TRENTON, Canada – The 2022 federal Canadian budget bans foreigners from buying residences for two years and allocates CAN$8 billion ($6.3 billion) for increased military spending. Those were two of the highlights of the budget – which includes CAN$60 billion ($47.6 billion) in total new spending – delivered by Finance Ministe...
ABUJA, Nigeria – The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is not in favor of high crude oil prices, but it does not have any extra capacity to boost production, according to Nigeria’s state minister for petroleum resources. “It is not something that you can open a tap for at this point. You must […]
MOSCOW – The Kremlin has denied Ukrainian reports of Russian airstrikes on a railway station in the eastern part of the country. Allegations by Kyiv of a deadly Russian rocket attack on the railway station in Kramatorsk are a provocation and “absolutely do not correspond to reality,” Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement. The [&h...
BERLIN – Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov should be tried by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for their military aggression in Ukraine, Germany’s president has said. “Everyone who is responsible for these crimes will have to justify themselves. This includes soldiers. This includes military commanders....
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia said Friday that its forces had hit 81 more Ukrainian military infrastructure targets overnight. Three shipments of foreign military equipment were destroyed with high-precision weaponry at railway stations in Pokrovsk, Slavyansk, and Barvenkovo, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov told a press briefing in ...
ANKARA (AA) – The Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv on Friday condemned the attack in the Israeli capital that left two people dead and nine others injured. “We condemn the terrorist attack that took place on the night of 7 April in Tel Aviv. We are concerned about the recent increase in such attacks,” the […]
BRUSSELS (AA) – The European Union has adopted its fifth package of sanctions on Russia, banning coal imports and trucks and ships from the country. “In light of Russia’s continuing war of aggression against Ukraine, and the reported atrocities committed by Russian armed forces in Ukraine, the Council decided today to impose the fifth package ...
KYIV, Ukraine (AA) – Over 30 people were killed and more than 100 injured in a Russian attack on a railway station in eastern Ukraine on Friday, the state railway company said. Two rockets hit a station in Kramatorsk, a city in the Donetsk region, where scores of people were waiting to be evacuated to […]
ANKARA (AA) – Saudi Arabia has announced that it is returning its ambassador to Lebanon after a five-month break in ties. In an official statement, the Foreign Ministry said it would re-appoint Ambassador Waleed Bukhari to Beirut “in response to the calls and appeals of moderate national political forces in Lebanon.” It said ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US President Joe Biden has applauded the “overwhelming vote” in the UN General Assembly to remove Russia from the UN Human Rights Council over the war in Ukraine. “This is a meaningful step by the international community further demonstrating how (President Vladimir) Putin’s war has made Russia an internatio...
