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The Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, Jens Stoltenberg, said the alliance must not allow Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine to escalate into a confrontational war between the allied countries and…

Portugal has detained the leader of the Jewish community in Porto, who issued a document that allowed Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich to get Portuguese citizenship last year. Officers from the criminal investigation agency PJ…

Britain on Friday imposed sanctions on 386 Russians, all of them members of Russia’s lower house of parliament. It said it would seek to ban the export of luxury goods to Russia to increase diplomatic pressure on…

A well-known Turkish journalist has been sentenced two years imprisonment for publicly quoting saying about an ox in a palace. The  comment was taken to be a reference to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in his lavish…

The defence ministry of India says it accidentally fired a missile into Pakistan. The incident was said to have occurred on March 9 and India blamed it on a “technical malfunction”. In a tweet on Friday, the defence…

The United Nations Security Council will convene on Friday at Russia’s request to discuss Moscow’s claims of U.S. “biological activities” in Ukraine. The meeting is expected to be in the morning. “Russian Mission…

Russian Maj. Gen. Andrei Sukhovetsky was killed while fighting in Ukraine, the Novorossiysk city government in Russia said. In a 3 March statement, the government said Sukhovetsky died on Feb. 28. He died “while…

With the Ukraine crisis looming over the coming French presidential election, voters appear increasingly willing to stick with Emmanuel Macron and his promise to “protect” the country in turbulent times. At just 30…

The United States will send $13.6 billion in humanitarian and military aid to Ukraine after the US House approved a $1.5 trillion spending bill to keep the government’s doors open for the next six months. The bill…

The United States on Wednesday chickened out from supplying MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, saying the move could increase the chances of a Russian escalation with NATO. According to the U.S., its intelligence community…

Russia could be planning a chemical or biological weapon attack in Ukraine – and “we should all be on the lookout”, the White House has said. Press secretary Jen Psaki said Russia’s claims about US biological weapon…

At least three people were killed, including a young girl, in an attack on a children’s hospital in Mariupol in southern Ukraine, local officials said on Thursday. “Three people were killed, including a female…

India has surpassed Nigeria as the nation with the highest number of extremely poor people. The World Poverty Clock, WPC,…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has officially confirmed that COVID-19 cases and fatalities are declining globally. The global body, which disclosed this on its official Facebook account, however, insisted that it…

Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) on Wednesday said that service personnel have been banned from travelling to Ukraine. This is amid reports that British soldiers have gone absent without leave to fight against…

President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky has said he would not surrender to Russia. Zelensky, however, noted that he is ready to dialogue with Russia. Speaking with the United States, USA, television channel, ABC News,…

Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson has rejected opposition calls to consider joining NATO following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. She said an application now would destabilise security in Europe. Sweden has…

The number of refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine is expected to top two million in the next two days, the head of the UN refugee agency said Tuesday. “I do think that we will pass the two million mark today or…

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has signed a decree banning exports of medical products originating from the list of unfriendly nations in a bid to avoid shortages. Russia has introduced a temporary ban…

Trapped in his apartment on the outskirts of Kyiv during fierce battles over the weekend, the well-known Ukrainian poet…

British defence minister Ben Wallace said on Tuesday Britain would support Poland if it decided to provide Ukraine with fighter jets, but warned that doing so might have direct consequences for Poland. “I would…

U.S. President Joe Biden has sent a letter of thanks to South Korean President Moon Jae-in for joining financial sanctions and export controls against Russia, Moon’s spokeswoman said on Tuesday. The country began halting…

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz today pushed back against calls from the U.S. and Ukraine for a ban on imports of Russian gas and oil as part of international sanctions on Moscow. “Europe has deliberately exempted…

Russia will immediately stop its military operations if the Ukrainian authorities amend their country’s constitution to abandon their ambition to enter “any bloc,” and recognise the Crimean referendum and the…