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Ukraine exchanges prisoners with Russia, 14 people coming home

Ukraine carried out a prisoner exchange with Russia on Saturday, with seven soldiers and seven civilians coming...

Published 30 Apr, 2022 08:59pm

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Russia says paid foreign debt in dollars amid default fears

MOSCOW: Russia’s finance ministry said Friday it had completed payments on two dollar-denominated bonds amid...

Published 29 Apr, 2022 08:28pm

World

Ukraine says Russia taking ‘colossal losses’ in eastern battle

KYIV: Ukraine acknowledged on Friday it was taking heavy losses in Russia’s assault in the east, but said Russia’s...

Published 29 Apr, 2022 02:17pm

World

Erdogan tells Putin ‘ready to take initiative’ on Ukraine

ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Thursday that Ankara was ready to...

Published 28 Apr, 2022 05:42pm

World

UK stands by vow to clear Russia from ‘whole of Ukraine’

LONDON: Britain denied Thursday it was over-reaching against Russia after Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said “the...

Published 28 Apr, 2022 02:19pm

World

Russia warns Britain for provoking Ukraine

Russia warned Britain on Tuesday that if it continued to provoke Ukraine to strike targets in Russia then there...

Published 26 Apr, 2022 08:18pm

World

World faces biggest energy shock since 1970s: World Bank

WASHINGTON: Energy prices have surged since the Russian invasion of Ukraine and, along with other commodities, are...

Published 26 Apr, 2022 06:11pm

World

Pentagon spokesman says Russia already weakened after war in Ukraine

WASHINGTON: Russia already has a weakened military and is a weakened state after its war on neighboring Ukraine,...

Published 26 Apr, 2022 05:12pm

World

Ukraine wants UN to be guarantor of safe corridor from Mariupol steel plant

Ukraine denied on Monday reaching an agreement with Russia on evacuating civilians from a steel plant in the...

Published 25 Apr, 2022 06:05pm

World

Russia announces ceasefire around Mariupol steel plant: ministry

MOSCOW: Russia’s defence ministry on Monday announced a ceasefire around the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol to...

Published 25 Apr, 2022 05:37pm

World

Russia warns United States against sending more arms to Ukraine

LONDON: Russia told the United States to stop sending more arms to Ukraine, warning that large Western deliveries of...

Updated 25 Apr, 2022 08:52pm

World

Ukraine negotiator says Russia continuously shelling Mariupol, urges ‘real Easter truce’

Senior Ukrainian negotiator and presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak said on Sunday that Russian forces were...

Published 24 Apr, 2022 02:05pm

World

Russia says it struck arms depots in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region

Russia’s defence ministry said on Sunday its high-precision missiles struck nine Ukrainian military targets...

Published 24 Apr, 2022 01:56pm

World

Guterres to visit Ankara Monday before trips to Moscow and Kyiv

NEW YORK: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Monday will visit Turkey, an important mediator seeking an end to...

Published 24 Apr, 2022 10:20am

World

Russia renews Mariupol attacks, top US officials to visit Kyiv, Ukraine says

KYIV: Russia resumed its assault on the last Ukrainian defenders holed up in a giant steel works in Mariupol, days...

Published 24 Apr, 2022 09:55am

World

Three killed in Russian shelling in Kharkiv region, Ukraine says

KYIV: Three people were killed and seven were wounded by Russian shelling in the eastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv...

Published 23 Apr, 2022 10:02pm

World

UK confirms supply of vehicles, drones and anti-tank weapons to Ukraine

LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Saturday to confirm...

Published 23 Apr, 2022 09:57pm

World

Russia investigates media report on presence of British SAS special forces in Ukraine

LONDON: Russia’s top state investigative body said on Saturday it was looking into a Russian media report alleging...

Published 23 Apr, 2022 08:20pm

World

Five dead in Russian strike on Odessa: Ukrainian presidency

KYIV: A Russian strike killed at least five people, including a baby, and wounded 18 others in Ukraine’s Black Sea...

Published 23 Apr, 2022 07:54pm

World

Russia has resumed offensive against Ukrainian forces in Mariupol’s Azovstal: Ukrainian official

KYIV: Russian forces have resumed air strikes on and are trying to storm the Azovstal steel works where Ukraine’s...

Published 23 Apr, 2022 05:48pm

World

Intensifying barrage pounds eastern Ukraine; Zelenskiy warns on Russian war aims

KYIV/MARIUPOL: Ukrainian forces were pulling back from some settlements to regroup as an intensifying barrage...

Published 23 Apr, 2022 05:43pm

World

Russia to deploy Sarmat missiles by autumn in ‘historic’ nuclear upgrade

LONDON: Russia said on Saturday it plans to deploy its newly tested Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles,...

Published 23 Apr, 2022 05:31pm

World

India wants to be friends with West but needs Russian help to defend borders, says Finance Minister

MUMBAI: India wants to be strong friends with the "liberal world" but it needs Russia's assistance to defend its...

Updated 23 Apr, 2022 06:10pm

World

Ukraine says will try to evacuate Mariupol civilians from noon

KYIV: Ukraine will make a new attempt to evacuate civilians from Mariupol, the heavily destroyed city largely...

Published 23 Apr, 2022 02:18pm

World

Putin says Kyiv refusing to allow Mariupol troops to surrender

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday accused Kyiv of refusing to allow Ukrainian troops to surrender ...

Published 22 Apr, 2022 10:00pm

World

Russia to seek full control of Donbas, southern Ukraine: Russian general

MOSCOW: The Russian army will try to take full control over eastern and southern Ukraine, a top general was quoted...

Published 22 Apr, 2022 02:41pm

World

New US sanctions for Russian bank, oligarchs, crypto miner BitRiver

WASHINGTON: The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on dozens of people and entities, including a Russian...

Published 21 Apr, 2022 10:58am

World

Biden to speak on Ukraine war amid expectation of new military aid

WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden will deliver an update on the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Thursday as he works to...

Published 21 Apr, 2022 10:43am

World

Treasury’s Yellen, ECB’s Lagarde express disapproval to Russian official at G20 meeting

WASHINGTON: U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde expressed...

Published 20 Apr, 2022 10:03pm

World

Russia to update its strategy in World Trade Organization amid sanctions, says Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that “illegal” restrictions on Russian companies by Western...

Published 20 Apr, 2022 08:17pm