WASHINGTON (AA) – President Joe Biden has refused to walk back his comment that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power.” The US president made the remarks while on a four-day tour of Europe as Ukraine continues to defend against Russia’s assault. Biden’s comments drew criticism from some who said...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China said Monday that the West has applied “double standards” by catering to the human rights of people fleeing the Russia-Ukraine war but by ignoring those of refugees from countries in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. “I want to stress that the international community should not adopt a double standard [&hell...
PARIS (AA) – French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has begun an official tour of Qatar, Oman and Kuwait to discuss Europe’s diversification of energy supplies amid an energy crisis triggered by Russia’s war on Ukraine. On the first leg of the tour, he met with Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and discussed […]
KYIV – Ukraine’s northern Irpin city has been liberated from Russian troops, Mayor Alexander Markushin has said in a video message. “We have good news today, the city of Irpin has been liberated,” he noted, saying there is a “cleaning operation” going on in the city. The people are still not allowed to retur...
BRUSSELS – EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson has said that the bloc must be prepared for millions of more Ukrainian refugees. Speaking at a news conference following an extraordinary meeting of EU interior ministers, Johansson warned that the EU must “develop contingency plans.” “We don’t know what will happen tomorro...
WASHINGTON – UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called on Ukraine and Russia to immediately agree to a humanitarian cease-fire to allow for the parties to negotiate an end to the month-long conflict. Guterres said he is tasking Martin Griffiths, his humanitarian affairs coordinator, to work with Kyiv and Moscow on laying the groun...
BRUSSELS – The EU foreign policy chief has called on the Taliban regime in Afghanistan to immediately reopen secondary schools for girls. In a declaration issued on behalf of the bloc, Josep Borrell slammed the Taliban’s decision to exclude over 1 million girls from secondary education in the country. “No religious or social reason...
WARSAW – Poland’s President Andrzej Duda has strongly criticized Hungary’s policy on the ongoing Russian war on Ukraine. Duda said that Hungary’s high dependence on Russian energy supplies has made Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban cautious. However, he added, it is hard to understand Hungary’s policies given the deaths of hundreds a...
A rise in anti-Islam rhetoric in the French presidential election campaign risks creating a “spiral of hatred,” the rector of a Paris mosque said. Chems-eddine Hafiz, the rector of Paris’s historic Grande Mosquée, said law-abiding Muslims are being scapegoated just like Jews were vilified in the 1930s. He also said French society is weakened ...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia used high-precision weapons to hit a fuel depot near Lviv, Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said at a briefing in Moscow. It destroyed an airfield and a repair plant in Lviv and a missile depot near the capital Kyiv over the past day. “In total, since the beginning of the special […]
