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Moscow will continue to exchange POWs with Ukraine despite last week’s incident which saw Kiev’s forces shoot down a Russian aircraft carrying Ukrainian soldiers for a prisoner swap, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. All 65 Ukrainian servicemen on board the Russian Il-76 military transport plane were killed in the …

Ukraine’s forces entrenched at the Azovstal steel plant in the Black Sea port-city of Mariupol have no plans to surrender, fighters with the Ukrainian neo-Nazi Azov regiment have told journalists on Sunday during a video press conference. A man identified as Ilya Samoylenko, described as an Azov fighter and a …

German chemical and consumer goods giant Henkel will continue doing business in Russia, according to the company’s Chairperson Simone Bagel-Trah. “This is sometimes viewed very critically by the public. So, it is important to me to stress we are fully applying all applicable sanctions,” she told shareholders on Monday during …

South Korea plans to open temporary settlement lines between domestic banks and their units in Russia in order to help local firms finance trade that’s been made difficult by international sanctions against the country over its military operation in Ukraine, Yonhap News Agency reported on Friday. The measure – to …

Moscow will continue to ignore American demands that it stops military exercises near the country’s border with Ukraine because nobody has the right to dictate what Russia can do inside its own territory, the Kremlin has said. Speaking to the press on Wednesday, presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov commented on …

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day saw more than 4,500 flights canceled and more than 11,000 delayed worldwide, with American and Chinese carriers responsible for the majority of the interruptions.  The disruptions continued on Sunday. According to flight tracking firm FlightAware, 2,323 flights were canceled as of late afternoon, and a …

Seven people were arrested after fierce clashes broke out between law enforcement and anti-lockdown demonstrators in the Hague, the seat of The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Saturday. A video shared on social media shows protesters lighting firecrackers that spark multiple fires, causing the skies in the city to …

The outlet’s owner, real-estate tycoon Adnan Kivan, who runs the KADORR business group, did not stand on ceremony, simply informing the newsroom staff one morning that their jobs and their paper were over. Even if Kivan added a few token words of thanks for their services and made vague promises of, …

The 18-year-old, who is a former Russian Circuit Racing Series national junior champion and commands a huge social media following, has admitted her “race is over” after she claims she was turned down following a visit to the US Embassy in Oman.  One of the rising stars of all-women’s racing and …

Wally Adeyemo, the Biden administration’s second-highest official in the Treasury Department, appeared to publicly blackmail the still-sizable portion of Americans who have not been vaccinated against Covid-19 during a Thursday ABC interview, seemingly blaming them for the ongoing shortages of consumer goods that have led many to mock the president …