BRUSSELS – Ukraine is in immediate need for weapons and measures from Western allies to stop the Russian war machine, the country’s top diplomat has said. Speaking at a news conference following talks with NATO foreign ministers, Dmytro Kuleba said he only had “three points on his agenda: Weapons, weapons, weapons.” Kul...
JOHANNESBURG – The president of South Africa has said that the Ukraine war has exposed the inability of the UN Security Council (UNSC) to fulfill its mandate to maintain international peace and security. “The entire peace and security architecture of the United Nations needs to be overhauled,” Cyril Ramaphosa said in an address to the [&...
ATHENS – The Human Rights Watch has accused Greek authorities of double standards in accepting Ukrainian refugees but rejecting irregular Afghan and other migrants at the border with Turkiye. A 29-page report said that Greek forces detained, stripped and stole the belongings of irregular migrants from Afghanistan and the Middle East befo...
KIGALI, Rwanda – The transition government in Mali has accused the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) of ignoring a court order to lift sanctions. UEMOA instructed all financial institutions under its umbrella to suspend Mali in January after the junta delayed elections. The measures were announced in conjunction with sanct...
MOSCOW – Russia has suffered “significant losses of troops” in Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. “This is a huge tragedy for us,” he told SkyNews TV in an interview. The Russia-Ukraine war, which started February 24, has drawn international outrage, with the EU, US, and UK, among others, implementing tough fi...
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....
Google recently banned more than a dozen Android apps from its Play Store, including Muslim prayer apps with 10 million-plus downloads. Researchers discovered secret data-harvesting code hidden within the apps. That code was engineered by a company linked to a Virginia defense contractor. The company had paid developers to incorporate its cod...
