UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The UN condemned North Korea’s latest ballistic missile launch Tuesday, saying it was a reckless act and a violation of Security Council resolutions. “The Secretary-General strongly condemns the launch of a ballistic missile of possible intermediate range by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK),” s...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The UN General Assembly will convene an emergency session Oct. 10 concerning Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s territories, according to a spokesman. The meeting request by Ukraine and Albania comes after Russia vetoed a UN Security Council resolution condemning the Moscow-backed referendums to annex part...
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...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Just a week after a Japanese political affairs consul was declared persona non grata by Russia, Tokyo has asked a Russian diplomat to leave the country. The move comes in response to Moscow’s decision last week to declare a Japanese diplomat persona non grata after being “caught red-handed receiving classified information about...
Seoul, South Korea (AFP): North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years Tuesday, prompting Tokyo to activate its missile alert system and issue a rare warning for people to take shelter. The latest launch — which the United States branded “reckless and dangerous” — comes in a record [...
ANKARA (AA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday submitted to parliament a draft constitutional law on the admission of Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions to the Russian Federation, state media reported. The Russian state media also reported that parliamentary elections in the four annexed regions will ...
Paris, France (AFP): Iranians living overseas as well as those who support their cause are gathering in cities all over the world in solidarity with protests sparked by the mysterious custodial death of Mahsa Amini who was being held for defying the country’s laws on women’s dress code in public. A wave of street protests […...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The head of the UN has condemned Russia’s move to annex Ukraine’s occupied territories following what the West called ”sham” referendums. ”Any decision to proceed with the annexation of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine would have no legal value and deserves ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President Joe Biden has said that Washington will “never recognize” Moscow’s annexation of parts of Ukraine. Speaking at an event hosting Pacific nations’ leaders at the White House on Thursday, Biden called the move “shameless,” and said: “I want to be very clear about, the Uni...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin signed decrees early Friday recognizing the independence of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine captured by the Russian army. Referendums on joining Russia were held from Sept. 23-27 in the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, which are under the control of pro...
