Ukraine’s president said Friday his country had been left on its own to fight Russia after the Kremlin launched a large-scale invasion that killed 130 Ukrainians on the first day. “We have been left alone to defend our state,” Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video address to the nation...
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Invading Russian forces pressed deep into Ukraine as deadly battles reached the outskirts of Kyiv, with explosions heard in the capital early Friday that the besieged government described as “horrific rocket strikes”. The blasts in Kyiv set off a second day of violence after Russian President Vladimir Putin defied...
UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says it is deeply concerned that intensifying hostilities in Ukraine pose an immediate threat to the lives and wellbeing of the country’s 7.5 million children. UNICEF Executive Director, Ms Catherine Russell on children in Ukraine, said in a statement on Thursday, that heavy weapons fire...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday, announced 20 million dollars for humanitarian support in Ukraine, saying protecting of civilians must be ‘Priority Number One’ in supporting the people. “Today, I am announcing that we will immediately allocate 20 million dollars from the Central Emergency Response Fund to meet urgent...
The United Nations (UN) on Thursday said that Ukraine had requested an urgent debate at the UN Human Rights Council on the situation stemming from the Russian aggression. “This is a response to the extremely grave deterioration in the human rights situation in Ukraine as a result of Russia’s...
U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday announced new sanctions on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, saying that Russian leader Vladimir Putin “chose this war” and his country would bear the consequences. The sanctions target Russian banks, oligarchs and high-tech sectors, Biden said. The United States and its allies...
Manchester City’s star Oleksandr Zinchenko says he hopes Vladimir Putin suffers the ‘most painful suffering death’ after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Ukrainian international, 25, posted a photo of the Russian president onto his Insta story along with the caption: “I hope you die the most painful suffering death,...
UEFA on Thursday condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and pledged that decisions would be taken at an emergency meeting of its executive committee on Friday. “UEFA shares the international community’s significant concern for the security situation developing in Europe and strongly condemns the ongoing Russian military invasion in Ukraine,’’...
A Ukrainian military plane with 14 people aboard crashed south of Kyiv on Thursday, the emergencies service said. The service said it was “still determining how many people died.” The incident occurred about 20 kilometres (12 miles) south of Kyiv, amid reports of several locations around the city coming...
Pakistani court on Thursday, sentenced a U.S. national of Pakistani origin to death for raping and beheading the daughter of a former diplomat, crimes that sparked outrage across the South Asian nation. The body of Noor Mukadam, 27, was found in Islamabad on July 20. Police charged Zahir Jaffer,...
Russian forces have unleashed an attack of Ukraine on the orders of Vladimir Putin, who announced a “special military operation” at dawn, amid warnings from world leaders that it could spark the biggest war in Europe since 1945. Within minutes of Putin’s short televised address, at about 5am Ukrainian...
U.S. President, Joe Biden, has pledged to announce new sanctions to punish Russia for the aggression against Ukraine that international community has expected for weeks but could not prevent through diplomacy. Biden had on Tuesday announced first tranche of sanctions on Russia, following its decision to recognise the independence...
Whatever the consequences for Russia of the new sanctions that President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday, the invasion of Ukraine and ensuing global stand-off will further darken the outlook for the U.S. economy. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to employ a so-called salami military tactic by sending troops into...
Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso announced Tuesday some 5,000 prisoners would be pardoned to reduce overcrowding in the country’s prisons, which were hit with riots that left more than 320 inmates dead in 2021. “I hope that at least 5,000 people deprived of their freedom will be released,” the president...
U.S. President Joe Biden, on Tuesday announced first tranche of sanctions on Russia, following its decision to recognise the independence of certain areas of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Biden, in a speech from the White House, said the Russian leader had committed “a flagrant violation of international law.”...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday brought a formal end to former President Donald Trump’s request to block the release of White House records. The records was sought by the Democratic-led congressional panel investigating last year’s deadly attack on the Capitol by a mob of his supporters. The court’s...
A 32-year-old man was sentenced to three years in prison for putting liquid bathroom cleaner into the intravenous drip line of another patient for unclear reasons while in hospital for burn treatment. Sources said on Tuesday that the man committed the crime at a hospital in Daejeon, about 160...
The U.S. has warned the United Nations that it has credible information about the possibility of serious human rights violations should Russia invade Ukraine. U.S. ambassador to the UN, Bathsheba Crocker wrote to Michelle Bachelet, the UN high commissioner for human rights, outlining details of “disturbing information”. “We are...
Protests broke out in several Moroccan cities on Sunday as people rallied against rising prices and to commemorate the eleventh anniversary of demonstrations that called for reform. In the capital Rabat, dozens of protesters decried the high cost of basic goods and shouted slogans harking back to the “February...
The consequences of colonialism are “still being felt to this day”, the UN Chef de Cabinet, Courtenay Rattray, told the Special Committee on Decolonisation on Friday. Speaking on behalf of Secretary-General António Guterres, he also reminded the participants of the challenges which face the so-called Non-Self-Governing Territories which remain...