Countries and companies shun Russian crude over Ukraine invasion
Russian gas flows to Europe remain stable, but Western sanctions over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and voluntary actions by buyers are starting to impact its crude oil and oil ...
Turkey says Russia and Ukraine nearing agreement on ‘critical’ issues
Turkey’s foreign minister said in an interview published on Sunday that Russia and Ukraine were nearing agreement on “critical” issues and he was hopeful for a ceasefire if the ...
The Ukraine dilemma: spectators or protagonists?
By Achilleas Demetriades
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is at the forefront of the international scene with the world’s attention turned, with grave concern, to what is happening there. ...
Zelenskiy says Russia wages ‘terror’, Mariupol says thousands deported
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia’s siege of the port city of Mariupol was “a terror that will be remembered for centuries to come”, while local authorities said thousands ...
Zelenskiy tells Russia to hold peace talks now or suffer for generations
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Saturday for comprehensive peace talks with Moscow and also urged Switzerland to do more to crack down on wealthy Russian oligarchs who he said ...
Russia ridicules idea that cosmonauts wore yellow in support of Ukraine
Russia’s space agency on Saturday dismissed Western media reports suggesting Russian cosmonauts joining the International Space Station (ISS) had chosen to wear yellow suits with a blue trim in ...
Dead buildings tower over uncollected corpses in Mariupol
In Mariupol daily life is a series of harrowing escapes from bomb blasts and basic survival rituals, amid the rubble that lies everywhere.
Uncollected corpses wrapped in blankets, coats or ...
Towards a ceasefire in the Ukraine war
By Pravin R Jethwa
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin appears to have successfully achieved two immediate objectives in Russian foreign policy by invading Ukraine: first, he has effectively laid to rest ...
Putin, Zelenskiy and the West face deadly Ukraine decision points
By Peter Apps
As Britain teetered on the edge of Nazi invasion in 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill reportedly waylaid legendary American war reporter Edward Murrow in a corridor in Downing ...
Xi says improper handling of Taiwan issues will hit China-U.S. ties
Chinese President Xi Jinping told his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden on Friday that the Taiwan issue needs to be handled properly to avoid a negative impact on Sino-U.S. ...
Ukraine war: impact on oil & gas markets
The war in Ukraine could not have come at a worse time for the global economy. It has come at a time when the recovery from Covid-19 has begun to ...
Russia blasted by West at UN for spreading bioweapons ‘nonsense’ over Ukraine
The United States and Western allies slammed Russia on Friday for spreading propaganda, disinformation and “nonsense” at the United Nations Security Council by alleging that parts of biological weapons were ...
Greek farmers on tractors protest ‘unbearable’ fuel, fertiliser costs
Hundreds of Greek farmers, some on tractors, protested in Athens on Friday, demanding more tax cuts and subsidies to combat high fuel and fertiliser prices which have soared since Russia’...
Russia’s biggest cargo airline to suspend all Boeing flights
Russia’s biggest cargo airline Volga-Dnepr Group has suspended all flights using Boeing BA.N aircraft due to Western sanctions, it said on Friday.
Sanctions have cut off the supply ...
Bangladesh seeks $22.4 m after missile hits ship in Ukraine
State-owned Bangladesh Shipping Corp is seeking $22.4 million from its insurer for a cargo ship hit by a missile in March, government officials with knowledge of the talks said, in the ...
Russia tells Google to stop spreading threats against Russians on YouTube
Russia on Friday demanded that Alphabet Inc’s GOOGL.O Google stop spreading what it called threats against Russian citizens on its YouTube video-sharing platform, a move that could presage ...
World Food Programme says food supply chains ‘falling apart’ in Ukraine
A World Food Programme (WFP) official said on Friday that food supply chains in Ukraine were collapsing, with key infrastructure such as bridges and trains destroyed by bombs and many ...
Russia contemplates ‘parallel imports’ after top brands halt sales
Russia is considering allowing retailers to import products from abroad without the trademark owner’s permission, the competition regulator said on Friday, after global brands halted sales or stopped exports ...
Russians have up to $213 billion stashed offshore in Swiss banks
Switzerland’s secretive banks hold up to $213 billion of Russian wealth, the country’s financial industry association estimates, as sanctions on Russia give a rare glimpse inside Swiss vaults.
The ...
Wary of Western sanctions, Turkey’s banks resist Russian customers
Newly arrived Russians in Turkey are struggling to make deposits and transfers at banks that are taking a careful and sceptical approach for fear of contravening Western sanctions on Moscow, ...
Kremlin calls Biden irritable and forgetful, says he insulted Putin
The Kremlin on Friday called comments by U.S. President Joe Biden about his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin “personal insults” and said Biden’s remarks appeared to have been fuelled ...
UK revokes Russian channel RT’s licence after probe into Ukraine coverage
Britain’s media regulator on Friday revoked Russian-backed television channel RT’s licence to broadcast in the United Kingdom with immediate effect, citing its links to the Kremlin.
The regulator, ...
Putin pulls UN vote on Ukraine, Russia and Canada in Twitter spat
The U.N. Security Council will no longer vote on Friday on a Russian-drafted call for aid access and civilian protection in Ukraine as Russia’s U.N. envoy accused ...
Russian missiles hit area near airport in Ukraine’s Lviv, mayor says
Several missiles have hit an aircraft repair plant in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Friday morning, destroying its building, city mayor Andriy Sadovy said.
The plant had been ...