Category: World

Mon 14 March 2022: United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres told reporters at the UN Headquarters, that the conflict in Ukraine can turn into a nuclear one. “The possibility of nuclear conflict, which was once unthinkable, is now possible again,” he said. “Ukraine is on fire. The country is being destroyed before the eyes of […]

Mon 14 March 2022: The UN human rights office (OHCHR) has confirmed the deaths of at least 636 civilians in Ukraine through to March 13, including 46 children. The actual toll is likely much higher, it said, since there have been delays receiving and corroborating reports from places with intense hostilities such as Kharkiv and […]

Mon 14 March 2022: A Ukrainian cluster munitions missile strike on Monday hit a residential area in the eastern city of Donetsk, killing 20 people and injuring 28, the Russian Defense Ministry said. A Tochka-U missile went off over a bus stop where civilians, mostly women and children, were waiting for a bus, Defense Ministry […]

Mon 14 March 2022: A pregnant woman and her baby have died after Russia bombed the Ukrainian maternity hospital where the expectant mother was meant to give birth, media reports said. Images of the aftermath of last Wednesday’s attack showing the woman being rushed to an ambulance on a stretcher had shocked the world, epitomising the horror […]

Mon 14 March 2022: Russia’s finance minister admitted that over half of the country’s foreign exchange reserves are insufficient to survive Western economic sanctions. According to Interfax, a Russian news agency, Anton Siluanov claimed on Sunday in an interview with Russian state television that Russia had roughly $640 billion in foreign reserves, with about $300 […]

Huge queues outside Russian McDonald’s on last day before shutting over Ukraine war. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________  Mon 14 March 2022: The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that Russian authorities have threatened foreign companies intending to depart from the country with arrests and asset seizures, as Western sanctions take hold According to the business daily, Russian prosecutors have […]

Sun 13 March 2022: The World Health Organization and two other United Nations agencies called on Sunday for an immediate stop to attacks on healthcare in Ukraine, saying these were killing and injuring patients and workers and depriving thousands of health care.  In a joint statement, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and the executive directors […]