GENEVA (AA) – The Swedish government wants to prevent people from entering the country to commit crimes. The Swedish Foreign Ministry said the government had decided to reintroduce border controls in May. “In May this year, the Government decided to reintroduce border controls. We were clear about the reasons for this: it was prima...
JERUSALEM (AA): Israel government has approved plans for more than 5,700 illegal Jewish residences in the occupied West Bank, raising the total this year to a record of over 13,000. A Defense Ministry planning committee on West Bank settlement construction gave the green light for building around 5,700 new residences in six months, while retro...
Moscow, Russia (AFP): Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko has said that long-standing tensions between Moscow’s army and the Wagner mercenary group, which staged a mutiny in Russia, had been mismanaged. Lukashenko was speaking three days after he brokered a deal to end the rebellion that rattled his Russian ally Vladimir Putin. The...
LONDON – A new report released Monday shows that fossil fuels still accounted for 82% of global energy consumption in 2022. While renewable energy consumption has increased by 13%, fossil fuels are still the main component of energy supply. The report, published by the Energy Institute, noted that despite increase in consumption of clean...
MOSCOW / TEHRAN, Iran (AA): Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the armed rebellion of the Wagner group in phone talks with the Qatari emir and Iranian president. In a statement on its website, the Kremlin said Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani supported the Russian leadership against the rebellion during the phone talk with [...
Vilnius, Lithuania (AFP): NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has said the weekend mutiny by mercenary troops in Russia has shown that President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was a “mistake”. “We are monitoring the situation in Russia. The events over the weekend are an internal Russian matter, and yet another demonstrat...
Beijing, China (AFP): A security crisis in Russia has compounded fears in China that its strategic partner is not as stable as before, analysts say. China has emerged as Russia’s most important ally since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022. During a March summit in Moscow, presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin declared that their...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): At least 14 civilians have been killed in war-torn Sudan’s capital as rival forces are locked in a key battle over control of the Khartoum police headquarters, activists said Monday. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which since mid-April has been fighting Sudan’s regular army, announced late Sunda...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Artillery fire, air strikes and gun battles rocked Sudan’s capital on Saturday, witnesses told AFP, as the UN urged a stop to “wanton killings” that have left decomposing bodies in Darfur. While fighting rages, relief efforts have stalled after more than two months of fighting between rival generals. Ho...
Moscow, Russia (AFP): Wagner mercenaries were returning to base on Sunday as their mutinous leader agreed to go into exile after President Vladimir Putin was forced to accept an amnesty deal. The agreement appears to end the immediate threat that Yevgeny Prigozhin’s private army could storm Moscow, but analysts said Wagner’s revolt...
