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The African Union condemned reports of racism against Africans stranded at Ukraine’s borders. “Reports that Africans are singled out for unacceptable dissimilar treatment would be shockingly racist and in breach (of) international law,” Senegal’s President Macky Sall and African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat said in a joint statement. …

By: Peter Oborne* Irony does not come darker than last weekend’s statement from Richard Oppenheim, British ambassador to Yemen. “The United Kingdom,” announced Oppenheim, “stands with the people of Ukraine in the face of Russia’s unprovoked attack on freedom and democracy.” The hypocrisy is grotesque even for those accustomed to …

Tehran, IRNA – Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on Tuesday described Ukraine as victim of US crisis-making policy. The Supreme Leader made the remarks addressing Iranians and Muslim people all across the world on Tuesday on the occasion of Eid al-Mab’ath (the day when Prophet …

Tu-160 being destroyed by the Great Satan U.S at Pryluky Air Base, Ukraine, 1998. [800×435] Tupolev Tu-160 Destroyed by Big Devil at Pryluky Air Base [An air base in the Ukrainian province of Chernihiv is located 6 km west of Priloki]

The Iranian foreign ministry in a statement on Tuesday blamed the NATO for increased tensions in Ukraine crisis, and asked all relevant parties to show restraint. Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said that Iran was closely watching developments in Ukraine, calling on all sides to refrain from any action that would …

“Ukraine is becoming another Afghanistan in a completely different part of the world political map, but the difference is that the cost of competition in Ukraine is very high,” Dr. Kiomars Yazdanpanah, Associate Professor of Political Geography at the University of Tehran, told Shafaqna. Geographical nature of Ukraine is a …

A Christian woman from Kiev, Ukraine, converted to Islam in Yasuj, the capital of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province. “Laylia Hichak” converted to Islam in the office of the Friday prayer leader of Yasuj, “Hujjatol-Islam Seyyed Nasir Hosseini,” and became a Muslim. The 20-year-old Ukrainian who was studying dentistry at the …

 Is Vladimir Putin about to invade Ukraine, as the massing Russian troops on its borders suggest? Or is he bluffing, to extort concessions from his neighbour and the West? No one can be sure of Mr Putin’s intentions. Even his own foreign minister seems to be kept guessing. But, if …

– The claim that Major General Qasem Soleimani was a “terrorist” on a mission to carry out an “imminent” attack that would kill hundreds of Americans turned out to be a lie, so why should one believe anything else relating to recent developments in Iran and Iraq? To be sure, Ukraine International …