Ukraine

Ireland has contributed more than €2.3 million to Nato in the last decade for intelligence sharing, training and other costs. Although not a Nato member, Ireland is involved in several Nato initiatives and projects. The most significant of these, the Partnership for Peace (PFP) programme, is cost free but payments…

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday reviewed ongoing bilateral initiatives, including defence collaboration projects and cooperation in civil nuclear energy. During their telephonic conversation, they also discussed important geopolitical challenges, including those related to global food security, a statement issued by the Prime…

China’s slowdown and global recession fears have hit some commodities prices, though the Reserve Bank’s commodity price index is still 14 per cent up on a year ago and well above the 2011 resources boom peak. This week China cut some interest rates for a second time this year, and…

Alexander Darchiev, a Russian Foreign Ministry official, warned the United States on Friday that if it designates Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism it will have crossed a "point of no return." The comments from Darchiev, the director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's North American Department, came in an…

Alexander Vindman, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, criticized former Representative Tulsi Gabbard, a Hawaii Democrat, over remarks she made Friday about sanctioning Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine. Gabbard was filling in as a host on Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight when she said that Europe is…

The UN secretary-general warned Thursday that the situation around a major nuclear plant in southern Ukraine "could lead to catastrophic consequences" and appealed for an end to military operations near the facility. "Regrettably, instead of de-escalation, over the past several days there have been reports of further deeply worrying incidents…

The prisoners at the penal colony in St. Petersburg were expecting a visit by officials, thinking it would be some sort of inspection. Instead, men in uniform arrived and offered them amnesty — if they agreed to fight alongside the Russian army in Ukraine. Over the following days, about a…

In November 1994, Boris Yeltsin wrote to his counterpart, Bill Clinton. The Russian president urged the US and the west to support a “historic Russian-Ukrainian treaty on friendship, cooperation and partnership”. At the time, Yeltsin had forged a close working relationship with Ukraine’s president, Leonid Kuchma. The Russian leader spoke…

Russian authorities on Wednesday detained a former state TV journalist who quit after making an on-air protest against Moscow's war in Ukraine, and charged her with spreading false information about Russia's armed forces, her lawyer said on social media. Marina Ovsyannikova was charged over a protest she staged last month,…

The Toronto International Film Festival is rounding out its Canadian slate with titles including a film by Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq, an Indigenous romance and a documentary about the downing of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 in Iran. Homegrown talent is also behind TIFF's closing night film Daliland, directed by…