The United Arab Emirate’s decision to abstain from a U.S.-led resolution at the UN Security Council condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was the result of frustrations over the U.S.’ response to a recent attack on Abu Dhabi weeks earlier, the Axios website reported citing Emirati, U.S. and Israeli sources.
Critics are sounding the alarm over the terms of an impending return to the Iran nuclear deal, as Rob Malley, President Joe Biden’s representative at talks in Vienna, is said to be offering generous sanctions relief, including to Iranians linked to terror.
Figures released Wednesday reveal upwards of one million refugees are fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, alongside an estimated 2000 civilian fatalities.
A clearly frustrated U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday night demanded Russia cease its invasion of Ukraine immediately, as Moscow continued to show scant regard for either the globalist body or its members’ condemnation.
Urkaine has announced that spoils of war, such as Russian tanks taken from the battlefield, will not be considered taxable income.
Countries across the Middle East and North Africa that rely heavily upon Ukraine and Russia for wheat imports may face a food crisis in the near future if Kyiv and Moscow remain at war, regional experts told Al Jazeera on Tuesday.
President Joe Biden had very little to say about China in his first State of the Union (SOTU) address, and Chinese media returned the favor by saying very little about Biden’s speech.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday held a phone call to plan strategy with Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, one of Putin’s few outspoken supporters during Russia’s attack on Ukraine. The Kremlin said Maduro expressed “strong support” for Russia’s war effort during the call.
China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday heckled the Biden administration for supposedly sending a delegation of defense officials to Taiwan to upstage former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who arrived for his own visit Wednesday.
Gazprom is supplying Russian gas to Europe “as per normal,” the Russian state-owned energy corporation announced Wednesday, despite the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Ukrainian state media, citing Reuters and Japan’s Mainichi Shimbun, appeared to endorse reports on Wednesday of as many as 70 Japanese nationals applying to join the ongoing war against Russia in Ukraine.
As the EU bans Russian banks from the SWIFT financial system, a bank linked to the sale of Russian gas is said to be exempt from sanctions.
A group of over 130 alumni of China’s top universities issued a statement on Tuesday condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine and calling on their own government to honor its 1994 security pact with the Ukrainian government.
The Foreign Press Association, Africa – an organization for foreign reporters on the continent – issued an impassioned statement on Tuesday condemning global coverage of the Russian assault on Ukraine for being “racist” and showing a “lack of nuance and empathy” towards victims of war in Africa and other areas with majority non-white populations.
The prime minister of the East Turkistan government in exile, Salih Hudayar, lamented late Tuesday night the complete absence of the ongoing genocide of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim people by China in President Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address, listing several things Biden could have announced to help the oppressed people.
Joe Biden’s only mention of Afghanistan or the troops during his speech was his criticism of the “burn pits” outside military bases, which he asserted “put them in a flag-draped coffin.”
While the vast majority of French say Putin is responsible for the war, over half also believe NATO also shares some responsibility.
A Russian delegation is prepared to resume talks with Ukrainian officials about the war in Ukraine within hours, a Kremlin spokesman told reporters on Wednesday.
Turkish-made Bayraktar armed drones have proven to be a key weapon in Ukraine’s arsenal against the Russian invasion, helping the defenders take out armored vehicles, eliminate artillery positions, and disrupt supply lines.
Taiwan sent 27 metric tons of medical supplies to Ukraine on Monday in a shipment arriving via Frankfurt, Germany.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam urged Hongkongers to remain “calm” on Monday after rumors of an imminent citywide lockdown for mass Chinese coronavirus testing spurred people to panic buy and strip some local supermarket shelves bare, Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) reported.
Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui — sentenced to three years in prison in December 2019 for “illegal medical practice” after using the CRISPR gene-editing system to alter the DNA of human embryos — may be “released” from prison in the “near future,” China’s state-run Global Times reported on Monday citing unnamed sources.
U.S. President Joe Biden incorrectly referred to Ukrainians as “Iranians” during his State of the Union address broadcast live on Tuesday night.
President Joe Biden spent a significant amount of time during Tuesday’s State of the Union address discussing the ongoing Russian military assault on Ukraine, mentioning Russian strongman Vladimir Putin 12 times and urging struggling Americans to “draw inspiration from the iron will of the Ukrainian people.”
In his 2022 State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Joe Biden announced a ban on Russian aircraft from American airspace.
The president’s speech is scheduled to begin at 9:00 p.m. EST.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky established a new wing of the armed forces on Monday called the “International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine,” intended for foreign nationals who wish to come to fight in the country’s war against Russia.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Monday asserted that President Biden’s “weakness” has bred the disorder across the globe in Ukraine and Russia, noting that both Biden and former President Barack Obama were weak when it came to defending Ukraine.
The United Kingdom will not send soldiers to wage war upon Vladimir Putin’s forces in Ukraine, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday.
International observers generally agree Ukraine did well against the first phase of the Russian invasion, thwarting a blitzkrieg apparently intended to decapitate the Ukrainian government in a matter of days.
Cuban state security arrested self-proclaimed Christian activist Pablo Enrique Delgado Hernández this weekend for attempting to lay a bouquet of flowers at the Ukrainian Embassy in Havana, the Cuban independent outlet 14 y Medio revealed.
The leader of Sweden’s Left Party has slammed the decision by the Swedish Prime Minister to break with the country’s tradition of neutrality.
Ukrainian state media on Tuesday quoted an estimate from independent Russian human rights group OVD-Info that “at least 6,474 people have already been detained during anti-war rallies that swept across Russia after Russian troops invaded Ukraine.”
A sailor was arrested after trying to sabotage the megayacht of his Russian boss, who he claims sells weapons to the Russian military.
Russia has announced plans to host the world’s first “International Anti-Fascist Congress” in order to “unite” the world against Nazism.
China’s state-run Global Times propaganda newspaper published a column on Tuesday declaring America the true villain in the Russia-Ukraine war, citing former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s (D-HI) claim that blocking Ukraine from joining NATO could have prevented the war.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said he would “continue being neutral” on the issue of the Russia-Ukraine crisis.
The number of new births in Hong Kong fell to a record low in 2021, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Monday, noting the figure dropped below 40,000 for the first time in 56 years.
Vladimir Putin wants to re-create the “empire of fear” of the Soviet Union, a Lithuanian MP told Breitbart News.
EU officials stated they are preparing for millions of refugees from Ukraine, with half a million moving west already, many going to Poland.
