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At least 10 people were reportedly killed when a bomb exploded inside the Technology Institute metro station in the center of Saint Petersburg, Russia on Monday. Emergency services gathering on the platform 20 minutes after the blast struck the train as it had pulled into the station. The Saint Petersburg Metro have closed all subway stations in the wake of the incident.
Russian president Vladimir Putin holds a press conference with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Moscow, as Macron visits the Russian capital amid fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. IMAGES
Vladimir Putin's annual press conference starts, this year in an unusual online format because of Covid-19 restrictions. Putin is taking part in the event via video link from his residence in Novo-Ogaryovo, outside Moscow, while journalists from Russian and foreign media are gathered at the World Trade Centre in Moscow, and regional journalists at eight venues across the country. IMAGES
While President Donald Trump busies himself with his apoplectic rejection of Joe Biden as president-elect, world leaders have swiftly moved on. In a sign of Biden's legitimacy, leaders of major democracies have stepped up to congratulate the President-elect Joe Biden in recent days. Doubtless salt to his wound, Trump's favorite network--Fox News--and media outlets across the board have also declared Biden the projected winner of the election. Business Insider reports that as a whole, EU leaders and even Israel and Turkey have congratulated Biden. Only Russia's Vladimir Putin, China's Xi Xing Ping, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro have yet to join in.
Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a press conference at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, where he was taken to task over Moscow's naval confrontation with Ukraine, one day after France's Emmanuel Macron urged Putin to "de-escalate" the crisis. IMAGES
Rescue teams and volunteers continued to comb through the rubble of a collapsed school in Mexico City in search of trapped survivors, in the aftermath of a magnitude 7.1 earthquake, on Wednesday. Reports have provided conflicting information, with sources stating that up to 26 bodies have been found, 21 of which were children, and that 11 people have been rescued. The disaster has so far claimed the lives of at least 237 people, with the death toll expected to rise, while some 52 people had been pulled alive from collapsed buildings.