EU agrees to consider membership bids of Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova
The European Union agreed to start examining the membership bids of Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova on Monday as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine stretched into its 12th day.
The European Union agreed to start examining the membership bids of Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova on Monday as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine stretched into its 12th day.
Russia shattered ceasefire talks as it prepared for a massive assault on Kyiv, the capital, and continued shelling several cities, Ukrainian officials, and witnesses said.
Russia said Monday it would halt fire to allow civilians in the capital Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities to escape after being accused of shelling civilian targets in deadly attacks.
The United Nations says more than 1.5 million people have now fled Ukraine into neighboring countries as the country faces mounting attacks by some 200,000 Russian troops. The refugee crisis comes as Russian forces respond to Ukraine’s resistance by targeting “populated areas” in several cities, witnesses say.
Hungary’s government which maintains close ties with Moscow, has admitted it taunted European Union sanctions by allowing a Russian aircraft to land in Budapest for “humanitarian reasons.”
Iran and the U.N. nuclear watchdog on Saturday agreed to a three-month process that the watchdog hopes will resolve the long-stalled issue of Iran obfuscating its independent safeguard probes, after uranium particles were found several years ago at apparently old but undeclared sites in the country.
Russian police arrested over 3,000 people protesting against the country’s war with Ukraine on Sunday.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that NATO member countries have a “green light” to send fighter jets as military aid to Ukraine.
As Russia works to counteract, and retaliate against, the effect of Western sanctions, President Vladimir Putin has compared the punitive measures imposed by the U.S. and its allies over his invasion of Ukraine to a “declaration of war.”
After Visa and Mastercard announced that their operations in Russia would be suspended, many Russian banks announced on Sunday that they would soon begin issuing cards using the Chinese UnionPay card operator’s system combined with Russia’s own Mir network. Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, as well as Alfa Bank and Tinkoff, all announced the transfer to UnionPay on Sunday.
Ukraine says Russian forces have seized Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, and there is concern about the use of cluster bombs in the ongoing Russian invasion. With the offensive escalating, many people flee the war-torn nation, including to the Hungarian- Ukrainian border.
High-ranking whistleblowers warn that the United States is to finalize an earth-shattering deal with Iran that will fuel the Islamic state’s race to build a nuclear weapon and finance terrorism.
Germany has agreed to pay a further $720 million for the care of vulnerable Holocaust survivors, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports.
The United Nations’ atomic watchdog said Thursday that it believes Iran has significantly increased its stockpile of highly enriched uranium in breach of a 2015 accord with world powers.
The head of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN nuclear watchdog, will travel to Iran on Saturday “for meetings with senior Iranian officials,” the IAEA said Thursday.
Taiwan suffered a widespread electrical blackout on Thursday and the power outage disrupted a meeting between former Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen.
More than 1 million people have fled Ukraine following Russia‘s invasion, in the swiftest refugee exodus this century, the United Nations said Thursday, as Russian forces pressed their assaults on the country’s second-largest city and two strategic seaports.
Two independent news outlets who have refused to toe the Kremlin’s line following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine were forced off the air this week.
People are massively leaving Ukraine as Russia has intensified its attacks on key Ukrainian cities. Fighting was raging for the seventh day of the Russian invasion in the north, south, and east of Ukraine.
Wheat prices have soared past $10 per barrel, the highest price since 2008 for the staple grain, as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.