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![German leader flies to Kyiv to calm 'critical' Russia war threat](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/eb/cf/1c/German-leader-flies-to-Kyiv-to-calm-184404_small.jpg)
German leader flies to Kyiv to calm 'critical' Rus...
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz lands in Kyiv on Monday before visiting Moscow to try to head off a "very critical" threat of a Russ...
![Japan's Kirin brewery to withdraw from Myanmar](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/7a/32/49/Japan-s-Kirin-brewery-to-withdraw-f-724856_small.jpg)
Japan's Kirin brewery to withdraw from Myanmar
Japanese drinks giant Kirin said Monday it will withdraw from Myanmar, after a failed bid to disentangle its operations from a joi...
![Key US-Canada border crossing reopens after Covid protests](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/83/1b/78/Key-US-Canada-border-crossing-reope-442224_small.jpg)
Key US-Canada border crossing reopens after Covid...
A major US-Canada border crossing reopened late Sunday almost a week after it was forced shut by truck driver-led protests against...
![Covid-pass protest convoy heads for banned Brussels rally](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/bb/ec/b2/Covid-pass-protest-convoy-heads-for-488664_small.jpg)
Covid-pass protest convoy heads for banned Brussel...
Hundreds of cars, campervans and trucks taking part in a Canada-style protest convoy against Covid regulations were preparing to e...
![Canada police clear key border bridge but protests still crippling Ottawa](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/83/1b/78/Canada-police-clear-key-border-brid-864411_small.jpg)
Canada police clear key border bridge but protests...
Canadian police on Sunday cleared a key US border bridge occupied by trucker-led demonstrators angry over Covid-19 restrictions, t...
![US reaffirms dire Russian invasion warning as Scholz heads to Kyiv](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/98/f1/3c/US-reaffirms-dire-Russian-invasion--610074_small.jpg)
US reaffirms dire Russian invasion warning as Scho...
Washington reaffirmed its warning Sunday that Russia could invade Ukraine at any moment and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz prepared...
![Germany to Putin: 'untie the noose' around Ukraine](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/e9/a0/c8/Germany-to-Putin---untie-the-noose--374173_small.jpg)
Germany to Putin: 'untie the noose' around Ukraine
Germany's president on Sunday said "responsibility" for the risk of "war" in Ukraine lay with Russia, bringing greater clarity to...
![Clashes as controversial Israeli lawmaker visits Jerusalem flashpoint](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/2a/c4/6d/Clashes-as-controversial-Israeli-la-775641_small.jpg)
Clashes as controversial Israeli lawmaker visits J...
Israeli police clashed with Palestinians in the flashpoint east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah on Sunday, during a visit...
![French anti-vaccine convoy heads toward Brussels](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/f5/71/db/French-anti-vaccine-convoy-heads-to-719463_small.jpg)
French anti-vaccine convoy heads toward Brussels
Around three hundred vehicles taking part in a Canada-style protest convoy against Covid regulations arrived in Lille, northern Fr...
![Paris police hold 81 over banned anti-vaccine convoy](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/a3/17/a5/Paris-police-hold-81-over-banned-an-477214_small.jpg)
Paris police hold 81 over banned anti-vaccine conv...
Paris police said they arrested 97 people who defied a ban on a Canada-style protest convoy over coronavirus regulations to try bl...
![Canada police arrest protesters in bid to clear border bridge](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/83/1b/78/Canada-police-arrest-protesters-in--455676_small.jpg)
Canada police arrest protesters in bid to clear bo...
Canadian police resumed operations Sunday to clear a key US border bridge occupied by trucker-led demonstrators angry over Covid-1...
Ukraine crisis overshadows Blinken bridgebuilding...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Japanese and South Korean counterparts declared their unity on confronting security t...
![Four missing Afghan women activists released](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/6b/dc/1a/Four-missing-Afghan-women-activists-664400_small.jpg)
Four missing Afghan women activists released
Four women activists in Afghanistan have been released by the country's "de facto authorities" after going missing weeks ago, the...
Swiss vote to ban nearly all tobacco advertising
The Swiss voted on Sunday to tighten their notoriously lax tobacco laws by banning virtually all advertising of the hazardous prod...
