Moscow: While the President of Russia announced annexing the Ukrainian regions, Western countries indicated new sanctions against Russia. Despite these Western warnings, the Russian Ruble has strengthened against the US and European currencies. In the past few days, while the USD has hit record highs, other major world currencies have fallen. Against this backdrop, the […]
Moscow: The oil spill in the Nord Stream pipeline, which supplies fuel from Russia to Europe, is an unprecedented disaster. Russian President Vladimir Putin has made serious allegations that the natural gas leak from this pipeline is part of an international terrorist conspiracy. The United States and NATO blamed Russia for this fuel leak. However, […]
Singapore: ‘The golden age of globalisation that we have known for the past 30 years since the end of the Cold War is clearly over, and we are entering a new era, a new era that will be marked by greater geopolitical contestation,’ Singapore’s Finance Minister Lawrence Wong warned. At the ‘Forbes Global CEO Conference’ […]
Moscow: At least 13 people were killed in an indiscriminate shooting at a school in Izhevsk, Russia. It includes seven small children. Russian media informed that the attacker was identified as Artem Kazantsev and was wearing clothes with Nazi symbols. This is the past five month’s second mass shooting at a school in Russia. In […]
Moscow: In 2014, Russia introduced an independent payment system as an alternative to SWIFT, which is widely used for international banking transactions. Officials of the Central Bank of Russia have claimed that their system, known as SPFS, is getting an encouraging response globally. Alla Bakina said that the total number of enterprises connected to this […]
Moscow: Referendums have begun in four Russian-controlled regions of Ukraine. Voting has started in Luhansk and Donetsk, part of the Donbas region, and Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. Russia said that voting would continue till the 27th of next week. Western countries, including Ukraine, have criticized the referendum process as a sham and warned that the international […]
Moscow: Russia has presented a proposal with new evidence in the case of biological laboratories run by the United States in Ukraine. Igor Kirillov, a senior military officer of Russia, informed about this. The ‘Biological Weapons Convention’ meeting was held in Geneva in the first week of September. In this meeting, Russia raised questions about […]
Moscow/Kyiv: The exchange of prisoners of war (POWs) between the two countries came to light as the Russia-Ukraine conflict intensified. Russia has released over 200 Ukrainian prisoners of war. At the same time, Ukraine is said to have released 55 Russian soldiers and pro-Russian Ukrainian citizens. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Turkey and Saudi […]
New York: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met South Korean President Yoon Suk-Yeol in New York on Thursday. Sources said that both leaders agreed to strengthen bilateral relations and cooperation during the meeting. This is the first time since 2019 that the heads of state of these two countries have met each other in person. […]
Washington/Yerevan: Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi visited Armenia on Sunday. Addressing the Armenian Parliament on occasion, Pelosi alleged that the new conflict was fuelled by the attacks by Azerbaijan, which were illegal and deadly. At the same time, she assured that the United States fully supports the sovereignty of Armenia and […]