The Arab League on Monday expressed its worry over Russia's invasion of Ukraine and called for a "diplomatic solution," as the regional bloc's members grapple with conflicting loyalties.

The UN Security Council voted Monday to extend to all of Yemen's Houthi rebels an arms embargo that until now targeted only some leaders of the guerrilla group. Yemen has been embroiled since 2014 in a civil war between the Iran-backed Houthis and the internationally recognized government supported by a...

Oil prices and safe havens surged Monday while the ruble plunged after world powers imposed fresh sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.

President Vladimir Putin ordered on Sunday Russia's nuclear forces onto high alert in response to what he called ‘unfriendly’ steps by the West. Russia has the world's largest arsenal of nuclear weapons and a huge cache of ballistic missiles. The United States, the world's second-largest nuclear power, slammed the order.

According to the UN, if the war continued, there will be around 18 million Ukrainians that will be affected in humanitarian terms.

A number of Arab countries are heavily dependent on wheat supplies from both Ukraine and Russia.

Anwar Gargash, UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and adviser to President Khalifa Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, made these comments after the UAE abstained to vote on Friday on a draft United Nations Security Council resolution deploring Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

Saudi Arabia has taken steps to maintain the stability of domestic supply in accordance with the food security strategy.

The sanctions came as the Russian military stepped up its bloody, multi-pronged assault against Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities.

The United States and Western allies are still able to deliver arms into Ukraine to bolster the military, and Washington plans to send more in the coming days to help them fight both Russian armor on the ground and assaults from the air, according to a US defense official.

Having evacuated part of his team from Kyiv, Mike Chobanian, boss of cryptocurrency exchange Kuna, is watching the effects of Russia's invasion on his flourishing industry with a weary eye.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu asked Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov to end the attack on Ukraine during a phone call on Saturday, a Turkish diplomatic source said. Cavusoglu told Lavrov that further military escalation would not benefit anyone.

The UAE has called for immediate cessation of hostilities in the war between Russia and Ukraine. The appeal came in a meeting of the UN Security Council in New York.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine could mean less bread on the table in Egypt, Lebanon, Yemen and elsewhere in the Arab world where millions already struggle to survive.

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On Friday, US President Joe Biden extended his country's measures against Russia to include sanctions on President Vladimir Putin and his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, including a travel ban for the two statesmen. Biden was the first world leader to announce sanctions, hours after Putin declared a "military operation" into...

Andrey Rublev made a plea for peace after notching an eighth consecutive victory on Friday to move into his second final in as many weeks with a 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (7/5) win against Hubert Hurkacz in Dubai. The Russian No.2 seed signed the camera lens on court with the message,...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a press conference in Moscow that Russian President Vladimir Putin "took the decision to conduct a special military operation to demilitarize and de-Nazify Ukraine so that, freed from oppression, Ukrainians themselves could freely determine their future".

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on world powers on Thursday to cut Russia off from SWIFT, after Russian forces invaded his country on Wednesday.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threatens to drive up global commodity prices and disrupt the US recovery at a time of high inflation

Washington said the penalties will be severe, and will have lasting impact on Russia's economy.

The World Bank and IMF warned on Thursday that Russia's invasion of Ukraine would have repercussions for the global economic recovery.

US President Joe Biden announced export controls against Russia to cut off more than half of the country's high-tech imports, alongside sanctions on Russian elites and banks. The EU moved to impose "massive" sanctions on Russia's energy and finance sectors, while French President Emmanuel Macron called Putin to "demand immediate...

The ongoing conflict will directly impact the Gulf and Arab countries since they import vast food items from the two countries, particularly wheat.

The Arab oil and gas producers are likely to close the gap that could arise from the disruption of oil flows from Russia, according to the Institute of International Finance.

The ruble-dominated Moex index opened down 13.97 percent, while the dollar-dominated RTS was down 20.16 percent.

Qatar and Saudi Arabia host American troops, but their economic and political relations with Russia have grown over the years.

Russian air strikes hit military facilities across the country and ground forces moved in from the north, south and east, triggering condemnation from Western leaders and warnings of massive sanctions. At least 40 Ukrainian soldiers and 10 civilians were killed.

According to the UN, a full-scale Russian invasion on Ukraine would have a devastating global impact that would likely spark a new "refugee crisis", with traders fretting over supplies of key commodities including wheat and metals.

