The United States is to provide Ukraine with $1.85 billion in additional military assistance, Washington confirmed on Wednesday during a landmark visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Washington.
The Taliban’s closure of universities to women also sparked shock and anger in Afghanistan, where many were trying to process how their lives had been upended.
A 97-year-old former secretary at a Nazi concentration camp has been found guilty of more than 10,500 cases of complicity to murder and given a two-year suspended sentence by a court in northern Germany.
The Taliban have banned women from university education in Afghanistan until further notice, meaning girls and women can now only attend primary schools.
European Union energy ministers have agreed to cap the wholesale price of gas under certain conditions, according to a spokesperson for the Council of the EU.
Power has been restored to nearly 6 million people after the heaviest Russian missile attacks in weeks that targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday in his nightly video message broadcast in Kiev.
In a joint operation, two German aid organizations have rescued more than 60 boat migrants in distress in the central Mediterranean Sea.
At least 10 people have died after a landside hit a camping ground in Malaysia on Friday.