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China has called on Western states to refrain from freezing the foreign reserves of other nations, saying that the measure undermines world economic stability. The Chinese ambassador to the UN, Zhang Jun, made the remarks at a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine on Tuesday. The call comes a month …

New RS-28 Sarmat ICBM was launched successfully from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia, the country’s military said Wednesday. The test launch was the first in a series of trials required for the adoption of the new missile by Russia’s strategic forces. The missile flew across the whole country, touching …

Commenting on the stalled negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, President Putin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, has told journalists that Russia forwarded to Ukraine a “draft document” with concrete wording. “The ball is in their court, we are awaiting their response,” Peskov said on Wednesday. When asked if there was a deadline …

China’s National Bureau of Statistics said the country’s coking coal imports from Russia soared to 1.4 million tons in March, compared to 590,000 tons for the same month last year and 1.1 million tons in February. Overall, the nation more than doubled purchases of Russian steel-making coal, procuring the fuel …

Dozens of Ukrainian kids fleeing the conflict in the country have ended up being separated from their guardians at the US border with Mexico, the New York Times has reported on Tuesday. Volunteers working in Tijuana have told the newspaper of at least 50 such cases since the start of …

It inspired a controversial gangster rap album illicitly recorded inside its walls. It’s also known as Britain’s Guantanamo Bay and Hellmarsh. HMP Belmarsh is an institution that casts a big shadow over British justice. Yet, despite those daunting monikers and damning reports of its conditions, it actually stands apart from …

Some Western nations are set to boycott parts of a summit of G20 finance ministers scheduled for Wednesday due to the planned participation of the Russian minister. The US called for Russia’s expulsion from the club of the world’s most powerful economies over the conflict in Ukraine. Russian Finance Minister …

Russian and Belarusian tennis players will become “hostages” to political forces if they are banned from Wimbledon this summer, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.     Reports have claimed that tennis bosses at the grass court Grand Slam in London are set to announce a ban on players such as …

A magistrates court in London has issued a formal order to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the US to face espionage charges there, and a possible effective life imprisonment. Wednesday’s ruling may be appealed. The Westminster Magistrates’ Court decision reverses its previous ruling that denied the US extradition to the …

Canada has joined the US in personalising punishments against Russia over the Ukraine conflict, by imposing new sanctions on President Vladimir Putin’s immediate family members Ottawa’s latest sanctions target 14 individuals connected to the “Russian regime,” including Katerina and Maria, the president’s adult daughters. Both women are in their 30s and …