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Moscow, Russia | Xinhua | The African peace initiative for the Ukraine crisis echoes the provisions of the peace plan presented by China, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday night. The Ukraine crisis was provoked by some forces in the West, who “for many years were preparing for a hybrid …

Cairo, Egypt | Xinhua | Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said Friday that solutions to ongoing global conflicts should be based on the purposes of the UN Charter and the principles of international law. Sisi made the remarks while addressing the second Russia-Africa summit in Russia’s St. Petersburg, the Egyptian Presidency said …

Washington, USA | Xinhua | Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday faced new charges in the classified documents case, reported U.S. media. Special counsel Jack Smith brought additional charges against Trump on Thursday, including obstruction and willful retention of national defense information. The obstruction charges center on attempts to delete …

Petersburg, Russia | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni Thursday evening held bilateral talks with his host President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the Russia-Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum. President Museveni outlined areas of cooperation that included Oil exploration, nuclear power energy, fertilisers, electric batteries, and Space science that …

New York, US | Xinhua |  The U.S. dollar fell on Wednesday, after the Federal Reserve delivered a widely-expected interest rate hike. The dollar index, which measures the greenback against six major peers, fell 0.49 percent to 100.9027 in late trading. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decided to raise …

New York, US | Xinhua | Global growth is projected to fall from an estimated 3.5 percent in 2022 to 3.0 percent in 2023 and 2024, and China’s growth will stay unchanged at 5.2 percent for 2023 and 4.5 percent for 2024, said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday. …

COMMENT | Kaushik Basu | Ukraine’s failure to secure an invitation to join NATO during the alliance’s annual summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, has disappointed many, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. But although the summit’s concluding statement did not offer a definitive timetable for Ukrainian accession, it did demonstrate a degree …

Moscow Russia | Xinhua | Europeans are seeing that providing ceaseless support to Ukraine does not serve their own interests, but only benefits the United States, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday. “We are seeing that public opinion in Europe is changing. Both Europeans and … European elites see that …

Wellington, Nw Zealand | Xinhua |  New Zealand’s top sports official on Friday praised the country’s national women’s football team’s opening match at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup as “historic” and “inspirational”. New Zealand opened the tournament on Thursday with their first ever World Cup win, dispatching former champions …

New York, US | Xinhua | The Joe Biden administration’s controversial decision to supply Ukraine with cluster munitions is a telling illustration of liberalism’s limitations as a guide to the U.S. foreign policy, reported Foreign Policy on Wednesday. “The administration’s rhetoric extols the superiority of democracies over autocracies, highlights its …