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TEL AVIV – March 30 (ONLINE) A gunman killed at least five people in Israel’s Tel Aviv suburb on Tuesday before he was fatally shot, the national ambulance service said, in the third deadly attack in Israel in a week, Reuters News Agency reported. The […]

NEW DELHI – March 30 (ONLINE) Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is set to fly to India this week, Reuters News Agency reported citing sources, adding that Lavrov found time to visit to one of the biggest buyers of Russian commodities since the international community […]

Moscow, March 30 (AFP/APP):The Kremlin on Wednesday played down hopes of a breakthrough following peace talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegates in Istanbul a day earlier. “We cannot state that there was anything too promising or any breakthroughs,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. “There […]

ISLAMABAD, Mar 29 (APP): As many as six soldiers of Pakistan Army serving as peacekeepers embraced martyrdom on Tuesday during a helicopter crash while undertaking a reconnaissance mission under UN peace keeping Mission in Congo. The Pakistan Aviation Unit was deployed in UN Mission Congo […]

London, March 29 (AFP/APP):The leaders of the United States, Britain, France, Germany and Italy on Tuesday urged the West not to drop its guard against Russia after Moscow signaled it would scale down fighting around Kyiv and another Ukrainian city. “We’ll see if they follow […]

MOSCOW – March 28 (ONLINE) Moscow is handling the details of its gas delivery plans to unfriendly countries for payment in rubles, but it won’t engage in charity if Europe refuses to pay in the Russian currency, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday. […]

Kyiv, March 28 (AFP/APP): Ukrainian forces have “liberated” the Kyiv suburb of Irpin, Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky said late Monday in televised remarks. “In fact, this is now happening in parallel: the armed forces are advancing, the police are advancing, and immediately a sweep is […]

Kyiv, March 28 (AFP/APP):Ukraine warned on Monday the humanitarian crisis in the pulverized city of Mariupol was now “catastrophic”, with thousands dead, as fighting surged around Kyiv ahead of new face-to-face peace talks with Russia in Turkey. A senior Ukrainian official told AFP Monday that […]

NAYPYIDAW – March 24 (ONLINE) Myanmar’s junta chief created a special command a day after last year’s coup that was solely responsible for deployment and operations of troops in urban areas, and authorised lethal attacks on unarmed civilians, human rights investigators said. The group Fortify […]

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 24 (APP): With Pakistan abstaining, the U.N. General Assembly Thursday adopted a western resolution that blames Russia for the escalating humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and demanded an immediate halt to hostilities, especially attacks on civilians and their homes, schools and hospitals. The […]