KYIV, Ukraine (AA) – People from 52 countries have arrived in Ukraine to join its fight against Russia, the country’s foreign minister said on Sunday. The world stands with Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba said during an online news conference. He recalled President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s plea for volunteers to support Ukraine in its war agai...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday flayed European Union envoys for asking Islamabad to condemn Russia’s war on Ukraine. In a letter to the Foreign Ministry this week, nearly two dozen EU ambassadors in Islamabad, including two veto powers, France and the UK, urged Pakistan to vote against...
ANKARA (AA) – The foreign ministers of Turkiye and Jordan said Wednesday that they will be working together to devise a plan for the voluntary return of Syrian refugees to their country. Turkiye’s Mevlut Cavusoglu held a joint news conference with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi in the capital Ankara after a meeting in which...
BRUSSELS (AA) – All people fleeing the war in Ukraine should be allowed into the EU, regardless of their nationality, ethnicity, or skin color, an EU Commission spokesperson said on Wednesday. Responding to a question on alleged racism against Africans at Ukraine’s western borders with EU countries, spokesperson Anitta Hipper said ...
TUNIS, TUNISIA: Tunisian nationals’ evacuation from Ukraine continued on Wednesday. A Tunisian plane carrying 327 Tunisians from Ukraine arrived at Carthage International Airport. As part of the evacuation effort, the first flight that carried 106 Tunisians entered the country yesterday. It is estimated that more than 1,500 Tunisians liv...
LONDON (AA) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of committing war crimes in Ukraine. Bombing innocent civilians “already fully qualifies as a war crime,” Johnson said during Prime Minister’s Questions in Parliament. “What we have seen already from Vladimir Putin’s regime in the use of th...
EW DELHI (AA) – Russia on Wednesday said that it does not see any hurdle in the supply of the S-400 missile systems to India because of sanctions following the Ukraine crisis. “We don’t foresee any obstacles as far as S-400 supply to India is concerned; We have routes to continue with this deal unobstructed. […]
Several Africans attempting to flee Ukraine as the war rages on have claimed they experienced racist treatment at the border because of their race. Eswatini student Vkile Dlamini, who crossed to Romania from Ukraine, said that she undertook the most difficult journey of her life. “We were exposed to a lot of racism. Police pointed [&hell...
Cooperation with regard to arms control and disarmament has become even more crucial as Europe faces its worst crisis since the Cold War, said Turkiye’s deputy foreign minister Sedat Onal. He was speaking on the second day of the Geneva-based Conference on Disarmament (CD) meeting. Sedat Onal reiterated Turkiye’s support for Ukrain...
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Tuesday that he is working with his Turkish counterpart to attempt to arrange a meeting between the leaders of Russia and Ukraine as the war between Moscow and Kyiv entered its sixth day. Speaking following a security council meeting, Lukashenko mentioned the first talks that recently took place b...
