Source link The Latvian foreign minister says the UK should reinstate mandatory military service to deter Russia Britain and other NATO allies should consider conscripting citizens into the military to counter the supposed threat from Russia, the Latvian foreign minister told The Telegraph in an interview published on Saturday. Latvia re-introduced compulsory military service earlier […]
Source link The Paris Club group of creditors, which includes Russia, the US, and a number of other leading global economies, has agreed to cancel $2 billion in debt owed by Somalia, it was announced on Wednesday. The group will write off 99% of the money owed by the African country after it concluded a […]
Source link The Chadian government has also promised to pay bills for citizens who have outstanding debts Chad has announced that water and electricity will be free until the end of the year, as long as households do not exceed 300 kWh of electricity and 15 cubic meters of water per month, a local news […]
Source link The Russian foreign minister says the risk has encouraged the creation of global financial mechanisms free from Western control The West could unleash illegal economic sanctions against any country at any time, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has warned. The diplomat claimed that this risk is all the more real given the West’s […]
Source link The world is already witnessing the results of “war to the last Ukrainian,” Slovakia’s defense minister has warned Slovak Defense Minister Robert Kalinak has slammed the idea of sending NATO forces to Ukraine by calling it a “red line” that should not be crossed. Politicians in the West are exploiting “the war and […]
Source link Gabon was suspended from the economic union last September to force coup leaders to restore constitutional order The Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) has decided to lift sanctions imposed on Gabon in response to the ouster of President Ali Bongo in a coup last year, the military authorities announced on Saturday. […]
Source link Voting in Senegal, which had been delayed until December, will now be held before President Macky Sall’s final mandate expires next month Senegal’s government has backed down from its move to delay the presidential election until December, announcing that it will be held on March 24 after the February decision to postpone triggered […]
Source link March 3 marks the end of the 1877-78 Russo-Turkish War, which paved the way for the Balkan country’s independence Russian diplomats and citizens have joined Bulgarians in celebrating the Balkan nation’s Liberation Day. Moscow’s embassy in Bulgaria released a series of posts on Facebook this week showing Russians and Bulgarians taking part in events […]
Source link Festival organizer Rosmolodezh says the large attendance at the event in Russia dispels the myth that Moscow is isolated Moscow’s embassy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has organized a departure ceremony for more than 60 delegates heading to Russia to represent the Central African nation at the World Youth Festival (WYF) […]
Source link Zimbabwe’s government has warned that any such “un-African and unchristian” offers will be regarded as unlawful and criminal Zimbabwe will not tolerate attempts by foreign agents to entice and recruit students into homosexual activities through educational scholarships, the government of the southern African nation has warned. In a statement late Thursday, Zimbabwean Vice […]
Source link Any Colombians who are fighting for Kiev are doing so based on their own “personal decisions,” Bogota has claimed The Colombian government does not “encourage or facilitate” the flow of mercenaries from the country to fight for Ukraine in its conflict with Russia, the Foreign Ministry has said. The ministry made the statement […]
Source link A recent report shows just how deep the split between wealthy university graduates and the rest is From their views on climate change to their views on education, the detached top one percent of the US populace has voiced a range of opinions so dramatically different from the status quo that it could […]
Source link Ethiopia and Russian carmaker Lada are working on plans to set up a production facility in the country, Moscow’s ambassador to Addis Ababa, Evgeny Terekhin, told RIA Novosti on Monday. According to the diplomat, Lada already has a foothold in the east African country and has established a reputation for reliability, making Ethiopia […]
Source link Metropolitan Eugene has been branded a security threat and denied a residence permit in Estonia Metropolitan Eugene, the head of the self-governed Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, has been denied a residency permit by the Baltic nation, forcing him out of the country this week. Tallinn has claimed that his public […]
Source link Doctors Without Borders says about 13 children die each day from malnutrition at a camp in Sudan’s North Darfur region More than a dozen children die every day at the Zamzam camp for displaced people in Sudan, where an armed conflict between two rival military forces has been raging since mid-April last year, […]