Tue 08 March 2022: The head of Sri Lanka’s Roman Catholic Church has called the United Nations to probe the 279 people killed in the Easter Sunday bombings, which he described as a “political plot.” Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith sought a framework to investigate the attacks, which have been placed on local Muslim organizations, in a […]
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Tue 08 March 2022: A senior Russian official has warned that a Western ban on Russian oil imports could cause oil prices to more than double, to around $300 per barrel, and force the shutdown of Russia’s main gas pipeline to Germany. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on state television on Monday that […]
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Mon 07 March 2022: More than 1.7 million people have so far fled the war in Ukraine, according to he United Nation’s refugee agency, as thousands more stream across the borders. A total of 1,735,068 civilians, mostly women and children, have crossed the border into Central Europe, the UNHCR said. Poland has received more than […]
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Mon 07 March 2022: Iran said Monday it has asked for clarification from Moscow over Russian demands for a “written guarantee” from the US regarding its cooperation with Tehran. Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said he has heard Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s comments about guarantees from Washington that its cooperation with Tehran will not […]
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Mon 07 March 2022: Russia is recruiting Syrian fighters experienced in urban combat as it ramps up its assault on Ukraine, according to US officials quoted by the Wall Street Journal. Moscow, which launched an invasion into its Eastern European neighbour on February 24, has in recent days recruited fighters from Syria hoping they can […]
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Mon 07 March 2022: Russia has snubbed a hearing before the UN’s top court in a legal push by Kyiv to put an end to Moscow’s devastating invasion of Ukraine. As the hearing began Monday morning, a row of seats assigned for Russian lawyers at the International Court of Justice was vacant. Russia’s envoy to […]
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Mon 07 March 2022: President Cyril Ramaphosa has reiterated his call for the Russia-Ukraine conflict to be resolved through mediation, negotiation and peaceful means. The President was addressing the nation through his weekly newsletter. According to the United Nations, the conflict has led to hundreds of confirmed deaths, the internal displacement of at least 850 […]
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Mon 07 March 2022: The United States has said it was in “active discussions” with its European allies about banning Russian oil imports as a further economic penalty on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine. “We are now in very active discussions with our European partners about banning the import of Russian oil to our […]
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Mon 07 March 2022: According to British Home Secretary Priti Patel, several Western countries, including the United Kingdom and the United States, have asked Interpol to suspend Russia from the international law enforcement organization. On Sunday, Patel tweeted that the UK, US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand had sought “the urgent suspension of Russia’s access […]
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Sun 06 March 2022: Linda Thomas-Greenfield, US Ambassador to the United Nations said on Sunday (March 6) that US troops will not be ‘on the ground or in the air’ in Ukraine. She said doing this will “escalate this war and make this an American war against the Russians.”. She was speaking during ABC’s This […]
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