WASHINGTON (AA) – The UN issued a stark warning on Friday after Russian forces attacked Europe’s largest nuclear facility, and seized it from Ukrainian authorities. The attack on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant resulted in a fire erupting at a training complex at the site, which was extinguished by Ukrainian firefi...
KYIV (AA) – A senior Russian military officer has been killed in Ukraine’s northern Chernihiv city, a Ukrainian official claimed on Friday. Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor to Ukraine’s interior minister, said on Facebook that Andrei Sukhovetskiy, deputy commander of the 41st Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District, has been ki...
HOUSTON, Texas (AA) – The US Supreme Court voted 6-3 on Friday to reinstate the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Tsarnaev, who is now 28, and his older brother, Tamerlan, detonated two pressure cooker bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013, killing 3 people and injuring […]
BUDAPEST – Over 120,000 people fleeing Ukraine have taken shelter in Hungary since the onset of the Russian attack on Ukraine. Gergely Gulyas, the chief of staff to Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that the Hungary-Ukraine border gates are open and people are streaming in. Gulyas added that Budapest does not want to be […]
NEW DELHI – On World Obesity Day, experts revealed that India has the world’s second-largest obese population among children under five years of age. Dr. J S Thakur, professor at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh, said India is facing issues of both malnutrition as well as overnutrition. ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Thousands of people have applied to the Ukrainian embassy in Washington D.C., expressing willingness to join the fight against Russia. A military official at the embassy said that they received more than 3,000 emails from those who wanted to go to Ukraine. The applicants included former military officials and civilians ...
KIEV (AA) – Ukraine has claimed that a total of 9,166 Russian soldiers have been killed since Russia’s attack. In a statement, the Ukrainian General Staff said that since the beginning of the war, the Ukrainian army has destroyed 33 Russian-owned aircraft, 37 helicopters, 251 tanks, 939 armored vehicles, 105 artillery systems and two lig...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russian president Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused Ukraine of not allowing foreign nationals to leave the country. The “course of the confrontation” shows that Russia fights against “neo-Nazis,” Vladimir Putin said at a meeting of the Russian Security Council in Moscow. Putin accused the Ukrainian authorities of taking fo...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The war staged by Russia in Ukraine might force more than 10 million people to leave their homes, the UN warned Thursday. Speaking at a news conference, Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for UN chief Antonio Guterres, said “needs in Ukraine are growing and spreading by the hour,” citing his UN colleagues on the [...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Twenty-eight sailors of a Bangladeshi vessel which was stranded at a Ukrainian port after being hit by a missile have been evacuated. “All crew members of the stranded Bangladeshi cargo ship in the Ukrainian seaport have been taken to a safe place. Sailors are now safe.” State Minister for Foreign Affairs [&helli...
