The U.S. and European Union have imposed sweeping new penalties aimed at crippling Russia’s economy. EU sanctions announced Sunday ban the supply of “all goods and technology” linked to aircraft. Switzerland has also enacted penalties on Russia, abandoning its traditional neutrality. Meanwhile, TikTok has blocked Russian-backed outlets, such a...
Hundreds of reports chronicling decades of attacks in Indian-held Kashmir have disappeared from local newspapers’ archives. It includes one of the most comprehensive NGO reports on decades of violence and killings in the disputed region, which was published by a respected rights organization.. The disappearance also includes the Greater Kashm...
Just before Russian President Vladimir Putin began a full-scale military assault on Ukraine, the United States launched its latest drone attack in its 15-year war with Somalia. While Russia’s aggression has drawn global condemnation, the U.S.’s actions in Somalia have largely flown under the radar. The U.S. Africa Command said Wednesday the ai...
Russian forces have taken control of all administrative buildings in Ukraine’s city of Berdyansk, its mayor said Sunday. Oleksandr Svidlo said in a video message on social media that they had seen Russian soldiers and heavy military equipment entering the city hours ago and they began advancing throughout the city. “They informed us that...
The US urged American citizens on Sunday to consider leaving Russia “immediately” while commercial flights are still available. The US Embassy in Moscow cited the increasing number of airlines cancelling flights in and out of Russia and numerous countries closing their airspace due to Russia’s attack on Ukraine. “US citizens ...
The United States is providing Ukraine with $350 million in additional military equipment to fight off Russia’s “brutal and unprovoked assault,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced. “This package will include further lethal defensive assistance to help Ukraine address the armored, airborne, and other threats...
The US Treasury Department announced Thursday an additional set of sanctions on Russian financial institutions, entities, elites, as well as actions targeting Belarus. The US Treasury Department announced Thursday an additional set of sanctions on Russian financial institutions, entities, elites, as well as actions targeting Belarus. Russia’s ...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – More than 80 protesters have been killed and 135 others arrested in Sudan since the Oct. 25 military takeover, according to top UN human rights official Adama Dieng on Thursday. Dieng told a press conference in the capital Khartoum that 13 Sudanese women have reportedly been raped, of which one case […]
Three white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery in the US state of Georgia were found guilty of federal hate crimes. “Justice for Ahmaud Arbery!” exclaimed Arbery family attorney, Ben Crump, at a news conference after the verdict was handed down. Gregory McMichael, 66, Travis McMichael, 36, and William Bryan, 52, followed and killed Arber...
Leaders of Jerusalem churches on Monday warned of an Israeli plan to confiscate church-owned lands in the occupied city. In a Feb. 18 letter to Israeli Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg, they called for halting a plan to expand an Israeli park to the Olive Mount in East Jerusalem. The letter was signed by leaders […]
