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Vladimir Putin will meet Xi Jinping in China this week in a bid to deepen a partnership forged between the United States' two biggest strategic competitors. Putin will attend the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on Oct.

Vladimir Putin. In March 2023, the International Criminal Court had issued an arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin accusing him of the war crime of illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine. Russia has repeatedly denied its forces have engaged in war crimes, or forcibly taken Ukrainian children.

Norway will become the third country to donate F-16 fighter jets to Kyiv to bolster its Soviet-era air force, three Norwegian media reported Thursday, without citing any sources. Neither the number of planes nor the delivery date were announced, as Ukraine pursues a grinding counteroffensive against Russian forces in the east. Contacted by AFP, a spokeswoman for Norway's defence minister could «neither confirm nor deny» the media reports. The reports came as Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store made a surprise visit to Kyiv on Thursday, which was also Ukraine's Independence Day. During his visit, Norway announced it would supply Kyiv with Iris-T anti-air missiles, demining equipment, and a 1.5 billion kroner ($141 million) aid package for the purchase of gas and electricity this winter. But there has been no official announcement concerning F-16s.

15th annual summit of the BRICS—a group comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa—takes place in Johannesburg. For the first time one of the bloc’s leaders will be absent. As host, South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, felt he had a responsibility to welcome his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.

China maintained that it took the necessary action to deter Philippine ships which were trespassing and carrying illegal building materials, news agency Reuters reported on Sunday. The report mentions that the incident took place close to the Second Thomas Shoal, which is referred to as Ayungin Shoal by Manila. The area is a submerged reef where a small number of its troops reside on an old US ship from World War Two that was deliberately grounded in 1999.

Netherlands coast have safely returned home while the mortal remains of one sailor who was killed in the incident are being repatriated, Indian authorities have said. An Indian crew member was killed and 20 others were injured in the fire that broke out on July 25 on board the Panama-registered ship Fremantle Highway, which was en route from Germany to Egypt. Several crew members were forced to jump overboard.

Indus Water Treaty between the two nations. India and Pakistan signed the treaty in 1960 after nine years of negotiations.  At a weekly media briefing, Foreign Office (FO) spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch was asked about options for Pakistan if India refused to accept the Court of Arbitration and its verdict on the Kishanganga and Ratle reservoirs issue, according to PTI reports.  “The Indus Waters Treaty was a gold standard of bilateral treaties on water and served both Pakistan and India well," she responded.  It is pertinent to note that the treaty sets out a mechanism for cooperation and information exchange between the two countries regarding the use of waters of a number of rivers.  In 2015, Pakistan requested the appointment of a neutral expert to examine its technical objections to India’s Kishenganga and Ratle Hydro Electric Projects (HEPs).

NEW DELHI : India has the mechanisms to tweak bilateral investment treaties for quick resolution of disputes with “strategically important countries", an official aware of the development said, outlining what would mark a significant moderation of New Delhi’s long-held suspicion of such treaties as weighted against it. The official’s remarks come as India parallelly negotiates bilateral investment treaties (BIT)—along with free trade agreements—with the UK and EU, which seek better investment protection and faster resolution of disputes.

BBC, Wikimedia Foundation and US-based digital library Internet Archive through the Union Ministry of Law and Justice after noting that they were foreign entities and thus subject to rules formulated under the Hague Convention. Additional District Judge (ADJ) Ruchika Singla was hearing a criminal complaint filed by BJP leader Vinay Kumar Singh seeking to restrain them from publishing or broadcasting a documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots or any other material defamatory to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP).

Vietnam has banned Warner Bros’ highly-anticipated film “Barbie” from domestic distribution over a scene featuring a map that shows China’s unilaterally claimed territory in the South China Sea, state media reported on Monday.

Vietnam has banned Warner Bros’s Barbie film from domestic distribution over a scene featuring a map that shows China’s unilaterally claimed territory in the South China Sea, reported Bloomberg Monday citing reports in VnExpress. The movie contains an ‘illegal image’ of disputed ‘nine-dash line’ used on Chinese maps to illustrate its claims over vast areas of the South China Sea, which Vietnam considers its continental shelf, the report says citing Vi Kien Thanh, head of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism’s cinema department.

Warner Bros' film, due to a scene that allegedly features a map depicting Chinese territorial claims in the South China Sea that are contested, according to reports. Vietnam is among the countries to have contested China's claim to almost all of the South China Sea, as per reports.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte apologised on Monday on behalf of his government for the Netherlands’ historical role in slavery and the slave trade.

Dutch activists have brought the country’s king to court in an attempt to prove that his role in the legal system contravenes Europe’s human rights conventions.

Silvio Berlusconi should send any vodka he received as a gift back to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the head of the Polish European People's Party delegation warned on Wednesday.

Dutch crown princess Amalia has been forced to move out of her student accommodation because of security threats. 

At least eight people have been killed and four more wounded by alleged Russian shelling in Ukraine on Thursday, according to a Ukrainian regional governor. 

The International Criminal Court (ICC) and 45 countries have pledged stronger cooperation on prosecuting war crimes perpetrated by Russia in Ukraine.

Russian missiles struck a city in central Ukraine on Thursday, killing at least 20 people and wounding about 90 more, Ukrainian authorities said, in what the country's president has called “an open act of terrorism” on the country’s civilian population in areas with no military value.

The Dutch secret service revealed details of an operation they carried out to stop a Russian spy from getting inside the International Criminal Court in The Hague — where alleged war crimes in Ukraine are being investigated. 

Germany has filed a case against Italy at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over war reparations related to World War II, the Hague-based UN court said.