US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping say they have agreed to a “framework” ahead of an October 30 meeting as they meet for the first time in years to discuss trade, Beijing’s support for Russia amid the war in Ukraine, and tensions over the status of Taiwan.
A nearly finished hillside complex in the southern Russian ski resort town of Krasnaya Polyana is backed by investors linked to Belarus’s strongman leader, a new investigation found.
Ukrainian men seeking to avoid military service pay up to the equivalent of $15,000 to smuggling gangs that hire children as guides to get them across the border to Romania. It’s one of the phenomena contributing to persistent manpower problems as Kyiv fights against the Russian invasion.
Thousands of Central Asians are believed to have joined Russian forces in Ukraine. The Ukrainian state project I Want To Live recently released a list of Central Asian men who have either been killed or gone missing in Ukraine.
A growing number of Russian regions are slashing the extraordinarily high signing bonuses for men signing up to fight in Ukraine. The move reflects some of the crosscurrents the Kremlin faces as it wages its all-out war, while dealing with a sharply slowing economy.
The industrial town of Victoria was once home to the pride of Nicolae Ceausescu's heavy industry, now the factory stands mostly abandoned. But a massive spending program by Brussels to expand European weapons production is set to give the town a new lease of life.
Ukrainian families recently gathered for a “Breakfast of Gratitude” with doctors who performed organ transplants on critically ill children. Some of the kids had endured life-saving surgeries just as air strikes were falling on Kyiv.
Major Chinese state oil companies have reportedly stopped imports of Russian crude oil in response to US sanctions. But Beijing has its own playbook to follow as it navigates the latest energy sanctions.
The Taliban’s hard-line government in Afghanistan is making major inroads in garnering legitimacy abroad. Despite its extremist policies, the international community has accepted that the Islamist group is here to stay, say experts.
This edition of the Farda Briefing looks at how the end of nearly two decades of leftist rule in Bolivia could put a damper on Iran’s strategy of expanding its influence in Latin America.
Thousands of Iranian companies are registered to a handful of Georgian addresses -- including 700 at one Tbilisi building -- raising questions about sanctions evasion and state contracting.
Along with parallel EU measures, the new US sanctions against Russia’s two biggest oil companies are some of the most consequential since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Whether they will affect the Kremlin’s war aims is an open question.
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