Top Russian chess player Karjakin suspended over Ukraine remarks
Leading Russian chess grandmaster Sergey Karjakin has been suspended from playing for six months for publicly supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the game's world governing body FIDE announced Monday.
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Satellite operator OneWeb switches launches to SpaceX
Global satellite communications company OneWeb said Monday that it will switch launches to Elon Musk's SpaceX, after suspending activities with Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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Lebanon central bank chief charged with enrichment, money laundering
A Lebanese judge Monday charged central bank chief Riad Salameh with "illicit enrichment" and money laundering after he failed to attend a court hearing for the fifth time, a judicial source told AFP.
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Holocaust survivor dies in Russian bombing of Ukraine home
Boris Romantschenko, who survived four Nazi concentration camps during World War II, has been killed by Russian shelling that struck his flat in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, the Buchenwald Memorial foundation said Monday. He was 96 years old.
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War in Kyiv, Ukraine refuses to surrender Mariupol
Ukraine rejected a Russian ultimatum to surrender the besieged port city of Mariupol on Monday, as overnight Russian strikes destroyed a shopping mall in the capital Kyiv, killing eight people.
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Christie's to auction Warhol portrait of Marilyn Monroe estimated at $200 mn
Christie's announced Monday that it will sell Andy Warhol's 1964 "Shot Sage Blue Marilyn" portrait of Marilyn Monroe for an estimated $200 million.
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US Senate launches hearings on first Black woman for Supreme Court
Senators were warned Monday that history would be their judge as they launched marathon confirmation hearings to consider the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be the first Black woman to serve on the US Supreme Court.
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Russia bans Instagram and Facebook as 'extremist'
A Russian court on Monday banned Facebook and Instagram as "extremist", part of sweeping efforts by Moscow to crack down on social media during the conflict in Ukraine.
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Court told alleged killer of UK lawmaker was 'Islamist terrorist'
British lawmaker David Amess was "assassinated" while meeting constituents last year by a "fanatical, radicalised Islamist terrorist," a court heard Monday as his accused killer went on trial.
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Biden call to allies kicks off crucial week for West's Ukraine strategy
President Joe Biden was talking by phone with key European allies Monday ahead of attending NATO and EU summits, followed by a trip to Poland, in a crucial week for the Western response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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