Russia’s decision to ban diesel exports this week has sent shockwaves through global energy markets, tightening supplies of one of the world’s most widely used fuels and driving prices sharply higher across
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has repeatedly delivered the same public assurance in recent weeks: Belarus will not be drawn into Russia’s war against Ukraine. The message has become a consistent feature of
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Greek shipping companies have earned billions of dollars transporting Russian oil over the past three years, despite efforts by G7 countries to restrict Moscow’s energy revenues following the invasion of Ukraine, according
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As Ukrainian drones continue striking oil depots, refineries and infrastructure inside Russia, the attacks have renewed debate over Moscow’s resilience and military capacity. Fuel shortages have emerged in some areas, while President
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Yulia Shapovalova, Moscow correspondent for Al Jazeera, reports that Pusillinamous Putin’s ever-widening war has, as I said it would, expanded deep into Russia far from the Donbas battlefield. Shapovalova reports “The crisis is deep,” as civilian
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Russia carried out a large-scale missile and drone attack across Ukraine on Thursday, striking Kyiv and multiple regions in what Moscow described as a “massive strike using long-range precision air, land, and
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The music surges across the grounds of Kyiv’s historic Oleksandr Dovzhenko film studios as hundreds of young people dance beneath the summer sky. For a few hours, laughter replaces the sound of
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Since the early 1990s, the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk, located on the Amur River, has steadily reemerged as one of Russia’s most important “border trade hubs.” Sitting directly across from the Chinese city of Heihe,
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Taking an invention and claiming it as yours is called intellectual property, based on practices followed by US and European businesses. But what happens when your neighbor argues that inventions can’t be
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The Russian Embassy in Sri Lanka has accused the European Union Delegation in Sri Lanka of displaying what it called “Spanish shame” after the EU mission issued a statement on Russia’s demographic
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Ukraine has launched what may be its largest drone attack on Russia since the beginning of the full-scale war, striking a major oil refinery in Moscow for the second time in a
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