LONDON– The UK will sanction 178 individuals, targeting those supporting Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, the Foreign Office has announced. The sanctions are being coordinated with the European Union. The Russia-Ukraine war has drawn international outrage, with the European Union, US and UK, among others, implementing tough finan...
MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that all goals of the country’s “special military operation” in Ukraine will be achieved. Speaking ahead of the meeting with Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko, Putin said a clash between Russia and Ukraine was inevitable because the West was turning Ukraine into...
ANKARA – The Russian Orthodox Church has urged Russians to support the country’s ongoing war against Ukraine. Underlining that the Russian war on Ukraine is a battle against degenerated Western liberal values, Patriarchate Kirill, head of the Church of Russia, said: “May the Lord help us to unite these difficult times for our coun...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisia and France on Tuesday discussed cooperation to protect young people against “violent extremism.” This came in talks between Tunisian Prime Minister Najla Bouden and Gilles Kepel, the special envoy of French President Emmanuel Macron. During the discussions, Bouden stressed the state’s role in red...
LONDON – The British government has announced sanctions against two Bosnian Serb leaders for undermining peace and security in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the wider Balkans region. Milorad Dodik, the Bosnian Serb member of the country’s tripartite Presidency Council, and Zeljka Cvijanovic, the president of the Serb entity Republika ...
LONDON (AA) – A man has been found guilty of murdering British lawmaker Sir David Amess at the Old Bailey who was killed in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, last October. The 69-year-old Conservative MP was stabbed to death while meeting with locals in his constituency. Ali Harbi Ali, 26, was convicted of murder and preparing acts of […]
PARIS (AA) – French President Emmanuel Macron, who won the first round of the country’s presidential elections Sunday, has said he does not want a France that would have international populists and xenophobes as its only allies. Macron made the statement at an event in Paris following the announcement of exit polls. Thanking Paris Mayor [&hell...
ROME (AA) – A migrant shipwreck in the central Mediterranean has left at least 19 people dead, an official at the United Nation’s migration agency said Sunday. Flavio Di Giacomo, spokesman for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), quoted information from Sea-Watch, a German charity that runs a sea rescue mission. “Another t...
ANKARA – Ukraine has claimed that a total of 19,100 Russian soldiers have been killed since the start of Russia’s war. In a statement, the Ukrainian General Staff said that since the beginning of the war, the Ukrainian army has destroyed 151 Russian-owned aircraft, 136 helicopters, 705 tanks, 1,895 armored vehicles, 335 artillery systems...
GENEVA – The civilian death toll in Russia-Ukraine war has climbed to 1,766 people with 2,383 others injured, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has said. In its daily update, the OHCHR said most of the civilian casualties recorded were caused by the use of explosive weapons, including shelling from […...
