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KYIV: Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss the status of the war and needs of troops on Thursday, the day after Russia accused Ukraine‘s Western allies of helping plan and conduct last week’s missile strike on the Black Sea Fleet’s headquarters on the annexed Crimean Peninsula. Zelenskyy said that Stoltenberg
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NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia, Ukrainian steelworkers at Metinvest are outsmarting Russian troops with realistic-looking fake weapons.According to a report in the Financial Times, steelworkers are using scrap wood, metal and used tires to mimic advanced defence systems such as howitzers, radar systems and mortar launchers at Ukraine’s largest steel
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BUCHAREST: The crew of a Togo-flagged general cargo ship bound for one of Ukraine’s Danube river ports were evacuated early on Wednesday after an explosion on board near the Romanian port of Sulina, Romanian officials said. The Seama ship reported an explosion early on Wednesday and requested the evacuation of the 12-person crew near Sulina,
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MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin will on Wednesday host China’s foreign minister Wang Yi for talks in Saint Petersburg, the Kremlin said. The top Chinese diplomat is on a four-day visit to Russia, in the latest of a series of high-level contacts between Moscow and Beijing. “Today Putin will receive Wang Yi, the Chinese foreign
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BERLIN: The German government on Tuesday banned the neo-Nazi group Hammerskins Germany and raided homes of dozens of its members. The group is an offshoot of an American ring-wing extremist group and plays a prominent role across Europe. The Hammerskins Germany is an offshoot of the Hammerskins Nation founded in the United States in 1988,
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ATHENS: A senior prosecutor on Wednesday ordered an investigation into allegations that officials in disaster-hit central Greece failed to complete flood defence projects on time. Extensive flooding across central Greece from a powerful storm last week killed 15 people and has caused widespread damage to property, farms and infrastructure. A Supreme Court prosecutor ordered an
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VENICE: The first production co-directed by Iranian and Israeli filmmakers had to be shot in secret to prevent possible interference by Tehran, directors Zar Amir Ebrahimi and Guy Nattiv told Reuters on Sunday. “Tatami“, a tense thriller centred on a world judo championship, got its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival at the weekend,
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PARIS: French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said Sunday that disposable vapes will soon be banned in the country as part of a national anti-smoking plan. Borne, speaking on RTL radio, did not say when the ban would enter into force. She said the government would soon unveil its new plan to combat smoking, which she
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BERLIN: The governor of the German state of Bavaria said Sunday that he will let his deputy stay in office despite a furor that started with allegations he was responsible for an antisemitic flyer when he was a high school student 35 years ago. Governor Markus Soeder, a leading figure in Germany’s center-right opposition, said
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PROVATONAS: Goat breeder Kleanthis Raptis lost most of his livestock on Saturday after a deadly wildfire which has burned for more than two weeks ripped through his stable close to the village of Provatonas in northeastern Greece. Aircraft and hundreds of firefighters struggled for the 16th day on Sunday to contain the wildfire in the
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