The World Bank says it has approved more than $700 in emergency support for Ukraine. Dubbed FREE Ukraine, it includes nearly $500 million in loans and guarantees
BEIJING — China says President Xi Jinping has criticized sanctions imposed on Russia over its war against Ukraine as "harmful to all sides," in a video summit with French President
Russian forces intensified shelling of cities in Ukraine’s center, north and south, a Ukrainian official said, upending attempts to evacuate besieged civilians. With the Ukrainian leader
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday assured Lithuania of NATO protection and American support as he began a lightning visit to the three Baltic states
Ukraine pleaded with the United Nations’ top court yesterday to order Russia to halt its devastating invasion, saying Moscow is already committing widespread war crimes and
A bomb has exploded aboard a Trans World Airlines Boeing 707 at Las Vegas airport. No-one was injured in the blast which destroyed the cockpit of the aircraft as
The latest developments on the Russia-Ukraine war: ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says the foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine will meet near the Turkish Mediterranean coastal city
Russian forces will observe a temporary cease-fire yesterday in two Ukrainian cities, an official in one of the country’s two pro-Russia separatist regions said after an
The body of Lesley Whittle, the 17-year-old heiress kidnapped from her Shropshire home 52 days ago, has been found at the bottom of a drain shaft.
The director of Ukraine’s largest art museum walked its hallways, supervising as staff packed away its collections to protect their national heritage in case the Russian invasion
Russian forces captured the strategic Ukrainian port of Kherson and besieged another yesterday in a bid to cut the country off from the sea, as the two sides headed
Kyiv, bracing for a potentially catastrophic Russian attack, is the spiritual heart of Ukraine. Among the sites at risk in the Ukrainian capital are the nation’s
Silent film legend Charlie Chaplin has become Sir Charles after a ceremony at Buckingham Palace. The star of such films as The Kid and The Great Dictator was knighted
On Feb 28, 1972, during then United States President Richard Nixon’s visit to China, the two governments signed in Shanghai the first of three joint communiques that culminated
As Day 7 of the Russia-Ukraine conflict dawned, Russia continued its attacks on crowded Ukrainian cities and a lengthy convoy of Russian tanks and other vehicles advanced
As Russia’s top diplomat during the invasion of Ukraine, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is embodying the Kremlin’s defiant posture with a mixture of toughness and
The BBC has announced plans to begin broadcasting television programmes in colour from next year. Britain will be the first country in Europe to offer regular programming in colour.
Thick black smoke billowed across the grounds of New Zealand’s Parliament and sirens blared yesterday as retreating protesters against coronavirus vaccine mandates set fire to tents,
Oil prices surged above $110 per barrel yesterday as Russian forces stepped up attacks on Ukrainian cities. Global stock markets were mixed as investors waited to hear the
Russian shelling pounded civilian targets in Ukraine’s second-largest city again yesterday and a 40-mile convoy of tanks and other vehicles threatened the capital — tactics Ukraine’s embattled
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