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Kyiv: Contact between the UN watchdog the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was lost, leading to concern for staff working under Russian guards at the Ukrainian facility, Khaljee Times reported on Wednesday.The...

Washington: The western allies have announced that they are putting curbs on oil and gas imports from Russia or are ending their dependency on it in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, BBC reported on Wednesday.The...

Washington: The war in Ukraine has seen a rise in the demand for freelance soldiers who are willing to covertly go to that country and fight against Russian forces for a handsome sum of money, BBC reported on Wednesday....

Riga (Latvia): NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday said the organisation has a responsibility to ensure the Ukraine-Russia conflict doe not extend beyond.Speaking at a press conference in Riga with the Latvian President Egils Levits, Stoltenberg said, "We...

Moscow: Russia has evacuated 223 foreign nationals from dangerous areas of the Ukrainian region of Kherson while Ukraine remains reluctant to participate in the evacuation process, the chief for Russian National Center for State Defense Control, Lieutenant-General Mikhail Mizintsev,...

Amsterdam: Dutch internet providers have blocked the websites of Russia's RT broadcaster and Sputnik News agency in the Netherlands, the NOS broadcaster reported on Tuesday.Three providers -- VodafoneZiggo, T-Mobile and KPN -- enacted the blocking starting March 8....

Tehran: Iran successfully launched a military satellite named Noor-2 (Light-2) into orbit from a desert in the northern province of Shahroud on Tuesday, official news agency IRNA reported.The satellite, which was manufactured by the Aerospace Force of Iran's...

London: UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace on Tuesday warned Poland that sending fighter jets to Ukraine will put them in the "direct line of fire" from Russia.Speaking in an interview with Sky News, Wallace said he would support...

Moscow: Germany has fully agreed with the anti-Russian position of the West, blocking the channels of dialogue with Moscow, Oleg Tyapkin, the head of the Russian foreign ministry's Third European Department, said in an interview with Sputnik."So far,...

Kyiv: We have more information now on the renewed Russian shelling of the southern port city of Mykolaiv.The city's mayor has confirmed earlier reports that Moscow's forces bombarded the city with artillery fire on Monday morning. In a...