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Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has explained how he believes the ongoing turmoil unfolded in his country, blaming the widespread street violence and looting on thousands of armed “gangsters and terrorists.” Tokayev presented a timeline of the crisis, taking to Twitter with a large English-language thread late on Friday. Tokayev said …

Speaking during a briefing in Geneva on Monday, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said “difficult decisions” must be made to “protect ourselves and others” from the virus, calling on those planning holiday get-togethers to reconsider amid the ongoing health crisis. “All of us are sick of this pandemic. All of …

Moscow floated the notion last week of a legally binding treaty offering firm security guarantees that NATO would not expand any further east, or emplace offensive weapons in member countries bordering Russia. Putin informed Johnson in the phone call on Monday that Russia is preparing draft documents to that effect …

Speaking on Wednesday as part of a discussion on ‘Peace policy in our time,’ NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the organization champions “what we call the dual track approach to Russia; deterrence, defense but also dialogue.”  “There’s no contradiction… between being firm in our strategy to our neighbor …

Appearing on MSNBC on Sunday, Buttigieg talked up some of the specifics of the Build Back Better bill, including a “discount” provided to Americans if they choose to buy an electric vehicle.  “It contains incentives to make it more affordable to buy an electric vehicle, up to a $12,500 discount …

Hewn out of a rocky cliffside in central Afghanistan’s Bamyan Valley around the sixth Century AD, the Bamiyan Buddhas stood more than 150 feet tall for 1,400 years, until the Taliban blew them to pieces with high explosives in 2001, shortly before the US invasion ended their brief reign over …

Putin, who was fully vaccinated this spring, revealed on Sunday he was re-vaccinated with the single-dose Sputnik Light jab. The president added that he was feeling no adverse effects hours after getting the vaccine. The revelation to the public came as Putin met the deputy director of Sputnik’s developer, Gamaleya …

Salesforce will provide its package for employees globally after previously launching it in the United States and Canada. Transgender staff will be able to take four weeks of paid leave and receive $40,000 to pay for sex change surgery, hair transplants, hormone replacement, and legal fees, and will even receive …

Putin told Merkel on Thursday that the European Union should resolve the migrant stalemate at the Polish-Belarus frontier in accordance with “international humanitarian law.” This is the second time the Russian president and the caretaker German chancellor have talked on the phone in the past two days. DETAILS TO FOLLOW

The city of Heihe, far in China’s northeast along its border with Russia, said it would shell out 100,000 yuan ($15,642) to locals who provide “important clues” about the origin of the recent delta variant outbreak, which has resulted in some 240 cases as of Monday, according to Chinese state …