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'Russia's Google' Yandex to relocate amid mounting impact of sanctions

Yandex is aiming to move its new technologies outside Russia and sell established businesses, including internet browsers, food delivery apps, and tax-hailing apps

Zelenskyy accuses Russia of 'crimes against humanity' in UN speech

In his address to the UNSC, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of committing "crimes against humanity" after a new barrage of missile strikes caused widespread power outages

G20: Lessons from Bali summit and what it implies for India's presidency

India takes on the presidency at a crucial juncture, and the definitions of "success" for the Indian presidency just got updated

US defence secretary Lloyd Austin blames Putin's war for Poland explosion

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Saturday the deadly missile explosion in Poland this week is a consequence of Russian President Vladimir Putin's war of choice against Ukraine, and said international stability and prosperity are at stake in the conflict. Austin made the remarks at the annual Halifax International Security Forum which attracts defense and security officials from Western democracies. The tragic and troubling explosion in Poland this week reminded the whole world of the recklessness of Putin's war of choice, Austin said. On Tuesday, two workers were killed when a projectile hit the grain-drying facility close to Poland's border with Ukraine. While the source of the missile is under investigation, NATO officials have said they suspect it was fired from a Ukrainian missile battery. Officials from Poland, NATO and the United States have blamed Russia for the deaths in any case, saying a Ukrainian missile would not have misfired had the country not been forced to

US lauds PM Modi for adding 'today's era isn't of war' in G20 declaration

Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra said, "PM Modi's message that "era not of war" resonated very deeply across all delegations and helped bridge the gap across different parties."

Six months that make a leader

As time goes on, most elected leaders run out of ideas. It seems to hold as true for the world as for India

'Era not of war': G20 declaration uses Modi's words in call for diplomacy

Summit leaders deplore deplored Russia's war in Ukraine 'in the strongest terms'

G20 summit: Eight things to watch for as global leaders meet in Bali

This G20 gathering comes against the backdrop of Russia's war in Ukraine, plus increasingly confrontation between the US and China, and tensions over oil supply between the US and Saudi Arabia.

Russia claims all troops withdrawn from Ukraine's southern Kherson region

The Russian Defence Ministry said on Friday that it finished pulling out its troops from the western bank of the Dnieper River in Ukraine's southern Kherson region, a retreat that marks another humiliating setback for Moscow in its war in Ukraine. In a statement carried by Russia's state news agencies, the ministry said the withdrawal was completed at 5 am on Friday, and not a single unit of military equipment was left behind. Areas the Russian military departed from included the city of Kherson, the only regional capital Moscow seized during its 8 1/2 month invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin remained defiant on Friday, insisting the retreat in no way represented an embarrassment for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Moscow continues to view the Kherson region as part of Russia. He added that the Kremlin doesn't regret holding festivities just over a month ago to celebrate the illegal annexation of Kherson and three other Ukrainian

How India and Russia are benefitting from Western sanctions against Moscow

There is a view here that sanctions war unleashed by the West against Russia in the wake of the Ukraine conflict has, notwithstanding the risks, opened new opportunities for collaborations

Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend G-20 summit: Official

Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the Group of 20 summit in Indonesia next week, avoiding a possible confrontation with the United States and its allies over his war in Ukraine, an Indonesian government official said Thursday. US President Joe Biden, Chinese President Xi Jinping and other world leaders are to attend the two-day summit in Bali that starts on November 15. The summit was to be the first time that Biden and Putin would have been together at a gathering since Russia invaded Ukraine in February. Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, the Chief of Support for G-20 events told reporters in Denpasar, Indonesia, that Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will lead the Russian delegation. The Indonesian government respects the decision of the Russian government, which President Putin himself previously explained to President Joko Widodo in a very friendly telephone conversation, said Pandjaitan, who is also the Coordinating Minister of Maritime and Investment. Biden had r

US, Russia set to talk on resuming nuclear arms control inspections

The United States and Russia will soon hold talks on resuming suspended nuclear arms control inspections that had been put on hold during the COVID-19 pandemic and languished after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the State Department said Tuesday. State Department spokesman Ned Price said negotiations on the inspections would take place in the near future under the terms of the New START treaty and would not include any discussion of the conflict in Ukraine. He would not give a date or a venue for the talks but other officials suggested they would be held before the end of the year, likely in Egypt. The meeting of the treaty's so-called Bilateral Consultative Commission will be the first in more than a year, and is intended to show that the two countries remain committed to arms control and keeping lines of communication open despite other differences. We believe deeply around the world in the transformative power and the importance of diplomacy and dialogue, Price told reporters in

US quietly asks banks to keep some ties with Russia, even as Congress balks

"We are following the instructions of the American government as they asked us to do it," Dimon responded before Sherman cut him off

Putin signs law to mobilise Russians with criminal records for military

Vladimir Putin signed a law to mobilize citizens with criminal records of murder, robbery, drug trafficking, and other serious crimes under Criminal Code of Russian Federation for military service

Only dialogue and diplomacy can end Russia-Ukraine war: Global statesmen

Only dialogue and diplomacy can end the devastating war in Ukraine, with total victory on the battlefield impossible for either warring party, members of a group of prominent former world leaders founded by Nelson Mandela said Friday. The group, known as The Elders, delivered that message to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, telling him on a visit to Kyiv this summer that he must start considering a way out of the conflict, said group chairwoman Mary Robinson, former Irish president. We need to encourage more thinking about how it will end in order to get the idea that this needs to end, as opposed to increasing the military arsenal on both sides and the devastation to the population in Ukraine, said Robinson, who also served as UN high commissioner for human rights. The Elders have condemned Russia's Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine as a flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter and a reckless, unjustifiable act of aggression that threatens to destabilise world peace and .

G20 host Indonesia waiting to see if Russia's Putin will attend summit

Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi told Reuters in an interview that Putin's attendance at the meeting might only become clear at the last minute

Grain yield hits new record this year, says Russian PM Mikhail Mishustin

'There were notable increases in the yield of potatoes, greenhouse vegetables, fruits, soybeans and rapeseed compared to the same period last year'

Russia rejoins deal on wartime Ukrainian grain exports to global markets

Russia agreed Wednesday to rejoin a wartime agreement that allows Ukrainian grain and other commodities to be shipped to world markets. The UN's refugee chief, meanwhile, put the number of Ukrainians driven from their homes since the Russian invasion eight months ago at around 14 million. It is the fastest, largest displacement witnessed in decades, said Filippo Grandi, who heads the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In announcing that Russia would rejoin the grain pact, President Vladimir Putin said Moscow had received assurances that Ukraine would not use the humanitarian corridors to attack Russian forces. He warned that Russia reserves the right to withdraw again if Kyiv breaks its word. Putin praised Turkey's mediation efforts to get the deal back on track, as well as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's neutrality in the conflict as a whole and his efforts at ensuring the interest of the poorest countries. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he also

Russia blinks, says will resume participation in Ukraine grain deal

Moscow calls vote on unfounded Ukraine bio weapons claims

Why India may have to rework Russian oil purchase if a price cap is imposed

India will have to follow a delicate balancing act if the West imposes a pricing limit on supplies from Moscow