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Russian army 'taking defensive positions' in Ukraine: Pentagon

Mar 23, 2022 (AFP)

"The Ukrainians have managed to push the Russians back 55 kilometers east and northeast of Kiev," the senior official, who requested anonymity, told reporters. ...

'Hellscape' in Ukraine's Mariupol but Russia talks tough

Mar 23, 2022 (AFP)

Tens of thousands of residents have already fled the besieged southern port city, bringing harrowing testimony of a "freezing hellscape riddled with dead bodies...

Ukraine pleads for help as Biden heads to crunch NATO summit

Mar 23, 2022 (AFP)

Tens of thousands of residents have already fled the southern city, bringing harrowing testimony of a "freezing hellscape riddled with dead bodies and destroyed...

US says has not yet seen Chinese arms shipments to Russia

Mar 22, 2022 (AFP)

Washington has raised concerns about Beijing helping Moscow in the midst of the bloody but stalled invasion. "We have not seen... the provision of military equi...

Ai Weiwei makes operatic debut with 'Turandot' in Rome

Mar 22, 2022 (AFP)

And with a storyline seeping with bloodshed and despotism, a new geopolitical focus and Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv in the pit, the new production -- origi...

War in Kyiv, Zelensky accuses Moscow of seeking Ukraine destruction

Mar 21, 2022 (AFP)

Ukraine could not "hand over" the eastern city of Kharkiv, Kyiv or the heavily bombarded port city of Mariupol, the president told local media, rejecting Russia...

Russia ramps up air, naval activity in Ukraine war: Pentagon

Mar 21, 2022 (AFP)

The Kremlin is "desperate" to increase its momentum in a war in which its troops have grown "frustrated and flummoxed" by a resistance that has shown durability...

Eyeing China, Japan breaks with past for strong Ukraine response

Mar 21, 2022 (AFP)

When Russia last pushed into Ukraine in 2014, Japan's response was seen as lukewarm, but this time around it has marched in lockstep with Western allies on unpr...

Dozens dead after military barracks hit in south Ukraine

Mar 19, 2022 (AFP)

"No fewer than 200 soldiers were sleeping in the barracks" when Russian troops struck early Friday, a Ukrainian serviceman on the ground, 22-year-old Maxim, tol...

Ukraine calls on China to 'condemn Russian barbarism'

Mar 19, 2022 (AFP)

"China can be the global security system's important element if it makes a right decision to support the civilised countries' coalition and condemn Russian barb...

US condemns Russian 'threat' to Bosnia over NATO bid

Mar 18, 2022 (AFP)

Bosnia has been divided along ethnic lines since a war in the 1990s that killed some 100,000 people. The country is ruled by a rotating tripartite presidency, w...

Russian strikes hit west Ukraine as US urges China to get tough

Mar 18, 2022 (AFP)

Ambulance and police vehicles raced to the scene of the early-morning strike on an aircraft repair plant near the border of NATO member Poland -- which has seen...

Biden to press Xi to get in line over condemnation of Russia

Mar 18, 2022 (AFP)

The two leaders' 9:00 am (1300 GMT) scheduled phone call, their first since a video summit in November, will be a chance to air differences as the United States...

Chinese, US warships sailed through Taiwan Strait before Biden-Xi talks

Mar 18, 2022 (AFP)

The two warships sailed through the strait -- which separates China from Taiwan -- hours before a highly anticipated nearly two-hour call between the two presid...

Biden warns Xi against China backing Russia's war in Ukraine

Mar 18, 2022 (AFP)

The comments came during a nearly two-hour phone call between the leaders of the world's two largest economies, focusing on Ukraine, where China's close ally Ru...

Kosovo asks Biden to support NATO bid

Mar 17, 2022 (AFP)

In a letter addressed to Biden seen by AFP Thursday, Kosovo's President Vjosa Osmani warned against Moscow's efforts to "destabilise" the Balkans. "Kosovo's mem...

Washington's new arms for Ukraine

Mar 16, 2022 (AFP)

The new arms and equipment that President Joe Biden announced for Ukraine includes: - S-300 long-range missile defense - Ukraine has had the ability to shoot do...

Biden's comments on Putin 'unacceptable and unforgivable': Kremlin

Mar 16, 2022 (AFP)

"We believe such rhetoric to be unacceptable and unforgivable on the part of the head of a state, whose bombs have killed hundreds of thousands of people around...

Biden to announce $800 mn in new security aid to Ukraine: US official

Mar 16, 2022 (AFP)

The announcement, expected to come at 11.45 am (1545 GMT), brings "the total (aid) announced in the last week alone to $1 billion," the official, who spoke on c...

'Born-free' Belarusian goes to war alongside Ukraine troops

Mar 16, 2022 (AFP)

"I'm going to Ukraine not only to support Ukraine and fight for Ukraine but also to fight for Belarus," the 18-year-old now living in Grojec, Poland, told AFP. ...