LONDON (AA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin underestimated the courage of Ukrainians and the support of their allies, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has said. “Putin made several huge mistakes when he invaded Ukraine, strategic mistakes. One was to underestimate the Ukrainians, their courage, their commitment to fight and protect … country,” S...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia’s defense minister on Wednesday ordered the withdrawal of troops from Ukraine’s southern port city of Kherson. “Proceed with the withdrawal of troops and take all measures to ensure the safe transfer of personnel, weapons and equipment across the Dnieper River,” Sergey Shoygu told Sergey Surovikin, commander of the R...
BERLIN (AA) – Germany has been the scene of at least 65 attacks on refugee shelters during the first three quarters of the year, according to local media reports. The Interior Ministry released the preliminary figures in response to a parliamentary question by the opposition Left Party, Neuen Osnabruecker Zeitung reported. The number of attack...
ROME (AA) – Italy’s new interior minister has drawn outrage from many segments of the country over his recent remarks about irregular migrants. During a meeting in Milano on Monday, Matteo Piantedosi defined migrants who are denied permission to disembark from humanitarian ships as “residual cargo” who do not need to be rescued. Pi...
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AA) – French President Emmanuel Macron has said that he received assurances from his Egyptian counterpart Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi on the health of jailed activist Alaa Abdel Fattah. Macron and Sisi held talks on the sidelines of the UN climate summit COP27 in Egypt’s Red Sea city of Sharm el-Sheikh. “I raised the [&h...
Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt (AFP): German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has urged COP27 participants not to lose sight of renewable energy targets despite the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “There must not be a worldwide renaissance of fossil fuels,” Scholz said in a speech at COP27 summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. “And for ...
WARSAW (AA) – Warsaw is planning an information campaign to show how much damage Nazi Germany inflicted on Poland during WWII as part of its demand for reparations from Berlin, the ruling party head has said. “We are preparing films on this subject, although of course it will take a while. We are preparing a […]
BERLIN (AA) – Germany has pledged to take in thousands of refugees from Italy amid the worsening humanitarian crisis in rescue ships on the Mediterranean Sea. “It was always clear that these 3,500 that Germany had promised (to take in), and thus by far the largest number within the EU, were a first step and […]
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – The US and Albania have reaffirmed their intention to boost bilateral relations. In an official visit to Albanian capital Tirana, US Permanent Representative to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield met with President Bajram Begaj and Prime Minister Edi Rama. Begaj said advancing relations between the two countries would...
BERLIN (AA) – Germany has condemned the Syrian regime’s rocket attacks on a refugee camp in the northern city of Idlib. “We have seen the reports of military attacks by the Syrian regime, as well as the Russian forces in the region,” the Foreign Ministry’s deputy spokeswoman, Andrea Sasse, told a news conference in Berlin […]
