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WASHINGTON, D.C., United States (AFP) – The World Bank on Tuesday announced more than $1 billion in humanitarian aid for Afghanistan, stating the money will go to UN agencies and international NGOs while remaining “outside the control” of the country’s Taliban rulers. The reallocation from the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF) follows the $280 million in ARTF funds disbursed last December, and is aimed at supporting the humanitarian response over the critical winter months. The […]
The International Court of Justice said Tuesday it would hold genocide hearings on March 7 and 8 over the war in Ukraine, as fighting intensifies. The Hague-based ICJ, the United Nations’ top court, will open the public hearings after Ukraine lodged a complaint with the court to order Russia to stop its invasion. “The hearings will be devoted to the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by Ukraine,” the court said in a […]
JERUSALEM, Undefined (AFP) – Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday froze the eviction of four Palestinian families from the flashpoint east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah, where Jewish settler groups have sought to seize control. Justice Isaac Amit, in a ruling by a three-judge panel, wrote the families would be recognised as protected tenants, and would pay a Jewish settler group a symbolic annual rent of 2,400 shekels (about $740) “until a determination of … land […]
CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — In rare backing for Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday assured Vladimir Putin of his “strong support” in a telephone call, according to a Kremlin statement. In the call initiated by Caracas, the Venezuelan leader also condemned “destabilizing actions of the United States and NATO” and spoke out against a Western campaign of “lies and disinformation,” it said. Dozens of people have been killed and […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Tech giant Apple announced Tuesday a halt in all product sales in Russia, the latest fallout over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Western governments, sporting organizations and big companies have cut Russia off or dealt it punishing sanctions over the internationally condemned attack on its neighbor. “We have paused all product sales in Russia. Last week, we stopped all exports into our sales channel in the country,” said an Apple statement. […]
by Yannick PASQUET BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — At Berlin central station, commuters rush past a mother and her four children as they stand bewildered on the platform, weighed down by heavy luggage. Two of them, still toddlers, are wearing hats and jackets in blue and yellow, the colours of the flag of Ukraine, the country they have fled to come here. Germany has opened its doors to refugees from Ukraine since Russia’s invasion of the […]
ANKARA, Turkey (AFP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on the European Union on Tuesday to treat his country like it does Ukraine, without waiting for it to be “hit by a war”. “Show Turkey the same sensitivity that we are witnessing towards Ukraine,” Erdogan said at a press conference in Ankara. Turkey has been a candidate for EU membership since 1987 but talks have floundered in recent years, with Brussels increasingly critical of […]
US benchmark oil contract, West Texas Intermediate, soared more than 10 percent in value Tuesday, as Ukraine’s invasion by key producer Russia fuels fears over supplies. WTI reached $106.29 per barrel and European benchmark Brent North Sea crude surged more than nine percent to $107.44 — with both levels the highest in more than seven years. emb-bcp/kjm © Agence France-Presse
The Ukrainian special forces commander inspected the remains of a bridge his teams had blown up at the gates of Kyiv and explained his strategy for fighting Russian “saboteurs”. “We have our agents living with the locals,” Spear unit commander Viktor Chelovan said. “If strangers come into our villages, people send us signals, call us, and we go out and take care of these saboteurs.” A fear of Russians disguised as locals is gradually gripping […]
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Israelis, Arabs and Iranians landed back in their home countries Tuesday to the tearful relief of relatives, as evacuations of nationals caught up in the Russian invasion of Ukraine gathered pace. The Middle Eastern evacuees had been forced to make harrowing escapes through the war zone to board repatriation flights in neighbouring countries, after Ukraine closed its airspace to civilian traffic at the start of the invasion last week. One of the first flights, bringing home Israeli evacuees, […]
An apparent Russian airstrike hit Kyiv’s main television tower in the heart of the Ukrainian capital on Tuesday, knocking out some state broadcasting but leaving the structure intact. After a blast sounded around the city and smoke was seen rising in the Babi Yar district, the interior ministry said equipment had been damaged and “channels won’t work for a while”. A photograph distributed by the interior ministry showed a thick cloud of smoke billowing from […]
