Eastern Europe

In Kherson region, an electrician who was injured in an enemy landmine explosion died in the hospital. — Ukrinform....

The leaders of Ukraine, Moldova, Croatia, Slovakia, Slovenia and other states that took part in the Bucha summit on Friday, as well as a number of international organizations signed the Bucha Declaration on the responsibility of the Russian Federation und...

Thirty-six-year-old Jakov Milatovic could slam the door this weekend on three decades of political domination by Montenegro's first postindependence president. If he wins, as many have predicted, Montenegrins will have taken a big leap of faith....

On March 31, Russian troops attacked six settlements in Donetsk region, casualties were reported. — Ukrinform....

The basic scenario of the four-year EFF program of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for Ukraine assumes the winding down of the war in the middle of 2024, while the negative one by the end of 2025, IMF mission chief for Ukraine Gavin Gray said....

At least nine women and three children were killed and several others injured in a stampede during the distribution of Ramadan charity at a private center in Pakistan's port city of Karachi, police and rescue officials said....

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recognizes the difficulty of reforms to raise energy tariffs to market levels during the war and predicts that this issue will be discussed with Ukraine as part of the EFF program at its second, post-war stage....

In the south of Ukraine, the Defense Forces destroyed a Russian motorboat, which the invaders had reequipped for a sabotage and reconnaissance group, and a field ammunition depot. — Ukrinform....

Even by resorting to nuclear blackmail, Russia will not be able to weaken support for Ukraine from its international partners. — Ukrinform....

Consumer price inflation in Pakistan accelerated to a record 35.37 percent in March from a year earlier, eclipsing February's 31.5 percent, the statistics bureau said on April 1....

The IMF Board approved a new four-year extended arrangement under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) of SDR 11.6 billion (about $15.6 billion) as part of a $115 billion total support package for Ukraine, the fund said on its website....

The United States is considering options for long-range missiles for Ukraine, ATACMS missiles will not be delivered, Army General Mark Milley, Chairman of U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said....

Bucha should be considered as a venue of trial for Russian war criminals, because the whole essence of Putin's regime was revealed in this Kyiv suburb. — Ukrinform....

The Russian military command's plans to extend control over the whole of the Donbas region during a winter offensive have failed. — Ukrinform....

The International Monetary Fund said on March 31 that its executive board had approved a four-year $15.6 billion loan program for Ukraine, part of a global $115 billion package to support the country's economy as it battles Russia's 13-month-old i...

Russia moved to ban imports of dairy products from Armenia on March 31 amid rising tensions between Moscow and Yerevan....

Russian troops have already killed 467 children in Ukraine and injured 944 others. — Ukrinform....

Ukrainian forces repelled dozens of Russian attacks in the eastern region of Donetsk over the past day, the military said on April 1, as British intelligence suggested that Russia's monthslong winter offensive in the east is beginning to show signs of...

Russian troops shelled the Seredyna-Buda community in the Sumy region with artillery early on April 1. — Ukrinform....

Several hundred people demonstrated in Sarajevo on March 31 against Christian Schmidt, the international community's high representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina, over decisions he made last year affecting Bosnia's elections law....

The United States has so far refrained from providing ATACMS long-range missiles to Ukraine, General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Friday. — Ukrinform....

Chisinau, 1 April /MOLDPRES/ - The National Museum of Romanian Literature, in partnership with the Institute for Cultural and Educational Initiatives, organizes two events dedicated to the small readers within the week of reading and books for children (1...

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Chisinau, 1 April /MOLDPRES/ - President Maia Sandu had a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on 31 March afternoon. According to the presidential press service, during the discussion, the Moldovan head of state expressed solidari...

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More than 20 Ukrainian doctors and nurses have found work at Riga's First Hospital in the Latvian capital. After fleeing Russia's invasion at home, they have helped Latvia's health-care sector, despite language challenges. Latvia was facing a ...

Socura has launched its Managed SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) service in partnership with Palo Alto Networks' Prisma. Market industry researchers expect SASE to be a $60bn industry by 2027 fuelled by the rise of flexible working, which was enshrin...

Zenoss has launched a free trial for monitoring Kubernetes, the de facto standard platform for running containers in production at scale, including in on-prem and cloud environments. This real-time monitoring of Kubernetes streaming data is another advanc...

Croatia on March 31 returned a second group of migrants to Bosnia-Herzegovina amid questions about where the migrants should be allowed to apply for asylum....

Andrew Tate, an Internet personality who has spent months in a Romanian jail on suspicion of organized crime and human trafficking, has won an appeal to replace his detention with house arrest....

The United States is seeking to keep more than 1 million rounds of ammunition the U.S. Navy seized in December as it was in transit from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) to militant groups in Yemen, the Justice Department said....

Georgia has established an anti-corruption bureau in fulfillment of 12 recommendations given by the European Commission so that Georgia could receive EU candidate country status....

The United States is joining other countries and organizations around the world in holding Russians accountable for their crimes and demanding justice for Ukrainians, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said....

The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry has forwarded a note to Belarus to demand that the construction of the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) be halted until nuclear safety issues are addressed....

The only peace plan that can be implemented is the plan of President Volodymyr Zelensky, Prime Minister of Slovakia Eduard Heger said at a press conference in Kyiv on Friday following Bucha summit....

The process of diplomatic settlement regarding the end of the war will begin with the representative of Russia who first withdraws Russian troops from the territory of Ukraine without a fight, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said....

On the International Day for Mine Awareness, the Ukrainian Red Cross Society (URCS) will inform Kyiv residents and guests about the rules of conduct with explosives....

Slovenia will continue to promote strong and effective EU and NATO support for Ukraine aimed at ensuring its ability to defend its territories, according to the Joint Declaration of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Prime Minister of the Republ...

The deployment of tactical nuclear weapons by Russia in Belarus will indicate an unsuccessful meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy believes....

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The leader of a U.S. neo-Nazi group wanted in the United States for allegedly fomenting violence at political rallies has been apprehended by Romanian authorities in Bucharest....

The Energy Efficiency Fund and Kyiv Regional Military Administration have signed a memorandum of cooperation providing for joint financing of work on the restoration and thermal modernization of apartment buildings throughout Kyiv region, the press servic...

European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders notes the importance of Ukraine's ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to strengthen the mechanism for bringing accountability for war crimes, and also declares su...

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy held talks with President of the Republic of Moldova Maia Sandu, who is visiting Kyiv at his invitation, the press service of the Ukrainian head of state said....

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The authoritarian ruler of Belarus, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, has defended a Russian plan to place tactical nuclear weapons on Belarusian territory and said that Russia could also position intercontinental nuclear missiles there if he and Russian President V...

Russian forces captured Ukrainian soldier Yuriy Kuzminskiy and his comrades on Snake Island on February 24, 2022. During his nine months in Russian captivity, Kuzminskiy says he was tortured and beaten regularly. He claims Russian special forces were hunt...

The French Fencing Federation has cancelled the home stage of the World Cup in epee competitions due to the admission of representatives of Russia and Belarus to international competitions....

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On Friday, the state budget of Ukraine received a CAD 2.4 billion (about $1.8 billion) concessional loan from Canada under the Additional Agreement, the Finance Ministry of Ukraine has reported....