The US Treasury Department announced Thursday an additional set of sanctions on Russian financial institutions, entities, elites, as well as actions targeting Belarus. The US Treasury Department announced Thursday an additional set of sanctions on Russian financial institutions, entities, elites, as well as actions targeting Belarus. Russia’s ...
Two Palestinian prisoners, who had been on hunger strike for over four months, were released on Thursday, Feb. 24, from Israeli jails. Two Palestinian prisoners, who had been on hunger strike for over four months, were released on Thursday, Feb. 24, from Israeli jails. Hisham Abu Hawash, and Miqdad al-Qawasmi were two of the dozens […]
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine was a “forced measure,” President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. “What is happening is a forced measure. We were left no choice to act differently,” Putin said at a meeting with Russian businesses in Moscow, underlining that there had been “such...
People living near the line of contact in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region are in a constant state of fear as they worry over the safety of their families and close ones. Andrii Bolbat, 50, who works at a coal mine in Vuhledar, a city in the Donetsk region, said an instance of shelling at his […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AA) – The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine decided to declare a state of emergency across the country, except for the separatist regions of Luhansk and Donetsk, the council chief said on Wednesday. Oleksiy Danilov said the state of emergency would last 30 days and could be extended up to 60 […]
Three white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery in the US state of Georgia were found guilty of federal hate crimes. “Justice for Ahmaud Arbery!” exclaimed Arbery family attorney, Ben Crump, at a news conference after the verdict was handed down. Gregory McMichael, 66, Travis McMichael, 36, and William Bryan, 52, followed and killed Arber...
The presence of tens of thousands of Russian troops inside Belarus, which the West fears could be used to invade Ukraine, represents a threat to Belarusian independence, the country’s exiled opposition leader said Wednesday. Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who the West believes was the true winner of August 2020 presidential elections that kept ...
President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that the United States will join Germany in imposing sanctions on the Russian Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline project in retaliation for Moscow’s military pressure against Ukraine. “I have directed my administration to impose sanctions on Nord Stream 2 AG and its corporate officers,”...
Britain on Tuesday sanctioned five Russian banks and three individuals in response to Russia’s recognition of Ukraine’s separatist regions. The Russian banks sanctioned are Rossiayaz Bank, IS Bank, General Bank, Promsvyazbank, and the Black Sea Bank, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced. Gennady Timchenko, Igor Rotenberg, and Boris Rotenberg...
Iran signaled “significant progress” Monday in talks on reviving a stalled accord on its nuclear program. But President Ebrahim Raisi, on his first visit to a Gulf state, insisted Washington must lift its crippling sanctions on Iran. The country’s president is a personal target of United States’ sanctions. Raisi spoke out ahead of a summit [&h...
