Seven dead as Romania chopper crashes, fighter jet missing on March 3, 2022Bucharest: Seven military personnel died after their helicopter crashed on Wednesday in eastern Romania near the Black Sea while searching for a missing fighter jet and its pilot, officials said. “Seven military personnel lost their lives in an air crash involving an IAR 330-Puma helicopter on Wednesday,” the defense ministry said in a statement posted […]
One million refugees fled Ukraine in week since Russia’s invasion: UNHCR on March 3, 2022Geneva: One million refugees have fled Ukraine in the week since Russia’s invasion, the UN’s refugee agency announced Thursday. “In just seven days we have witnessed the exodus of one million refugees from Ukraine to neighboring countries,” the UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi tweeted while urging “guns to fall silent” in the country.
Mass blackouts reported across parts of Taiwan on March 3, 2022Taipei: Power failures were reported in many parts of Taiwan on Thursday following what the presidential office said was “an incident” at a power plant. The blackouts occurred after 9 am (0100 GMT) across the island, from the capital Taipei to central Taichung city and southern Pingtung county, reports said. The electricity failures came as […]
Guinea democracy group warns of protests over prolonged junta rule on March 2, 2022Conakry: A Guinean democracy group behind mass protests that contributed to last year’s military coup, said on Tuesday that it would resume demonstrations unless the ruling junta cedes power swiftly. The FNDC coalition staged huge protests against president Alpha Conde, before the army overthrew him in September 2021. Conde, 83, had drawn fierce opposition after […]
Taliban row back comments saying Afghans barred from leaving on March 2, 2022Kabul: The Taliban’s chief spokesman on Tuesday rowed back comments he made suggesting Afghans would be barred from leaving the country, saying he had been misunderstood. Zabihullah Mujahid sparked alarm at the weekend when he told a press conference that Afghans would need “an excuse” to travel abroad, and confirmed Afghanistan’s new rulers had put […]
Scrounging for food in ‘hunger hotspot’ Colombia on March 2, 2022Bogota: While the Colombian government fumes over being listed as a “hunger hotspot” by UN agencies, Heidy Garzon — a single mother of nine — worries where her family’s next meal will come from. “We don’t know what we’re going to eat tonight,” Garzon told AFP in a shantytown neighborhood of Ciudad Bolivar in the […]
169 potential graves found at Canada Indigenous school site on March 2, 2022Ottawa: An Indigenous community in Canada said Tuesday it has identified 169 “potential” unmarked graves at a former residential school site, adding to a growing tally of such gruesome discoveries that first rocked the country last year. The Kapawe’no First Nation in northern Alberta province posted on its website the results of a six-day survey, […]
Biden slams ‘dictator’ Putin and his war in Ukraine on March 2, 2022Washington: US President Joe Biden on Tuesday branded his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin a “dictator” facing withering economic and diplomatic isolation for invading neighboring Ukraine and warned the world is in a “battle” between democracy and autocracy. As he delivered his first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress and the […]
World Bank announces more than $1 billion in aid for Afghanistan on March 2, 2022Washington: The World Bank on Tuesday announced more than $1 billion in humanitarian aid for Afghanistan, stating the money will go to UN agencies and international NGOs while remaining “outside the control” of the country’s Taliban rulers. The reallocation from the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF) follows the $280 million in ARTF funds disbursed last […]
Russia sanctions could hurt Cuban tourism, say experts on March 2, 2022Varadero: International sanctions against Russia over its operation in Ukraine could have wide-ranging impacts on its Latin American allies such as Cuba, experts say. Since the coronavirus pandemic, Russian tourists have become the single largest group of visitors to the island nation but events in their homeland have left many eager to return home. “What […]