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Writing on Telegram, Maria Zakharova criticized France’s foreign minister, Clément Beaune, who told TV channel France 2 on Thursday that those who were inoculated with Russian or Chinese vaccines should be shut out of the EU. “Unacceptable statements,” she said. “It is a hybrid of racism, imperial hegemony, and neo-Nazism: …

Speaking to the Moscow’s International Affairs news outlet on Tuesday, Sergey Ryabkov was referring to last month’s incident involving the British destroyer HMS Defender, which violated Russia’s maritime borders near Crimea. The senior official stressed that the Black Sea was not a place where “games are allowed,” noting that such incursions …

The 50-page dossier related to the Black Sea cruise of the HMS Defender is said to have been found by a passer-by in a heap of trash behind a bus stop in Kent on Tuesday morning. The discovery, made right before the Wednesday incident when the UK destroyer sailed into …

According to the report, the number of US-listed initial public offerings from mainland China increased by 31 from January to June, with the IPOs raising $8.82 billion.  The first day return rate of the so-called China concept stocks listed on US exchanges was 131% on average, also a multi-year high, …

Speaking on Thursday, Sergey Ryabkov said that Russia’s territorial integrity will be protected by any means possible, including by military force. “We can only appeal to common sense and demand respect for international law,” Ryabkov told reporters. “If that doesn’t help and if our colleagues don’t understand, we may not …

Speaking at a press conference on Monday for the first time since his election victory last week, President-elect Ebrahim Raisi talked of his plans to implement an assertive foreign policy.  Striking a forceful tone, Raisi said that the country’s ballistic missile program was not up for negotiation and demanded that …

Speaking to Turkey’s Anadolu news agency in an interview published on Monday, the foreign minister said that, although the group’s leaders agreed at a summit in 2008 that Ukraine, along with Georgia, “will become members of NATO,” no progress had been made on the commitment since then. According to Kuleba, …

Speaking to Reuters on Friday, district official Baburam Khanal said the bodies of three workers had been found near the town of Melamchi in Sindhupalchowk district, a mountainous area bordering the Tibet region of China.  One of the bodies was identified as an Indian worker and the other two as …

The UK media cited government sources saying that Prime Minister Boris Johnson had a bitter exchange with French President Emmanuel Macron over the flow of goods between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK. As they met at the G7 summit in Carbis Bay in Cornwall, Johnson supposedly asked …

Speaking on Friday in an address to the UN-backed Conference on Disarmament, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called on the world’s great powers to redouble their diplomatic efforts to “bring the JCPOA [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action] back on track.”  Wang said that negotiations concerning the 2015 nuclear agreement, which …