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Georgia has no plans to restore diplomatic relations with Russia due to Moscow’s ongoing presence in Georgia’s breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the South Caucasus country’s prime minister said Sunday. “We have no diplomatic relations with the Russian Federation. We are just pursuing a pragmatic policy towards Russia,” Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said at a […]
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Russia shot down 51 Ukrainian drones from above several regions, including near the border, Moscow’s defense ministry said on Sunday. Eighteen were intercepted in the Tambov region, about 400 kilometers (250 miles) from the Ukrainian border, and 16 in the area of the border town Belgorod, the ministry said in a statement on Telegram. The […]
Russian missile strikes killed four people including a child in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro last night, while a teenager and another person died in attacks on Kyiv and the surrounding region, officials said Saturday. The strikes came less than 48 hours after Russia finished hosting a three-day summit of the BRICS group of emerging […]
Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures as he arrives to speak during a Turning Point Action ‘United for Change’ campaign rally in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 24, 2024. (AFP) WASHINGTON – Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and an avid supporter of Donald Trump, was plunged into new controversy on […]
Authorities in Russia designated the anti-war Telegram news channel Astra as a “foreign agent” on Friday. Russia’s Justice Ministry accused Astra of spreading “inaccurate information” about government policy in order to promote a “negative image” of the Russian military. “[Astra] opposed the special military operation in Ukraine… The creator and editor-in-chief of the internet portal reside outside […]
U.S. billionaire Elon Musk held secret talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin throughout the war in Ukraine as his initial support for Kyiv appeared to shift in Moscow’s favor, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, citing several anonymous current and ex-U.S., European and Russian officials. The private conversations reportedly addressed personal topics, business and geopolitical […]
He achieved global fame as an athlete and twice crowned world’s strongest man, but today neighbours in his Lincolnshire village paid tribute to the Geoff Capes they knew – ‘a fantastic character with a huge heart’. The ex-Olympian shot-putter passed away in the picture postcard village of Stoke Rochford near Grantham, aged 75. Shocked neighbours […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday his relationship with the United States after the presidential elections would depend on what attitude Washington adopts, as he welcomed comments by Donald Trump on his desire to end the Ukraine conflict as “sincere.” But the Kremlin leader struck a hardline tone, warning the West it was an “illusion” […]
British diplomats in Moscow were hit by a Federal Security Service-staged stunt as the UK’s deputy ambassador Tom Dodd was targeted by a throng of “journalists” at a city airport. The Russian Foreign Ministry alleged the senior diplomat “snatched the badge” of one journalist and “pushed a girl with a microphone who was asking him […]