Category: News Desk

Mon 04 September 2023: Talks in Sochi between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan have finished after three hours, according to a report by Russian state news agency TASS. Earlier, Kremlin spokesperson Dimitry Peskov said that no documents are expected to be signed at the end of the talks. At the start […]

Mon 04 September 2023: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will try to persuade Putin to return to a Ukraine grain export deal that had helped ease a global food crisis when the two leaders meet in Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi. “The current status [of the grain deal] will be discussed at the summit […]

Sun 03 September 2023: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Sunday that he had chosen to remove Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov and would seek parliament this week to replace him with Rustem Umerov, the head of Ukraine’s biggest privatization fund. If Umerov’s appointment is approved by parliament, he will be Ukraine’s first Muslim and Crimean […]

Sun 03 September 2023: UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has ruled out a quick-fix trade deal with India, making it impossible to get an agreement over the line in time for this week’s G20 summit in Delhi – and possibly even by next year’s elections, the media reported. Multiple sources close to the negotiations have […]

Sun 03 September 2023: A new poll suggested nearly half of Canadians are living paycheque to paycheque as the cost of living crisis continues to squeeze household budgets, and young people are more likely to say their finances are in poor shape. It also suggests the Conservatives, who are hammering home a message about affordability, […]

Sun 03 September 2023: Following intense opposition from Swedish legislators, the Nobel Foundation reversed its decision to invite Russia’s envoy to Sweden to the Nobel Prize ceremony. The Nobel Prize foundation stated in a statement released on Saturday in Stockholm, “We … choose to repeat last year’s exception to regular practice – that is, to […]

Sun 03 September 2023: Some 280,000 people have signed up so far this year for professional service with Russia’s military, the deputy chair of the Russian Security Council, former President Dmitry Medvedev, said on Sunday. Visiting Russia’s Far East, Medvedev said he was meeting local officials to work on efforts to beef up the armed […]

Sat 02 September 2023: Russia risks splitting its troops as it seeks to prevent a Ukrainian breakthrough in Ukraine’s south, the UK Ministry of Defence says. In its latest intelligence update, the ministry said Ukrainian forces continued to take offensive action on the Orikhiv axis in southern Ukraine, with units reaching the first Russian main defensive line. “Russian forces, […]