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by Adrien MAROTTE Agence France-Presse MAROUA, Cameroon (AFP) – Their homes are a scattering of huts made of branches and dry leaves that seem to almost dissolve into the arid landscape. A group of men sit on a rug, conversing in the shade of a tree, while women perching on stones under the scorching Sahel sun prepare a meal with the few ingredients they have to hand, as children play nearby. These are some of […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) – Russian forces have taken the Ukrainian city of Kherson, local officials confirmed, the first major urban centre to fall since Moscow invaded one week ago. “The (Russian) occupiers are in all parts of the city and are very dangerous,” Gennady Lakhuta, head of the regional administration, wrote on messaging service Telegram late Wednesday. The strategic port city of 290,000 people near the Black Sea came under siege as Russian forces pressed […]
VIENNA, Austria (AFP) – Leading groups representing Holocaust survivors have condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin’s claim that the “denazification” of Ukraine was one reason he invaded the country. “The signatories of this appeal denounce the use of the words ‘denazification’ and ‘genocide’ to justify the attack on Ukraine,” reads the statement sent to AFP on Wednesday. “We cannot accept that these words are tarnished in this way,” it added. The statement was signed by representatives […]
Nearly 15,000 Russian and 2,000 Ukrainian tourists are stuck in the Dominican Republic due to travel restrictions imposed after Moscow’s invasion of its neighbor, the government in Santo Domingo said Wednesday. The Caribbean country said it had reached a deal with hotel chains to “guarantee” the tourists’ accommodation “until such time as a solution is found.” Hotels in the Dominican Republic, a country renowned for its beautiful beaches, welcomed five million guests in 2021. The […]
by Dmitry ZAKS The wounded Ukrainian soldier dropped his crutches to the Kyiv metro station floor and picked up his five-year-old son, first wiping tears from his shaking wife’s face. The sweet smell of sweat from the bodies of sheltering Ukrainians permeated the damp, chilly air around them. But Sergiy and Natalia Badylevych were oblivious to the cooking odours and the dozing families spread out on the floor of what has become one of Kyiv’s […]
by Philippe RATER The UN General Assembly on Wednesday overwhelmingly adopted a resolution that “demands” Russia “immediately” withdraw from Ukraine, in a powerful rebuke of Moscow’s invasion by a vast majority of the world’s nations. After more than two days of extraordinary debate, which saw the Ukrainian ambassador accuse Russia of genocide, 141 out of 193 United Nations member states voted for the non-binding resolution. “The world is rejecting Russia’s lies,” US President Joe Biden […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan will accept Ukrainian refugees fleeing Russia’s ongoing invasion, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Wednesday, in a break with the country’s usual reticence to accept humanitarian arrivals. Japan typically accepts just a few dozen refugees a year out of thousands of applicants, and its borders are currently closed to virtually all foreign visitors to prevent Covid-19 infections. But Kishida said the country would now “proceed with a plan to welcome people […]
FRANKFURT, Germany (AFP) — German logistics giant DHL announced Wednesday it was stopping deliveries to Russia and Belarus, joining a growing list of Western businesses to cease operations in the countries after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. The “inbound services to Russia and Belarus have been suspended”, DHL said in a statement, adding that it was “not accepting shipments to those countries until further notice”. DHL, one of the world’s largest logistics groups, also closed […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The number of refugees fleeing the conflict in Ukraine has surged to nearly 836,000, United Nations figures showed Wednesday, as fighting intensified on day seven of Russia’s invasion. In all, 835,928 people have fled across the country’s borders, according to the website of UNHCR, the UN refugee agency. That marks a huge jump from the 677,000 announced Tuesday afternoon by the organization’s chief Filippo Grandi. More than half have headed west […]
KHARKIV, Ukraine (AFP) — Four people have been killed and another nine wounded during shelling in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, where Russian forces landed on Wednesday, the emergencies services said. “Four dead, nine injured,” the services said, citing preliminary information. Kharkiv, a largely Russian-speaking city near the Russian border, has a population of around 1.4 million. It has been a target for Russian forces since President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion of Ukraine […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — European gas prices surged by around 50 percent Wednesday to a record high on supply fears following key producer Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Europe’s reference Dutch TTF gas price hit 194.715 euros per megawatt hour in morning deals. UK gas prices jumped as high as 463.84 pence per therm, close to the record 470.83 pence struck in December. The assault on Ukraine also sent oil prices rocketing Wednesday because Russia […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Tokyo lodged a diplomatic protest with Moscow after scrambling fighter jets on Wednesday as a suspected Russian helicopter entered Japan’s northern airspace at a time of heightened tensions over Ukraine. Japan, which has volatile ties and border disputes with key neighbours China, Russia and South Korea, routinely sends jets to defend its territorial airspace. The country scrambled military jets 49 times in January, 142 times in December and 127 times in […]
