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Greifswald, Germany, April 22 (AFP/APP): Two months ago, Roksana Panashchuk was working as a freelance journalist in Ukraine. Now, she’s a refugee in Germany, closely watching events back home from the northeastern city of Greifswald. “The situation is tough, of course, but everyone is doing […]

PARIS – April 22 (ONLINE) French President Emmanuel Macron said that it is necessary to continue negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he told the France Inter radio station on Friday. “I think it is our duty to continue negotiations with President Putin. There is […]

KYIV – April 22 (ONLINE) One person was killed and two were injured when a Ukrainian AN-26 transport plane crashed during a “technical flight” in the Zaporizhzhia region of southern Ukraine on Friday, local authorities said. The Zaporizhzhia regional administration said that, according to preliminary […]

SEOUL, Apr 21 (XINHUA/APP): South Korea on Thursday expressed regret over Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida sending a ritual offering to the notorious war-linked Yasukuni Shrine, seen as a symbol of the militaristic and colonial past of Japan. The South Korean foreign ministry said in […]

Moscow, April 21 (AFP/APP): Six people died Thursday when a fire engulfed a Russian military research institute involved in developing air defence systems in the northwestern city of Tver, local officials said. Russian television showed thick black smoke rising from inside the yellow four-storey building […]

COLOMBO – April 20 (ONLINE) Sri Lanka Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said on Wednesday he expects the police to properly investigate clashes with anti-government protesters that led to the first death in weeks of civil unrest over an economic crisis. Police fired live ammunition to […]

BEIJING, Apr 20 (XINHUA/APP): The National Supervisory Commission and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate on Wednesday jointly released five typical cases involving individuals and organizations offering bribes. The cases were found in fields including project bidding, health care and mining. In one case in Jiangxi Province, […]

Warsaw, April 20 (AFP/APP): Four people were killed and seven more are missing following a gas explosion at a coal mine in southern Poland on Wednesday, officials said. “One of the miners injured by the methane explosion at the Pniowek mine has died in hospital,” […]

Helsinki, April 20 (AFP/APP): Finland’s parliament Wednesday will open a debate on whether to seek NATO membership, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sparked a surge in political and public support for joining the military alliance. Despite Russia warning of a nuclear build-up in the Baltic […]

MOSCOW – April 19 (ONLINE) Ilya Kiva, a former legislator from Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada belonging to the Opposition Platform – For Life party has said that he intends to request protection and political asylum in Russia. “I officially state that nowadays in Ukraine, the government […]