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War in Ukraine disrupts key supply chains – and lives

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It may be arduous to measure the ways in which Russia’s struggle in Ukraine has disrupted the worldwide provide of elements and uncooked supplies wanted to finish a wide range of merchandise – from automobiles to pc chips.

However slicing off a type of provide hyperlinks introduced a “miserable feeling” to Andrey Bibik, head of the Interpipe metal plant in Dnipro, Ukraine. He spent the primary hours of the struggle winding down his bustling 24-hour operation and sending virtually everybody dwelling.

“It’s empty and lonely. You don’t hear a sound. You see every thing is frozen,” he stated.

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Getting Interpipe’s metal transmission pipes to Texas oil corporations and its railway wheels to European high-speed prepare operators has been placed on maintain. A whole bunch of the plant’s roughly 10,000 workers have joined the combat in opposition to Russia. Others have fled; a remaining skeleton crew runs its canteens and makes spikey steel obstacles to dam Russian tanks and convoys. Its bomb shelters home dozens of native households at evening.

“It was a tough option to cease manufacturing. We had loads of orders, a whole lot of clients awaiting our materials. But when it’s a must to select between security, and doable income, I believe the reply is apparent,” stated Bibik, who’s labored on the firm for practically twenty years. “A very powerful factor now we have is life and we actually have to maintain the folks we love.”

The Interpipe Metal plant in Dnipro, Ukraine, is proven, Thursday, March 10, 2022. 
(Eugene Sabadyr/Interpipe Metal through AP)

Related manufacturing halts have unfold throughout different industries in Ukraine, motivated not simply by security considerations but additionally as a result of the struggle and mass exodus of refugees have closed off roads and railways to industrial freight site visitors. A few of Interpipe’s completed merchandise sure for abroad export at the moment are stalled on the Black Sea port of Odesa.

Ukraine accounts for less than about 0.3% of the world’s exports, whereas Russia’s share is about 1.9%, based on a report by the Dutch financial institution ING. Nonetheless, some industries doing enterprise with these nations are beginning to really feel the struggle’s affect.

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For Russia, a key producer of power, metal and uncooked metals similar to nickel, copper, platinum and palladium — a lot of that are essential to the auto business — the availability considerations are tied to punishing Western financial sanctions and Russia’s strikes to retaliate in opposition to them. For Ukraine, the struggle itself is slicing off provides.

“We wish to give precedence to the refugees, folks making an attempt to maneuver out of the struggle zone, and humanitarian and navy convoys,” stated Interpipe’s Houston-based chairman and former CEO Fadi Hraibi.

The disruption of one other Ukrainian business — the making of wiring harnesses utilized in automobiles — is already hurting European automakers. Ukraine has greater than 30 automotive vegetation, most of them centered close to the western border with Poland and different European neighbors, based on a authorities company that promotes overseas funding.

A worker welds metal inside the Interpipe Steel plant in Dnipro, Ukraine, Thursday, March 10, 2022. 

A employee welds steel contained in the Interpipe Metal plant in Dnipro, Ukraine, Thursday, March 10, 2022. 
(Eugene Sabadyr/Interpipe Metal through AP)

German elements provider Leoni stated manufacturing has been interrupted at its two western Ukraine vegetation in Styri and Kolomyja and that it’s searching for short-term options. “We’re conscious that this case is at present affecting not solely Leoni, however the complete business,” stated spokesperson Gregor le Claire.

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Ukraine can be among the many world’s largest suppliers of neon, a fuel utilized in lasers that assist etch built-in circuits onto pc chips. That worries auto business executives, who worry that tight neon provides might worsen a world chip scarcity that has already compelled manufacturing cuts and made automobiles scarce worldwide.

Interpipe has 5 factories in Ukraine, all positioned within the industrial hub of Dnipro and its surrounding oblast, or area, which holds a strategic place on the Dnieper River southeast of the capital, Kyiv.

