Bombing of children's hospital genocide: Zelenskiy

Ukrainian's president accused Russia of carrying out genocide after officials said Russian aircraft bombed a children's hospital on Wednesday, burying patients in rubble despite a ceasefire deal for people to flee the besieged city of Mariupol.
10 March 2022

1st person to receive heart transplant from pig dies after 2 months

The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died, two months after the groundbreaking experiment, the Maryland hospital that performed the surgery announced Wednesday.
9 March 2022

17 hurt after airstrike hits Ukraine maternity hospital

A Russian airstrike devastated a maternity hospital Wednesday in the besieged port city of Mariupol and wounded at least 17 people, Ukrainian officials said, amid growing warnings from the West that Moscow’s invasion is about to take a more brutal and indiscriminate turn.
9 March 2022

Food crisis grows as spiralling prices spark export bans

A global food crisis sparked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine escalated on Wednesday as Indonesia tightened curbs on palm oil exports, adding to a growing list of key producing countries seeking to keep vital food supplies within their borders.
9 March 2022

Israel’s president lands in Turkey

Israel’s president landed in Ankara yesterday to meet Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the first visit by an Israeli head of state since 2007, as the countries seek to mend fractured ties.
9 March 2022

Scotland offers formal apology

Scotland’s government marked International Women’s Day on Tuesday by issuing a formal apology to thousands of women who were executed centuries ago
9 March 2022

Prince Andrew sex assault case closed

A sexual assault lawsuit brought in New York against Prince Andrew by his longtime accuser Virginia Giuffre has been formally dismissed after the disgraced
9 March 2022

Do not sabotage Iran deal with new demands

Western powers on Tuesday warned Russia against wrecking an almost completed deal on bringing the United States and Iran back into compliance with the 2015 nuclear accord, as Iran’s top negotiator returned from consultations in Tehran.
9 March 2022

Anthrax biolab in Ukraine!

Russia yesterday said the United States must explain what Moscow claims was a military biological programme in Ukraine - an allegation Washington has already dismissed as “absurd” misinformation.
9 March 2022

Ousting Ukraine govt not aim

Moscow yesterday said it does not intend to occupy Ukraine or overthrow its government as Russia and Ukraine agreed to open more humanitarian corridors to evacuate terrified civilians from bombarded cities.
9 March 2022

Russia’s war in Ukraine: Developments

Power has been cut to the Chernobyl power plant, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, Ukraine said yesterday, but the UN’s atomic watchdog said
9 March 2022

‘Why didn’t you come back too?’

As the 28 sailors came out of the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport’s arrivals terminal one after the other, one pained cry stood out among the otherwise cheerful sounds of happy reunions.
9 March 2022

Ukraine no longer wants to join Nato

President Volodymyr Zelensky said he is no longer pressing for Nato membership for Ukraine, a delicate issue that was one of Russia’s stated reasons for invading its pro-Western neighbor.
9 March 2022

Refugee influx sparks rare EU unity

The flood of refugees escaping war in Ukraine for the European Union has sparked a rare show of unity from the bloc’s 27 nations after years of disputes over the sensitive issue of migration.
9 March 2022

Putin angry, aggrieved over Ukraine

US intelligence chiefs on Tuesday branded Russia’s Vladimir Putin an “angry,” isolated leader craving global clout, frustrated about how his Ukraine invasion has not gone to plan, and lobbing provocative nuclear threats at the West.
9 March 2022

On train to Lviv

Now that he was alive and heading towards Lviv, the Ukrainian city near the border with Poland, it was some sort of a miracle for Rubaiyat Habib.
9 March 2022

Wait for response to ‘economic war’

The Kremlin yesterday accused the United States of declaring an economic war on Russia that was sowing mayhem through energy markets, and it put Washington on notice it was considering its response to a ban on Russian oil and energy.
9 March 2022

Lost shipwreck found after 100 yrs

One of the famous shipwrecks in history, Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance, has been discovered off the coast of Antarctica more than a century after its sinking, explorers announced yesterday.
9 March 2022

Pandemic not over

After two years the Covid-19 pandemic is not yet over and could be prolonged further due to “scandalously unequal” vaccine distribution, the UN secretary-general warned yesterday.
9 March 2022

2 Americans back in US after release from Venezuela prison

Two Americans, including a former executive of the oil company Citgo, were back in the United States yesterday after being released from prison in Venezuela, just days after a high-level US delegation met with President Nicolas Maduro.
9 March 2022