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War in Ukraine
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Military
5/26/2022 3:34:26 PM
Ukraine said Thursday that fighting in the eastern Donbas region of the country had reached its fiercest level yet, as Russian forces pushed deeper into the industrial region.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
5/25/2022 10:48:31 PM
President Vladimir Putin issued an order Wednesday to fast track Russian citizenship for residents in parts of southern Ukraine largely held by his forces, while lawmakers in Moscow passed a bill to strengthen the stretched Russian army.
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Sports
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World
5/24/2022 5:54:45 PM
The BBC was forced to apologise to Manchester United fans on Tuesday after a message appeared on their news ticker labelling the Premier League club as "rubbish".
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World
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Africa
5/24/2022 11:30:47 AM
Rwanda's military has accused neighboring Congolese forces of injuring several civilians in cross-border shelling and asked regional monitors to investigate.
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World
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International
5/24/2022 10:40:07 AM
Leaders of Japan, Australia, the United States and India said Tuesday they oppose all attempts to "change the status quo by force, particularly in the Indo-Pacific".
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War in Ukraine
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Military
5/24/2022 9:44:40 AM
Russian forces on Tuesday stepped up their offensive on the last pocket of resistance around Lugansk in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, as the conflict entered its fourth month.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
5/23/2022 2:26:30 PM
A Kyiv court on Monday found a 21-year-old Russian soldier who killed a civilian guilty of war crimes and handed him a life sentence, in the first verdict against Moscow's forces since their invasion.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
5/23/2022 12:47:16 PM
Armed Russian soldiers patrol the Kakhovka hydroelectric station in southern Ukraine, a strategic target captured in the first hours of Moscow's military operation, restoring a crucial water supply to annexed Crimea.
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World
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International
5/23/2022 11:21:11 AM
President Joe Biden vowed Monday that US forces would defend Taiwan militarily if China attempted to take control of the self-ruled island by force, warning Beijing was already "flirting with danger".
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World
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Region
5/23/2022 10:41:53 AM
Iraq closed airports and public buildings on Monday as another sandstorm -- the ninth since mid-April -- hit the country, authorities said.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
5/22/2022 9:40:03 PM
One is a restaurateur who fled Belarus when he learned he was about to be arrested for criticizing President Alexander Lukashenko. Another was given the choice of either denouncing fellow opposition activists or being jailed. And one is certain his brother was killed by the country's security forces.
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World
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International
5/22/2022 7:17:53 PM
Women television presenters on Afghanistan's leading news channels on Sunday vowed to speak up for their rights after being forced by Taliban authorities to cover their faces on air.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
5/22/2022 4:31:04 PM
Russian forces pursued their bombardment of frontline Ukrainian cities on Sunday, seeking to gain military momentum as Kyiv's diplomatic counter-offensive targeted the world's business and political elite gathering in Davos.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
5/22/2022 11:35:42 AM
One is a restaurateur who fled Belarus when he learned he was about to be arrested for criticizing President Alexander Lukashenko. Another was given the choice of either denouncing fellow opposition activists or being jailed. And one is certain his brother was killed by the country's security forces.
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Egypt
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Defence
5/19/2022 9:53:41 PM
The Egyptian security forces have foiled a suicide bombing attempt by a terrorist against personnel stationed at a police checkpoint in El-Telol district in North Sinai, according to a statement by the Ministry of Interior on Thursday.
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World
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Africa
5/19/2022 7:17:27 PM
The U.N.'s top political official for Africa called Mali's decision to withdraw from the Sahel regional counterterrorism force ``unfortunate and regrettable'' Wednesday, especially at a time of increasing terrorist activity and insecurity.
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World
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Region
5/19/2022 12:38:48 PM
Israeli occupation authorities on Wednesday said they have given the go-ahead for flag-waving Jewish nationalists to march through the heart of the main Palestinian thoroughfare in Jerusalem’s Old City later this month, in a decision that threatens to re-ignite violence in the holy city.
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World
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Region
5/19/2022 11:41:21 AM
One of Libya’s rival prime ministers said Wednesday he would seat his government in the central city of Sirte after clashes forced him to abort his attempt the previous day to bring his Cabinet to the Libyan capital of Tripoli.
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World
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Africa
5/18/2022 10:01:20 PM
The new United Nations envoy to the Central African Republic Wednesday called for the "readjustment" of a UN peacekeeping force towards protecting civilians from abuse from all sides in the conflict.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
5/17/2022 5:38:27 PM
The Ukrainian forces who made a determined last stand in a Mariupol steel mill against Russian troops were a mixture of seasoned soldiers, border guards, a controversial national guard regiment and volunteers who took up arms in the weeks before Russia's invasion.
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