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Make membership easier, Kosovo PM tells NATO, EU

Mar 08, 2022 (AFP)

"It is shocking," Kurti said during an interview this week in Kosovo's capital Pristina. "It's hard to believe what you're seeing -- but no one can pretend to b...

In nod to Russia, Ukraine says no longer insisting on NATO membership

Mar 08, 2022 (AFP)

In another apparent nod aimed at placating Moscow, Zelensky said he is open to "compromise" on the status of two breakaway pro-Russian territories that Presiden...

Sweden, Finland 'remind' EU of mutual defence clause

Mar 08, 2022 (AFP)

Ahead of a summit of EU leaders in Versailles on Thursday and Friday, the two countries wrote a joint letter to "remind the other member states about the EU's d...

China's Xi urges 'maximum restraint' over Ukraine in call with Macron, Scholz

Mar 08, 2022 (AFP)

Xi's comments come more than a week after Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine, with the UN saying the number of people fleeing the war has crossed two millio...

Macron, Blinken discuss efforts to end Ukraine war

Mar 08, 2022 (AFP)

The two met in Paris and "reaffirmed their commitment to impose significant costs on President Putin and his associates for as long as they continue their war o...

Battleground Ukraine: Day 13 of Russia's invasion

Mar 08, 2022 (AFP)

Kyiv remains under Ukrainian control but at increasing risk of itself being encircled, with observers fearing Russia could step up the intensity of attacks in t...

Five reasons why Ukraine has been able to stall Russian advance

Mar 08, 2022 (AFP)

Analysts say their performance against a numerically far superior army has been fuelled by a combination of good preparation, national solidarity and Russian mi...

US says may become harder to ship arms to Ukraine

Mar 07, 2022 (AFP)

"I think it has been extraordinary the amount of arms supplies that are getting in to Ukraine even under the most difficult of circumstances," she told a media ...

China open to mediating on Ukraine, says Russia friendship 'rock solid'

Mar 07, 2022 (AFP)

China has refused to condemn its close ally Moscow after only last month touting a "no limits" strategic partnership between the two countries. "The friendship ...

Top US general exhorts troops to stop 'great power war'

Mar 07, 2022 (AFP)

The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff is touring Europe to show Washington's "determination" to defend NATO's eastern flank in the face of Russia's aggre...

Zelensky says Russian forces scuppering civilian evacuations

Mar 07, 2022 (AFP)

"There was an agreement on humanitarian corridors. Did that work? Russian tanks worked in its place, Russian Grads (multiple rocket launchers), Russian mines," ...

Nearly all Russia forces deployed, US says as it adds troops to Europe

Mar 07, 2022 (AFP)

With President Vladimir Putin intensifying operations, the US Defense Department also warned that Russian strikes on civilians were mounting and that Moscow was...

Ukraine war tests China's 'no limits' bond with Russia

Mar 06, 2022 (AFP)

With international outrage and sanctions mounting against Russia, Beijing is scrambling to avoid being tainted by association with Moscow while also maintaining...

Danes to vote on scrapping EU defence opt-out

Mar 06, 2022 (AFP)

"Historic times call for historic decisions," Mette Frederiksen told a news conference, adding that the government "very clearly calls on Danes to lift the opt-...

Sanctions, no-fly zone, diplomacy: the West's complex calculus to stop Putin

Mar 05, 2022 (AFP)

- More sanctions? - G7 countries promised Friday to impose "tough new sanctions" on Russia, and the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged to " increase t...

Top US general reassures Latvia as Russia fears spike

Mar 05, 2022 (AFP)

Latvia, a former Soviet republic with a large Russian ethnic minority, received NATO reinforcements on the alliance's eastern flank bordering Russia in the buil...

Ukraine steps up pleas for warplanes and other military aid

Mar 05, 2022 (AFP)

"The highest demand that we have is in fighter jets, attack aircraft, and air-defense systems," Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told a small group of j...

Ukrainians run for their lives from Russian bombs

Mar 05, 2022 (AFP)

The roads on Kyiv's western edge bear witness to a human tragedy whose scale grows ever greater as Russia's assault on the Ukrainian capital becomes more determ...

Ukraine nuclear plant on fire after Russia shelling

Mar 04, 2022 (AFP)

Russia has intensified strikes across the country, with fresh reports of civilian casualties and devastating damage, even as Moscow agreed to a Ukrainian reques...

Fire at Ukrainian nuclear plant after Russian forces attack

Mar 04, 2022 (AFP)

Local authorities said no immediate radiation rise was detected and "essential" equipment was unaffected by the fire, but it remained unclear what the invading ...