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MOSCOW, Oct 25, 2023 (AFP) – Russia claimed Wednesday it was exhausting Ukraine’s army, 20 months into a conflict in which neither side has made recent significant gains. Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu made the comments during a visit to east Ukraine, the defence ministry said Wednesday. “The situation today suggests the enemy has fewer and fewer opportunities. And they will continue to be reduced, thanks exclusively to your combat work,” Shoigu told Russian soldiers. […]
GENEVA, Oct 25, 2023 (AFP) – The number of people worldwide living in forced displacement from their homes is estimated to have exceeded 114 million, the United Nations said Wednesday — a record figure. “The number of people displaced by war, persecution, violence and human rights violations globally is likely to have exceeded 114 million at the end of September,” UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, said in a statement. The main drivers in the first […]
By Femke COLBORNE BERLIN, Oct 24, 2023 (AFP) – One person has died and four are missing from the crew of a cargo ship that sank after colliding with another vessel in the North Sea, German authorities said on Tuesday. Two further crew members from the ship were rescued after the collision with a second cargo vessel early on Tuesday, German Sea Rescue Society (DGzRS) spokesman Christian Stipeldey said. The accident happened about 22 kilometres […]
By Darko DURIDANSKI VELES, Republic of North Macedonia (AFP) – One day Dimche Ackov had enough of the stress and pollution of urban life and chucked in his job and headed out into the North Macedonia countryside for a fresh start. Nearly 10 years later, Ackov has channelled his burnout into a fully-fledged mission to educate people about living closer to nature. His home, constructed entirely from locally-sourced, natural materials, is now a kind of […]
MOSCOW, Oct 20, 2023 (AFP) – The Kremlin denounced Friday an address by US President Joe Biden in which he compared Russia to Hamas and called Vladimir Putin a “tyrant”. “We do not accept such a tone in relation to the Russian Federation, in relation to our president,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. Biden, in an address to the nation from the Oval Office Thursday, said the United States had to stand behind Israel […]
KYIV, Ukraine, Oct 20, 2023 (AFP) – Russia has stepped up its military assault on Avdiivka in its ongoing bid to encircle and capture the eastern Ukrainian city, Ukraine’s general staff said Friday. The frontline city in the eastern Donetsk region has been the centre of intense fighting in recent weeks, as both sides have struggled to advance along the frontlines. “The enemy has resumed offensive actions and does not stop trying to surround Avdiivka,” […]
MOSCOW, Oct 20, 2023 (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited the military headquarters in Rostov-on-Don that is overseeing the Ukraine offensive, the Kremlin said on Friday. Putin “has visited the Russian armed forces headquarters in Rostov-on-Don on his way back from Perm,” a city in the Urals where he spent Thursday, the Kremlin said in a statement. Army chief of staff Valery Gerasimov met with Putin to update him on the state of […]
By Deborah COLE BERLIN, Oct 18, 2023 (AFP) – Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed to fight anti-Semitism on German soil, after attackers hurled two Molotov cocktails at a Jewish synagogue in Berlin early Wednesday. Police in the German capital said they were probing the attack in the Mitte district of the city. There were no reports of injuries or damage. The attack, at around 3:45am (0145 GMT), comes amid a sharp increase in anti-Semitic incidents in […]
MOSCOW, Oct 18, 2023 (AFP) – Russian lawmakers on Wednesday voted once more to revoke Moscow’s ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, moving the country another step closer to abandoning the landmark agreement. The 1996 treaty outlaws all nuclear explosions including live tests of nuclear weapons, but it has never come into force because some key countries — including the United States and China — have not ratified the treaty. In a fast-track […]
PARIS, Oct 18, 2023 (AFP) – Airports across France were evacuated on Wednesday after emailed “threats of attack”, a police source told AFP, the latest in a series of similar alerts. The evacuations at Lille, Lyon, Nantes, Nice, Toulouse and Beauvais airport near Paris would allow authorities to “clear up any doubts” whether the threats are real, the source said. A spokeswoman for Strasbourg airport in eastern France also said the site was being evacuated […]
KYIV, Ukraine, Oct 18, 2023 (AFP) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday that Ukraine’s armed forces had used US-supplied ATACMS long-range missiles for the first time. “They have performed very accurately. ATACMS have proven themselves,” he said in an evening address posted on social media, without giving details of when or where they were used. The White House confirmed the delivery for the first time in an official statement. “We believe these ATACMS […]
By Matthieu DEMEESTERE BRUSSELS, Oct 17, 2023 (AFP) – Two Swedish nationals were shot dead in Brussels late Monday by a suspect who remains at large, in an attack the Belgian prime minister described as “terrorism”. The gunman fled on a scooter and Belgium’s security observatory raised its terror alert to level four or “very serious” — the highest — for Brussels, and level three nationally. Belgium’s premier, Alexander De Croo, said the shooting had […]
