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Bus full of Ukrainian refugees overturns in Italy; 1 dead 13 Mar 2022 - 01:55 pm

ROME: A bus carrying about 50 Ukrainian refugees overturned on a major highway in northern Italy at dawn on Sunday, killing one person,...

Invasion jolts Russia's friends in tiny West-leaning Moldova 13 Mar 2022 - 01:46 pm

COMRAT, Moldova: Across the border from war-engulfed Ukraine, tiny, impoverished Moldova - an ex-Soviet republic now looking eagerly Westward - has watched with...

Supplies and a smile: Kharkiv resident delivers aid to besieged city 13 Mar 2022 - 12:31 pm

GDANSK: Somehow Teimur Aliev manages to smile. A lot. The 23-year-old musician is in Kharkiv, a city in northeastern Ukraine that has suffered...

France to launch fourth COVID shot for over-80s, PM says 13 Mar 2022 - 11:24 am

Paris: France is to start offering a fourth COVID-19 vaccination shot to people over 80 years old who had their previous booster dose...

Russia pounds military range in Ukraine's west 13 Mar 2022 - 09:37 am

LVIV: Russian forces carried out an air strike on a military range near Lviv in western Ukraine, expanding its offensive closer to the...

Air strike launched on Ukraine military base near Polish border 13 Mar 2022 - 09:03 am

An air strike was launched on a Ukrainian military base Yavoriv in the west of the country near the Polish border, the Lviv...

Russia says weapons convoys ‘Legitimate Targets’ 12 Mar 2022 - 07:15 pm

A Russian official said convoys of military aid from the West are "legitimate targets” as the U.S. and Europe steps up the movement...

Russia strikes near Ukraine's capital; mosque reported hit 12 Mar 2022 - 05:31 pm

LVIV, Ukraine:Russian forces pounding the port city of Mariupol shelled a mosque sheltering more than 80 people, including children, the Ukrainian government said...

Putin briefed French and German leaders on Russia-Ukraine talks: Kremlin 12 Mar 2022 - 05:15 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin told French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz about the state of negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv...

Man injures 3 police, is killed after attack in Marseille 12 Mar 2022 - 02:32 pm

A French man with a knife injured three police officers in the southern city of Marseille on Saturday, and was killed by police...

Italy seizes $580 million Russian superyacht over sanctions 12 Mar 2022 - 02:00 pm

Italian authorities seized a 530 million-euro ($580 million) superyacht owned by Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko as pressure on Russia’s elite continues following the...

Fighting rages outside Kyiv, Ukraine says it hopes humanitarian corridors can open 12 Mar 2022 - 10:53 am

Lviv, Ukraine: Fighting raged northwest of Kyiv on Saturday, with the bulk of Russian ground forces 25 km (16 miles) from the centre...

UK's Queen Elizabeth pulls out of Commonwealth Service 11 Mar 2022 - 09:58 pm

LONDON: Britain's Queen Elizabeth will miss next week's Commonwealth Service, Buckingham Palace has said, in what was due to have been the 95-year-old's...

Valneva now expects recommendation on COVID-19 vaccine by April 11 Mar 2022 - 07:27 pm

PARIS: Valneva now expects a positive recommendation from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in April for its VLA2001 COVID-19 candidate vaccine, the French...

Kharkiv metro is a 'city' where hundreds shelter from bombardment 11 Mar 2022 - 04:59 pm

KHARKIV, Ukraine: Deep under the streets of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine hundreds of people are sheltering from fierce Russian bombardment, occupying the Heroiv...

Ukraine to sow as many crops as possible this spring: President 11 Mar 2022 - 04:46 pm

LVIV, Ukraine: Ukraine must sow as many crops as possible this spring, despite the Russian invasion, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday. "This...

Sweden expects 76,000 Ukrainian refugees in coming months: Migration Agency 11 Mar 2022 - 04:36 pm

STOCKHOLM: Sweden's main scenario is to receive 76,000 Ukrainian refugees in coming months in the wake of Russia's invasion, Sweden's Migration Agency said...