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Seoul has announced it will consider a domestic fund to compensate South Koreans enslaved by Japanese companies before the end of World War II. However victims are angry the money is not coming from Japan.
Vasily Nebenzya, Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, has claimed that Moscow is ready to “achieve the goals of the war” through negotiations if “there is no longer a threat for Russia in Ukraine”.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wants to visit the United Nations to address a high-level meeting of the 193-member General Assembly on the eve of the first anniversary of Russia’s 24 February invasion of Ukraine, if the security situation permits.
Ukrainian forces are fighting to retain control of Soledar in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, the regional governor said on Saturday, contradicting Russian claims that Moscow's forces had captured the small town.
Natalia Gavrilița, Prime Minister of Moldova, has condemned the large-scale missile attack launched by the Russian Federation, during which the debris of the missile fell on the territory of Moldova.Source: European PravdaQuote: “There is no political, historical and even more so moral justification for killing civilians and attacking the infrastructure that ensures the survival of the population,” Gavrilița wrote on her Facebook page.
Chinese officials have slammed Russian President Vladimir Putin as “crazy” in a bid to distance Beijing from the Kremlin's ailing war in Ukraine.
Death toll only of those who died in hospital and true figure likely to be higher, although officials say peak has passed in most areas
Ratification will have to wait at least until after elections in May or June, says senior official
Former president shared a video questioning last year’s election result after his supporters stormed Brasília’s democratic institutions
Russia is trying to create an army of two million people. — Ukrinform.
On Saturday, Russians hit a multi-storey house in Dnipro; 5 people were killed and 27 were wounded.
Former Bolsonaro minister arrested over January 8 assault: Brazil media
Russian forces lost another 530 soldiers, 6 tanks and an air defence system in the course of the past 24 hours.
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Alou Diallo says he was drinking tea with his family one morning last month when groups of “white soldiers” invaded his village in central Mali, setting fire to houses and gunning down people suspected of being Islamic extremists.
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has approved a plan to send 12 Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine, with the first units of armoured vehicles to be delivered immediately.