|
World
-
International
2/20/2022 9:39:53 PM
Russia extended military drills near Ukraine's northern borders Sunday amid increased fears that two days of sustained shelling along the contact line between soldiers and Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine could spark an invasion. Ukraine's president appealed for a cease-fire.
|
|
World
-
International
2/20/2022 7:06:31 PM
Australia will welcome international tourists on Monday after nearly two years of sealing its borders, relying on high COVID-19 vaccination rates to live with the pandemic as infections decline, CNA reported.
|
|
World
-
International
2/16/2022 6:52:43 PM
Fears among Western governments that a Russian invasion of Ukraine is imminent have eased but not disappeared. Diplomatic efforts to avert war got new energy this week after Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia was willing to discuss security issues with NATO, and Russia said it was withdrawing some of its troops gathered near Ukraine's borders.
|
|
World
-
International
2/16/2022 10:38:45 AM
Russia on Wednesday said military drills in Moscow-annexed Crimea had ended and that soldiers were returning to their garrisons, a day after it announced a first troop pullback from Ukraine's borders.
|
|
World
-
International
2/15/2022 2:05:09 PM
The Kremlin said Tuesday the pullback of some Russian forces from Ukraine's borders was planned but stressed Russia would continue to move troops across the country as it saw fit.
|
|
World
-
International
2/13/2022 10:07:08 PM
Ukraine's president urged calm amid intensified warnings of a possible Russian invasion within days, saying he had yet to see convincing evidence of that, even as the U.S. reported Sunday that Moscow positioned more of its troops closer to Ukraine's borders and some airlines canceled flights to the capital of Kyiv.
|
|
World
-
International
2/13/2022 7:33:13 PM
Ukraine on Sunday vowed to keep its airspace open and international travellers safe despite Western warnings that Russian troops conducting massive drills near its borders could invade at any point.
|
|
World
-
International
2/10/2022 10:38:24 AM
A peace agreement for the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine that has never quite ended is back in the spotlight amid a Russian military buildup near the country's borders and rising tensions about whether Moscow will invade.
|
|
Egypt
-
Urban & Transport
2/6/2022 5:33:19 PM
Egypt has redrawn Cairo's administrative borders to enclose 46,000 feddans (nearly 193, 000 km2) of the 184,000-feddan New Administrative Capital (NAC), in which the new headquarters of House of Representatives and Senate are located, in order to fit the country's constitution that requires both bodies be headquartered in the Egyptian capital.
|
|
World
-
Region
2/3/2022 9:50:46 PM
European Union interior ministers on Thursday agreed to create a new decision-making body amid efforts to beef up the 27-nation bloc's borders, and to kick-start desperately needed reforms to the EU's malfunctioning asylum system on a step-by-step basis.
|
|
World
-
International
1/31/2022 7:05:30 PM
The United States and Russia squared off Monday in the UN Security Council, where Moscow lost an attempt to block a public meeting on Moscow's troop buildup near Ukraine's borders and Western fears of an invasion
|
|
World
-
Region
1/23/2022 10:12:16 PM
Workers in war-wrecked Yemen recovered five more bodies from the rubble of a prison facility hit by a Saudi-led coalition airstrike, bringing the death toll to at least 87, an international aid group said Sunday.
|
|
World
-
Region
1/16/2022 6:15:08 PM
Baghdad has repatriated almost 4,000 of its citizens stuck on the Belarus borders with European Union members Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia in recent weeks, Iraq's foreign minister said Sunday.
|
|
World
-
Region
1/8/2022 10:36:11 PM
Three Turkish soldiers were killed in southeastern Turkey on Saturday when a bomb exploded on the border with Syria, the Turkish defence ministry said.
|
|
World
-
International
12/31/2021 12:57:39 PM
Olaf Scholz firmly backed Ukraine by underlining the "inviolability of borders" in his first New Year's speech as German chancellor on Friday, amid heightened fears of a Russian invasion.
|
|
World
-
Region
12/26/2021 4:13:10 PM
Iran on Saturday announced the decision to close its land borders with neighboring countries for 15 days to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 variant of Omicron.
|
|
World
-
Africa
12/20/2021 9:17:35 PM
The leader of Tigray forces in Ethiopia says its fighters outside of the region have been ordered to withdraw and return to the embattled federal state.
|
|
World
-
International
12/16/2021 8:09:24 PM
There are currently 488 media professionals imprisoned around the world, the highest number since Reporters Without Borders began counting more than 25 years ago, the NGO announced Thursday.
|
|
World
-
International
12/14/2021 12:34:15 PM
Russia said Tuesday it was monitoring a French warship near its borders in the Black Sea, as tension soars between Moscow and the West over Ukraine.
|
|
World
-
International
12/4/2021 5:51:31 PM
Russia criticised the West on Saturday for imposing fresh sanctions against Belarus over accusations the former Soviet nation has stoked a migration crisis on its borders with EU countries.
|