Russian invasion

KHERSON, UKRAINE: Hundreds of people were evacuated from settlements along the southern stretch of Ukraine's Dnipro river on Tuesday after water burst through the breached Nova Kakhovka dam, submerging streets and town squares.The collapse…

BRATISLAVA: Russia does not have a veto on Ukraine's eventual membership of the Western defence alliance Nato, its chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday."All allies agree that Nato's door remains open, that Ukraine will become a member of…

Riyadh on Sunday announced it would slash output further by one million barrels per day in a bid to prop up prices, despite fears of a recession.The announcement came following a meeting of the 13-member Organization of the Petroleum…

KYIV, UKRAINE: Ukraine is ready to launch a long-awaited counteroffensive against Russia but fears large casualties due to Moscow's superior air power, President Volodymyr Zelenskyysaid in comments published Saturday.Ukraine has said it is…

KYIV, UKRAINE: Ukraine said Friday it destroyed all 15 missiles and 21 drones from a new wave of overnight attacks that left two people wounded in Kyiv."The occupiers don't stop trying to terrorise the capital of Ukraine with attack drones…

MOSCOW: For nearly a century, visitors came to Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery to admire the perfect harmony of Russia's most famous icon: the "Trinity", painted by Andrei Rublev in the Middle Ages.The almost 600-year-old artwork depicting three…

Russian air defenses stopped eight drones converging on Moscow, officials said Tuesday, in an attack that authorities blamed on Ukraine, while Russia continued a a relentless wave of daylight and nighttime bombardment of Kyiv that…

A massive fire erupted at an oil depot in Crimea after it was hit by two of Ukraine’s drones, a Russia-appointed official there reported Saturday, the latest in a series of attacks on the annexed peninsula as Russia braces for an…

BEIJING: Chinese leader Xi Jinping said Wednesday that Beijing will send an envoy to Ukraine to discuss a possible 'political settlement' to Russia's war with the country.Beijing has previously avoided involvement in conflicts between other…

Canadian veteran Ray Buxton and his Taiwanese wife, Judy, had just moved into their dream home on the southern coast of Taiwan in the summer of 2020 when they heard a deafening roar overhead. “Like a bat of the hell came these two…