Added on March 15, 2022
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Dubai: The ongoing Russian war on Ukraine has become nothing short of a nightmare for those living in besieged cities, a top Red Cross official said Monday, calling for safe passage out for civilians and humanitarian aid to be allowed through the front lines. Robert Mardini, the director-general of the International Committee of the Red […]
Added on March 11, 2022
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Lucknow/New Delhi: The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) was all over the states where counting was held Thursday as the party managed to get control of four states but lost Punjab to AAP. Yogi Adityanath will return as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh with the BJP – a first for India’s most politically vital state in […]
Added on March 11, 2022
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Dhaka: The crisis in Ukraine and Russia, one of the world’s main sources of grain, fertilizers and energy, presents new challenges in securing food supplies on top of a prolonged pandemic, a U.N. official said Thursday. We weren’t going well even before the pandemic, the hunger was rising slowly and then the pandemic hit, said […]
Added on March 10, 2022
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Lviv: Kyiv residents awoke Wednesday to an air raid alert urging them to get to bomb shelters as quickly as possible over fears of incoming Russian missiles, while the strategic port city of Mariupol remained encircled as a humanitarian crisis grew. Kyiv regional administration head Oleksiy Kuleba issued the air raid alert saying there was […]
Added on March 9, 2022
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Washington: President Joe Biden has decided to ban Russian oil imports, toughening the toll on Russia’s economy in retaliation for its invasion of Ukraine, according to a person familiar with the matter. The move follows pleas by Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelenskyy to US and Western officials to cut off the imports, which had been a […]
Added on March 9, 2022
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Lviv: Buses packed with people fleeing the Russian invasion in Ukraine left two embattled cities along safe corridors Tuesday, while officials said the exodus of refugees from the country reached 2 million. The Russian onslaught has trapped people inside besieged cities that are running low on food, water and medicine amid the biggest ground war […]
Added on March 9, 2022
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Geneva: An expert group convened by the World Health Organisation said Tuesday it strongly supports urgent and broad access to booster doses, in a reversal of the U.N. agency’s previous insistence that boosters weren’t necessary and contributed to vaccine inequity. In a statement, WHO said its expert group concluded that immunisation with authorised COVID-19 vaccines […]
Added on March 8, 2022
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Lviv: Russia announced yet another cease-fire and a handful of humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to flee Ukraine starting Monday, although the evacuation routes were mostly leading to Russia and its ally Belarus, drawing withering criticism from Ukraine and others. It was not immediately clear if any evacuations were taking place. Russian forces continued to […]
Added on March 2, 2022
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United Nations: Ambassadors from dozens of countries on Monday backed a proposal demanding that Russia halt its attack on Ukraine, as the UN General Assembly held a rare emergency session during a day of frenzied and sometimes fractious diplomacy surrounding the five-day-old war. If Ukraine does not survive … international peace will not survive,” Ukrainian […]
Added on March 1, 2022
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Kyiv: Russian and Ukrainian officials met for talks Monday amid high hopes but low expectations for any diplomatic breakthrough, after Moscow ran into unexpectedly stiff resistance when it unleashed the biggest land war in Europe since World War II. Outgunned Ukrainian forces managed slow the Russian advance and Western sanctions began to squeeze the Russian […]
