Source link New Delhi and Washington are close to signing a pact allowing faster transportation of stolen or smuggled artifacts India is likely to sign an agreement with the US to expedite the return of precious stolen artifacts amid New Delhi’s continued thrust on bringing back heritage items from foreign shores, The Indian Express reported […]
Source link The Washington Post’s reporting on a secret Chinese-Russian tunnel project is “baseless,” Beijing has declared Reports of a Chinese-Russian project to build a tunnel between Crimea and the Russian mainland are “baseless,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin has said. Citing Ukrainian spies, the Washington Post claimed last week that executives from both […]
Source link Kiev should have never started the summer counteroffensive demanded by its Western backers, one soldier told German reporters The Armed Forces of Ukraine are plagued by “huge problems” ranging from inadequate command to severe lack of essential military equipment and supplies, German tabloid Bild reported on Monday, citing several soldiers and officers it […]
Source link The Dutch Allard Pierson Museum handed over a prized collection of Scythian gold to Ukraine despite protests from Russia A vast collection of Crimean gold jewelry and antiquities that was handed over to Ukraine by the Netherlands after a lengthy legal battle should have instead been returned to the Russian peninsula, Kremlin spokesman […]
Source link The Russian foreign minister said he would travel to North Macedonia for the event if Bulgaria opens its airspace Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is set to take part in an upcoming meeting of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in North Macedonia, after EU authorities ruled the diplomat’s visit […]
Source link The West has destroyed free global competition and the immunity of property, Russia’s foreign minister says The US is using the dollar to unleash trade wars worldwide, while international economic cooperation is also being weaponized, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday. The US and its allies in the EU are using […]
Source link The East African country will become the first recipient of Moscow’s food aid initiative A cargo ship carrying 25,000 tons of humanitarian wheat from Russia will arrive in Somalia in the next few days, the East African nation’s news agency, SONNA, has reported. Russia’s ambassador to Djibouti and Somalia, Mikhail Golovanov, arrived in […]
Source link The global body and UEFA issued a wave of sanctions against Russian football in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine conflict World football’s governing body, FIFA, is withholding compensatory payments for Russian teams related to last year’s World Cup in Qatar due to sanctions levied against the Russian Football Union (RFU), its Secretary General […]
Source link The Finnish government is reportedly mulling full closure of its land border with Russia, a decision from which it shied away last week over concerns that it would clash with Helsinki’s commitment to provide refuge to asylum-seekers. Moscow has protested the restrictions and Finnish claims that it was reacting to Russian ‘hybrid warfare.’ […]
Source link Сold winters will make the ‘Eastern compromise’ acceptable for Brussels very soon, according to Oleg Deripaska EU nations will have to return to Russian natural gas supplies within a year and a half, Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska predicted on his Telegram channel on Monday. According to the billionaire, the lack of gas deliveries […]
Source link Police have detained a knife-wielding man near a shopping mall in a dormitory district in south-eastern Moscow on Sunday, local media has reported. Witnesses told the Mash Telegram channel that the man had been making circles outside the Mari shopping mall in Maryino District and threatening passersby, including children, with murder. The citizens […]
Source link The 16-meter banner was torn in half by strong winds, officials in Kiev have said A storm in Kiev has torn Ukraine’s largest flag in half, city officials reported on Monday. The national symbol was damaged despite being lowered to half-mast in an attempt to protect it from the strong winds. Officials in […]
Source link Aleksey Danilov, secretary of the Ukrainian security council, had been cited earlier by The Times claiming SBU was rife with Russian moles Russia has a network of sleeper agents in the SBU, Ukraine’s secret service, one of Kiev’s top security officials, Aleksey Danilov, has said, according to The Times on Monday. Later, however, […]
Source link The Indian economy could perform better than expected next year, with the S&P Global Ratings revising its growth forecast upwards on Monday. The rating agency now projects India’s gross domestic product (GDP) to grow 6.4% in the financial year 2024 compared to the previous forecast of 6%, “as robust domestic momentum seems to […]
Source link The attackers tried to flee, but were stopped by an American warship, the US Central Command claims Armed assailants seized an Israel-linked tanker of the coast of Yemen, but surrendered when warships from the US-led counter-piracy force answered a distress call, according to the US Central Command (Centcom). A group of gunmen boarded […]