ISTANBUL (AA): Russia has claimed that Europe has “completely lost” its independence and “ceded” all its power to NATO. “Europe has completely lost its independence. Whatever French President Emmanuel Macron may say about ‘strategic autonomy,’ or (EU foreign policy chief) Josep Borrell may declare about the need for Europe to be more active in...
Beijing, China (AFP): China will send a special envoy to Ukraine, Russia and other European nations from Monday, Beijing has announced. The envoy will be the highest-ranking Chinese diplomat to visit the war-torn country since Moscow’s invasion last year. “From May 15, Ambassador Li Hui, special representative of the Chinese govern...
Johannesburg, South Africa (AFP): The US envoy to South Africa on Thursday accused the country of having covertly provided arms to Russia despite its professed neutrality in the Ukraine war, local media said. Ambassador Reuben Brigety told a media briefing the US was “confident” weapons and ammunition had been loaded onto a Russian...
MOSCOW (AA): Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree terminating the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE). In the same decree, published on the government’s portal, Putin delegated additional charge to Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov, who will also serve as a presidential representative in presenting th...
ANKARA (AA) – Russia will respond with “concrete actions” to an attempted drone attack on the Kremlin, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday. Talking to reporters following a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Goa, India, which was broadcast live by several br...
United Nations, United States (AFP): The United Nations head of mission to Sudan denounced on Tuesday the “disregard for the laws and norms of war” in the conflict that has seen civilians and hospitals attacked. “Both of the warring parties have fought with disregard for the laws and norms of war, attacking densely populated ...
Moscow, Russia (AFP): Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu on Tuesday hosted four-way talks aimed at normalising ties between Ankara and Damascus, which were severed at the start of Syria’s civil war in 2011. “Practical steps were discussed in the field of strengthening security in the Syrian Arab Republic and normalising Syrian-...
LONDON (AA) – The Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, the US military detention facility, opened by the then-President George W. Bush to hold “terrorism” suspects captured abroad after the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington, is still operating as a remnant of the so-called “War on Terror.” Earlier t...
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (AFP): Brazil’s president on Sunday said he had discussed joint mediation for Russia’s war in Ukraine with China and the United Arab Emirates, accusing the United States and Europe of prolonging the conflict. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who was wrapping up an official visit to China and the ...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Kosovo held a solidarity march Friday for victims of sexual harassment or rape during the independence war in 1998 and 1999. The march was organized in the capital, Pristina, by the Presidency of Kosovo and the Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture with the support of Justice Minister Albulena Haxhiu. Haxhi...
