BUDAPEST – AA: The number of Ukrainian refugees in Hungary exceeded 200,000 on Thursday, taking the total number of those who have fled to 2.3 million. Stating that his country condemns the attack on Ukraine, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary Peter Szijjarto said they will continue to support Ukraine’s territoria...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is losing the “information war” in Ukraine, CIA Director Bill Burns said Thursday. Speaking at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats, Burns warned that Russia could use chemical weapons, saying the allegations raised by Moscow to use as a false flag operation “is somethi...
LONDON (AA) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Thursday that he fears Russian President Vladimir Putin might use chemical weapons in Ukraine. “The stuff that you’re hearing about chemical weapons is straight out of their playbook,” Johnson said in an interview with Sky News. “They start saying that there are ch...
ANKARA – Turkiye has rejected the “unfounded allegations” levelled by Arab League against Ankara. “We totally reject the unfounded allegations towards Turkiye contained in some of the resolutions and the communique adopted at the Council of Foreign Ministers meeting of the Arab League held on 9 March 2022,” a Foreign Ministry statement s...
ANKARA – Turkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his US counterpart Joe Biden held a phone conversation discussing Russia’s war on Ukraine. It is important that Turkiye is in a facilitator position in search for a solution, in case the Russia-Ukraine crisis deepens further, Erdogan told Biden. Even organizing a tripartit...
The Russian Ministry of Defense has confirmed using thermobaric weapons, also known as aerosol bombs or vacuum explosives. A Vacuum bomb creates a huge fireball which sucks up all surrounding oxygen. The weapon can destroy reinforced buildings, equipment, and kill people. In 2000, Human Rights Watch condemned Russia’s reported use of the weap...
Russian airstrikes have destroyed a children’s hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, local officials said Wednesday. The Mariupol city council said the Russian airforce dropped several bombs. People and children were under the wreckage of the Mariupol maternity hospital. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted on Telegram calling the strik...
A coalition of more than 200 groups Wednesday called on President Joe Biden to use the Defense Production Act to develop alternatives to fossil fuels. The move would simultaneously combat the climate crisis and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s stranglehold on the world’s energy economy. It would also support the transition to a renewable ec...
Among the oldest women entrepreneurs of Indian-administered Kashmir, fisherwomen locally known as Gadhi Wajin, can be seen thronging markets early in the morning. They lure customers to buy the catch netted by male family members. Dotted by lakes and streams, the scenic Kashmir Valley produces varieties of fish. Rehti Begum, 57, walks miles e...
The recent U.S. sanction of Bangladesh’s elite force has placed the South Asian country in a tough geopolitical position. The U.S. Treasury Department designated Benazir Ahmed, Bangladesh’s current police chief and former head of the RAB or Rapid Action Battalion, along with six officials, under the Global Magnitsky sanctions program. The sanc...
