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Top oil exporters Saudi Arabia and Russia confirmed on Sunday they would continue with their additional voluntary oil output cuts until the end of the year as concerns over demand ...

On September 10 the great breakthrough was underway. “The Ukrainians went forward again”, said breathless reports from the front lines. “The Ukrainian Armed Forces are moving west of Novoprokopovka, east of ...

U.S. and European officials have spoken to the Ukrainian government about what possible peace negotiations with Russia might entail to end the war, NBC quoted an unidentified senior U....

President Vladimir Putin called on Friday for measures to curb the illegal circulation of weapons and ammunition in Russia, including from Ukraine. “We need to think about how weapons and ...

Russia has successfully tested its ability to deliver a massive retaliatory nuclear strike by land, sea and air, a Kremlin statement said on Wednesday, a display of force which coincides ...

Qatar has agreed to supply Shell (SHEL.L) in the Netherlands with gas for 27 years, the second such deal with a European buyer in a week, as the Gulf state ...

Cypriot lawyer Christodoulides Vassiliades is on Russia’s wanted list after an arrest warrant was issued against him, however Russian authorities have not issued an extradition request against him in ...

The Russian Olympic Committee was banned with immediate effect on Thursday for recognising regional organisations from four territories annexed from Ukraine, the International Olympic Committee said. The IOC added the ...

Nato will discuss damage to a gas pipeline and data cable running between member states Finland and Estonia, and will mount a “determined” response if a deliberate attack is proven, ...

The Russian rouble dived towards 101 against the dollar on Tuesday, heading back towards a more than 18-month low reached in the previous session, under pressure from domestic demand for foreign ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday denied commenting on the matter of the Russian journalist sent back to Moscow, following his detainment in Nicosia a few days ago. The journalist’s ...

Russian air defence forces took down a Ukrainian drone near Moscow early on Saturday that appeared to cause no damage or injuries, Russian state-owned news agency Tass reported. The attack, ...

Russian prosecutors have demanded a nine-and-a-half-year jail sentence for fugitive former state TV journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, famous for bursting into a news broadcast with a placard that read “Stop the ...

Moldova’s Constitutional Court cleared the way on Tuesday for members of a banned pro-Russian party to run in local elections as independent candidates or as members of other parties. ...

Cyprus’ tourism has lost a billion euros thanks to placing sanctions and closing its skies to Russian aircraft, according to Russia’s ambassador in Nicosia Murat Zyazikov. Zyazikov was speaking ...

Perhaps we should expect less from the UN instead By Tamsin Phillipa Paige Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has lambasted the UN Security Council yet again, saying in a speech this ...

The use of heavy weapons supplied by the West in the fierce battle raging on the outskirts of Bakhmut, which was captured by Russia in May, is inflicting a significant ...

Russia said that Armenian fighters in the breakaway region of Nagorno Karabakh had started to give up arms as some humanitarian aid reached the 120,000 Armenians there who say the world ...

The creation of a planned Russian consular office in the north was on Wednesday unclear, with no side willing to give much away regarding progress. Both the Russian ambassador in ...

A top Ukrainian general hailed the recent recapture of two eastern villages as an important breakthrough on Monday, saying it had enabled Kyiv’s troops to breach Russian lines near ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has transferred publishing assets controlled by Nobel Prize-winning Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov to temporary state management, a presidential decree said on Monday. Norwegian publisher Amedia left ...

The Armenians are a people of great antiquity – the first Armenian kingdom was in the 8th century BC – but they grew up in a tough neighbourhood, and they have been ...

Canada on Thursday tasked a Quebec judge with leading an independent public inquiry into allegations of attempted foreign interference in Canadian affairs by China, Russia and others. This is a ...

Russia is discussing holding joint exercises with North Korea, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu was quoted as saying on Monday, at a time when the United States has expressed concern about ...