United Nations appeals for $5.6 billion for aid to Ukraine in 2023Nearly a year after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion, the need for aid was "enormous," with some 21.8 million Ukrainians requiring a...
16 Feb, 2023, 12.04 AM IST
India lets Japan's commercial aircraft pick up aid for UkraineIndia has cleared overflight request for Japanese SDF aircraft carrying humanitarian cargo for Ukraine. "This was processed and approved as...
22 Apr, 2022, 06.48 AM IST
Another 40,000 Ukrainians flee war: UNUNHCR, the UN refugee agency, said 4,836,445 million Ukrainians had left the country since the Russian invasion on February 24 -- a number ...
16 Apr, 2022, 07.59 PM IST
United Nations says 'tragedy must stop' as 4.1 million Ukrainians fleeUNHCR, the UN refugee agency, said 4,102,876 Ukrainians had fled the country since the February 24 invasion -- a figure up 43,771 on Thursd...
01 Apr, 2022, 07.18 PM IST
Citing Ukraine war, UNESCO says education system of countries should have crisis-sensitive policiesTeachers need to be equipped to teach in increasingly challenging conditions such as damaged facilities or overcrowded classrooms, and to b...
27 Mar, 2022, 02.24 PM IST
US President Joe Biden heads to Poland, with military support high on agendaPoland hopes that Biden's visit will underline the security assurances already made by the United States that it will defend "every inch" o...
25 Mar, 2022, 07.51 PM IST
EU to set out job, school, housing plan for Ukraine refugees"Nearly 3.4 people, overwhelmingly women and children, have already arrived in the EU after fleeing Ukraine. Both the scale and speed are u...
22 Mar, 2022, 08.51 PM IST
Fleeing war in Ukraine, they’re met with employers offering paychecksAs the wartime exodus from Ukraine grows larger, companies are rushing forward with offers of employment, from high-level engineering jobs ...
21 Mar, 2022, 10.06 PM IST
Germany pledges to protect refugees after reported rape caseAuthorities in the western city of Duesseldorf confirmed that a young woman who was housed on a hotel boat for refugees on the Rhine river ...
16 Mar, 2022, 08.31 PM IST
What the EU is doing to help Ukraine refugees?The "Temporary Protection Directive" sets out minimum standards across the EU's 27 countries for helping those in need. Member nations can ...
12 Mar, 2022, 01.06 PM IST
American VP Kamala Harris heads to Romania to discuss the growing Ukraine refugee crisisRomania's President Klaus Iohannis and VP Kamala Harris are set to meet in Bucharest on Friday to discuss the growing refugee crisis in the...
11 Mar, 2022, 09.43 PM IST
Leonardo DiCaprio donates $10 mn in aid to Ukraine; Angelina Jolie, Miley Cyrus, Jared Leto express solidaritySeveral Hollywood celebrities have come forward to express their solidarity with the people of Ukraine.
09 Mar, 2022, 03.06 PM IST
Ukraine: The good, bad and ideal refugeesAlthough all neighbouring European Union countries have pledged to accept refugees from Ukraine, as people flee across borders, a complicat...
09 Mar, 2022, 11.58 AM IST
'Please close the sky' Ukrainian refugees pleadAt the Medyka crossing, Poland's busiest, along its roughly 500-kilometre (310-mile) border with Ukraine, refugees called for a no-fly zone...
05 Mar, 2022, 05.26 PM IST
EU agrees to offer protection to Ukraine refugeesEU interior ministers agreed in a Brussels meeting to activate a temporary protection mechanism drawn up two decades ago -- in response to ...
03 Mar, 2022, 09.52 PM IST
Europe welcomes Ukrainian refugees - others, not so much"These are not the refugees we are used to...these people are Europeans," Bulgarian President Rumen Radev told journalists earlier this wee...
28 Feb, 2022, 02.21 PM IST
US announces $54 mn in aid for UkraineThe UN refugee agency UNHCR says that since Russia first attacked Thursday, more than 368,000 people have fled Ukraine to neighbouring coun...
28 Feb, 2022, 11.48 AM IST