BRUSSELS: The EU on Monday summoned Russia’s top diplomat in Brussels as part of a coordinated move with member states to condemn President Vladimir Putin’s “illegal annexation” of more Ukrainian territory. “This is an EU-wide and EU coordinated exercise,” Peter Stano, a foreign affairs spokesman for the bloc, told AFP. EU nations on Friday began […]
RAMALLAH: Israeli forces killed two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Monday during what the army called an attempted car-ramming attack on soldiers carrying out an arrest operation. The deaths came during one of the worst periods of unrest in years in the West Bank where Israeli forces have conducted near-daily raids since March. […]
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei responded publicly on Monday to the biggest protests in Iran in years, breaking weeks of silence to condemn the violent rioting and accuse protests of being planned by the US and Israel. Khamenei described the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of Iran’s morality police, which set […]
Kyiv: Russia attacked the Ukrainian president’s hometown and other targets on Sunday with suicide drones, and Ukraine took back full control of a strategic eastern city in a counteroffensive that has reshaped the war. Russia’s loss of the eastern city of Lyman, which it had been using as a transport and logistics hub, is a […]
KABUL: A group of Afghan women Saturday protested a suicide bombing that killed or wounded dozens of students in a Shiite education center in the capital Kabul a day earlier, demanding better security from the Taliban-run government. The demonstration was quickly broken up by Taliban police. The bomber struck an education center Friday packed with […]
Islamabad: Pakistan’s Cabinet on Sunday decided to launch legal action against former prime minister Imran Khan and his party’s top leaders over audio leaks in which he could allegedly be heard discussing the controversial US cypher and how to exploit it to portray his ouster as a conspiracy. At least two audio tapes have been […]
United Nations: In a first, Mahatma Gandhi made a special appearance at the United Nations, sharing his message on education at the world organisation as it commemorated the International Day of Non-Violence on the occasion of the Indian leader’s birth anniversary. A special life-size hologram of Gandhi was projected during a panel discussion organised on […]
United Nations: India, citing the “totality of the evolving situation,” has abstained on a UN Security Council resolution, vetoed by Russia, that would have condemned Moscow’s illegal referenda and declared its annexation of four Ukrainian territories as invalid. The 15-nation UN Security Council voted on Friday on the draft resolution tabled by the US and […]
Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin has reminded the world of the West’s colonial policy, plundering of India and Africa, slave trade, and the use of nuclear and chemical weapons by the US, as he slammed them for their “utter deceit” and “double standards” on insisting on a rules-based global order. Putin made the remarks during […]
Dubai: An attack by armed separatists on a police station in a southeastern city killed 19 people, including three members of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard, Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported on Saturday. The assailants in Friday’s attack hid among worshippers near a mosque in the city of Zahedan and attacked the nearby police […]