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Shelling throws doubt on Russia's de-escalation in Ukraine

Mar 30, 2022 (AFP)

Ukraine and Western powers had already cast doubt on Russia's pledge to reduce military activity around Chernigiv and the capital Kyiv, made during face-to-face...

Sweden's PM says 'hasn't ruled out' NATO membership

Mar 30, 2022 (AFP)

"I don't rule out NATO membership in any way", Magdalena Andersson told Swedish public television SVT, adding that a review of the country's security policy was...

Scepticism greets Russian pledge to deescalate around Kyiv

Mar 30, 2022 (AFP)

Both sides called talks in Istanbul "meaningful" and "positive", in sharp contrast to previous rounds, raising hopes after more than a month of war that has kil...

Denmark says ready to send 800 NATO troops to Baltic states

Mar 29, 2022 (AFP)

The Nordic country has already deployed some 200 military personnel and fighter jets to Estonia and Lithuania, and sent a frigate to the east of the Baltic Sea....

Russia 'repositioning' forces near Kyiv, not withdrawing: Pentagon

Mar 29, 2022 (AFP)

"We're seeing a small number now that appears to be moving away from Kyiv, this on the same day that the Russians say they're withdrawing," Pentagon spokesman J...

Finland's spy service warns of Russian interference, attacks

Mar 29, 2022 (AFP)

The Nordic nation shares a 1,340-kilometre (830-mile) border with Russia and has remained militarily non-aligned since the end of World War II to avoid provokin...

US, Philippines kick off their largest-ever war games

Mar 28, 2022 (AFP)

The war games are the last under outgoing President Rodrigo Duterte, who previously threatened to cancel exercises and axe a key military deal with longtime all...

Deaths of generals expose Russia's troubles in Ukraine

Mar 28, 2022 (AFP)

According to Kyiv, seven Russian generals have been killed since the invasion was launched on February 24, in what Western officials say would be an unusually h...

Philippine coastguard accuses China ship of risking collision

Mar 27, 2022 (AFP)

The incident happened on March 2 near the contested Scarborough Shoal -- one of the region's richest fishing grounds and a flashpoint between the two countries ...

Russia says not planning to call up reserves; Defence Minister reappears after long absence

Mar 26, 2022 (AFP)

"The Russian defence ministry is not summoning and does not plan to summon any reservists to the military commissariats," spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in a s...

Blinken heads to Israel, Morocco, Algeria

Mar 26, 2022 (AFP)

On the first stop of a tour that will include the West Bank, Morocco and Algeria, Blinken will join a mini-summit of counterparts from Bahrain, the United Arab ...

Russia-West scientific collaboration a casualty of Ukraine war

Mar 26, 2022 (AFP)

In response to sanctions and moral outrage at Moscow's war, scientific institutes around the world swiftly cut off ties with Russia, including the European Spac...

Fleeing Putin, Russians resettle in pro-Kremlin Serbia

Mar 25, 2022 (AFP)

But more than a thousand miles away in her new home in Serbia, the 41-year-old former travel agent has found herself unable to escape the long arm of Russian pr...

China top diplomat in India for first visit since border clash

Mar 25, 2022 (AFP)

The high-altitude brawl in June 2020 left 20 Indian soldiers and at least four Chinese troops dead, leading to a sharp deterioration in relations with both side...

Biden's Brussels triple summit big on unity, short on tougher measures

Mar 25, 2022 (AFP)

But the limited practical outcomes of the back-to-back meetings with the EU, NATO and G7 also underlined the limited options even closely-aligned capitals have ...

Kremlin rebuffs speculation as defence minister surfaces; Day 29 of Russia's invasion

Mar 24, 2022 (AFP)

Shoigu, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, reportedly last appeared in public on March 11 despite his leading role in Russia's military operation in Ukra...

China calls NATO claims of backing Russia 'disinformation'

Mar 24, 2022 (AFP)

China has refused to condemn close ally Russia over the bloody invasion of Ukraine and lagged behind many other countries in providing humanitarian aid to the w...

With war next door, Finland, Sweden train with NATO

Mar 24, 2022 (AFP)

While Finland and Sweden's partnership with the Atlantic Alliance is nothing new, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has pushed the two militarily non-aligned nations...

'Hellscape' in Ukraine's Mariupol but Russia talks tough

Mar 23, 2022 (AFP)

Tens of thousands of residents have already fled the besieged southern port city, bringing harrowing testimony of a "freezing hellscape riddled with dead bodies...

Russian army 'taking defensive positions' in Ukraine: Pentagon

Mar 23, 2022 (AFP)

"The Ukrainians have managed to push the Russians back 55 kilometers east and northeast of Kiev," the senior official, who requested anonymity, told reporters. ...