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Live news: 7 soldiers dead after vehicle falls in Shyok river in Ladakh

Live news updates: Ukrainian President Zelenskiy said Ukraine was not eager to talk to Russia's Vladimir Putin but that it has to face the reality that this will likely be necessary to end the war

Security Council split spells end of an era for US-led sanctions on N Korea

The two countries on Thursday vetoed a US-led push to impose more UN sanctions on North Korea over its renewed ballistic missile launches

Countries attempting to isolate Russia only hurting themselves: Putin

Vladimir Putin said that the countries, which are attempting to isolate Russia, are primarily only harming their economies

'Stop playing' with Russia, end war: Ukrainian Prez Zelenskyy tells West

"Ukraine will always be an independent state and it won't be broken," President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said

China, Russia veto new UN sanctions on N Korea over recent missile launches

The vote in the 15-member SC was 13-2 and marked a first serious division among the five veto-wielding permanent members of the U.N.'s most powerful body on a N Korea sanctions resolution

Russian central bank slashes key rate to 11%, sees room to cut further

It announced the move at an extraordinary meeting after cutting the key rate to 14 per cent in April

Shell may sell Russian LNG plant stake to Indian consortium: Report

Shell seeks to sell 27.5% stake in Sakhalin-2 plant; Shell in talks with group of several Indian firms, say sources

'Thank God,' says Putin on exit of some foreign companies from Russia

Putin has cast the invasion of Ukraine as a turning point in Russian history: a revolt by Moscow against the United States, which he says has humiliated Russia since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union

WEF 2022: The reasons to worry just keep piling up for Davos executives

World economic forum (WEF) 2022: The risk of a global recession -- a repeated topic at meetings -- was just one reason for wanting a ceasefire as the Russia-Ukraine war enters its fourth month

Russia poised to cut interest rates to stem ruble rally that's gone too far

An unscheduled policy meeting for Thursday has spurred expectations for a big reduction, and the possibility that capital restrictions may be loosened further

Russian FM Zakharova hints at strengthening defence amid Japan hostility

Zakharova criticised Tokyo for clinging to these already traditional training events, distorting their goals and content, and wrongly linking them with Russia's special military operation in Ukraine

US Treasury pushes Russia towards default. What lies next?: An explainer

Russia has around $40 billion of international bonds outstanding, with just under $2 billion in external debt servicing left until year-end

Mirage or oasis?

India could drink sustainably from the spring-wells of development

Putin hikes Russian pensions, plays down Ukraine impact on economy

With annual inflation near 18% last month, the Kremlin leader acknowledged that 2022 would be a 'difficult' year for the Russian economy

Davos: Zelenskyy says Ukraine won't give up land to end war with Russia

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday said his country will not give up its land to end Russia's war.

Russia aims for stranglehold of Ukrainian troops around twin eastern cities

Russia is attempting to seize the separatist-claimed Donbas' two provinces, Donetsk and Luhansk, and trap Ukrainian forces in a pocket on the main eastern front

Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny loses appeal against nine-year jail term

As soon as the Moscow court's sentence came into force, Navalny has been transferred to a strict regime penal colony with harsher conditions, including fewer family visits for another 8 years

US says will close Russia's last avenue to pay back international investors

The US said it will close the last avenue for Russia to pay its debt back to international investors, making a Russian default on its debts for the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution

Russia to continue military operation in Ukraine until 'all goals met'

Russia will continue its "special military operation" in Ukraine despite the sanctions and increased Western assistance to Kyiv, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said

Russian and Chinese jets patrol East Asia skies, capping Biden's trip

Japan scrambled jets after Russian and Chinese warplanes neared its airspace while Tokyo was hosting leaders of the Quad group of countries, which includes the US, said Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi