Top Story

Published by DPA Ukrainian forces have retaken “key terrain” from Russian troops in the north of the country, Britain’s Ministry of Defence said in its latest intelligence assessment of the war. “Low-level fighting is likely to continue in some of the newly recaptured regions, but diminish significantly this week as the remainder of the Russian […]

Published by DPA Ukraine announced the establishment of seven escape corridors for the evacuation of civilians on Tuesday. However, residents of the besieged port city of Mariupol will only be able to leave in private cars, Ukrainian Deputy Prime MinisterIryna Vereshchuk said, according to the Ukrinform news agency. She accused Russian troops of continuing to

Published by Reuters UK By Simon Gardner BUCHA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Global outrage spread on Monday over civilian deaths in Ukraine including evidence of bound bodies shot at close range and a mass grave found in areas retaken from Russian troops, as artillery bombarded the country’s south and east. Taras Shapravskyi, deputy mayor of Bucha,

Published by DPA Prime Minister Imran Khan called for fresh elections after the speaker of Pakistan’s parliament threw out a no-confidence motion against him, saying it was supported by a foreign power. “I have advised the president to dissolve the parliament and call fresh elections,” Khan said in a brief address to the nation on

Published by Reuters UK LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukraine hopes to open three humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians from besieged towns and cities on Tuesday, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said. She said this would include trying to establish a safe corridor for people to leave the encircled southern port city of Mariupol in private

Published by Reuters UK By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) – Oil prices tumbled more than $5 on Monday as fears over weaker fuel demand in China grew after financial hub Shanghai launched a two-stage lockdown to contain a surge in COVID-19 infections. The market kicked off another week of uncertainty, buffeted on one side by

Published by DPA US President Joe Biden’s comment that Russian leader Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power” continued to generate outrage in Moscow on Sunday. Prominent Russian Senator Konstantin Kosachev, chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee in parliament’s upper house, claimed Biden made statements with “frightening regularity” that are worse than crimes. There had been

Published by Al-Araby The war in Ukraine has killed 136 children in the 31 days since the start of the Russian invasion, Ukraine’s office of the prosecutor general has said early today in a message on the Telegram app. Of the total, 64 children have been killed in the Kyiv region, the office said. A

Published by Reuters UK By Gleb Garanich and Natalia Zinets MARIUPOL/LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pushed for further talks with Russia as Moscow signalled it was scaling back its ambitions to focus on territory claimed by Russian-backed separatists in the east after attacks elsewhere stalled. In an announcement on Friday appearing to

Published by Global Voices A Ceylon Petroleum fuel truck. Image from Flickr by Dhammika Heenpella. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 On March 18, 2022, the authorities announced that the final term examinations of schools in the Western Province of Sri Lanka would be delayed due to a shortage of paper and other materials required to prepare the