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,’’...
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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...
Eleven people were missing in a fire that engulfed an Italian-flagged ferry in the Ionian Sea, the Greek coastguard said Friday amid efforts to free two more people trapped on board. Another 278 people had been rescued, the coastguard said, including a migrant whose presence raised fears for more...
An Indian court sentenced 38 people to death on Friday over a string of bomb blasts in 2008 that killed dozens in the city of Ahmedabad, in one of the country’s biggest mass death sentences. Coordinated attacks in western Gujarat state’s commercial hub in 2008 killed 56, launching shrapnel...
The health authorities in Malawi have declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 after a case was detected in a young child in the capital Lilongwe. This is the first case of wild poliovirus in Africa in more than five years, a statement by the WHO Regional Office...
France, its European Union partners and Canada will end their anti-terror operations in Mali by June, a joint statement issued ahead of an EU-African Union summit said on Thursday. France has a deployment of 4,300 soldiers in Africa’s Sahel region to help combat terrorism. A main focus of the...
Local police on Monday confirmed that 11 people were injured in a stabbing incident that occurred in Albuquerque, the largest city in the U.S. state of New Mexico. The police said officers are investigating seven possible scenes, stretching from Downtown to Central and Wyoming with reports of 11 stabbed...
United State Department has urged its citizens in Ukraine to leave the country immediately amid alleged threats of Russian military action. “Do not travel to Ukraine due to the increased threats of Russian military action and COVID-19 and those in Ukraine should depart now via commercial or private means....
EU Chief Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday unveiled plans to muster investment of more than 150 billion euros for Africa, proclaiming Europe to be the continent’s biggest and “most reliable” partner. The scheme is the first regional plan of the European Union’s Global Gateway — an investment blueprint...