US Wants Gulf States to Boost Oil Supplies to Offset Russian Ban
The United States has banned Russian energy imports and wants Saudi Arabia to increase oil production to mitigate a dramatic...
EU Threatens Russia With New Sanctions, Aims to Bolster Energy, Defense Independence
The European Union has warned it could slap massive new sanctions against Russia, but it also rejected fast-tracking Ukraine’s EU...
Queen Elizabeth Cancels Appearance at Commonwealth Day Celebration
Britain’s Buckingham Palace announced that Queen Elizabeth II would not attend the Commonwealth Day events scheduled for Monday in Westminster...
Ukraine Says Russia Now Relying on Conscripts, Mercenaries
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday declared that Ukraine had reached a strategic turning point in its fight with Russia, which...
South Africa’s Ramaphosa Asked to Mediate Russia-Ukraine Talks
South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa says he has been asked to help mediate peace between Russia and Ukraine, after having...
UN: Russian Attacks Against Civilians in Ukraine May Amount to War Crimes
As civilian deaths and injuries in Ukraine grow, United Nations aid agencies warn indiscriminate attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure...
Greek Prime Minster Heads to Turkey Amid Rising Tensions
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis heads to Turkey Sunday for talks with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan amid rising tensions between...
Targeting of Ukraine Hospitals Recalls Russia’s Syria Campaign
Russian officials have been shifting their explanations in the past two days about why their forces struck a maternity hospital...
US Senate Gives Final Approval to Ukraine Aid, Huge Budget Bill
A $13.6 billion emergency package of military and humanitarian aid for besieged Ukraine and its European allies easily won final...
Chinese State Censors at Work to Control Messaging on War
Beijing is controlling messaging on the war in Ukraine, analysts and observers say, as social media companies and traditional Chinese...
UN Security Council to Meet Friday on Biological Weapons, at Moscow’s Request
The U.N. Security Council will hold an emergency meeting Friday on alleged manufacture of biological weapons in Ukraine at the...
US, Allies to Revoke ‘Most Favored Nation’ Status for Russia
President Joe Biden will announce Friday that, along with the European Union and the Group of Seven countries, the U.S....
Ukrainian Grandmother Longs to Return After Her House Was Bombed
VOA News reporter Celia Mendoza visited the village of Medyka, in Poland, one of the busiest border crossings since the...
Not All Western Companies Sever Ties to Russia Over Ukraine
A shrinking number of well-known companies are still doing business in Russia, even as hundreds have announced plans to curtail...
Harris Emphasizes US Support for NATO’s Eastern Flank
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is in Bucharest on Friday, after her visit Thursday to Warsaw, where she underscored the...
Facebook Eases Rules, Allows Violent Speech Against ‘Russian Invaders’
Facebook said Thursday that because of the invasion of Ukraine, it has temporarily eased its rules regarding violent speech. Moscow’s...
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