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Ukraine’s ambassador to Qatar, Andrii Kuzmenko, suggested that the Russian Football Union (RFU) should be excluded as a member of FIFA during the global football governing body’s recent congress in Doha.  Kuzmenko attended the event held in the Qatari capital on Thursday, and was quoted by Australian TV channel ABC …

Russia’s lead negotiator, Vladimir Medinsky, said on Wednesday that Ukraine agreed in principle to officially become a neutral country. Ukraine’s bid to join NATO was one of the reasons Moscow said it launched a military campaign against the country last month. Medinsky made his statement a day after the sides …

Moscow has apparently dropped several key demands in the painstaking Ukraine peace talks, the Financial Times newspaper reported Monday, citing “four people briefed on the discussions.” According to the report, Moscow is now prepared to let Ukraine “join the European Union if it remains military non-aligned as part of ongoing …

Dozens of prominent Jamaicans have officially rejected a visit by Britain’s Prince William and his wife, calling for an apology and reparations for slavery instead. A growing number are considering breaking ties with the monarchy altogether, as fellow Caribbean island nation Barbados did last year, and sources tell UK media …

President Vladimir Putin has detailed Russia’s demands concerning Ukraine, during a phone call on Thursday with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, Moscow has said. He reiterated the objectives of the Russian military operation, including demilitarization of Ukraine and its neutral status in the future, the readout of the two men’s …

Russia’s demands for security guarantees are not a starting point for discussion and negotiation, but are instead plunging the European continent into a “deep security crisis,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said on Thursday. Speaking virtually to the French Institute of International Relations, Kuleba called on Kiev’s Western allies to …

Following Meat Loaf’s death last week, radio host Howard Stern is calling on the late singer’s family to speak out in support of Covid-19 vaccines, saying the singer “made a mistake” by not getting vaccinated. Although TMZ initially reported that Meat Loaf had been “seriously ill with Covid,” those statements …

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has hinted that Washington will never agree to Russia’s proposal to limit NATO expansion close to its borders by blocking Ukraine from trying to join the military bloc. Speaking to reporters following talks in Geneva with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on Friday, Blinken said that …

A local man in the Russian city of Arkhangelsk has gone to the highest level to complain about a new public installation, arguing that statues of witches and of their cauldron fly in the face of his religious beliefs. Last week, Sergey Samodov, the director of Arkhangelsk’s Drama Theater, shared …

If Russia wants to make a deal on security guarantees, it should halt military exercises near the Ukrainian border or provide clarification and be transparent about troop movements, the US State Department has insisted. Spokesman Ned Price’s comments, made on Tuesday, came just hours after Russia announced new drills in …