Russian troops advanced in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, pounding key cities and aiming “to destroy everything there,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said, as Moscow signalled it was digging in for a long war against its neighbor. Three months to the day since Russia launched its invasion, Zelensky mourned the thousands of Ukrainian men and women who مزید پڑھیں

A zookeeper in Jamaica lost his finger while playing with a lion and poking his hands through its cage bars. Footage of the petrifying moment is going viral on the internet. The man can be seen joking around with the lion despite it being tensed. He neglects the wild animal’s snarls and keeps teasing it. مزید پڑھیں

Some 20 countries offered new security assistance packages for Ukraine to battle invading Russian forces in a meeting of allies on Monday, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced. In their second gathering, nearly four dozen countries and organizations forming the Ukraine Defense Contact Group met online to discuss helping Ukraine, and 20 nations pledged مزید پڑھیں

US President Joe Biden said on Monday he would be willing to use force to defend Taiwan, in a series of critical comments about China he made in Tokyo that an aide said represented no change in US policy on the self-ruled island. Biden’s comment, made during his first visit to Japan since taking office, مزید پڑھیں

Ukraine ruled out a ceasefire or any territorial concessions to Moscow as Russia stepped up its attack in the eastern and southern parts of the country, pounding the Donbas and Mykolaiv regions with air strikes and artillery fire. Kyiv s stance has become increasingly uncompromising in recent weeks as Russia experienced military setbacks while Ukrainian مزید پڑھیں

Ukraine on Friday ordered its last troops holed up in Mariupol s Azovstal steelworks to lay down their arms, while Russia said its months-long operation to capture the strategic port city is now complete. Russia s flattening of Mariupol has drawn multiple accusations of war crimes, including over a deadly attack on a maternity ward, مزید پڑھیں

The US Congress prepared Thursday to approve a $40 billion aid package for Ukraine in the latest fulfillment of President Joe Biden s promise of unwavering support for Kyiv as it fights off the Russian invasion. Passage of the money is an unusually bipartisan move for harshly divided Washington. “Aid for Ukraine goes far beyond charity,” مزید پڑھیں

Former US President George W Bush mistakenly described the invasion of Iraq as “brutal” and “unjustified” before correcting himself to say he meant to refer to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Bush made the comments in a speech during an event in Dallas on Wednesday, while he was criticizing Russia’s political system. “The result is an مزید پڑھیں

Indian cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu on Thursday was sentenced to a year in jail by the country’s apex court in a 1988 “road rage” case in which one person had lost his life, according to Indian media. NDTV stated that the 58-year-old would have to surrender before a court to serve a year’s rigorous imprisonment. مزید پڑھیں

President Joe Biden leaves Thursday for South Korea and Japan to cement US leadership in Asia at a time when the White House’s attention has been pulled back to Russia and Europe — and amid fears of North Korean nuclear tests overshadowing the trip. The visits are being touted as proof that the United States مزید پڑھیں