Although the pipeline is seen as an efficient way to supply energy to the European Union, which depends heavily on Moscow, critics always warned it would tighten Russia's strategic grip on European nations, while deliberately weakening Ukraine.

A delegation of senior Sudanese officials, including the deputy leader of the country's military-led ruling body, headed to Russia on Wednesday for talks on cooperation, authorities said. Sudan has found itself increasingly isolated since an October 25 coup that has seen foreign aid cut as part of the international community's...

"The principles of the UN Charter are not an a la carte menu.... Member States have accepted them all and they must apply them all," Guterres told reporters.

US sanctions against Russia announced Tuesday include steps to starve the country of financing, although they did not go as far as some observers had expected. Washington's announcement came after the European Union unveiled its own sanctions in a coordinated Western effort to pressure Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

Major gas exporting nations said Tuesday they could not guarantee prices or supplies at a summit overshadowed by the worsening Ukraine crisis which has pushed costs to record highs in Europe. Qatar's emir, who hosted the talks, said gas producers were working to ensure "credible and reliable" supplies as Europe's...

The jump in oil prices is compounding worries about inflation around the world, with the US Federal Reserve coming under intense pressure to tighten monetary policy to prevent prices from running out of control.

Iran urged "restraint" from both Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday while blaming the United States and NATO for the sharp escalation of tensions.

The United States and its allies rounded on Russia during an emergency Security Council session Monday, denouncing Vladimir Putin's recognition of rebel-held areas in Ukraine and his ordered deployment of troops as a gross violation of international law and "pretext for war." Addressing the session, US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield heaped...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday recognised the independence of two separatist regions in eastern Ukraine in an emotional address on state-run television, despite warnings from the West this could trigger sweeping sanctions. "I believe it is necessary to take a long overdue decision, to immediately recognise the independence and...

The letter, which came as Washington warned of an imminent invasion by Russia, says the United States is "deeply concerned" and warns of a potential "human rights catastrophe."

Ukraine and Russia called for intensified diplomatic efforts Sunday to avert all-out war, each blaming the other for a sharp escalation in shelling on the front line separating Kyiv's forces from Moscow-backed separatists. After separate calls with France's President Emmanuel Macron, both Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky...

US Press Secretary Jen Psaki said President Joe Biden was due to hold a rare Sunday National Security Council meeting over Russia-Ukraine tensions, having said on Friday he was ‘convinced’ that Moscow planned to invade its ex-Soviet neighbor within days.

Ukraine's army on Saturday reported the first death of a soldier in weeks and accused Moscow-backed rebels of sharply escalating attacks that have redoubled fears of an imminent Russian invasion. Ukraine's emergency service said two of its staff were wounded during a wave of attacks on Friday.

There were growing fears that only a spark — which Washington warns could be a deliberate "false flag" incident created by the Russians — might set off the largest military confrontation in Europe since World War II. More than 40 percent of the troops surrounding Ukraine were now said to...

The Vienna talks, which involve Iran as well as Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia directly, and the United States indirectly, resumed in late November.

The US government normally keeps battlefield intelligence close to its chest, but by revealing the secret details of Russian military plans, it hopes to prevent an invasion of Ukraine. Since Russia moved tens of thousands of troops to Ukraine's border in recent months, Washington's unconventional strategy has been to let...

During a meeting in Damascus, Shoigu "informed the Syrian president about the exercises of the Russian navy in the eastern Mediterranean."

Moscow "doesn't give a shit" about the risk of Western sanctions if it were to invade Ukraine, Russia's outspoken ambassador to Sweden told a Swedish newspaper.

Efforts to defuse the crisis in Ukraine via a frenzy of telephone diplomacy failed to ease tensions on Saturday, with US President Joe Biden warning that Russia faces "swift and severe costs" if its troops carry out an invasion.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Saturday slammed Western claims of an imminent Moscow invasion of Ukraine as a "provocation" as he began new crisis talks with US President Joe Biden. Washington on Friday issued its most dire warning yet that Russia had assembled enough forces to launch a serious assault.

The United States dramatically raised the alarm Friday over Ukraine, warning that a Russian invasion starting with civilians caught under aerial bombing could begin in days and telling US citizens to leave within 48 hours. An attack by the more than 100,000 Russian troops currently massed next to Ukraine "could...