As the world talks about the Ukraine crisis, Qatar and Saudi Arabia have called out the world about its reaction to the suffering of a lot of countries in the Middle East.

In an impassioned speech from the Royal Castle in Warsaw, delivered after meeting top Ukrainian ministers in Poland and earlier conferring with NATO and EU allies on the conflict, US President Joe Biden plainly warned Russia: ‘Don't even think about moving on one single inch of NATO territory.’

Yemen's Houthi rebels have proposed a ceasefire and peace talks to end the country's crippling war in return for opening the capital's airport and the key port of Hodeida, a senior Saudi official told AFP on Saturday. The Iran-backed rebels last week rejected an offer of talks in Riyadh.

"Chadian parties have officially requested to Qatar to mediate in the peace negotiations," Qatar government’s special envoy for mediation said.

Migrants from African countries ravaged by war and poverty, make desperate bids to reach Europe through Mediterranean sea which is the world's deadliest migration route.

Analysts have said that "most" of the parties to Friday's meeting in Jordan are "historic allies and friends of Washington but are linked to Moscow."

The vote comes after 141 countries approved a previous non-binding resolution on March 2 that similarly demanded that Russia immediately cease the use of force against Ukraine. In that vote, five states, including Russia, voted against and 35 abstained.

The package, reached after weeks of pressure including a nationwide strike by truckers demanding price controls, covers 180,000 vehicles

UN chief says that around 100,000 people in Mariupol have been forced to live in a complete blockade with no food, no water, no medicine.

Save the children data showed that 18,000 Iraqi children and 7,300 minors from 60 other countries are stuck in Syrian camps.

"Ukraine cannot fulfil Russian ultimatums," Zelensky said. "We should be destroyed first."

The UN has described the humanitarian situation in the city as "extremely dire" with "residents facing a critical and potentially fatal shortage of food, water and medicines."

A woman burned alive by her husband, others shot dead by a father or a teenage brother -- bloody violence against women has spiked in northern Iraq's Kurdish region.

Russia's claim on Saturday to have unleashed its new hypersonic Kinzhal missile would mark a new escalation of its campaign to force Ukraine to abandon hopes of closer ties with the West, even as Volodymyr Zelensky urged Vladimir Putin for presidential-level talks.

The latest attack comes after an oil refinery in Riyadh was targeted on March 10 by a drone, an operation claimed by the Houthis.

The amplifying factors include sanctions against Russia’s aviation sector, which cast a global pall over the aviation industry.

Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky made a fresh appeal for talks with Moscow on Saturday, even as the two sides have been already holding negotiations remotely. But so far, as in previous rounds, the talks have yielded little progress, with both sides blaming the other.

The Nova Poshta courier company in Lviv handled millions of parcels before the war. Now, most of the 100,000 daily parcels are food, medicine and clothing.

Those countries "that have a common border with either Russia or Ukraine" would be particularly affected, while bearing the brunt of refugee flows from Ukraine, said the OECD report.

Markets are expecting a total of seven rate hikes this year, and while the US Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee typically moves in quarter-point steps, Fed Chair Jerome Powell has said it could be more aggressive if needed.

US president will travel to Brussels to attend an EU summit to discuss Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

World War II still looms large in Germans' living memory and public discourse, shaping the perception of the Ukraine invasion.

Israel, which maintains close ties with both Russia and Ukraine, has been facing growing criticism from Washington and Kyiv over not imposing sanctions over Russian for invading Ukraine.

With Russia threatening to take ‘full control’ of several major cities in Ukraine, the fourth round of talks failed to deliver a breakthrough on the 19th day of the invasion, even as the US tried to talk down China from helping its neighbor.

The number of people in war-torn Yemen starving in famine conditions is projected to increase five-fold this year to 161,000, UN agencies warned Monday, amid fears of a dire shortfall of life-saving aid.

Tunisia, Morocco, and Libya, along with several other Arab countries, import much of their wheat from Ukraine and Russia.

As Russia continues to attack cities across Ukraine in general and Kyiv in particular, talks between the two countries are said to have made at least some progress. However, matters have also been complicated with harsh stances elsewhere, like Russia threatening to abandon US astronauts at the International Space Station.

In order to lower its dependence on Russian oil and gas, Germany is looking toward Qatar to fulfill its energy needs.

The US Federal Reserve chair has said every $10 hike in oil prices would impact growth by 0.1 percentage points and add 0.2 percentage points to inflation.

The IMF in January cut the global growth forecast for 2022 to 4.4 percent due to the Omicron variant of Covid-19, after worldwide GDP rose 5.9 percent last year.

Video shared from a children’s hospital in Mariupol hit by shelling showed a scene of complete devastation, with the wounded being evacuated, some on stretchers, past charred and burning carcasses of cars and a massive crater by the building.

Russia's foreign ministry confirmed that Lavrov would be attending the meeting on the sidelines of a diplomatic forum organized by Cavusoglu in Antalya.

The surge in energy costs is a consequence of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which prompted Washington and its European allies to impose tough sanctions on Moscow, including a US ban on Russian oil imports that was announced by President Joe Biden on Tuesday.

NATO has already cleared that it does not want direct conflict with Russia and President Joe Biden has ruled out sending U.S. troops into Ukraine to fight.

The long-standing president in Moscow has been "stewing in a combustible combination of grievance and ambition for many years," CIA Director William Burns told US lawmakers.

Interior minister Ayelet Shaked estimated Sunday that about 15,000 Ukrainians could reach Israel by the end of March.

Remittances to Ukraine, which were around 12 percent of its GDP and nearly three times the size of foreign direct investment in 2021, will increase by 8 percent in 2022 despite the ongoing conflict, according to a report by Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD). The remittance flows...

People from Ukraine have posted videos showing the success of their forces, and they have become viral.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's sit-down with Russian President Vladimir Putin was the first by a foreign leader since the day Russian forces invaded Ukraine last week, and came after Kyiv had asked Israel to launch a dialogue with Moscow.

Hermes group runs three stores in Russia, including one in the Gum department store on Red Square, and employs 60 people in the country.

Melilla and Ceuta, Spain's tiny enclaves, have the EU's only land borders with Africa that attracts desperate migrants to escape poverty, violence and hunger both at home.

With fears growing of nuclear conflict, the US and Russian armed forces have set up a new direct phone line to reduce the risks of ‘miscalculation’. But Vladimir Putin has been unmoved as Russia has become an economic, sporting, and cultural pariah.

The country has been able to overcome the hurdles that stood in the way of achieving food security by implementing comprehensive strategies and plans.

Eight hundred Iraqi refugees returned home from northeast Syria on Thursday and hundreds more are to follow, a Syrian official in the region's Kurdish semi-autonomous administration said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the first group left on buses via the Al-Yarubiyah border crossing. The Iraqi government has "agreed...

Prince Mohammed bin Salman called for a "political solution" after the Russian invasion and also reiterated his support for the OPEC+ group of oil producers.

The UAE and the US are facing a "stress test" in their relationship, a senior Emirati diplomat said Thursday, as Russia's war in Ukraine strains ties. The wealthy Gulf state hosts US troops and has been a strategic partner to Washington for decades.

The United Arab Emirates has offered $5 million in assistance to Ukraine to tide over problems suffered by civilians in the ongoing conflict.

It has stopped its Moscow operations and support for Russian airlines.

More than 10,000 Arab students have also attended university in Ukraine, drawn to the former Soviet republic by its low cost of living.

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.