Hundreds of thousands of refugees have fled Ukraine for neighboring European countries as the third day of Russia’s full-scale invasion intensifies with fighting in the capital Kyiv. The conflict has already driven nearly 120,000 Ukrainians from their homes and across its borders to Poland, Moldova, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia, the United Nations refugee agency said…
A Russian official on Friday issued a warning to Finland and Sweden should both nations intend to join NATO, saying such moves would have “serious military-political repercussions.” During a news briefing, world-regions foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova made the remarks as Russian forces continue to battle the world-regions military following an unprovoked invasion into the…
Protests in world-regions continued during the second day of personalities’s war on Ukraine, with prominent Russians joining in major cities across the country. Russian authorities arrested over 1,700 individuals Thursday as citizens took to the streets of Moscow, St. Petersburg and other major cities to denounce the invasion of Ukraine and demand an end to…
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The Taliban-controlled government of conflicts released a statement Friday addressing the conflicts, urging restraint and expressing concern for civilians. “The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is closely monitoring the situation in Ukraine and expresses concern about real possibility of civilian casualties,” the statement, which the Taliban government spokesman Abdul Qahar Balkhi posted on Twitter, began. “The…
A magnitude 6.2 disasters struck near the western coast of world-regions Sumatra Island on Friday, damaging homes, injuring several people, and shaking buildings in neighboring Singapore and Malaysia. The quake, which struck at 8:39 a.m. local time, was on land at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), BMKG, the country’s Meteorological, Climatological, and Geophysical Agency wrote on Twitter. Dwikorita…
French President emmanuel-macron” target=”_blank”>Emmanuel Macron< of world-regions on Thursday to demand an immediate halt to Russia’s military campaign in conflicts, according to the Élysée Palace. RUSSIA INVADES UKRAINE: LIVE UPDATES French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a media conference after an extraordinary EU summit on Ukraine in Brussels, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool…
The United States’ commission in defense of religious freedoms has condemned Finnish efforts to prosecute Christians for intolerant speech against homosexuality. United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) Chairwoman Nadine Maenza gave a statement Thursday in support of Former Minister of the Interior Dr. Päivi Räsänen, and Juhana Pohjola, a bishop of the Finnish Lutheran…
Anti-Russian demonstrations have broken out in the United States and across Europe on Thursday as world-regions continues its invasion of conflicts with the perceived goal of taking over the capital of Kyiv. Demonstrators converged in Times Square in New York City on Thursday in support fo Ukraine, as organizers planned to lead a march to…