Russia invokes spectre of World War III
KYIV: Russia has warned of the “real” threat of World War III breaking out, ahead of a Tuesday meeting between the United States and allies over sending further arms to war-torn Ukraine. Moscow’s invasion of its neighbour has triggered an outburst of support from Western nations that has seen weapons pour into the country to […]
Activists bar tanker from unloading Russian oil in Norway
OSLO: Norwegian police said they had arrested 20 Greenpeace and Extinction Rebellion campaigners who on Monday blocked a tanker from delivering Russian oil to an Exxon Mobil terminal. In a protest against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, activists had fastened their red rubber dinghy to the Ust Luga’s anchor chain, Greenpeace said, as they sought to […]
Blast at illegal refinery kills 110 in Nigeria
YENAGAO: An explosion killed 110 people at an illegal oil refining depot in Nigeria on Saturday. “There are so many people that died here. I’m pleading to the government to look into this,” Uche Woke, a commercial bike rider, said at the scene of the blast. The Nigerian Red Cross Society was on the scene […]
Talks with Ukraine have stalled, says Russian FM
MOSCOW: Talks between Moscow and Kyiv to put an end to Russia’s near two-month military campaign in pro-Western Ukraine have stalled, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday. “They (negotiations) have stalled now,” he said after talks with his Kazakh counterpart in Moscow, adding that Russia has still had not received an answer to a […]
Israeli warplanes strike Gaza after rocket attack
GAZA: Israel carried out air strikes in central Gaza before dawn on Thursday after a rocket launched from the Palestinian territory landed in Israel, Hamas officials and Israeli military sources said. Two training camps used by Hamas, the group that rules the blockaded enclave, were hit, and no casualties were reported, witnesses said. Israeli war […]
Moscow has sent 500,000 Ukrainians forcibly to Russia, EU told
BRUSSELS: Moscow has deported 500,000 people from Ukraine to Russia, a leading member of the parliament in Kyiv told European lawmakers on Wednesday, calling on the Red Cross to establish contact with those missing. “Half a million of Ukrainian citizens were deported from Ukraine to the Russian Federation without agreement from their side,” said Mykyta […]
First killing by police in Sri Lanka protests
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka police shot dead a protester and wounded 24 others on Tuesday in the first fatal clash with residents demonstrating against the government over a crippling economic crisis. The South Asian country is in the grip of its most painful economic downturn since independence in 1948, with regular blackouts and severe shortages of […]
Air strikes kill seven in Ukraine as Russian forces mass in the east
LVIV: Air strikes killed at least seven people in Ukraine’s western city of Lviv on Monday, as Russia pounded targets across the country and massed forces for an expected all-out assault in the east. The air strikes in Lviv came just hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Moscow of wanting to “destroy” the entire […]
Clashes over anti-immigration rally in Sweden
STOCKHOLM: Plans by a far-right group to publicly burn copies of the holy Quran sparked violent clashes with counter-demonstrators for the third day running in Sweden, police said on Sunday. Litter bins, a bus and a car were all set on fire in a series of incidents in the southern city of Malmo overnight, police […]
Zelensky fears Russia may use N-arms
WASHINGTON: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that Russia could use nuclear weapons out of desperation as its invasion falters, echoing comments by CIA director William Burns. Asked about the threat, Zelensky said “all of the world” should be worried that Russia “began to speak about… nuclear weapons or some chemical weapons”. “They could […]
