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US President Joe Biden arrived in Kyiv in a surprise visit on Monday, strolling through the center of the capital with President Zelensky as air raid sirens rang out across Ukraine. Biden said a new military aid package worth $500 million to be announced on Tuesday will include more ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems. “One year later, […]

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday accused Russia of committing “crimes against humanity” in Ukraine and Russian forces of conducting “widespread and systemic” attacks on the country’s civilian population. Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris speaks at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023.AP Photo/Michael Probst/TASS She made the […]

Clashes have forced more than 185,000 people to flee their homes in a contested border town in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland, the UN’s emergency response agency said. More than 60,000 others have fled to Ethiopia’s Somali region to escape the violence [Getty/archive] Somaliland, which has claimed independence from Somalia since 1991, but has never been […]

China, Brazil and India are still either supporting Russia or sitting on the fence, but time and events are pressuring them to dispense with their ambivalence. Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi delivers a speech at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich, southern Germany, on February 18, 2023. Odd ANDERSEN / AFP Day 2 of […]

North Korea fired a suspected long-range ballistic missile toward the East Sea on Saturday, the South Korean military said, its second missile provocation this year. (Yonhap/ Korean Central News Agency) The Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected the launch from the Sunan area in Pyongyang at 17:22 p.m. It did not provide other details […]

More than 60,000 Somalis, mainly women and children, have fled to Ethiopia’s Somali region in the past few weeks to escape clashes and insecurity in the city of Laascaanood, in Sool region. More than half of them arrived earlier this week. Somali refugees who fled recent clashes in Lasscanood, Somaliland area, shelter in the open […]

More than 45,000 people have been killed in the earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria, and the toll is expected to soar with some 264,000 apartments in Turkey destroyed and many still missing in the country’s worst modern disaster A worker looks on as a heavily quake-damaged building is demolished in Hatay, Turkey on February […]

Minister of Environment, Urban Planning and Climate Change Murat Kurum announced on Friday that a total of 84,726 buildings were damaged in the Feb. 6 earthquakes, which wreaked havoc in 10 provinces in Türkiye’s south. The minister was speaking at a disaster response center in Adana, one of the 10 provinces. A man looks at excavation […]

Calls for heads to roll in Russian command, as Putin’s hapless brigades are ordered to advance directly to Ukrainian positions where they are blasted by artillery and mines. A Ukrainian tank fires toward Russian position near the town of Bakhmut, Donetsk region on January 26, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Anatolii Stepanov / […]

The United Nations appealed for $1 billion in humanitarian assistance to help earthquake survivors in Türkiye, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday. People in an athletic track, which serve as camps for survivors in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in Adıyaman, Türkiye, Feb. 16, 2023. (Reuters Photo) Guterres said in a statement that the funds […]