KYIV, Ukraine, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Ukraine acknowledged for the first time on Tuesday that Russia's army has entered the Dnipropetrovsk region, a central administrative area previously spared from intense fighting. "Yes, they have entered, and fighting is ongoing as of now," Viktor Tregubov, spokesperson for the Dnipro Operational Strategic Group of Forces, told AFP. Moscow first said its forces had advanced into the region -- which it has not made a formal territorial claim over -- in July. It has since claimed to have captured some settlements there. In a separate statement, Ukraine's General Staff rejected Moscow's claims to have fully captured the villages of Zaporizke and Novogeorgiivka. But battlefield monitor DeepState, which has close ties to Ukraine's...
KYIV, Ukraine, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Russian strikes across Ukraine on Wednesday killed three people and left thousands more than 100,000 households without power,...
CHISINAU, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The leaders of France, Germany and Poland are due in Moldova on Wednesday in a show of support, a...
KYIV, Ukraine, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Russian strikes on the strategic Ukrainian port city of Kherson killed an 81-year-old woman Wednesday and wounded two...
NEW DELHI, Aug 26, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Fierce floods swamped the Jammu area of Indian-administrated Kashmir on Tuesday as intense monsoon rainstorms in the Himalayan...
MRAUK U, Myanmar, Aug 26, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - A Myanmar junta air strike on a rebel-held town in the country's hunger-ravaged west killed at least...
SRINAGAR, India, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains have killed at least 30 people in India's Himalayan region of...
DAMASCUS, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Israeli drone strikes killed six Syrian soldiers outside Damascus, state television reported Wednesday, updating the toll for attacks the...
BELGRADE, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Serbia's largest oil producer was given another 30-day reprieve from sanctions by the United States, the sixth deferral for...
JERUSALEM, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Israeli police said Wednesday that security forces seized roughly 1.5 million shekels ($447,000) of "terror funds" during a raid...
NEW DELHI, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Indian spin great Ravichandran Ashwin on Wednesday announced his retirement from the Indian Premier League and plans to...
NEW DELHI, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - India could be banned from world football for the second time in three years after FIFA and the...
TEHRAN, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Iranian forces have killed 13 militants in a raid in the restive southeast, state media reported Wednesday, adding they...