ANKARA (AA) – Turkiye has evacuated 13,719 citizens from Ukraine since Russia launched a war on its neighbor, the Turkish foreign minister said Thursday. Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Twitter that 125 citizens had set out from Ukraine today. Cavusoglu said citizens were coming to Turkey from Kyiv, Lviv, Dnipro, and Kremenchuk. He wished all the [&h...
LONDON – The British government has announced a full asset freeze and travel ban on seven Russian oligarchs, including Roman Abramowich, as Moscow’s war on Ukraine continues. “Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has announced a full asset freeze and travel ban on seven of Russia’s wealthiest and most influential oligarchs, whose business empires...
BERLIN – Germany has reported a record number of coronavirus cases in 24 hours, with 262,752 contracting the disease. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the country’s disease control agency, confirmed 262,752 new COVID-19 cases and 259 related fatalities in the past 24 hours. The relaxation of anti-coronavirus measures last month and the s...
BUDAPEST – AA: The number of Ukrainian refugees in Hungary exceeded 200,000 on Thursday, taking the total number of those who have fled to 2.3 million. Stating that his country condemns the attack on Ukraine, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary Peter Szijjarto said they will continue to support Ukraine’s territoria...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is losing the “information war” in Ukraine, CIA Director Bill Burns said Thursday. Speaking at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats, Burns warned that Russia could use chemical weapons, saying the allegations raised by Moscow to use as a false flag operation “is somethi...
LONDON (AA) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Thursday that he fears Russian President Vladimir Putin might use chemical weapons in Ukraine. “The stuff that you’re hearing about chemical weapons is straight out of their playbook,” Johnson said in an interview with Sky News. “They start saying that there are ch...
ANKARA – Turkiye has rejected the “unfounded allegations” levelled by Arab League against Ankara. “We totally reject the unfounded allegations towards Turkiye contained in some of the resolutions and the communique adopted at the Council of Foreign Ministers meeting of the Arab League held on 9 March 2022,” a Foreign Ministry statement s...
ANKARA – Turkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his US counterpart Joe Biden held a phone conversation discussing Russia’s war on Ukraine. It is important that Turkiye is in a facilitator position in search for a solution, in case the Russia-Ukraine crisis deepens further, Erdogan told Biden. Even organizing a tripartit...
ISTANBUL – Japan has lodged a formal complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Russia for “war crimes” perpetrated in Ukraine. A Foreign Ministry statement said that “the situation in Ukraine” was referred by Tokyo to the ICC in The Hague on March 9. “The military actions by Russia in Ukraine this time are...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – A Sudanese military plane crashed in the central city of al-Obeid on Thursday but there was no loss of life, according to the military. Military spokesman Nabil Abdullah said the aircraft was on a training mission when it crashed at the city’s airport. He cited a “technical failure” for the crash. […]
