From Gadhafi to Ahmadinejad, Bush to Chavez: look back at memorable moments from past UNGA sessions. Richard Roth reports.
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Steve Hall, a former CIA chief of Russia operations, discusses what Vladimir Putin should fear as the invasion of Ukraine continues. #CNN #News
CNN’s Nic Robertson discusses leaving Russia after covering the country for over thirty years amid new laws cracking down on journalism. #CNN #News
Western countries have rejected President Volodymyr Zelensky’s call for a no-fly zone over Ukraine due to concerns about provoking a more direct confrontation with Russian forces, especially after President Vladimir Putin’s threat to resort to nuclear weapons. CNN’s Nina dos Santos has more on how the West is analyzing those threats. #Ukraine #NinaDosSantos #CNN
CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh reports from Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine where the military is battling to push Russian forces out. #CNN #News
Exiled Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who once led Russia’s largest private oil company, says the best way to end the war in Ukraine is to block Russian President Vladimir Putin’s bankers. #CNN #Ukarine #NewDay
Retired General David Petraeus talks with Wolf Blitzer about reports that Russia has lost up to 10% of military assets used in the invasion. Russia Invades Ukraine: Live Updates https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-putin-news-03-08-22/index.html US officials warn Russia will increasingly hit civilian targets and seek ‘slow annihilation’ of Ukraine’s military https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/02/politics/us-russia-ukraine-civilians-warning/index.html The shifting map of Ukraine makes Russia’s intentions
Boris Johnson has vowed a further crackdown on oligarchs and the super-rich by promising to curb their abuse of the UK legal system to stifle public criticism. The prime minister has called for an end to the “chilling effect” of elites using the threat of legal action to silence critics. Ministers will take aim at
Norman Reedus, the star of the long-running zombie series The Walking Dead, has suffered a concussion on set, which has pushed back the filming of the show’s final episodes. It is not clear if cameras were rolling when Reedus, who plays Daryl, was injured, with Deadline saying the incident took place last week. Speaking to
The strict 35-hour curfew imposed on the Ukrainian capital did nothing to stop the strikes against its residents. They were woken early once again with more missile strikes tearing into the city. This has gone on for days now. CCTV captured the impact of one substantial strike and another less than a minute later against
A musicology expert has told a trial that Ed Sheeran’s hit Shape Of You is “coincidentally similar” and has “distinctive differences” to a song by another singer he is accused of copying. Sheeran and co-writers John McDaid of Snow Patrol and producer Steven McCutcheon have denied their 2017 track rips off part of the 2015
Boris Johnson has declined to say whether his trip to Saudi Arabia will result in a boost to the kingdom’s oil production – as he insisted his talks about its human rights record would be “kept private”. The prime minister visited both the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia on Wednesday as he continues his
11:53 AM BST Leicester Tigers have been fined £310,000 for non-compliance with salary cap regulations from 2016-17 to 2019-2020, Premiership Rugby said on Tuesday. Following an investigation into potential salary cap breaches over five seasons from 2016 to 2021, Premiership leaders Leicester were penalised for undisclosed payments to players from a third-party company via image
6:47 PM ET Paige VanZant just signed a professional wrestling contract to go along with her deal with Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC). But she has not closed any kind of doors on mixed martial arts, where she first made her name. VanZant told ESPN on Friday that she still plans to continue her MMA
3:55 PM ET UFC announced Friday that a lightweight bout between Michael Chandler and Tony Ferguson is being set for UFC 274 on May 7 in Phoenix. Chandler and Ferguson have verbally agreed to the fight, but bout agreements have not been sent out and nothing has been signed, sources told ESPN. ESPN has Chandler
6:23 PM ET UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou is scheduled to undergo knee surgery on March 18, according to his manager, Marquel Martin. Ngannou (17-3), 35, is wrapping up a trip in his native Cameroon this week and is scheduled to return to the U.S. for the procedure next week. He suffered a torn MCL
5:18 PM ET Jake Paul says he would be willing to fight once in the UFC against either Conor McGregor or Jorge Masvidal — with some caveats. The YouTube influencer-turned-boxer said Saturday in a statement to ESPN that he would sign a one-fight UFC contract to compete against either McGregor or Masvidal in MMA with
10:13 PM ET Khabib Nurmagomedov put Dagestan MMA on the map, becoming one of the greatest lightweights in the sport’s history. Islam Makhachev is on the verge of earning his own UFC lightweight title shot. Soon enough, there could be another stalwart Dagestani fighter earning an opportunity at gold in the bigger weight divisions. Magomed
8:29 PM ET UFC president Dana White and some of the best fighters in the world — like UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman and retired former lightweight champ Khabib Nurmagomedov — wrote letters in support of Cain Velasquez to the Santa Clara County (California) Superior Court last week. Velasquez is being charged with attempted murder
8:46 PM ET UFC fighter Kevin Holland says he helped apprehend a man who shot a gun off at a Houston restaurant Monday night. Holland told ESPN on Tuesday that he was eating sushi with his friend, Patrick Robinson, when he heard a loud bang and saw people running away in fear. Holland said he