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Russia has launched a propaganda crusade to cynically argue that even though the Islamic State-Khorasan (ISIS-K) took credit for the recent Moscow concert hall terror attack, it was actually Ukraine, with its American and British overlords, behind the death of 137 Russian citizens in the audience that day. On April 9, the Russian…

Inside job? Some Georgians fear the foreign agent law will be used to suppress critical voices ahead of parliamentary elections in October, where Georgian Dream will seek a fifth term. “The government wants to remain in power so they’ve intensified silencing critical voices, especially after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. They’re…

Britain’s top diplomat told former president Donald Trump that the best way for any U.S. president to inherit a successful situation in Ukraine in January is by pushing Congress to approve military aid for Kyiv as soon as possible, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said Wednesday in an interview.Cameron departed Washington on Wednesday…

Fears that Russia will launch a massive offensive on Kharkiv, the north-eastern Ukrainian city not far from the border and which comes under frequent fire, were growing on Tuesday amid pleas from Kiev for help replacing its dwindling weapons stockpiles.Authorities across Ukraine's regions, from Lviv in the west to Donetsk in the east, reported…

CNN  —  Ukraine “will lose the war” if the United States Congress does not approve military aid to help it resist Russia’s invasion, President Volodymyr Zelensky said. “It’s important to…

By Rob CameronBBC News, Prague7 April 2024, 01:02 BSTUpdated 2 hours agoImage caption, Peter Pellegrini is an ally of Prime Minister Robert FicoPopulist Peter Pellegrini has been elected president of Slovakia, succeeding the liberal Zuzana Caputova. Mr Pellegrini, 48, defeated the pro-Western Ivan Korčok, a former diplomat, with 53% of the…

KYIV — As Russia steps up airstrikes and once again advances on the battlefield in Ukraine more than two years into its bloody invasion, there is no end to the fighting in sight. And President Volodymyr Zelensky’s options for what to do next — much less how to win the war — range from bad to worse.Zelensky has said Ukraine will accept nothing…

Russia is being abandoned by its key allies amid tightening U.S. sanctions imposed in response to the war in Ukraine.Recent moves by a number of Russian President Vladimir Putin's longtime allies, including China, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and India, suggest they are becoming more cautious of U.S. secondary sanctions. Russia's President…

The Russian foreign ministry has said that the flow of Russian oil to India continues at a high and stable rate, with no challenges in payment transactions despite global sanctions. Maria Zakharova, the official spokeswoman, highlighted during a Wednesday briefing that these operations have smoothly proceeded, prioritizing transactions in…

Washington CNN  —  President Joe Biden spoke on the phone with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday, marking the first conversation between the leaders since their historic in-person summit in November and the latest in…