With military support high on agenda, Biden lands in Poland
RZESZOW: US President Joe Biden landed in Poland, on Friday to get a firsthand look at international efforts to help some of the millions of Ukrainian refugees fleeing war in their country, and speak to American troops bolstering Nato’s eastern flank. His first stop was to meet soldiers from the US Army’s 82nd Airborne Division […]
Drones, thermal scanners scour China crash site
WUZHOU: Recovery teams deployed drones and thermal imaging equipment on Thursday across a mountainous area where a China Eastern plane inexplicably crashed with 132 people on board. Four days after flight MU5735 ploughed into rugged terrain near Wuzhou in southern China, officials are still yet to declare all of the 123 passengers and nine crew […]
Ukraine pleads for help as Joe Biden heads to summit
KYIV: Ukraine on Wednesday appealed for Western military help, ahead of an emergency Nato summit, and denounced Russian “war crimes” in besieged places including the port of Mariupol where it says mass starvation is possible. Tens of thousands of residents have already fled the southern city, bringing harrowing testimony of a “freezing hellscape riddled with […]
North Korea fires multiple rocket launchers
SEOUL: North Korea fired multiple rocket launchers on Sunday, Seoul said, the latest in a series of provocations by the nuclear-armed nation to heighten tensions in the region. Pyongyang launched a string of banned weaponry this year and tested what it claimed were components of a “reconnaissance satellite” — although Seoul and Washington have described […]
No one was killed in strike on theatre, says Kyiv
Kyiv: A Russian strike on a theatre sheltering civilians in Ukraine’s besieged city of Mariupol badly wounded one person, but did not kill anyone, authorities said on Friday. Rescuers picked through the rubble to find hundreds of civilians feared trapped in the wreckage of the theatre, as both sides in the war and their allies […]
UN okays ties with Afghanistan without recognising Taliban
UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council voted on Thursday to establish formal ties with the Taliban-run Afghanistan without extending diplomatic recognition to the regime. Fourteen of the 15 members voted for the resolution while Russia abstained. The resolution “recognises the need to help address the substantial challenges facing Afghanistan’s economy, including through efforts to restore […]
Ukraine, Russia talk of compromise, but killings continue
KYIV: New talk of compromise from both Moscow and Kyiv on a status for Ukraine outside of Nato lifted hope on Wednesday for a potential breakthrough after three weeks of war, but the hostilities, including the killing of civilians, continued on the ground. In other notable developments of the day, the UN’s top court asked […]
Anti-war activist interrupts live Russian TV show
MOSCOW: A live evening news programme on Russia’s state television channel was interrupted on Monday by a person who walked into the studio holding a poster protesting the war in Ukraine. The moment was a risky protest in a country where independent media has been blocked or shuttered and it has become illegal to contradict […]
Ukraine talks to continue despite deadly strikes
KYIV: Russia and Ukraine conducted fresh talks on Monday in an effort to end Moscow’s devastating war, despite deadly strikes on a Ukrainian television tower, the capital and a pro-Moscow separatist region. On the 19th day of the invasion, the fourth round of talks made no breakthrough other than a planned resumption on Tuesday, as Russian-backed separatists […]
Iran suspends talks with Saudi Arabia
DUBAI: Iran has suspended talks with regional rival Saudi Arabia, a website affiliated to Iran’s top security body reported on Sunday, without giving a reason for the decision which comes as a fifth round of negotiations was due to start this week. A day earlier Saudi Arabia carried out mass executions that activists said included […]
