ANKARA – US President Joe Biden on Saturday thanked his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda, telling him that the freedom of the Polish people is also the freedom of Americans, a message seemingly aimed at Moscow. On a two-day visit to Poland, Biden underlined the importance of NATO, calling the bloc’s collective defense agreement a “sacred ...
KYIV, Ukraine – Russia kidnapped the mayor of a northern Ukrainian city and also opened fire on civilians protesting Russia’s war, Ukrainian authorities have claimed. Yuriy Fomichev, mayor of the city of Slavutych, kidnapped by Russian forces after a group of protestors refused to disperse, said Aleksander Pavlyuk, head of the Kyiv Regional Mi...
ISTANBUL (AA) – US President Joe Biden on Friday received a briefing on humanitarian response amid Russia’s war on Ukraine during a visit to Poland. “The single most important thing that we can do on the outset is keeping the democracies united in our opposition, and our effort to curtail devastation that is occurring at […]
PARIS (AA) – France, Greece, and Turkey will conduct a joint evacuation effort for residents in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol, French President Emmanuel Macron has said. Speaking at the end of a two-day EU summit in Brussels, Macron said the three countries would conduct an “exceptional humanitarian operation” to ge...
MOSCOW – Moves against Russians in the West over the Ukraine war are like the ugly, racist persecution seen under Nazi Germany, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. Speaking at a meeting with cultural workers, Putin said the West is trying “to cancel Russia,” fighting against its culture and banning Russian writers and ...
MOSCOW – Some 14,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and 16,000 wounded since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, the Russian Defense Ministry has claimed. The Russian armed forces gained air dominance and blocked the cities of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Sumy and Mykolaiv, as well as Kherson and most of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Sergey Ru...
TRIPOLI, Libya – Some 1,300 mercenaries of the Russian private contractor Wagner Group have been moved from Libya to Ukraine to fight alongside Russian forces, according to a Libyan security analyst. “There were 2,200 Wagner militants in Libya. Russia has withdrawn 1,300 and left just 900 here,” Adel Abdel-Kafi, a military and security expert ...
BRUSSELS – The EU and US have announced a new deal to supply extra liquefied natural gas for the EU to curb the bloc’s dependence on Russian imports. “The United States together with international partners are going to work to ensure an additional 15 billion cubic meters of liquefied natural gas (LNG) for Europe this […]
A French court Wednesday voided the government’s decision to close a mosque near the city of Bordeaux for six months, Anadolu News Agency reports. Sefen Guez Guez, attorney for the Al Farouk Mosque Association, said the Bordeaux Administrative Court annulled the Gironde Governorate’s March 14 decision. Al Farouk Mosque was closed for allegedly...
KYIV, Ukraine (AA) – Ukraine’s president said Thursday that more than 2,000 children have been kidnapped since the start of Russia’s war against his country. “We do not know the whereabouts of our children,” said Volodymyr Zelenskyy, speaking at the European Council summit, which he attended virtually. Zelenskyy also accused Russia...
