BBC News: Ukraine has called for the United Nations and the Red Cross to be allowed to investigate the deaths of more than 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) in an attack in occupied territory. The Red Cross said it is seeking access to the prison in order to help with evacuating and treating the […]
NDTV News: A Norwegian woman remains on course to climb the world’s 14 “super peaks” in the shortest time ever, her Instagram account said, after she summitted Pakistan’s Broad Peak, the ninth mountain on her quest. Pakistan is home to five of the world’s 14 super peaks — those over 8,000 metres (26,246 feet). Climbing […]
ABC News: Inflation in the European countries using the euro currency shot up to another record in July, pushed by higher energy prices fueled by Russia’s war in Ukraine, but the economy managed better-than-expected, if meager, growth in the second quarter. Annual inflation in the eurozone’s 19 countries rose to 8.9% in July, an increase […]
BBC News:- Russia’s defence ministry says 40 Ukrainian prisoners-of-war have been killed by Ukrainian shelling of a prison in separatist-held Donetsk. Officials alleged that 75 others had been injured in a rocket strike on the prison camp in Olenivka. The BBC cannot independently verify this claim. Ukraine’s military denied carrying out the strike and instead […]
BBC News: The first grain ship from Ukraine since Russia’s invasion could leave port as early as Friday, but “crucial details” are still being ironed out, says UN aid chief Martin Griffiths. A UN-led deal was signed a week ago to resume exports after a blockage which led to food price rises. With hopes of […]
Reuters: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that Moscow would soon propose a time for a call with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in which Blinken has said he wants to discuss an exchange of prisoners held in Russian and U.S. jails. Blinken said on Wednesday that Washington had made a “substantial […]
Reuters: Indian and Chinese foreign ministers attended a regional conference in Uzbekistan on Friday, a day after New Delhi voiced concern over a Chinese military ship’s planned visit to a strategic port in India’s southern neighbour Sri Lanka. New Delhi worries that the Chinese-built and leased Hambantota port in Sri Lanka will be used by […]
BBC News: China has signalled that it may miss its annual economic growth target, as Covid restrictions weigh on the world’s second largest economy. On Thursday, the Politburo – the ruling Communist Party’s top policy-making body – said it aims to keep growth within “a reasonable range”. It did not mention the official growth target […]
BBC News:- The US has asked the government in the Democratic of Congo to protect UN peacekeepers and their facilities amid protests in the country. Protests against the UN mission in the country, known as Monusco, have since Monday resulted in the deaths of 19 people – including three peacekeepers. “We call on the national […]
July 29 (Reuters) – The World Bank does not plan to offer new financing to Sri Lanka, which is battling its worst economic crisis in decades, until the Indian Ocean nation has an adequate macroeconomic policy framework in place, the lender said on Thursday. In a statement, the World Bank said Sri Lanka needed to […]
