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Hopes were fading in Nepal on Monday of finding any survivors among the 22 people aboard a small plane that crashed into a Himalayan mountainside a day earlier, officials said, with just two people still to be accounted for. This handout photograph released by Fishtail Air, shows the wreckage of a plane in a gorge […]

Ukrainian forces may have to retreat from their last pocket in the Luhansk region to avoid being captured, a Ukrainian official said, as Russian troops press an advance in the east that has shifted the momentum of the three-month-old war. Smoke and dirt rise from the city of Severodonetsk, during shelling in the eastern Ukrainian […]

Ukraine’s 48-year-old Commander-in-Chief, Valery Zaluzhny, has been leading the Armed Forces of Ukraine for less than a year. Nevertheless, the media already call him a legendary figure in the history of Ukraine. Photo: president.gov.ua | Zaluzhny became the first recipient of the Combat Merit Cross in Ukraine Before Russia’s full-scale invasion, his name was known […]

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the country’s war-torn eastern region for the first time since Russia launched its invasion in February, as Moscow’s forces tightened their control around key cities in the Donbass region in the face of fierce Ukrainian resistance. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reacts as he visits the war-hit Kharkiv region in eastern […]

TEHRAN – Iran has seized two Greek-flagged oil tankers in the Persian Gulf in a tit-for-tat move after Greece detained an Iranian-flagged oil tanker and transferred its cargo to the United States. Nearly a month ago, Greece seized an Iranian-flagged oil tanker off its coast and then transferred its cargo to the United States. Reuters […]

Russian forces engaged in an all-out battle in eastern Ukraine have captured the strategic town of Lyman and surrounded a key industrial centre, Moscow has claimed. But a Ukrainian official has denied that the city of Severodonetsk — the focus of weeks of fierce fighting — has been encircled, saying government troops had repelled Russian […]

Since the start of the war in Ukraine, thousands of people have fled the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. In recent days, Ukraine’s national railway company has seen an influx of people who did not want to leave their country but who have finally resigned themselves to boarding evacuation trains. FRANCE 24 reports from aboard a […]

Moscow-backed separatists announced the capture Friday of the strategic Ukrainian town of Lyman as the gathering pace of a Russian advance in eastern Ukraine was cheered on by pro-Kremlin online groups. The claim followed days of intense fighting in Lyman, which lies on a road leading to the major eastern Ukrainian cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk. A […]

Ukraine has said it is doing “everything” to defend Donbas, where an intensifying Russian offensive is prompting Kyiv’s forces to consider a strategic retreat from some key areas to avoid being surrounded. Residents run near a burning house following a shelling Severodonetsk, Donbass region, on April 6, 2022, as Ukraine tells residents in the country’s […]

Egypt’s Public Prosecution ordered on Friday the release of a Somali girl pending investigation after police and medical examinations pointed to the plausibility of her argument of self-defence against a rape attempt by slain tuktuk driver. According to the prosecution, on 17 May, the prosecution received reports that the body of a dead tuktuk driver was […]