Brazil’s Bolsonaro gets in spat with heckler
BRASILIA: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro got into an altercation Thursday with a social media personality who questioned and insulted him, grabbing the man by the...
US vows to use all means to stop Iran nuclear bomb in new Israel pact
JERUSALEM: The US and Israel signed a new security pact Thursday reinforcing their common front against Iran, as President Joe Biden vowed to use “all”...
Street party draws curtain on Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa era
COLOMBO: Exhausted and drained after nearly 100 days of protests, a small crowd gathered its remaining strength Thursday to celebrate the resignation of Sri Lanka’s...
Ukrainian forces will have to leave embattled Sievierodonetsk, says governor
KYIV: Ukrainian troops will “have to be withdrawn” from the mostly Russian-occupied battleground city of Sievierodonetsk, the regional governor said today. Some of the heaviest...
Georgians to stage pro-EU rally after candidacy deferred
TBILISI: Georgians are set to stage a fresh rally today in favour of joining the EU after the bloc failed to grant it candidate's...
Russian artillery pounds Sievierodonetsk, hundreds of civilians shelter in chemical plant
KYIV: Russian forces swarmed into the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk and pounded a zone where hundreds of civilians were sheltering, a Ukrainian official said...
UK PM Johnson: Ukraine’s right to join Nato cannot be traded away
LONDON: The sovereign right of the Ukrainian people to join Nato cannot be traded away, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said today, adding he would...
Russia ready to fire if foreign subs and ships intrude, says military
MOSCOW: A senior Russian military official said today that Russia was ready to open fire on foreign ships and submarines that illegally enter its...
US envoy to UN cancels Liberia trip to focus on Russia
UNITED NATIONS: US Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, cancelled a planned visit to Liberia this week to focus instead on UN diplomacy over...
Favouring continuity, Germany reelects Frank-Walter Steinmeier as president
FRANKFURT: Frank-Walter Steinmeier was elected to a second term as Germany's president on Sunday (Feb 13) after a special assembly voted the veteran politician,...