France has frozen and seized assets of Russian oligarchs to the tune of around 850 million euros (938 million dollars). Property worth 539 million euros had been blocked, Le Maire French Economy Minister Bruno said. He said another 150 million euros from private accounts at French banks have been...
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Fourteen civilians, including seven children, were killed in a displaced people’s camp in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, the Red Cross said on Sunday as a community leader blamed the machete attack on a militia. Seven adults and seven children, including a two-year-old girl, were all killed in the...
There are dozens, if not hundreds of pictures circulating on the Internet showing men who have sold their kidneys in Afghanistan just to get enough money to feed their families. Some of these pictures are that of men, young men, fathers and older men who are showing their belly...
The parents of a Scottish garage owner said they found out their son is fighting in Ukraine after he failed to meet them at the airport on their return from holiday. Adam Ennis, 35, from Biggar, south west of Edinburgh, has reportedly left Scotland to join 50 men from...
A 13-year-old boy was driving a pickup truck that collided with a van carrying a college golf team in west Texas, killing nine people, officials said Thursday. Six members of the New Mexico-based University of the Southwest golf team were killed in Tuesday night’s crash along with their coach,...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said there is “no way Ukraine is going to join NATO anytime soon” as Ukraine’s leader said peace talks with Russia had taken a “realistic turn.” The prime minister, who is visiting the Gulf as he tries to wean the West off Russian energy,...
Russia has imposed sanctions on top U.S officials including President Joe Biden. Russia’s Foreign Ministry announced which announced the sanctions on Tuesday, said US President Joe Biden and at least 12 other top officials had been banned from entering the country in a reciprocal response to US sanctions. The...
The UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Matthias Schmale, says the food economy in the West Africa and Sahel sub-region is projected to reach 480 billion dollars in 2030. Schmale said this at the 13th Multidisciplinary Team Meeting of 15 West African countries and Sahel sub-region in Abuja...
Oleksiy Arestovich, an adviser to the Ukrainian president’s chief of staff, on Tuesday said the war in Ukraine was likely to be over by early May when Russia would have run out of resources to attack its neighbour. Talks between Kyiv and Moscow in which Arestovich was not personally...
Ukraine’s government continues to function, the banking system is stable and debt payments are viable in the short term, but the Russian invasion could plunge Ukraine into a devastating recession, the International Monetary Fund said Monday. And it warned that the war could have broader repercussions, including threatening global...
Ukrainian forces have released a new update on the losses incurred by the Russian military as of March 13, 2022. The Russian military has allegedly lost 12,000 troops, 74 planes, 86 helicopters, 374 tanks, 140 artillery weapons, 1226 Armored Personnel Carriers, 2 boats, 600 vehicles, 60 fuel tanks, 7...
A former Russian Minister, Andrei Kozyrev, has disclosed what may likely happen to President Vladimir Putin for ordering an invasion of Ukraine. Kozyrev disclosed that Putin could be ousted by an internal Kremlin coup. He stressed that some key figures in the Kremlin may be plotting Putin’s downfall due...
President of The United States, Joe Biden, has stated why NATO would not engage in a war against Russia in Ukraine
This handout picture taken and released by the Ukrainian State Emergency Service on March 7, 2022, shows rescuers dismantling the rubble of a destroyed school after Russian troops shelled the city of Chernihiv. PHOTO: STR / Ukrainian State Emergency Service / AFP The mayor of southern Ukraine’s Melitopol has...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission has developed a holistic, integrated coordination mechanism to enhance Nigeria’s efforts in the protection and security of its citizens. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the ECOWAS mechanism for protection and human security for the Nigerian Government was...
Zambia’s former president Rupiah Banda died on Friday at the age of 85 after a long battle with colon cancer, his son Andrew told AFP. “He is gone”, Andrew Banda told an AFP correspondent in Lusaka. The southern African country’s fourth leader since independence from Britain served for three...
Facebook and Instagram users will have the freedom to call for violence against Vladimir Putin and Russian soldiers. The option will be made available in some countries, BBC has reported. Meta says it has temporarily made allowances for some violent speech, like “death to the Russian invaders,” that would...
Three-quarters of Russians trusted President Vladimir Putin and 76 per cent assess his professional performance positively, a poll conducted by Russia’s Public Opinion Foundation (FOM) showed on Friday. Asking about their assessment of Putin’s professional performance, 76 per cent of respondents said he was doing rather well, 13 per...
Many Russian tanks have been destroyed by the Ukrainian army after they ambushed a convoy of Russian tanks heading toward the capital. The convoy was ambushed with precision artillery just as it passed through a small residential stretch of a paved four-lane road 25 kilometres from downtown Kyiv. Tanks...
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Thursday that Western penalties against Moscow for its military incursion in Ukraine would destabilise the global energy and food markets and vowed the country would emerge stronger from the crisis. Putin’s “special military operation” in Ukraine that began on February 24 has triggered unprecedented...