LONDON (Reuters) – Russia’s Foreign Ministry protested to the U.S. ambassador in Moscow on Saturday over remarks by U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham advocating that President Vladimir Putin be assassinated. It said in a statement that failure to unambiguous…
Italy seizes oligarchs’ villas and yachts in initial swoop
By Crispian Balmer and Emilio Parodi ROME (Reuters) -Italian police have seized villas and yachts worth at least 140 million euros ($153 million) from four high-profile Russians who were placed on an EU sanctions list following Moscow’s attack on Ukrai…
Putin says Western sanctions are akin to declaration of war
LONDON (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that Western sanctions on Russia were akin to a declaration of war and warned that any attempt to impose a no-fly zone in Ukraine would be tantamount to entering the conflict. Putin reiterate…
Evacuation trains from war zone pour into Lviv in western Ukraine
By Andrew R.C. Marshall LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – Thousands of women and children, many weeping and numb with exhaustion, arrived in Lviv in western Ukraine on Saturday as the state railway put on more trains to rescue people from fierce Russian attack…
Blinken signals U.S. support for Ukraine with border meeting
By Simon Lewis POLISH-UKRAINIAN BORDER (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba met on Ukraine’s border with Poland on Saturday to discuss Western efforts to support Ukraine and isolate Russia durin…
More than 350 civilians confirmed killed in Ukraine so far, U.N. says
ZURICH (Reuters) – At least 351 civilians are confirmed to have been killed in Ukraine since Russian troops invaded on Feb. 24, and another 707 wounded, although the true numbers are probably “considerably higher”, a U.N. monitoring mission said on Sat…
‘Please close the sky’ say Ukrainian refugees
By Alan Charlish MEDYKA, Poland (Reuters) – Ukrainians fleeing into central European pleaded for Western nations to take tougher steps against Russia following Moscow’s invasion that has created more than 1 million refugees. At the Medyka crossing, Pol…
New U.S. ambassador Nicholas Burns arrives in China
BEIJING (Reuters) – The new U.S. ambassador to China, Nicholas Burns, has arrived in the country and will be in quarantine for three weeks, the U.S. embassy said in a tweet on Saturday. The United States has been without an ambassador in Beijing since …
China announces South China Sea drills close to Vietnam coast
BEIJING (Reuters) – China is carrying out more than a week of military drills in the South China Sea in an area between its southern province of Hainan and Vietnam, the government announced, warning shipping to stay away. China claims a large part of t…
U.S. court allows Biden’s Mexico border expulsions, with limits
By Ted Hesson and Kristina Cooke WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden’s administration can continue to rapidly expel migrant families caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, but should not send them anywhere they could be persecuted or tortured, a…