BERLIN (AA) – German and Pakistani foreign ministers have warned against the use of tactical nuclear weapons amid escalating rhetoric from Russia and Ukraine. Speaking at a news conference in Berlin on Friday, Pakistan’s foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said he was horrified by recent reports on discussions about the possible use of nuc...
KYIV (AA) – Ukraine has liberated an area of over 400 square kilometers (155 square miles) in the Kherson region, according to an army spokeswoman. “Our successes are quite convincing … More than 400 square kilometers of Kherson region have already been liberated from the occupiers. And we are moving forward,” the state-run...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Two Russian nationals arrived at a remote Alaskan island seeking asylum in the US, a pair of senators have revealed. The state of Alaska’s Republican senators, Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, said the Russians landed at a beach near Gambell, located on the northwest tip of St. Lawrence Island. Gambell is a […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – A trio of Democratic lawmakers in the House of Representatives has introduced legislation that would require the removal of critical US military assets stationed in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The act’s introduction came one day after Riyadh and Abu Dhabi threw their weight behind OPEC+’...
BRUSSELS (AA) – The war should be fought in Ukraine so that it does not spread to other countries, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenkyy said at the first summit of the European Political Community. Leaders from 44 countries – the 27 EU members and 17 European countries, including Türkiye, the UK, Serbia, and Ukraine – participated […]...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The decision by OPEC+ to reduce oil production this week has angered several US lawmakers, with some calling for halting Washington’s alliance with Saudi Arabia. OPEC+ agreed Wednesday to cut production by 2 million barrels per day. Riyadh and Abu Dhabi threw their weight behind the decision. The decision is a “cl...
MOSCOW (AA) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s call on NATO to carry out preemptive strikes against Russia is a call to start a “world war,” the Kremlin’s spokesman has said. “Such statements are nothing more than a call to start another world war with unpredictable monstrous consequences,” Dmitry Peskov told R...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The US envoy to the UN has accused the Russia-backed Wagner Group of exploiting natural resources in African countries to help fund Moscow’s wars in Ukraine and elsewhere. ”One of the most immediate and growing concerns in Africa is the Kremlin-backed Wagner Group’s strategy of exploiting the natural resources...
KYIV, Ukraine (AA) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that three more settlements in the country’s Kherson region have been liberated from “Russian occupiers”. “Only during this day in the Kherson region, such settlements as Novovoskresenske, Novohryhorivka and Petropavlivka were liberated from the sham referendum a...
ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AA) – Over 200,000 Russian nationals have entered Kazakhstan since the announcement of partial mobilization on September 21 in Russia, a Kazakh official has said. “68 people have applied for Kazakhstan citizenship,” Kazakhstan’s Interior Minister Marat Akhmetzhanov told reporters after the weekly cabinet m...