![$80 billion in Aramco shares moved to Saudi sovereign fund](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/b8/78/24/-80-billion-in-Aramco-shares-moved--565799_small.jpg)
$80 billion in Aramco shares moved to Saudi sovere...
Saudi Arabia has moved four percent of Aramco shares worth $80 billion in the world's biggest oil exporter to the kingdom's sovere...
![Cyprus minister pins blame for migration 'emergency' on Turkey](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/06/2a/f0/Cyprus-minister-pins-blame-for-migr-474434_small.jpg)
Cyprus minister pins blame for migration 'emergenc...
The small Mediterranean island of Cyprus has an outsized problem with irregular migration, says the interior minister of the EU me...
![Thai metal band rocks against royal insult law](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/fd/50/f2/Thai-metal-band-rocks-against-royal-353334_small.jpg)
Thai metal band rocks against royal insult law
Hundreds of headbanging metalheads rock out to the roaring guitars and thundering drums of Thai band Defying Decay, chanting along...
![Novel crisis: Iran's books shrink as US sanctions bite](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/c2/95/64/Novel-crisis--Iran-s-books-shrink-a-422172_small.jpg)
Novel crisis: Iran's books shrink as US sanctions...
For literature lovers in sanction-hit Iran, a new novel has long provided a brief respite from a grinding economic crisis triggere...
![Chile govt pledges new safety measures after trucker protest](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/dc/37/7d/Chile-govt-pledges-new-safety-measu-818404_small.jpg)
Chile govt pledges new safety measures after truck...
Chilean truck drivers lifted road blockades they had imposed to protest the killing of a colleague, after the government pledged n...
![Cyclone, Barry Manilow fail to dislodge New Zealand anti-vaccine protesters](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/1f/86/8c/Cyclone--Barry-Manilow-fail-to-disl-164831_small.jpg)
Cyclone, Barry Manilow fail to dislodge New Zealan...
Cyclone Dovi caused power outages, mudslides and evacuations across New Zealand on Sunday, but neither the storm nor the music of...
![Popular incumbent Steinmeier eyes new term as German president](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/c9/f8/26/Popular-incumbent-Steinmeier-eyes-n-471166_small.jpg)
Popular incumbent Steinmeier eyes new term as Germ...
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier is poised to be re-elected on Sunday for a second straight term, after gaining a reputati...
![Canadian protesters out in force again, key bridge still blocked](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/47/8b/8a/Canadian-protesters-out-in-force-ag-017647_small.jpg)
Canadian protesters out in force again, key bridge...
Canadian demonstrators led by truckers angry over Covid-19 restrictions defied police and kept occupying a key bridge Saturday, wh...
![Biden warns Putin Ukraine attack would bring 'severe costs'](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/d4/24/2a/Biden-warns-Putin-Ukraine-attack-wo-114017_small.jpg)
Biden warns Putin Ukraine attack would bring 'seve...
Efforts to defuse the crisis in Ukraine via a frenzy of telephone diplomacy failed to ease tensions Saturday, with US President Jo...
![Peru's president ditches iconic hat and seeks image rebrand](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/33/dc/be/Peru-s-president-ditches-iconic-hat-162755_small.jpg)
Peru's president ditches iconic hat and seeks imag...
Peruvian President Pedro Castillo has adopted a unique measure in a bid to lift his falling popularity and resolve a series of pol...
![Sam Bankman-Fried, 29, heads crypto exchange worth billions](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/8e/b3/ba/Sam-Bankman-Fried--29--heads-crypto-115046_small.jpg)
Sam Bankman-Fried, 29, heads crypto exchange worth...
Sam Bankman-Fried donned a suit and tie this week, abandoning his preferred hoodie and dark T-shirt for a hearing before US Senato...
!['Terrible timing': Brazil's Bolsonaro to visit Russia](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/e5/fe/34/-Terrible-timing---Brazil-s-Bolsona-815814_small.jpg)
'Terrible timing': Brazil's Bolsonaro to visit Rus...
Ignoring US concerns, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is due to arrive in Russia Tuesday for an official visit with highly awkw...
![Chilean truck drivers block roads to protest death of colleague](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/dc/37/7d/Chilean-truck-drivers-block-roads-t-416444_small.jpg)
Chilean truck drivers block roads to protest death...
