Tag: Ukrainian

Brussels: Asylum applications in the EU jumped last year after Covid travel curbs were lifted, surging 50 percent over 2021 to the highest level since a 2016 influx of refugees.The preliminary data, from the EU Agency for Asylum (EUAA), showed there were nearly one million asylum claims lodged in ...

Kyiv, Ukraine – Called the White Swan, the Tu-160 is the world’s heaviest and fastest supersonic bomber. The Soviet-designed flying fortress can circle half the globe, fly as high as 20km (12.4 miles) above Earth and carry 45 tonnes of bombs – or a dozen Kh-55 nuclear missiles. Moscow ...

Kyiv:The Russian military reported Monday that it shot down a Ukrainian drone approaching an air base deep inside Russia, the second time the facility has been targeted this month again revealing weaknesses in Russia’s air defenses. Russia’s Defense Ministry said debris killed three servicemen at the Engels air base, ...

December 19, 2022: Last week Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said that the country needs assistance worth $1 billion to bring its electricity grid and centralised heating system back to normal.Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday that the administration was able to restore the power of at least six million ...

ISLAMABAD: The United States has added the key Pakistani militant group and the Al-Qaeda branch to its list of “global terrorists,” triggering sanctions against the groups amid a resurgence of militant violence in this Islamic nation.Thursday’s move by the State Department comes days after the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, known as ...

Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, some eight million Ukrainian refugees have registered across Europe. The EU has opened its borders and granted displaced Ukrainian citizens temporary protection. With 1.4 million Ukrainian refugees, Poland has taken the largest number. According to Germany's Central Register of Foreigners (AZR), a total of ...

EU top human rights award goes to UkraineTo view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 videoThe European Parliament on Wednesday awarded its top human rights prize to the Ukrainian people amid Russia's ongoing invasion of their country.  "This award is ...

#Pakistan News The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Wednesday overwhelmingly voted to condemn Russia's annexation of parts of Ukraine, a move U.S. President Joe Biden said sent a "clear message" to Moscow. The General Assembly approved the resolution with 143 in favor and five against, but 35 nations ...

India on Wednesday abstained from voting on a draft resolution in the United Nations General Assembly to condemn Russia’s annexation of the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine and the referendums held there.The resolution was adopted as 143 countries voted in favour of it, while five countries ...

United Nations: India has again maintained its neutrality on a UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution condemning Russia`s annexation of Ukrainian territories, and abstained on Wednesday at the UNGA's emergency session. India's Permanent Representative Ruchira Kamboj stated that it was consistent with New Delhi`s "well thought out national position", and ...