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Presidential chief of staff Andriy Yermak. (Photo: Twitter)

Kyiv praises Ukrainian people as -'architects of peace-' after Nobel

KYIV: The Ukrainian presidency said Friday that the people of Ukraine, under Russian attack since February, were...

7 Oct 2022 7:08 PM IST

Swedish scientist Svante Paabo has spearheaded the development of new techniques that allowed researchers to compare the genome of modern humans and that of other hominins. (Photo: Nobel Prize)

Human rights champions in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine win Nobel Peace...

OSLO: The Nobel Peace Prize was on Friday awarded to human rights champions Ales Bialiatski of Belarus, Russia's...

7 Oct 2022 3:41 PM IST

Swedish scientist Svante Paabo has spearheaded the development of new techniques that allowed researchers to compare the genome of modern humans and that of other hominins. (Photo: Nobel Prize)

French writer Annie Ernaux awarded Nobel Prize in literature

STOCKHOLM: This year's Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to French author Annie Ernaux. Ernaux, 82, was...

6 Oct 2022 5:15 PM IST

Britains Prime Minister Liz Truss arrives to attend the opening day of the annual Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham, central England, on October 2, 2022. (Oli SCARFF / AFP)

UK scraps tax cut for wealthy that sparked market turmoil

The U-turn came after a growing number of lawmakers from the governing Conservative Party turned on govt tax plans...

3 Oct 2022 1:52 PM IST

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Russia smuggling Ukrainian grain to help pay for Putin-'s war

The theft, which legal experts say is a potential war crime, is being carried out by wealthy businessmen and state-owned...

3 Oct 2022 10:39 AM IST

Indias permanent representative to UN Ruchira Kamboj (ANI)

India abstains from UN vote that condemns Russia-'s annexation of...

The UN security council voted on the resolutions condemning referendums in Ukraine at UNSC on Friday which were tabled...

1 Oct 2022 10:25 AM IST

The Moscow-appointed heads of Kherson region Vladimir Saldo and Zaporizhzhia region Yevgeny Balitsky, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Donetsk separatist leader Denis Pushilin and Lugansk separatist leader Leonid Pasechnik react after signing treaties formally annexing four regions of Ukraine Russian troops occupy, at the Kremlin in Moscow on September 30, 2022. (Photo: AFP)

Putin signs treaties annexing Ukrainian regions

KYIV: Russian President Vladimir Putin signed treaties Friday to annex occupied areas of Ukraine and said he would use...

30 Sept 2022 7:09 PM IST

A view of the Kremlins Spasskaya tower in central Moscow on September 28, 2022. - The pro-Moscow leaders of Ukraines Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions called on President Vladimir Putin to formally annex the territories into Russia, claiming residents had backed the move in a referendum. (Natalia KOLESNIKOVA / AFP)

Russia prepares to annex occupied Ukraine despite outcry

Western countries dismissed the ballots as a meaningless pretense staged by Moscow in an attempt to legitimise its...

28 Sept 2022 3:35 PM IST

General Assembly President Csaba Korosi addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Monday, Sept. 26, 2022, at the U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

UN meeting produces sense that a -'new epoch-' is arriving

There were near-unanimous calls for an end to the 7-month Ukraine war, with rich and poor countries decrying the fallout...

27 Sept 2022 10:47 AM IST

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on September 24, 2022. (Yuki IWAMURA / AFP)

Russia backs India, Brazil for permanent membership in UN Security...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the UN and Security Council have to be aligned to contemporary...

25 Sept 2022 11:11 AM IST

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy from video addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

World opinion shifts against Russia as Ukraine worries grow

That shift against Russia accelerated after Putin on Wednesday announced the mobilization of some additional 300,000...

24 Sept 2022 9:42 AM IST

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a flag raising ceremony on the ferry Marshal Rokossovsky via a video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow on March 4, 2022. (Alexey NIKOLSKY / SPUTNIK / AFP)

Putin orders partial Russian mobilisation for Ukraine, threatens...

Putin accused the West in engaging in -'nuclear blackmail-'

21 Sept 2022 1:11 PM IST