G20 Summit: Who is coming to India, and who is not?

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will be among the leaders representing the EU. Fellow G7 members Britain, Canada, Japan and Italy will be represented by their respective Prime Ministers Rishi Sunak, Justin Trudeau, Fumio Kishida and Giorgia Meloni. From the Asia-Pacific region, Indonesian President […]

Meta title: Putin says he won’t renew grain deal unless West meets his demands

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Monday urged Moscow to return to the agreement, insisting that “Russia has no legal and political grounds for withdrawing from the agreement.” Monday’s talks took place against the backdrop of Ukraine’s recent retaliatory offensive against the Kremlin’s invading forces. In the latest development, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on […]

Prigozhin’s death leaves many unknowns and one assumption

An official announcement showed ten passengers on board the plane that crashed in the Tver region, northwest of Moscow. Russia’s emergency ministry said “everyone on board was killed.”Short biographies related to exiled businessman and opposition leader Mikhail Khodorkovsky published by the site Dossier. Among them was Dmitry Utkin, Prigozhin’s heavyset, shaven-headed right-hand man, who was […]

Russia has increased pressure in northeastern Ukraine, targeting civilians and infrastructure in an attempt to draw Ukrainian forces away from Kiev’s retaliatory offensive.

Kiev’s air force said on Friday Russia launched four Kinzhal hypersonic missiles at targets in western Ukraine. “One Kh-47 missile was destroyed within the Kiev region, while the rest were destroyed near the Kolomya airfield in the Ivano-Frankivsk region,” the air force said. “Civilian facilities and infrastructure were damaged and one missile hit a residential […]