ANKARA – The president of Ukraine has demanded that Russia conduct “meaningful” negotiations to ensure peace and security in his country. “Meaningful talks on peace and security for Ukraine are the only chance for Russia to reduce the damage from its own mistakes,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video message. “It is time to restore […]...
KHARTOUM, Sudan –At least 35 people have been killed and hundreds injured in the violence between March 5 and 12 in Sudan’s Darfur region. Ibrahim Adam Osman, a member of the local Doctors Committee, said hundreds were admitted into Elgenena hospital since the violence started. “What we saw is a massacre with brutal attacks against [&hel...
LONDON (AA) – The British Defense Ministry launched an inquiry Thursday into a telephone call between Secretary of Defence Ben Wallace and an imposter who pretended to be Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal. “Today an attempt was made by an imposter claiming to be Ukrainian PM to speak with me,” Wallace wrote in a tweet. [&helli...
ANKARA – A US defense official has claimed that Russia has fired more than 1,080 missiles since the start of its military operation in Ukraine. “We assess the airspace over Ukraine remains contested. The Ukrainian Air Force is continuing to fly aircraft and employ air and missile defense,” the official said in a background st...
GENEVA (AA) – Syrians will be confronting additional hardship as a result of the Ukraine crisis, Paulo Pinheiro, who chairs the International Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, has said. “Inflation is already skyrocketing. The government has begun rationing essential commodities, including ...
KIGALI, Rwanda – The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and its development partners have appealed for a $1.2 billion funding to address the refugee crisis in eastern Africa. The UNHCR appealed that the money is needed to deliver humanitarian assistance and protection to 2.3 million South Sudanese refugees and local communities in Congo, Ethiopia...
ANKARA – The UN has said that it does not have any mandate to probe the Russian allegations that Ukraine has a biological weapons program. Speaking at a UN Security Council briefing, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu reiterated that the UN is not aware of any such biological weapons programs. “I would also [&hel...
ISTANBUL – China and the US should “shoulder their share of international responsibilities” for world peace and tranquility, Chinese President Xi Jinping told his US counterpart. Following almost a two-hour long video call between the two presidents, a Chinese government statement said the two sides agreed that the call was “constructive.” Spe...
WASHINGTON – According to a statement issued by the White House, US President Joe Biden laid out to his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, the consequences Beijing will face if it “materially supports” Russia’s war in Ukraine. According to the statement, Biden outlined “our efforts to prevent and then respond to the...
ANKARA (AA) – A magnitude 6 earthquake rocked southern Iran early Thursday, according to a seismology center based in the capital Tehran. The quake occurred at 02.45 a.m. local time (1115GMT) in Kukherd district of Hormozgan province 10 kilometers (6.21 miles) below the surface, according to data from the Tehran University Seismology Cen...
