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Italian PM Mario Draghi Set To Resign After Coalition Ally Pulls Its Support For Govt

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  Despite winning a no-confidence vote in the Senate on Thursday, Italy's Premier Mario Draghi has clarified that he would resign from his post after a coalition. Despite winning a no-confidence vote in the Senate on Thursday, Italy's Premier Mario Draghi has clarified that he would resign from his post after a coalition ally pulled its support for the government. Notably, the prospects of his pandemic unity government were in doubt as the populist 5-Star Movement boycotted the vote. This drove his coalition into a crisis. The vote was 172-39 on a relief bill to help Italians facing soaring energy costs, but 5-Stars senators were absent after confirming they wouldn’t participate. Subsequently, Italy's PM approached President Sergio Mattarella in order to decide his next step including the possibility of his resignation. Mario Draghi set to leave During the no-confidence motion, he repeatedly clarified that the populists were among the coalition partners that signed up to be

Zelenskyy Says Russia Abducted Over 2,00,000 Ukrainian Children Since Invasion Started

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  The embattled President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed that approximately 200,000 children have been kidnapped by Russia since it commenced its invasion in Feb Russia has abducted nearly 2,00,000 children since it commenced invasion of Ukraine, stated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. While addressing the Ukraine Accountability Conference in The Hague, Netherlands, Zelenskyy said, “It is still being established how many children Russian forces abducted and took out of Ukraine... The preliminary figure is dreadful - about two hundred thousand children,” as per a statement released from the Presidential Office of Ukraine.  The Ukrainian President further said, “I am grateful to you for honouring the memory of the victims of Russian aggression with me... Because every day, every day, our people die, children die.” He added that tens of thousands of Ukrainians were slain, tortured, and injured as a result of Russia’s invasion. The war forced millions of people into homelessness or d