The US president, Donald Trump, said Wednesday that imports from India will face 25 per cent tariffs, while also announcing an unspecified 鈥榩enalty鈥� for New Delhi鈥檚 purchases of Russian weapons and energy.
One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Russia鈥檚 sparsely populated Far East early Wednesday, causing tsunamis of up to four metres (12 feet) across the Pacific and sparking evacuations from Hawaii to Japan...
One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Russia鈥檚 sparsely populated Far East on Wednesday, causing tsunamis up to four metres high across the Pacific and sparking evacuations from Hawaii to Japan...
Russia fired hundreds of drones and seven missiles at Ukraine overnight, the main target of which was a city in western Ukraine home to a military airbase, Kyiv said Monday...
Russia could be turning to a new cryptocurrency called A7A5 to allow money to flow in and out of the country and avoid Western sanctions, experts have told AFP...
Russia on Sunday began direct commercial flights to North Korea, in a further sign of closer ties with its Asian ally helping its offensive in Ukraine...
Russia on Saturday said it had wrested two villages in Ukraine, including one in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, marking a fresh advance into an area largely spared seizures of land since Moscow launched its offensive in 2022...
Russia鈥檚 central bank on Friday lowered interest rates to 18 per cent from 20 per cent earlier, its steepest cut since 2022 as the economy slows down faster than expected.
A Russian rocket put an Iranian communications satellite into space on Friday, Iranian state media reported, the latest achievement for an aerospace programme that has long concerned Western governments.
Russian attacks killed at least five people, including three members of a displaced family, in separate attacks across Ukraine鈥檚 war-scarred east, Ukrainian authorities said Thursday.
A passenger plane carrying nearly 50 people crashed in a remote area of Russia鈥檚 far eastern Amur region on Thursday, killing all on board, authorities said...
Russia fired a volley of drones and missiles at Ukraine early on Monday, hitting apartment blocks and a nursery in Kyiv, days after Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky proposed holding a fresh round of peace talks...
The next round of US-China talks could include Chinese purchases of Russian and Iranian oil, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday, a move that would shift the focus of trade negotiations into national security issues...
Russian strikes killed three people across Ukraine on Saturday, authorities said, while Moscow had to briefly suspend trains in its southern Rostov region after an overnight drone attack by Kyiv...
Ukraine said Saturday it had evacuated 43 of its citizens recently deported from Russia who were being held in Georgia in dire conditions, accusing Moscow of 鈥榳eaponising鈥� deportations...
Russian drone and bomb fire killed at least six people across Ukraine鈥檚 east and south, local authorities said Friday, as Russia resists US president Donald Trump鈥檚 call to halt its invasion.
Russia said Thursday it had captured Ukrainian villages in three separate areas of the front line, expanding its summer offensive despite US calls to end the fighting.
Russia fired hundreds of drones, artillery and a ballistic missile at Ukraine between late Tuesday and early Wednesday, Ukraine said, defying calls by Donald Trump to reach a peace deal.
US President Donald Trump is threatening to hit Russia's trading partners with tariffs of up to 100 per cent if Moscow does not end its war on Ukraine by the beginning of September.
The Kremlin warned Tuesday that US president Donald Trump鈥檚 pledge of more weapons for Kyiv and threat of sanctions targeting Russian trading partners could embolden Ukraine and further delay already stalled peace efforts...
A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution and Russia鈥檚 Federal Agency on Technical Regulating and Metrology to enhance cooperation in national standards development and quality control...
Russia鈥檚 foreign affairs ministry on Sunday described reports claiming that president Vladimir Putin had encouraged his Iranian ally to accept a 鈥榸ero enrichment鈥� agreement on its nuclear programme as 鈥榙efamation鈥�...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un offered Moscow his full support on the war in Ukraine during talks with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, state media in Pyongyang said on early Sunday...
Russia fired more than 620 drones and long-range missiles overnight killing four people, Ukraine said Saturday, calling for fresh sanctions on Moscow to halt its record barrages...
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his visit to the secretive country and key Moscow ally...
Russia said Saturday that its agreement with the United Nations to facilitate exports of Russian food and fertilisers had collapsed due to Western sanctions over Moscow鈥檚 offensive in Ukraine...
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and US top diplomat Marco Rubio held 鈥榝rank鈥� talks on the Ukraine war during a meeting Thursday, both sides said, as Washington hit out at Moscow鈥檚 lack of 鈥榝lexibility鈥�.
Russia鈥檚 main independent voting observer Golos, which monitored the country鈥檚 increasingly tightly-controlled elections for 25 years, announced its closure on Tuesday, two months after its co-chair was jailed...
Russia said Monday it captured its first village in Ukraine鈥檚 central Dnipropetrovsk region after grinding towards the border for months, dealing a psychological blow for Kyiv as its worries mount...
WHILE much of the world is extremely vexed, and rightly so, over the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the prospect of renewed US-Zionist blitz of Iran, it is hard to imagine either of these two crises flaring into a global conflagration.