PARIS: Protesters disrupted traffic in Paris on Friday as angry critics, political opponents and labor unions around France blasted President Emmanuel Macron‘s decision to force a bill raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 through parliament without a vote. 1/20 France’s Senate passes controversial pensions reform Show Captions <p style=”color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: […]
WASHINGTON: The United States has indications that Russia is likely trying to recover debris from the U.S. drone downed after a Russian intercept over the Black Sea on Tuesday, the Pentagon said on Thursday, even as it played down Moscow’s prospects for success.“We do have indications that Russia is likely making an effort to try […]
WARSAW: Poland will send Ukraine four MiG-29 fighter jets in the coming days, the president said on Thursday. “Firstly, literally within the next few days, we will hand over, as far as I remember, four aircraft to Ukraine in full working order,” Andrzej Duda told a news conference. “The rest are being prepared, serviced.” Source […]
ANKARA: Turkey’s parliament will “highly likely” ratify Finland’s NATO accession bid before mid-April, two Turkish officials told Reuters on Wednesday, a day before Finnish President Sauli Niinisto visits the country. Sweden and Finland applied last year to join the trans-Atlantic defence pact after Russia invaded Ukraine, but faced unexpected objections from Turkey. Ankara says Stockholm […]
The Kremlin said on Wednesday that its relations with the United States were in a “lamentable state” and at their lowest level, after Washington accused Russia of downing one of its reconnaissance drones over the Black Sea.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there had been no high-level contact with Washington over the incident and that he […]
LONDON: According to the US military, a Russian fighter jet dumped fuel on an American MQ-9 Reaper drone flying over the Black Sea on Tuesday, causing it to crash after colliding with the aircraft. The US European Command said that two Russian Su-27 fighters intercepted the drone over international waters, with one hitting its propeller. […]
KYIV: A Russian missile struck an apartment building in the centre of Kramatorsk on Tuesday, killing at least one person and wounding seven others in one of Ukraine’s major city strongholds in its eastern Donetsk region as it fights against Moscow’s invasion, officials said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted a video showing gaping holes in […]
Ukraine’s future hinges on the outcome of fighting with Russia in the east, including in and around Bakhmut, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, with both sides describing relentless battles in the small city as Russia intensifies a winter campaign to capture it. WAR CRIMES CASES * In what would be the first international war crimes cases […]
BRUSSELS: A top Belgian court on Monday prohibited the authorities from making the defendants at the trial into the 2016 Brussels terror attacks kneel for strip searches. Six suspects had filed a complaint after refusing to attend the hearings into the suicide bomb attacks that killed 32 people in protest at the anal searches conducted […]
KYIV: Ukraine faced relentless Russian attacks on Bakhmut in its eastern Donetsk region, with both sides reporting mounting enemy casualties as they battled across a small river that bisects the ruined town that now marks the front line. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said late on Sunday his forces had killed more than 1,100 Russian soldiers […]
