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India is on track to become Europes largest supplier of refined fuels this month while simultaneously buying record amounts of Russian crude, according to data compiled by Bloomberg from analytics firm Kpler. Europes refined fuel imports from India are set to surge above 360,000 barrels a day, edging just ahead of those of Saudi Arabia, Kplers data show.
Péter Szijjártó, Hungary’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, said that his country has paid “too high a price” for the war in Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday honoured the country’s Border Guard forces by awarding medals and wishing them success.
Britain saw a record number of working days lost due to short-term sickness last year and zero annual growth in economic output per hour worked in the final quarter of 2022, according to official data released on Wednesday.
Chinese authorities are preparing to release a man who disappeared three years ago after publicizing videos of overcrowded hospitals and bodies during the COVID-19 outbreak. That's according to his relative and another person familiar with his case. Fang Bin and other members of the public who were dubbed citizen journalists posted details of the pandemic in early 2020 on the internet and social media, embarrassing Chinese officials who faced criticism for failing to control the outbreak. According to the people who did not want to be identified for fear of government retribution, he is scheduled to be released Sunday. The Associated Press could not confirm the details with the authorities. The case is part of a crackdown on criticism of China’s early handling of the pandemic.
The world’s No. 2 producer of lithium is the latest country to push for government ownership over mines.
Several dozens of Russian-speaking residents of Latvia on 29 April held a rally near the Russian embassy in Riga calling on Russia “not to protect” them.
Russian troops ‘set up camp, fished, and dug defensive positions six miles from power plant’
China’s People’s Liberation Army scrambled fighter jets to monitor a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon that flew over the Taiwan Strait Friday, according to U.S. and Chinese statements. The P-8A flew over the Taiwan Strait in international airspace early Friday local time, according to a U.S. Navy news release. “The aircraft’s transit of the Taiwan Strait …
Multiple soldiers from both groups were killed in their fatal exchange in Luhansk, Ukraine's government claimed in a daily briefing.
The head of the mercenary Wagner Group threatened to withdraw some of his troops from the city, which Russia has been trying to take for 10 months, if Moscow did not send more ammunition.
The United States urged China on Saturday to stop harassing Philippine vessels in the South China Sea, pledging to stand with the Philippines after another maritime confrontation between the two Asian countries.
“I buried my son, and haven’t gotten any kind of payment for him yet, not a cent! I will not be quiet about this!”
A Russia-appointed official in Crimea says a massive fire erupted at an oil depot there after it was hit by two Ukrainian drones. The Moscow-installed governor of the port city of Sevastopol posted videos and photos of the blaze on his Telegram channel on Saturday. Two more drones were destroyed over Crimea, the peninsula's Russia-appointed governor said. Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 in a move that most of the world considered illegal. The oil reservoir fire comes a day after Russia fired more than 20 cruise missiles and two drones at Ukraine, killing at least 23 people. Moscow's forces also are bracing for an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Using open sources, BBC Russia, together with Mediazona, a Russian independent media outlet, established the names of 21,700 Russian soldiers who had been killed in the war in Ukraine. The media carry out a name-by-name count of the dead.
The United States is an unreliable friend, and Iraq should not allow any U.S. troops on its territory, Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told visiting Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid on Saturday.
The United States called on China to stop intimidating Philippine ships in the South China Sea, pledging to stand with its ally. Beijing claims sovereignty over almost the entire South China Sea.
The city of Novaya Kakhovka is home to the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam, a strategic target captured in the first hours of Moscow’s offensive.