A Ukrainian presidential aide said on Monday a demilitarized zone of 62-75 miles should be established inside Russia along the border with Ukraine as part of a post-war settlement.
Monday, May 29, 2023
Wednesday, May 24, 2023
A 95-year-old grandmother who was allegedly tasered by a police officer in her Australian care home, died in hospital on Wednesday, the New South Wales police force said.
OSLO - The world's largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, sailed into Oslo on Wednesday, a first for such a U.S. ship, in a show of NATO force at a time of heightened tension between NATO and Russia over the war in Ukraine.
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
The Russian military said Tuesday it had routed militants who attacked a Russian border region with armored vehicles the previous day, killing more than 70 "Ukrainian nationalists" and pushing the remainder back into Ukraine.
KYIV, Ukraine - Russian officials said Tuesday that a counterterrorism operation was underway in the western region of Belgorod, which borders Ukraine, after anti-Russian militias fighting on Ukraine's side in the war mounted an attack on a border post and on an office of the Federal Securit…
Sunday, May 21, 2023
MOSCOW -- Russia's Foreign Ministry on Sunday dismissed the G7 summit in Japan's Hiroshima as a "politicized" event that it said had pumped out anti-Russian and anti-Chinese statements and accused the forum of undermining global stability.
HIROSHIMA, Japan — President Joe Biden on Sunday said he had received a “flat assurance” from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that he would not use Western-provided F-16 fighter jets to go into Russian territory.
ROME — Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni pledged to support the recovery of flood-hit areas of northern Italy on Sunday after returning early from the G7 summit in Japan to see the damage first hand.
Friday, May 19, 2023
China promised billions of dollars in "financing support and free assistance" to five Central Asian countries on Friday, as President Xi Jinping presented a wide-ranging security and defense plan to a region that has long been in Russia's orbit.
President Joe Biden has largely stuck with his predecessor’s tough economic line against China, and even taken it a bit further. But that’s not how former President Donald Trump is telling it.
MOSCOW - A powerful ally of President Vladimir Putin on Friday accused the United States of coordinating with Ukraine to kill two pro-war nationalists in Russia and to carry out attacks on critical national infrastructure in an effort to undermine stability.
Thursday, May 18, 2023
LONDON — British government departments spent a total of $204 million on Queen Elizabeth’s state funeral and related events, the Treasury said Thursday.
Wednesday, May 17, 2023
SARAJEVO - The head of the European Union body responsible for enlargement warned aspiring member Bosnia-Herzegovina on Wednesday that EU allies do not visit Russia, referring to an announced visit to Moscow by Bosnian Serb nationalist leader Milorad Dodik.
MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that the situation on the global oil market was, on the whole, "absolutely stable" as Russia maintains output cuts to support prices.
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
KYIV - Anti-corruption authorities in Ukraine said on Tuesday they had detained the head of the country's Supreme Court in an investigation they cast as an important step in Kyiv's fight against high-level graft.
Commenting on a YouTube video encouraging Russians to make contact with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA, the Kremlin said on Tuesday that its own special services were tracking Western intelligence activity.
Monday, May 15, 2023
ANKARA -- President Tayyip Erdogan led comfortably on Monday after the first round of Turkey's presidential election, with his rival facing an uphill struggle to prevent the president extending his rule into a third decade in a runoff vote on May 28.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday lauded "important and powerful" military aid from Britain, France and Germany, and said he was pleased with agreements reached during a tour of Europe.
Sunday, May 14, 2023
The head of Russia's Wagner private army dismissed a U.S. newspaper report on Monday that he had offered to betray Russian positions, and the Kremlin called it a "hoax."
KYIV/BERLIN -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday Kyiv and its allies could make a Russian defeat "irreversible" as early as this year as he secured a bumper new military package on a trip to Germany.
ANKARA -- Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday hurrying to announce election results while the counting goes on would mean stealing people's will, while challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu warned election authorities to log all nationwide results.
Saturday, May 13, 2023
VATICAN CITY — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked Pope Francis on Saturday to back Kyiv’s peace plan, and the pope indicated the Vatican would help in the repatriation of Ukrainian children taken by Russians.
OTTAWA (Reuters) — Canada’s main oil-producing province of Alberta faces another hot and dry weekend with warnings of more intense wildfires after blazes forced thousands to evacuate homes and temporarily shuttered energy production.
GAZA/JERUSALEM — A truce between Israel and the militant Islamic Jihad group officially came into effect late on Saturday night, with an Egyptian-mediated ceasefire agreement meant to end the worst episode of cross-border fire since a 10-day war in 2021.
KYIV, Ukraine - They started shelling at sunrise.
Friday, May 12, 2023
SHAKAHOLA FOREST, Kenya - Kenyan investigators unearthed 29 more bodies on Friday in a continuing search for victims of a doomsday cult in the country's southeast.
RIO DE JANEIRO - Republican U.S. congressman George Santos, who has Brazilian heritage, agreed to settle a lawsuit in which he was accused of bouncing checks to buy clothes in a Rio de Janeiro clothing store over a decade ago, a court in Rio said.
KYIV - Russia said on Friday that Ukrainian forces had attacked Russian positions along almost 100 km (60 miles) of the front line near Soledar, a small mining town near Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine that Moscow's forces seized in January.
Thursday, May 11, 2023
LONDON — Britain on Thursday became the first country to start supplying Ukraine with long-range cruise missiles, which will allow Ukrainian forces to hit Russian troops and supply dumps deep behind the front lines.
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis appealed to countries on Thursday to manage waves of migrants as best they can and to expand channels for their safe and regular movement, as the United States grapples with a surge of new arrivals at its southern border.
A prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of an 18-year-old Alabama high school student will be temporarily extradited to the United States from Peru to face charges of extortion and wire fraud, Peruvian officials said Wednesday.
Wednesday, May 10, 2023
The leader of Russia's Wagner private army said on Thursday Ukraine's long-awaited counteroffensive was already underway and making gains on the outskirts of the eastern city of Bakhmut, while Kyiv said its main effort had not yet started.
WASHINGTON -- U.S. negotiators taking part in talks in Saudi Arabia aimed at extending a ceasefire between rival armed forces in Sudan are "cautiously optimistic," U.S. Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said on Wednesday, as she faced criticism from senators over the administration's …
Tuesday, May 09, 2023
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that a "real war" was being waged against Russia amid muted Victory Day celebrations on Tuesday, with many mass events canceled over security concerns after last week's drone attack on the Kremlin and a looming Ukrainian counteroffensive.
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's main opposition leader and former prime minister Imran Khan was arrested Tuesday, authorities said, raising the stakes of the country's political crisis and the possibility of more violent clashes between his supporters and Pakistani police.
KYIV - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday Russian forces had failed to capture the eastern city of Bakhmut before the May 9 Russian holiday marking the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two.
Monday, May 08, 2023
WINDSOR, England - In one of the more surprising moments heralding this country's new sovereign, Hollywood royalty Tom Cruise assured actual royalty King Charles III that he could be his "wingman any time."
GENEVA - The 700-piece private jewelry collection of the late Austrian billionaire Heidi Horten, the world's largest and most valuable collection of its kind to come to auction, could sell for more than $150 million, Christie's said on Monday.
BEIJING - China's Foreign Minister Qin Gang said on Monday it is imperative to stabilize Sino-U.S. relations after a series of "erroneous words and deeds" threw ties back into a deep freeze.
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