BEIJING: Beijing lashed out on Monday against US claims that China was considering sending arms to Russia to assist in its war in Ukraine.“It is the United States and not China that is endlessly shipping weapons to the battlefield,” China’s foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said when asked about theContinue Reading
KYIV: US President Joe Biden on Monday made a surprise visit to Ukraine’s capital Kyiv. This is US President’s first visit to Ukraine since the invasion by Russia on February 24 last year.TV footage showed US President Biden walking along with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in capital Kyiv.Follow live updates:Continue Reading
Idealists. Racists. Fetishists. An obsession with Ukrainian women’s looks is taking bandwidth away from their struggle with Russian oppression. And it’s an issue the besieged democracy will have to contend with long after the last invading soldier is expelled. Ukraine’s women are fighting on the front lines. They’re keeping theContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has warned China that its material support for Russia’s war against Ukraine would attract sanctions and condemned “unacceptable violation” of American sovereignty by an alleged Chinese spy balloon as he met Beijing‘s top diplomat Wang Yi.Blinken and Wang held talks on the sidelinesContinue Reading
A notorious pro-Putin commentator who goes by the name of “Aussie Cossack” was a no-show to his own rally outside of the Russian consulate. Simeon Boikov, 32, is seeking refuge inside of the consulate as he dodges a warrant for his arrest issued in January after he failed to appearContinue Reading
A Russian woman joined the ever-growing passenger hall of shame after undressing herself on a flight, biting a flight attendant and telling her fellow flyers they were all going to die. Footage of her epic mile-high meltdown is currently blowing up online. The incident kicked off after the unruly traveller,Continue Reading
KYIV: Russian forces claimed some battlefield success Wednesday as Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine labored to gain momentum almost a year after it began, while Ukraine said it needs another few months to stage its own offensive.The Russian Defense Ministry said its troops broke through two Ukrainian defensive lines in theContinue Reading
KYIV: An Egyptian widow is struggling to afford meat and eggs for her five children. An exasperated German laundry owner watches as his energy bill jumps fivefold. Nigerian bakeries have shut their doors, unable to afford the exorbitant price of flour.One year after Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022,Continue Reading
MOSCOW: Russia on Tuesday angrily rejected the Moldovan president’s claims about an alleged plot by Moscow to overthrow her government and accused Moldovan authorities of trying to distract public attention away from the country’s own domestic problems.Moldova’s President Maia Sandu said on Monday that the purported Russian plot envisioned attacksContinue Reading
“The United States is not preparing to go to war against China. The United States is preparing Australia to go to war against China.” Beijing has seized on the words of a former diplomat to portray Australia as the “Ukraine” of South East Asia. Former Australian diplomat John Lander workedContinue Reading