By Anadolu Agency Amid growing international anger over Russia’s war on Ukraine, economic sanctions have again become a favorite measure of leaders working to discourage war, including one particular banking mechanism that recently made headlines. “I will not be diplomatic on this. Everyone who now doubts whether Russia should be banned from SWIFT has to

A student covers herself in blanket at the Medyka border crossing after fleeing from the Ukraine, in Poland, Monday, Feb. 28, 2022. The head of the United Nations refugee agency says more than a half a million people had fled Ukraine since Russia’s invasion on Thursday. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu) By The Associated Press All day

Senegal’s President Macky Sall speaks at a news conference on the second day of a European Union (EU) African Union (AU) summit at The European Council Building in Brussels, Belgium February 18, 2022. John Thys/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo By Reuters The African Union (AU) said on Monday that it was disturbed by reports that African

By Anadolu Agency At least 70 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in Russian strikes on a military unit in northeastern Ukraine, a local authority confirmed on Tuesday. The fatalities were confirmed by Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, head of the Sumy Regional State Administration, Ukraine-based Kyiv Independent News reported. Also, a maternity hospital near Kyiv was hit by Russian

A Photograph appear on the Internet Somalia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Abdisaid Muse Ali spoke by telephone with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, discussing the strengthening of respect and protection of national sovereignty, political independence and territorial integrity between the two governments. According to a statement from the Somali Ministry of Foreign

A protester holds a placard calling on Boris Johnson to let Ukrainians claim asylum. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock The Guardian By Rajeev Syal, Jessica Elgot and Nicola Slawson Priti Patel has rejected demands to offer a full visa waiver to Ukrainians fleeing war amid growing unrest among Conservative MPs over the government’s refugee policy.

File – Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin talk to each other during their meeting in Beijing, China on Feb. 4, 2022. Three weeks ago, on the eve of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the leaders of China and Russia declared that the friendship between their countries “has no limits.” But that

File – Russian President Vladimir Putin enters a hall to chair a Security Council meeting in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. Putin ordered Russian nuclear deterrent forces put on high alert Sunday, Feb. 27, amid tensions with the West over his invasion of Ukraine. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File) By

A view shows a burning oil depot reportedly hit by shelling near the military airbase Vasylkiv in the Kyiv region, Ukraine February 27, 2022. REUTERS/Maksim Levin An oil depot in the Ukrainian city of Vasylkiv, near the capital, Kyiv, was reportedly hit by Russian missiles early Sunday. Footage of fires at the depot was widely

Ukrainian soldiers stand next to a burnt military truck, in a street in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022. Russian troops stormed toward Ukraine’s capital Saturday, and street fighting broke out as city officials urged residents to take shelter. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) By Associated Press Street fighting broke out in Ukraine’s second-largest city Sunday and