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Till Russian airstrikes started focusing on Dnipro on Friday, the nation’s fourth-largest metropolis had been largely quiet — besides for infrequent air raid sirens — within the two weeks since Russia invaded the nation. However executives at Interpipe made a rapid resolution on Feb. 24 to close down all of its amenities.

Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the invasion earlier than daybreak and by lunchtime, plant operations have been wound down, Bibik stated. That night, he watched the final 5 staff get shuttled off to the suburb the place they reside. All of Interpipe’s staff are nonetheless being paid, Bibik and Hraibi stated.

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Beds and personal items are shown in a bomb shelter area at the Interpipe Steel plant in Dnipro, Ukraine, Thursday, March 10, 2022. 

Beds and private objects are proven in a bomb shelter space on the Interpipe Metal plant in Dnipro, Ukraine, Thursday, March 10, 2022. 
(Eugene Sabadyr/Interpipe Metal through AP)

Interpipe’s clients within the power and rail industries usually order their pipes, wheels and different merchandise months prematurely, however Hraibi stated the disruptions will trigger shortages and lead some to search for options. For some wheel clients, such a Saudi Arabian railway operator, Interpipe is the only provider, he stated. Two of the corporate’s chief metal business rivals, OMK and Evraz, are in Russia and he hopes clients will keep away from them.

 

“I don’t know if our enterprise will survive,” he stated. “We do all that’s essential to help the folks, to maintain our workers, to have the ability to restart in a month or two or three, at any time when issues get again to — a minimum of nearer to — regular. However in actuality, no person can predict what’s going to occur.”

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Vote counting is underway in high-stakes state election in the New Delhi region

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NEW DELHI (AP) — Vote counting started early Saturday in the high-stakes state legislature election in India’s federal territory, including New Delhi, with TV exit polls predicting a win for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Hindu nationalist party.

Over 60% of more than 15 million eligible people voted to elect the local government on Wednesday.

Volunteers of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) check the results on mobile outside their party office as votes are being counted in the Delhi state election in New Delhi,India, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

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Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party was projected to win a majority in the 70-member assembly of India’s capital against the Aam Aadmi Party, or AAP, led by Arvind Kejriwal, which runs New Delhi and has built widespread support with its welfare policies and anti-corruption movement.

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The early counting trends indicated that the BJP was ahead of the AAP in over 40 seats. Modi’s party hasn’t won the territory that includes India’s capital of 20 million people in over a quarter-century.

Exit polls, however, have a patchy record in India owing to diverse voting population.

Supporters of Bharatiya Janata Party carrying cut outs of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrate party's early leads as votes are being counted in the Delhi state election in New Delhi,India, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Supporters of Bharatiya Janata Party carrying cut outs of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrate party’s early leads as votes are being counted in the Delhi state election in New Delhi,India, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Volunteers of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) wait for the final results in their party office as votes are being counted in the Delhi state election in New Delhi,India, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Volunteers of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) wait for the final results in their party office as votes are being counted in the Delhi state election in New Delhi,India, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

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The BJP failed to secure a majority on its own in last year’s national election but formed the government with coalition partners. It has gained some lost ground by winning two state elections in northern Haryana and western Maharashtra states.

Ahead of this election, both Modi and Kejriwal offered to revamp government schools and provide free health services and electricity, along with a monthly stipend of over 2,000 rupees ($25) to poor women.

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Modi’s party has hoped to benefit after the recent federal budget slashed income taxes on the salaried middle class, one of its key voting blocs.

The AAP won 62 out of 70 seats in a landslide victory in the last state legislature election in 2020. leaving the BJP with eight and the Congress party with none.

The BJP was voted out of power in Delhi in 1998 by the Congress party, which ran the government for 15 years.

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President Donald Trump hosted Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the White House Friday and said the U.S. will have relations with the North Korean regime of dictator Kim Jong Un.

“We will have relations with North Korea, with Kim Jong Un. I get along with them very well,” Trump told reporters alongside Ishiba.

