The Moscow City Court on Monday sentenced U.S. retiree Stephen Hubbard to six years and 10 months in a penal colony on charges of fighting against Russia in Ukraine. “The court finds Hubbard guilty of a crime under Article 359, Section 3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian...
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By IBRAHIM MOMOH, Lokoja – The Coalition of the Workers Union of Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited, in Kogi State , has expressed their heartfelt gratitude to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for his unwavering commitment to reviving the Ajaokuta Steel Company. The unions particularly lauded the President and the Minister...
By IBRAHIM MOMOH, Lokoja – The Member Representing Ajaokuta Federal Constituency in the green chamber of the National Assembly, Hon. Sanni Egidi Abdulraheem, has commended President Ahmed Bola Tinubu, over the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding, (MoU), for the rehabilitation of Ajaokuta Steel company and National Iron Ore...
A Russian court on Friday found a U.S journalist, Evan Gershkovich, guilty of espionage and sentenced him to 16 years in a maximum security colony. Numerous Russian news agencies reported from the court in Yekaterinburg. He was accused of gathering information on the Uralvagonzavod defence equipment factory in...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the French parliament that Europe was a continent at war and that Russia would not stop its aggression at the borders of his country. “We live in a time when Europe is no longer a continent of peace, unfortunately,” Zelensky said in an...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken indicated on Wednesday that the U.S. could tolerate Ukraine using Western weapons against military targets in Russia. During a news conference in Moldova, Blinken said that the U.S. government had neither enabled nor encouraged attacks with U.S. weapons on targets outside Ukraine....
The Russian military on Friday intercepted over 100 Ukrainian drones overnight, the Russian Defence Ministry said in a statement. The ministry said that the air defence system and the Black Sea fleet intercepted 51 drones over Crimea and 44 over the Krasnodar Territory. It also intercepted six over...
A U.S. soldier has been arrested in Russia on charges of theft, Russian state media reported on Tuesday. The soldier was arrested in Vladivostok, the local justice authorities said. A representative for the Russian Foreign Ministry in Vladivostok described the arrest as involving normal criminal activity. “The case...
Ukraine has received the bodies of 140 soldiers killed while trying to defend the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson from Russian attacks. The authority responsible for prisoner of war matters said on Telegram on Friday. Five bodies were from the Sumy section in northern Ukraine. Russia...
U.S. President Joe Biden wants to start delivering of weapons and equipment to Ukraine this week. The president said this shortly after the U.S. Senate approved billions of dollars in new aid for the country under attack from Russia. “I will sign this bill into law and address...
The Group of Seven (G7) has strongly condemned Iran for its attacks on Israel but also called on both parties to de-escalate amid reports of Israeli retaliation. A meeting of foreign ministers from the group of industrialised democracies has been under way on the Italian island of Capri...
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) says Ukrainians remain under “constant attack” and 3.3 million people living on the frontline need emergency assistance urgently. IOM’s Director General, Ms Amy Pope, in a statement, warned that the situation had worsened in Ukraine after rocket fire killed dozens in the...
Moscow’s Basmanny District Court on Tuesday granted the investigator’s petition and arrested in absentia Vasyl Malyuk, the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), on terrorism charges, the court told Sputnik. “The court has granted the investigator’s application for the introduction of a preventive measure in the...
Washington sees no evidence that Kiev had a hand in a terrorist attack on a concert hall near Moscow, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said. Harris claimed in an interview with the ABC News broadcaster that a branch of the Islamic State terrorist group known as ISIS-Khorasan (banned...
Gunmen opened fire at a rock concert in a Moscow suburb Friday killing at least 40 people, wounding 100, and setting off an inferno in the theatre, authorities said. Attackers dressed in camouflage uniforms entered the building, opened fire, and threw a grenade or incendiary bomb, according...
President Joe Biden says U.S. will continue to stand up to Russian President Vladimir Putin after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “My message to President Putin who I have known for a long time is simple: we will not walk away,” Biden said in his State of the Union...
Russia fired cruise and ballistic missiles at Ukraine on Thursday morning, striking facilities in several cities across the country, Ukrainian authorities said. At least one person was injured in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, where a missile hit an industrial site, said the head of the regional military...
Russian President, Vladimir Putin has signed off on a law to confiscate the property of opponents of the war and enemies of the state. A decree with Putin’s approval was published in the Russian legal database on Wednesday. The law provided for confiscating property allegedly acquired through the...
A drone attack on the south of the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, a part of Ukraine which was annexed by Russia in 2014. It might have hit and sunk a Russian landing ship, according to Ukrainian media. The Ukrainian media outlet, Ukrainska Pravda cited an anonymous source...
Russia declared Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas as “wanted” on criminal charges Tuesday in an unprecedented step against its Baltic neighbours. It was not immediately clear why Kallas, who has led Estonia since 2021, was listed as “wanted”. Relations between Moscow and EU member Estonia, which...