless or have no power at home, and there are also urgent efforts to get firewood to some Native American tribes who live in isolated areas.

At least 24 people have died in the storm

• Colorado: Two "environmental exposure" deaths

• Kansas: three traffic accidents - in Republic County a 60-year-old man died after his car was struck by another vehicle that had lost control and jack-knifed; A 33-year-old man died after he lost control of his truck and spun across the median of Interstate 70 in Geary County; and in Saline County, a 21-year-old man died after the SUV he was a passenger in went into a ditch

• Kentucky: Two vehicle-related deaths and one homeless person who died from exposure

• Four deaths in a 46-car pile-up near Sandusky, and a further four deaths after a crash in Franklin Township when a tractor-trailer driver went through the barrier and hit cars coming the opposite direction

• Nebraska: One weather-related vehicle death

• Missouri: A man died after losing control of his vehicle on an icy road, going down an embankment, over a cement wall and landing upside down in a creek

• New York: Four deaths

• Oklahoma: Three road deaths

• Michigan: An 82-year-old woman in Lansing died after being found curled up in the snow outside her assisted living community

• Tennessee: A man was found dead in Memphis. Authorities have not given details but say the death is weather-related

• Wisconsin: Troopers were at the scene of an accident and passing drivers were slowing down when a second crash occurred - a pick-up truck left the road and struck a tractor-trailer unit. The truck driver died

In Portland, Oregon, severe weather shelters gave out tarpaulins and tents to people as the centres themselves closed due to a break in the bad weather.

More than 1,100 people had sought warmth at the city's five emergency weather shelters, officials said.

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'One of the worst storms in history'

In Buffalo, New York, deep snow, freezing temperatures and power cuts encouraged people to seek churches, police stations and anywhere else that might have heating.

Erie County executive Mark Poloncarz said ambulances needed more than three hours for a single trip to a hospital, with roads still hampered by snow, abandoned cars and downed power lines.

New York governor Kathy Hochul said the storm was "one of the worst in history", and Timothy Carney of the Erie County Sheriff's Office said: "It's essentially a category 3 hurricane with a bunch of snow mixed in. It's been like that for the past 24 hours."

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2022-12-25 01:07:30Z
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Paris shooting: Protests after deadly attack on Kurds - BBC

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Paris has witnessed a second day of violent unrest after Friday's deadly attack on the city's Kurdish community.

Protesters who gathered on Saturday overturned cars, setting some on fire, and hurled objects at police. Officers responded by firing tear gas.

Three people were killed in Friday's attack, which took place at a Kurdish cultural centre and a restaurant.

The suspect, who has reportedly described himself as racist, has been transferred to a psychiatric facility.

The 69-year-old was released from custody for health reasons following an examination on Saturday, prosecutors said. He is yet to appear before a judge.

In the wake of the shootings, the suspect said he hated foreigners, a police source earlier told the AFP news agency.

The same source said the gunman launched his attack with a "much-used" pistol and was found with a box of at least 25 cartridges and "two or three" loaded magazines.

Witnesses said the attacker - tall, white and elderly - shot dead two men and a woman in the city's 10th district.

Three others were injured, one of whom remains in a critical condition.

Three places came under fire - the Ahmet-Kaya Kurdish centre, as well as a nearby restaurant and a hairdresser - before the gunman was arrested without a fight.

The suspect, a retired train driver, was detained on suspicion of murder and attempted murder, and was later also charged with acting with a racist motive.

He has a history of weapons offences and it has emerged that he was released on bail just days before the assault.

Last year, he was charged with racist violence over a sword attack at a migrant camp elsewhere in the French capital.

Unrest began soon after Friday's shootings. Footage showed people starting fires in the streets and smashing car windows.

Police used tear gas as the protesters attempted to break through a security cordon.

Saturday's renewed violence unfolded after hundreds of Kurds gathered peacefully in the Place de la République to pay tribute to the three victims. It was not clear what sparked the clashes.

Police said 31 officers and one protester had been injured, and 11 arrests were made.

In the aftermath of the shootings, Kurds have called for better protection from the French authorities. Community leaders met the Parisian police chief on Saturday.

Friday's attack came almost 10 years after the murder of three Kurdish women activists in the French capital - an unresolved crime.

The community was again "afraid", having been "traumatised" by January 2013 murders, said a lawyer for the Kurdish democratic council in France (CDK-F).

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2022-12-24 20:48:34Z
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Taliban ban Afghan women from working at NGOs - Sky News

The Taliban have banned Afghan women from working at non-governmental organisations in the country.

The letter said female employees would not be allowed to work for NGOs until further notice because some had not adhered to the Taliban's interpretation of the Islamic dress code for women.

It added that failure to comply would mean the suspension of their licences.

The economy ministry said it had received "serious complaints" about female staff not wearing the "correct" headscarf or hijab.

This ban comes days after Afghan women were stopped from going to university by the Taliban, a move that drew international condemnation.

It was not clear if the ban, announced in a letter and confirmed by the economy ministry, also applied to foreign women or those working for the United Nations, which has a significant presence in the country.

The economy ministry said the ban applies to Afghanistan's coordinating body for humanitarian organisations, known as ACBAR, which does not include the UN.

However, the UN contracts NGOs that are part of ACBAR in Afghanistan to carry out its humanitarian work.

The UN said it hopes to meet with the Taliban to seek clarity on the issue, with Ramiz Alakbarov, its deputy special representative for Afghanistan and humanitarian coordinator, adding most of its work in the country was carried out by NGOs.

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He said: "Many of our programmes will be affected, and we won't be able to implement them because, unless we have participation of female staff in the assessment of humanitarian need, in identification of beneficiaries, in providing the aid and distributing the aid - then we will not be able to implement them."

Image: Women fired at with a water cannon in western Afghanistan. Pic: AP

He added: "An important principle of delivery of humanitarian aid is the ability of women to participate independently and in an unimpeded way in its distribution, so if we can't do it in a principled way then no donors will be funding any programmes like that."

In recent days, the Taliban have used water cannons to disperse those who have been protesting the ban on women attending university.

Witnesses in the western city of Herat said more than 20 women on their way to the provincial governor's house chanting "education is our right" on Saturday were pushed back by security forces with water cannon.

Video shows women screaming and hiding to escape the water.

One of those organising the protests, Maryam, said between 100 and 150 women took part in the protests, moving in smaller groups.

"There was security on every street, every square, armoured vehicles and armed men," she said.

"When we started our protest, in Tariqi Park, the Taliban took branches from the trees and beat us. But we continued our protest. They increased their security presence. Around 11am they brought out the water cannon."

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Hamidullah Mutawakil, the local governor, disputed that version of events, saying only around five people turned up who had "no agenda, they just came here to make a film".

After the Taliban seized power last year, the militants promised a more moderate rule for women's rights, but have since barred them from schools, most jobs and parks and gyms.

Women in the country are also required to dress head to toe in a niqab, with only their eyes uncovered, in public.

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