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Trump, who first met Kim in 2018 in Singapore and became the first sitting president to meet with the leader of North Korea, is looking to build off his personal diplomacy he established with Kim during his first term.

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President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Japan’s Prime Minister, Shigeru Ishiba, at the White House Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

“We had a good relationship. And I think it’s a very big asset for everybody that I do get along with them,” the president said. 

Trump met Kim again in 2019 and became the first president to step foot inside North Korean territory from the demilitarized zone.

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Trump said Japan would welcome renewed dialogue with North Korea because relations between Japan and North Korea remain tense since diplomatic relations have never been established.

“And I can tell you that Japan likes the idea because their relationship is not very good with him,” Trump said.

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President Donald Trump met with Kim Jong Un in Singapore in June 2018 during his first term as president. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Ishiba said it’s a positive development Trump and Kim met during Trump’s first term. And now that he has returned to power, the U.S., Japan and its allies can move toward resolving issues with North Korea, including denuclearization.

“Japan and U.S. will work together toward the complete denuclearization of North Korea,” Ishiba added.

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Prime Minister Ishiba also addressed a grievance involving the abduction of Japanese citizens by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s. Although North Korea released some of the prisoners in the early 2000s, Pyongyang never provided Japan with any explanation for the abduction of its citizens, and there can be no normalization of relations between Japan and North Korea until the issue is resolved.

“And so our time is limited,” Ishiba warned.

“So, I don’t know if the president of the United States, if President Trump is able to resolve this issue. We do understand that it’s a Japan issue, first and foremost. Having said that, we would love to continue to cooperate with them,” the prime minister added.

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Cyprus jails Syrian man over death of young girl on migrant boat

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Cyprus jails Syrian man over death of young girl on migrant boat

The number of migrants arriving Cyprus has fallen massively over the past three years after tough measures from the government.

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A Syrian man has been jailed for three years by a Cyprus court for causing the death by negligence of a 3-year-old girl who died of dehydration aboard an overloaded migrant boat.

The Famagusta criminal court ruled that the 48-year-old captain had failed to ensure the safety of the 60 Syrian migrants in January last year during a journey on the small wooden craft, which carried no navigational aids or appropriate communications equipment.

The captain had told the passengers at some point in the journey to throw any remaining bottles of water overboard in a bid to remove any indications that the boat had departed from Lebanon, the Attorney-General’s Office in Cyprus said on Friday.

The boat set sail on 18 January 2024, but an engine failure left the vessel adrift for nearly a week in the eastern Mediterranean, where many of the passengers began to drink sea water and their own urine to quench their thirst, according to the facts of the case.

After locating the boat, Cypriot authorities airlifted the 3-year-old girl, who was accompanied by her mother, to a hospital, but medical staff could not save her life.

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The authorities did not name the perpetrator or the victim.

The number of migrants arriving in Cyprus has fallen massively over the past three years after tough measures from the government. Authorities said the EU member nation’s ability to host many thousands of new asylum seekers was being overwhelmed.

Migrant arrivals to ethnically divided Cyprus — mostly through the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north, where government authorities cannot exercise jurisdiction — dropped from 17,278 in 2022 to 6,102 in 2024, according to the latest available government data.

Meanwhile, asylum applications plummeted from a record 21,565 to 6,769 over the same period while repatriations increased to nearly 11,000 from 7,700.

Following the ouster of Bashar al-Assad in Syria in December, Cyprus’ Deputy Migration Minister Nicholas Ioannides said about 40 Syrian nationals on average each day are requesting to either withdraw their asylum application or to revoke their international protection status.

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Ioannides said this week that some 755 Syrians have already returned to their homeland.

Cyprus lies closer to the Middle East than any other EU state, and thousands of Syrians have fled to the island in recent years, which last year caused the government to halt the processing of asylum applications altogether.

Last October, Europe’s top human rights court ruled that Cyprus breached the right of two Syrian nationals to seek asylum after keeping them, and more than two dozen other people, aboard a boat at sea for two days before sending them back to Lebanon.

Additional sources • AP

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