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The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a disbursement of $1.3 billion under the Rapid Financing Instrument (RFI) to help meet Ukraine’s urgent balance of payments needs.
Oct. 8, 2022
War in Ukraine
France has created a fund, initially worth 100 million euros ($98 million), for Ukraine to directly buy weapons and other materiel it needs in its war against invading Russia, President Emmanuel Macro
Oct. 8, 2022
If there is one word that best describes this week’s Warsaw Security Forum, it is no other than “Ukraine.” Attended by an array of high-profile guests, including Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki, First La
Oct. 8, 2022
A fire sparked by a car bomb has broken out on a key road and rail bridge linking Crimea to Russia, which annexed the territory from Ukraine in 2014, Moscow authorities said Saturday, Oct.8. “Today at
Oct. 8, 2022
During the middle of a NATO conference being held in Budva, Montenegro, Prime Minister Dritan Abazović fired the Director of the National Security Agency Savo Kentera while the latter was on stage spe
Oct. 7, 2022
Reactions poured in Friday after human rights champions Ales Bialiatski of Belarus, Russia’s Memorial group and Ukraine’s Center for Civil Liberties won the Nobel Peace Prize. Here are some of the res
Oct. 7, 2022
The Ukrainian presidency said Friday that the people of Ukraine, under Russian attack since February, were “architects of peace,” after a Ukrainian NGO became the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
Oct. 7, 2022
The UN Human Rights Council on Friday, Oct. 6, agreed to monitor the rights situation in Russia, marking the first-ever resolution focused on violations inside the country. The 47-member top UN rights
Oct. 7, 2022
Russia
Speaking at the G20 Parliamentary Speakers’ Summit meeting on Thursday, Oct. 6, in Indonesia, Russian Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko suggested to the Ukrainian delegation that the two
Oct. 7, 2022
A trio of human rights champions from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, Oct.7, a highly symbolic choice of laureates drawn from three nations at the centre of the war in
Oct. 7, 2022
War in Ukraine
As Russian officials discuss the likelihood of using tactical nuclear weapons after experiencing serious setbacks in their eight-month long invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden declared on Thursda
Oct. 7, 2022
Restoring Russia to its rightful place among the world’s great powers has obsessed President Vladimir Putin, whose offensive in Ukraine was to be the culmination of over 20 years of iron-willed leader
Oct. 7, 2022
More Russian men have left Russia in the past two weeks to avoid military conscription than now fight in Ukraine, more than 200,000. Thousands more each day, with their families, continue to cross int
Oct. 7, 2022
The State of Israel should change its position of avoiding an answer to the request for military assistance to Ukraine against the war with the Russian invaders. Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel Yevhen
Oct. 7, 2022
War in Ukraine
For some legal experts, if the UN is to be a viable peacekeeping organization, then it must reboot the UN Security Council – without Russia. For decades the UN has been criticized as being an overly
Oct. 7, 2022
War in Ukraine
The phoenix has risen from the gilded walls of the Kremlin, Western democracies must now either enter the war against Russian fascism or fall. Humanity is now living through the pages of tomorrow’s hi
Oct. 7, 2022
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The June 19 defense pact signed between Russia and North Korea included a promise to provide military assistance to one another – within days Pyongyang said it was sending troops to Ukraine.
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