PARIS (AA) – Dozens of irregular migrants, including families with children, who sought a better life by embarking on a perilous journey and crossing multiple countries to reach France, have been living in deplorable conditions in a parking lot in a Paris suburb for months. Nearly 200 irregular migrants from Iran, Morocco, and notably Afghanis...
LONDON – It is “entirely legitimate” for Ukraine to hit military targets within Russia using Western-supplied weapons, a top British defense official has said. Armed Forces Minister James Heappey has said Ukrainian forces have every right to go after Russian supply lines and destroy them to hinder Moscow’s war effort and add more pressur...
GENEVA – The UN refugee agency has projected that the number of people fleeing the war in Ukraine will soar to 8.3 million by the end of this year. “The rapidity with which people are fleeing, we have not seen in recent times,” UNHCR spokeswoman Shabia Mantoo said. Mantoo said the number of internally displaced […]
ANKARA (AA) – Ukraine “clearly believes” it can win the war against Russia, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said on Tuesday. “My trip to Kyiv reinforced my admiration for the way that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are deploying these capabilities. Ukraine clearly believes that it can win and so does everyone here,R...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia and Belarus will conduct a joint military exercise starting Tuesday. “Joint staff training will be held in the Air Force and Air Defense Forces of Belarus on April 26-29 with the participation of representatives of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation,” the Belarusian Defense Ministry said in a statement. The [&helli...
ANKARA (AA) – The British government announced on Tuesday the removal of all tariffs covered by the existing UK-Ukraine trade agreement and imposed fresh sanctions on the Russian economy. The decision came in response to a direct request from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to support the Ukrainian economy, said UK International ...
MOSCOW – Russia has declared 40 German diplomats persona non grata in a retaliatory move amid continued diplomatic fallout from the two-month-old war in Ukraine. “On April 25, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Russian Federation Geza Andreas von Geyr was summoned to the Russian F...
LONDON (AA) – Around 15,000 Russian troops have been killed since Russia attacked Ukraine on February 24, according to the British defense secretary. While addressing the British parliament, Ben Wallace also announced further British support for Ukraine. “The offensive that was supposed to take a maximum of a week has now taken weeks,” W...
ANKARA – Germany is home to more than 84 million people and hosts the second-largest Muslim population in Western Europe after France, but the country cannot seem to avoid racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia and discrimination. Figures published in May 2021 taint the country’s image as a multicultural society as the number of violent ...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia has told the US to stop giving weapons to Ukraine, warning that its actions could intensify the conflict, Moscow’s envoy to Washington said on Monday. The US sending arms worth $800 million to Kyiv “does not contribute to the search for a diplomatic solution or settlement,” Anatoly Antonov said in an […]
