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

A convoy of Russian military vehicles moving towards border in Donbas region By Anadolu Agency The Russian Defense Ministry on Saturday ordered its troops to attack Ukraine in all directions “in response to Kyiv’s refusal to negotiate.” Ministry spokesperson Igor Konashenkov said that as a result they will intensify the attacks, which began on Thursday,

Credit to Photo Associated Press/Dictator Ismali Omar Gulleh has ruled over Djibouti since 1999. He succeeded his uncle, Hassan Gouled Aptidon, African leaders have continued to consolidate their power through constitutional changes and have constructed legal dictatorships. The new decade has brought about a series of seismic changes in the African political system. There has

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to the nation via his smartphone in the center of 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. The country’s president refused

People fleeing the conflict from neighboring Ukraine, arrive at the border crossing in Medyka, southeastern Poland, on Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. U.N. officials said that 100,000 people were believed to have left their homes and estimated up to 4 million could flee if the fighting escalates.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) By Reuters When Percy Ohene-Yeboah peered down

By Anadolu Agency Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told EU leaders in a videoconference on Thursday night that “this might be the last time you see me alive,” according to the Axios news website. The video call took place before the leaders of EU states decided on a new series of sanctions against Russia, the website