•Smoke rises over the capital city of Kyiv following a Russian air attack on Ukraine, today Russia resumed strikes on Kyiv after the expiration of a three-day halt in attacks for a visit to the Ukrainian capital by US envoys, Ukraine’s emergency service said late yesterday. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the three-day halt in [&hell...
•Trump, Putin and Zelensky US President Donald Trump said yesterday he is sending envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Moscow and Kyiv with a plan to end more than four years of war in Ukraine. The move marks Washington’s latest bid to break a diplomatic stalemate in Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War II, […]
•Russian troops Members of Niger’s presidential guard, helped by Russian forces yesterday, recaptured a key military base in the capital Niamey from mutinous soldiers. Diplomatic and security sources revealed this to our correspondent, reports AFP. “The presidential guard has retaken control of the air base with the help of the Russians,” said...
•Ukrainian rescuers work to extinguish a fire in a train’s locomotive following an air attack at in the Odesa region. Russia and Ukraine swapped bodies of killed soldiers today, in one of the few areas of cooperation between the warring sides. “The bodies of 261 deceased persons have been returned to Ukraine, which, according to […]...
•Smoke rises above residential buildings following a Russian air attack in Kyiv, Ukraine Ukrainian attacks on Russia killed at least nine people yesterday, while Russian attacks on Ukraine killed at least five, according to officials in both countries. The exchange of strikes comes amid signs both Moscow and Kyiv are increasing the scale and i...
•Trump US President Donald Trump warned China and Russia today against selling weapons to Iran — while saying he believed assurances from Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin that they were not yet doing so. “Therefore, two major Countries that people speak of often in terms of Iran are, in my opinion, not participating,” Trump said […]...
•A damaged residential building following a Russian drone strike late night in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, last night Ukrainian drone strikes killed four people and wounded seven in Russia today, most in the Moscow region, local officials said, as Kyiv upped its strikes in response to Kremlin’s barrages. Ukraine has been striking Russia, particula...
•Late Marian Adaobi Nnani and Russian bomber jets The Russian Federation has disputed reports linking its military to the death of Nigerian medical graduate, Miss Marian Adaobi Nnani, saying there is no confirmed evidence that she was killed by a Russian strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine. The position was contained in a statement issued yesterday by ...
•FIFA football More than four years after the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, FIFA today indicated that it was opening the way for Russia to enter an international youth competition. In announcing its under-15 ‘World Cup and Festival’ in Azerbaijan from October 22 to 31, the governing body of world football said it would […]...
•Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks at an Apple special event in Cupertino, California Apple has removed Russia’s state-backed Max messenger from its App Store, the app’s Russian developers said today. Moscow has for months been pushing Russians to install Max — a super-app that lacks encryption and that critics say could be used to track […]...

