PARIS, June 13 (Reuters) – Russia’s relentless shelling of the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv with cluster munitions and scatterable land mines amounts to a war crime that indiscriminately killed hundreds of civilians, Amnesty International said on Monday. Ukraine’s second largest city Kharkiv was under near-constant bombardment from the beginning[Read More…]
By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON, June 6 (Reuters) – Russia warned U.S. news organizations on Monday they risked being stripped of their accreditation unless the treatment of Russian journalists in the United States improves, according to three sources with knowledge of the matter. Since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, some[Read More…]
April 11 (Reuters) – Russia will not pause its military operation in Ukraine for subsequent rounds of peace talks, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday. Russian officials say peace talks with Ukraine are not progressing as rapidly as they would like, and have accused the West of trying to derail[Read More…]
LONDON, March 14 (Reuters) – A global food crisis looms unless the war in Ukraine is stopped because fertilizer prices are soaring so fast that many farmers can no longer afford soil nutrients, Russian fertilizer and coal billionaire Andrei Melnichenko said on Monday. Several of Russia’s richest businessmen have publicly called for[Read More…]
Thousands of demonstrators joined rallies across Britain on Saturday as part of a “national weekend of action” against a proposed new law that would give police extra powers to curb protests. The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts bill aims to toughen measures officers can take to disperse demonstrations, such as[Read More…]