Chilean truck drivers angry over the death of a colleague in a roadside fight with hitchhikers blocked highways Saturday to demand...
![Nicaragua dissident jailed under Ortega dies in prison: family](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/91/9f/5e/Nicaragua-dissident-jailed-under-Or-776994_small.jpg)
Nicaragua dissident jailed under Ortega dies in pr...
Former guerrilla Hugo Torres Jimenez, one of 46 opposition figures jailed since last year by the Nicaraguan government of Presiden...
![Biden warns Putin Ukraine attack will bring 'severe costs'](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/d4/24/2a/Biden-warns-Putin-Ukraine-attack-wi-193996_small.jpg)
Biden warns Putin Ukraine attack will bring 'sever...
Efforts to defuse the crisis in Ukraine via a frenzy of telephone diplomacy failed to ease tensions Saturday, with the White House...
![Biden warns Putin that Ukraine attack will bring 'swift and severe costs'](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/8d/1c/b0/Biden-warns-Putin-that-Ukraine-atta-105441_small.jpg)
Biden warns Putin that Ukraine attack will bring '...
Efforts to defuse the crisis in Ukraine via a frenzy of telephone diplomacy failed to ease tensions Saturday, with the White House...
![Biden, Putin discuss Ukraine as Kremlin slams 'provocations'](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/8d/1c/b0/Biden--Putin-discuss-Ukraine-as-Kre-464444_small.jpg)
Biden, Putin discuss Ukraine as Kremlin slams 'pro...
Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Saturday slammed Western claims of an imminent Moscow invasion of Ukraine as a "provocation" as h...
!['Unite and fight': Ukrainians march in face of Russia threat](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/2f/30/c2/-Unite-and-fight---Ukrainians-march-996444_small.jpg)
'Unite and fight': Ukrainians march in face of Rus...
Waving flags and singing the national anthem, thousands of Ukrainians braved the winter cold to march across Kyiv on Saturday to s...
![Police positioned to clear key border bridge of protesters in Canada: AFP journalist](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/c5/f3/52/Police-positioned-to-clear-key-bord-666126_small.jpg)
Police positioned to clear key border bridge of pr...
Police in Canada were positioning Saturday to clear a key bridge on the US border, snarled for days by truckers protesting against...
![Biden to press Putin as fears of Ukraine war spiral](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/7e/0d/41/Biden-to-press-Putin-as-fears-of-Uk-666141_small.jpg)
Biden to press Putin as fears of Ukraine war spira...
US President Joe Biden prepared to sound out Russia's Vladimir Putin on Saturday and Ukraine urged its citizens not to panic after...
![Berdymukhamedov, Turkmenistan's horse-loving autocrat](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/6b/73/0f/Berdymukhamedov--Turkmenistan-s-hor-366660_small.jpg)
Berdymukhamedov, Turkmenistan's horse-loving autoc...
Turkmenistan's autocrat Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, who has signalled his intention to step down as president, went from personal...
![Biden to sound out Putin as US warns of Ukraine war 'any day'](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/eb/f9/59/Biden-to-sound-out-Putin-as-US-warn-466415_small.jpg)
Biden to sound out Putin as US warns of Ukraine wa...
US President Joe Biden and France's Emmanuel Macron prepared to sound out Russia's Vladimir Putin on Saturday and Ukraine urged it...
![Three Nicaraguan opposition figures guilty of 'undermining national integrity'](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/a2/7d/85/Three-Nicaraguan-opposition-figures-414112_small.jpg)
Three Nicaraguan opposition figures guilty of 'und...
Three key opposition figures in Nicaragua including a former deputy foreign minister have been found guilty of "undermining nation...
![Canada truckers defy order to clear key bridge as protests swell](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/d5/bb/d8/Canada-truckers-defy-order-to-clear-226630_small.jpg)
Canada truckers defy order to clear key bridge as...
Truckers snarling a key bridge between Canada and the United States over vaccination rules defied a judge's order to leave Friday...
![Its navy lost, Ukraine girds for Russian warship drills](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/48/5e/73/Its-navy-lost--Ukraine-girds-for-Ru-616100_small.jpg)
Its navy lost, Ukraine girds for Russian warship d...
Ukrainian captain Oleksandr Surkov looks askance at his patrol boat's machine guns and laments how futile they would be fending of...