Abdiwahab Ahmed

Volodymyr Zelensky has denounced the loosening of restrictions on Russian oil, warning that revenue from those sales feeds Moscow’s war machine just as Washington moves to ease pressure on energy markets rattled by the conflict in the Middle East. "Every dollar paid for Russian oil is money for the war" and is used for devastating strikes on Ukraine, Mr Zelensky said in a post on X. Without naming the United States directly, the Ukrainian president’s remarks came after President Donald Trump's administration on Friday…

The wreckage still held the signatures of everyday life: a bottle of washing-up liquid, a packet of cucumber and vitamin E wax strips, baby talc, a tube of La Roche-Posay face wash. This was one of the buildings hit in central Beirut on a Wednesday at lunchtime, without warning. It was among the targets of 100 Israeli strikes launched in just 10 minutes, part of what became the deadliest day of the conflict in Lebanon so far. But even amid those intimate traces of lives interrupted, something else stayed with me more…

Bulgaria appears headed for its most decisive political reset in decades after former president Rumen Radev, a critic of the European Union who has urged a renewal of ties with Russia, won an outright majority in parliamentary elections, near complete official results showed. Radev's Progressive Bulgaria alliance captured 44.7% of the vote in yesterday's election, with 91.7% of ballots counted, according to official figures, leaving the grouping on track to secure about 130 seats in the 240-member parliament. The sweeping…

Bound by grief that might once have kept them apart, an Israeli father and a Palestinian father are instead using friendship as their strongest argument for peace. Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin, who stood on opposite sides of the conflict as young men, now describe themselves as "family" and say they have devoted their lives to fostering respect and understanding between their peoples. The pair were in Dublin to address an event hosted by the charity Trócaire. They are no strangers to Ireland, having travelled across the…

Austrian authorities have found rat poison in a jar of HiPP baby food, escalating a product recall that pulled the brand from 1,500 SPAR supermarkets across the country amid urgent safety concerns. Police in Burgenland said a 190g jar of carrot with potato baby food, flagged by a customer in the Eisenstadt-Umgebung district, tested positive for rat poison after being examined. HiPP said yesterday that it could not rule out the possibility that a dangerous substance had been introduced into the product, warning that its HiPP…

A burst of gunfire in a nightlife hub near the University of Iowa left multiple people wounded early Sunday, prompting a police investigation and emergency alerts from the school. The Iowa City Police Department said it was investigating the shooting, which city officials confirmed took place Sunday, and noted that "no arrests have been made." Officials said multiple victims were transported to nearby hospitals for treatment of injuries sustained in the shooting. Authorities said the victims' conditions were not immediately…

Pressure is mounting on Prime Minister Keir Starmer, but senior British ministers have rallied behind him as he tries to contain the fallout from a scandal involving Peter Mandelson, the long-time associate of Jeffrey Epstein. Mr Starmer is set to face MPs in parliament tomorrow, where he will be pressed on how Mr Mandelson came to be appointed Britain's ambassador to the United States in late 2024 despite failing security vetting. The prime minister, under fire for months over the affair, said on Friday that neither he nor…

Bulgarian ex-president Rumen Radev's political formation has emerged in first place in the country's eighth parliamentary election in five years, exit polls showed, though the result fell short of an outright majority. Mr Radev, who stepped down from the presidency in January, entered the race promising to tackle corruption after an anti-graft movement helped plunge Bulgaria into a prolonged period of political turmoil. The European Union's poorest member has cycled through a string of governments since 2021, when mass…

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Ukraine widened its campaign against Russia’s energy infrastructure overnight, hitting several oil sites including two refineries in the Samara region and a Baltic Sea port used to ship petroleum products, according to Russian regional governors and a Ukrainian military official. In recent weeks, Ukrainian forces have intensified strikes on Russian oil depots and refineries, targets seen as vital contributors to Moscow’s war financing. Some of those attacks have reached facilities located thousands of kilometres from the…