MOSCOW (AA): The Russian Foreign Ministry Friday summoned senior US diplomats to protest what it called “hypocritical and deceitful” remarks by US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. “It was emphasized that assurances of American officials that the US does not encourage such attacks on Russia are hypocritical and deceitful, gi...
United Nations, United States (AFP): Fighting in Sudan could turn into an ethnic conflict if the warring parties do not respect and extend the ceasefire that took effect Monday, the UN representative to the conflict has said. “The growing ethnicization of the conflict risks to expand and prolong it with implications for the region,”...
Washington, United States (AFP): Warring sides in Sudan have reached an agreement for a seven-day humanitarian ceasefire, the United States and Saudi Arabia said Saturday in a joint statement after talks in Jeddah. Representatives from both army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy turned rival Mohamed Hamdan Daglo vowed not to s...
ANKARA (AA): The Group of Seven (G-7) summit in Hiroshima concluded on Sunday with deliberations on the Russia-Ukraine war and other hot-button issues. The participants expressed “unwavering support” to Kyiv, Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported, citing a statement issued at the end of the summit. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio ...
ANKARA (AA): A Ukrainian official on Sunday said President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “denied” that Russian forces had captured the strategic city of Bakhmut, clarifying a statement wrongly attributed to him ahead of a meeting with his US counterpart. Presidential Press Secretary Serhii Nykyforov wrote on Facebook that Zelenskyy’s r...
ISTANBUL (AA): The Russian Defense Ministry said Saturday that its forces have taken complete control of the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. “As a result of offensive actions by the Wagner assault units, supported by artillery and aviation of the Yug Group of Forces, the liberation of #Artyomovsk has been completed,” it wrote on...
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (AFP): One man is revered in Western capitals for standing up to Russia’s full-scale invasion of his country. The other is widely reviled for atrocities committed against his own people in a war that has made him dependent on Moscow. At the Arab League summit on Friday, host Saudi Arabia brought Ukrainian […]
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (AFP): Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused some Arab leaders of ignoring the horrors of Russia’s invasion of his country during a speech Friday at an Arab League summit in Saudi Arabia. “Unfortunately, there are some in the world and here, among you, who turn a blind eye to those cages and illegal [&...
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AA): Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Friday highlighted the plight of Tatar Muslims of Crimea, which remains under Russian occupation, at the Arab League Summit in Jeddah. The president said that he arrived in Saudi Arabia with Mustafa Dzhemilev, leader of the Crimean Tatar people. Underlining that Crimean Tatar M...
Beijing, China (AFP): China’s special envoy Li Hui told Ukraine “there is no panacea to resolve the crisis” and urged Kyiv and Moscow to engage in talks to end the war, Beijing has said. China, a strategic ally of Russia, has refrained from condemning Moscow’s invasion, and has instead sought to position itself as a [&h...
