KYIV: Russia and Ukraine failed to make a breakthrough on Thursday in their first top-level talks since Moscow’s invasion two weeks ago, amid international outrage over the bombing of a children’s hospital that Kyiv said killed three people, including a young girl. An official of the Ukrainian parliament, meanwhile, said at least 71 children have […]
Russia’s war in Ukraine entered the third week on Thursday with none of its stated objectives reached despite thousands of people killed, more than two million made refugees, and thousands forced to cower in besieged cities under relentless bombardment. Ukraine said Russia was carrying out “genocide” by bombing a children’s hospital in the city of […]
KYIV: Desperate civilians fled besieged cities in Ukraine on Tuesday as fresh fighting raged between Ukrainian and Russian forces. On the 13th day of the conflict the number of refugees flooding across Ukraine’s borders to escape towns devastated by shelling and air strikes passed two million, the UN said. Buses streamed out through an evacuation […]
Fears of an energy war between Russia and the West grew on Tuesday after the United States pushed its allies to ban Russian oil imports as punishment for Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, where talks on humanitarian corridors made little progress. Russia warned it could stop the flow of gas through pipelines from Russia to Germany […]
United Nations, March 5: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday condemned the suicide bomb attack inside a Shiite mosque at Peshawar in Pakistan. “Houses of worship should be havens, not targets. I condemn today’s horrific attack on a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan, during Friday prayers,” he tweeted, Xinhua news agency reported. “My condolences to […]
A suicide blast inside a Shia mosque shook Peshawar’s Kocha Risaldar area on Friday, with hospital officials saying at least 30 bodies were brought to the Lady Reading Hospital. At least 80 people have been injured, according to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa minister Kamran Bangash. KP government spokesman Barrister Mohammad Ali Saif said at least 30 people […]
Russian troops have seized Kherson, the first major Ukrainian city to fall in a devastating week-old war that has already created one million refugees. The capture of the Black Sea city of 290,000 people, which just last year hosted Nato-supported war games, appeared a significant boost for Moscow as it readied for potential ceasefire talks […]
United Nations, March 1 The US has expelled 12 diplomats from Russia’s mission to the UN, saying they engaged in “espionage activities”, a move which Moscow described as a “hostile action” and gross violation of the commitments by the US as host country of the United Nations headquarters. US Mission to the United Nations Spokesperson […]
Ukraine and Russia began holding talks at the Belarussian border, Ukrainian presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak told Reuters via text message on Monday— a development that comes as the Interfax news agency reported Moscow’s forces seized two small cities in southeastern Ukraine and the area around a nuclear power plant, but ran into stiff resistance elsewhere […]
Russia will find out just how isolated it is on the world stage on Monday as the United Nations holds a rare emergency special session of the General Assembly to discuss whether to condemn Moscow’s attack on Ukraine. All 193 members will have their say as the global body decides if it will support a resolution […]