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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed vowed Tuesday to maintain energy market stability, the UAE’s state news agency said. They agreed in a phone call on the “need to maintain the stability of the global energy market,” said the news agency WAM, as oil prices surge due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Sheikh Mohammed was also briefed by Putin on “the developments of the crisis with Ukraine”, WAM […]
KHARKIV, Ukraine (AFP) — The central square of Ukraine’s second city, Kharkiv, was shelled by Russian forces, who hit a local administrative building, says regional governor Oleg Sinegubov, in an address which includes images of damaged buildings.
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — At least 17 people are feared dead after a landslide trapped dozens of workers inside a Myanmar jade mine, sources and local media said Tuesday. The incident came on Monday evening near Hpakant township in northern Kachin state — the same region where a massive landslide in 2020 entombed 300 workers in the country’s worst ever mine disaster. Pictures of the scene showed the aftermath of the landslide, with a broad […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) — Russian shelling on Ukraine’s second largest city Kharkiv killed at least 10 people and left many more injured on Tuesday, emergency services said. The attack targeted the city’s central square and the main administration building. “At least 10 people were killed and more than 20 were injured,” the regional emergency services said in a statement, adding that 10 people had been discovered alive under rubble as rescue workers cleared debris. It […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday described Russian shelling of his country’s second city as a war crime and said defending the capital from Moscow’s army was a top priority. “The strike against Kharkiv is a war crime. This is state terrorism on the part of Russia,” Zelensky said in a video statement. The central square of Kharkiv, was shelled earlier on Tuesday by advancing Russian forces, who hit the building […]
LASK, Poland (AFP) — NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday said Russian President Vladimir Putin had “shattered peace in Europe” by invading Ukraine, adding that the Western defence alliance would defend “every inch of our territory”. He spoke during a visit to the Lask airbase in NATO member Poland, whose neighbour Ukraine has been fighting back against a Russian offensive that is now on its sixth day. “President Putin has shattered peace in Europe. Allies […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — An Indian student was killed on Tuesday in shelling in Ukraine, New Delhi said as it urged Moscow and Kyiv to secure safe passage for its around 12,000 nationals stuck in the country. “With profound sorrow we confirm that an Indian student lost his life in shelling in Kharkiv this morning,” Indian foreign ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said on Twitter. He added that the foreign secretary was “calling in […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi on Tuesday urged tougher action against Russian oligarchs and more pressure on Russia’s central bank over the invasion of Ukraine. The European Union on Monday added top Kremlin-linked oligarchs and President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman to its sanctions blacklist. More wide-sweeping measures, including prohibiting transactions with Russia’s central bank, have helped send the Russian economy into turmoil. Italy, the eurozone’s third largest economy, “is ready for further […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — More than 660,000 refugees have fled the conflict in Ukraine to seek shelter in neighboring countries, the UN Refugee Agency said Tuesday. “We have now over 660,000 refugees who have fled Ukraine to neighboring countries in the past six days alone,” spokeswoman Shabia Mantoo told reporters in Geneva. “The numbers are exponentially increasing… At this rate, the situation looks set to become Europe’s largest refugee crisis this century.” © Agence France-Presse
KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) — The central square of Ukraine’s second city, Kharkiv, was shelled on Tuesday by advancing Russian forces who hit the building of the local administration, regional governor Oleg Sinegubov said. “This morning the central square of our city and the headquarters of the Kharkiv administration was criminally attacked,” Sinegubov said in a video on Telegram. “Russian occupiers continue to use heavy weaponry against the civilian population,” he said, adding that the […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — YouTube has blocked Russian channels RT and Sputnik in Europe “taking into account the ongoing war in Ukraine”, the video-sharing platform said on Tuesday. “We are blocking the YouTube channels of RT and Sputnik in the whole of Europe with immediate effect. Our systems need a little time before being fully operational,” YouTube said in an email to AFP. Fellow online giant Facebook took a similar decision on Monday by blocking […]
LOD, Israel (AFP) — A repatriation flight from Romania carrying Israelis evacuated from Ukraine landed at Ben Gurion airport outside Tel Aviv on Tuesday to the teary relief of waiting relatives. Badr Tawil, 23, a student who fled Ukraine’s under-fire second city Kharkiv, said he had escaped chaos. “We just woke up once and we heard the sounds around us. Bombs everywhere. So we decided to leave, just to leave Ukraine,” he said. Israeli Foreign […]
