Agencies

Ottawa: The Ukrainian Finance Ministry said it had signed a $398 million loan agreement with the Canadian government amid the Russian military operation."Ukrainian Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko has signed a loan agreement with the Canadian government on providing...

Canberra: Australia has imposed new sanctions against 14 Russian companies, including Gazprom, Transneft, Rostelecom, RusHydro, according to an updated list of sanctioned individuals and legal entities on the website of the country's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)....

Seoul: Price for imported goods to South Korea kept rising last month due to higher price for raw materials, especially crude oil, central bank data showed Thursday.The import price index reached 148.80 in March, marking the highest since...

Beijing: The BRICS leaders have agreed to further strengthen solidarity and cooperation to address multiple challenges the globe currently facing, including the Covid-19 pandemic and economic recovery.The pledge came as the second BRICS sherpas' meeting in 2022 was...

Moscow: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday that he had been irritated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's refusal to welcome President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to Kiev.On Tuesday, Steinmeier said that he wanted to travel to Ukraine together with...

Paris: Marine Le Pen, the leader of the French right-wing National Rally party, said on Wednesday that in the event of victory in the presidential runoff, she would withdraw France from NATO's integrated military command structure, but would still...

Seoul: South Korea will continue providing Ukraine with humanitarian and non-lethal military aid but weapon deliveries are not being considered, a Foreign Ministry official told reporters on Wednesday."We have been supplying it with humanitarian aid, which excludes weapons…...

Tokyo: Japan has received unofficial, separate invitations from Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States to join the AUKUS alliance amid the member states' intention to develop hypersonic weapons, Japanese newspaper Sankei Shimbun reported on Wednesday.According to...

Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday that Russians and Ukrainians were "fraternal peoples" and refused to call Russia's actions in Ukraine "genocide," stressing the need to be "discreet with terms."On Tuesday, US President Joe Biden called...

Kyiv: Volodymyr Zelenskyy offered to exchange Viktor Medvedchuk, the detained chairman of the political council of Ukrainian party Opposition Platform — For Life, for Ukrainians captured during Russia's special military operation in Ukraine.On Tuesday, the Security Service of...