World
During the middle of a NATO conference being held in Budva, Montenegro, Prime Minister Dritan Abazović fired the Director of the National Security Agency Savo Kentera while the latter was on stage spe
Oct. 7, 2022
Reactions poured in Friday after human rights champions Ales Bialiatski of Belarus, Russia’s Memorial group and Ukraine’s Center for Civil Liberties won the Nobel Peace Prize. Here are some of the res
Oct. 7, 2022
The Ukrainian presidency said Friday that the people of Ukraine, under Russian attack since February, were “architects of peace,” after a Ukrainian NGO became the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
Oct. 7, 2022
The UN Human Rights Council on Friday, Oct. 6, agreed to monitor the rights situation in Russia, marking the first-ever resolution focused on violations inside the country. The 47-member top UN rights
Oct. 7, 2022
Russia
Speaking at the G20 Parliamentary Speakers’ Summit meeting on Thursday, Oct. 6, in Indonesia, Russian Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko suggested to the Ukrainian delegation that the two
Oct. 7, 2022
A trio of human rights champions from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, Oct.7, a highly symbolic choice of laureates drawn from three nations at the centre of the war in
Oct. 7, 2022
War in Ukraine
As Russian officials discuss the likelihood of using tactical nuclear weapons after experiencing serious setbacks in their eight-month long invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden declared on Thursda
Oct. 7, 2022
Restoring Russia to its rightful place among the world’s great powers has obsessed President Vladimir Putin, whose offensive in Ukraine was to be the culmination of over 20 years of iron-willed leader
Oct. 7, 2022
More Russian men have left Russia in the past two weeks to avoid military conscription than now fight in Ukraine, more than 200,000. Thousands more each day, with their families, continue to cross int
Oct. 7, 2022
The State of Israel should change its position of avoiding an answer to the request for military assistance to Ukraine against the war with the Russian invaders. Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel Yevhen
Oct. 7, 2022
War in Ukraine
For some legal experts, if the UN is to be a viable peacekeeping organization, then it must reboot the UN Security Council – without Russia. For decades the UN has been criticized as being an overly
Oct. 7, 2022
War in Ukraine
The phoenix has risen from the gilded walls of the Kremlin, Western democracies must now either enter the war against Russian fascism or fall. Humanity is now living through the pages of tomorrow’s hi
Oct. 7, 2022
An inspection of two of the leaks at the Nord Stream gas pipelines linking Russia to Europe has reinforced suspicions that they were acts of sabotage, Swedish authorities said Thursday, Oct. 6. “We ca
Oct. 6, 2022
War in Ukraine
The European Union should deliver tanks to Ukraine and speed up the procedure of having the country join the bloc, European Parliament speaker Roberta Metsola told AFP Wednesday. The centre-right Malt
Oct. 6, 2022
Russia
According to European diplomats, EU ambassadors reached a consensus on new sanctions, including a price cap on Russian oil sales, to counter Vladimir Putin’s war with Ukraine. After the Russian presid
Oct. 5, 2022
War in Ukraine
Since Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilization on Sep. 21, the number of appeals to surrender from Russian citizens to the hotline of the “I want to live” project has sharply
Oct. 5, 2022