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Russia alleged on Friday that Ukraine had used US-supplied rockets to kill women and children in a region of southern Russia, and said that Washington was to blame.

RIVNE, Ukraine—After Russia’s full-scale military invasion, Ukraine abruptly stopped buying nuclear fuel from Moscow, its top supplier in an industry that accounted for more than half of the country’s electricity generation. Now, a storied name in American industry is stepping in to keep reactors running, and offering other countries reliant on Soviet-designed power plants an alternative supplier. Westinghouse Electric, which for two decades struggled to challenge Russia’s dominant position in Ukraine, now makes fuel bundles that are compatible with all of the country’s reactors and is working on a plan that could allow Ukraine to start making some of that fuel itself.

Crypto mining regulation has taken center stage at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Government officials are also talking up the cross-border credentials of Russia’s CBDC.

World War 3? This pertinent question is looming large in the background with the US test-firing its hypersonic nuclear missile, which can hit any target in the Russian capital of Moscow in 30 minutes. US blasted off its unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California Tuesday, reports 'The Mirror US'. Pentagon has taken this step weeks after Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that if the existence of his country is at stake, he would be forced to use a nuclear bomb.

Moscow is edging closer to legalizing its fast-growing industrial crypto mining sector, following intensive lobbying from some of the biggest Bitcoin (BTC) miners in Russia.

Voters in the European Union are set to elect lawmakers starting Thursday for the bloc’s parliament, in a major democratic exercise that’s also likely to be overshadowed by online disinformation

Russia’s foreign minister has pledged more support to Burkina Faso in fighting militant groups as he presses his whirlwind tour of West Africa in an attempt to fill a vacuum left by the region’s traditional Western partners

SAINT-LÔ, France—On the evening of June 6, 1944, U.S. Air Force bombers appeared in the skies over this town in Normandy, targeting a command center of the occupying German army. The Americans had dropped leaflets warning civilians to evacuate, but the wind blew them astray.

Kharkiv, Ukraine This wasn’t the easiest time to visit Ukraine’s second-largest city. The local power grid and infrastructure were taking serious hits as missiles and glide bombs struck the city from nearby Russian territory. “Double tap" attacks, by which Russians strike a civilian target and wait for first responders to rush to the scene before launching a second strike, were becoming more common.

Dinara, a popular social media influencer from Moscow, has taken the internet by storm with her unconventional quest to find an Indian husband. During her visit to an Indian shopping mall, she posed with a male mannequin holding a sign that read, «Looking for an Indian husband (unmarried).» The sign also included a QR code linking directly to her Instagram profile, making it easy for interested individuals to connect with her.

instructors who train Ukrainian soldiers in the country would have no «immunity» from Russian strikes, the Kremlin said Tuesday, amid reports that France could despatch military trainers to Ukraine.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is pushing back against some NATO proposals that would allow Ukraine to use Western weapons to strike targets within Russia

Kremlin on Thursday accused NATO of "provoking" Kyiv into prolonging the conflict in Ukraine, whose officials have been appealing for permission from allies to target Russia with Western-supplied weapons. The comments came as NATO foreign ministers were convening in Prague in the face of growing calls for leading allies to lift restrictions stopping Kyiv from using Western weapons to strike inside Russia. «NATO member states, the United States, and capitals in Europe in recent days and weeks have been entering a new round of escalations in tensions and they are doing it deliberately,» Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

Russia’s wealthy elite could face higher income taxes

Volodymyr Zelenskyy received a second $1-billion promise of military aid in as many days on Tuesday during a whirlwind tour of three European Union countries, even as President Vladimir Putin warned that hitting Russian soil with Western-supplied weapons could set the war on a dangerous new path. The aid pledge for 2024 came from Belgium, which topped up the money with a commitment to give Ukraine 30 F-16 fighter jets in the next four years. «Our task is to use the first F-16 on the battlefield this year and in such way that it will fortify our positions,» Zelenskyy said.

Russia and Uzbekistan have signed an accord for Moscow to build a small nuclear power plant in the Central Asian country

RIA Novosti.The development came three years after the Taliban returned to power in war-torn Afghanistan.ALSO READ: Afghanistan floods: Fifty people lost their lives due to heavy rainsSince 2003, the Taliban group has been designated as a terrorist outfit in Russia.“Kazakhstan has recently taken the decision, which we are also going to take, to remove them from the list of terrorist organisations," RIA Novosti quoted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying on Monday.At the end of 2023, Kazakhstan had removed the Taliban from its list of banned organisations.Despite international sanctions on the Taliban, Russia has fostered its ties with the government run by the banned outfit in Afghanistan.Moscow had also held multiple rounds of talks and boosted trade with Kabul.But, Russia has not recognised Afghanistan’s Taliban government officially yet.The state news agency TASS, citing Zamir Kabulov - director of the Second Asia Department at the Russian foreign ministry, reported that Russia’s foreign and justice ministries have reported to President Putin on the issue of removing the ban on the Taliban.ALSO READ: The Taliban warn journalists and experts against cooperating with Afghanistan International TVThe latest move by Russia could further boost diplomacy between Moscow and Kabul.According to RIA Novosti, Lavrov said Russia's decision was about recognising the realities on the ground.“They are the real power. We are not indifferent to Afghanistan.

Zelenskyy warned Sunday that Russia is preparing to intensify its offensive along Ukraine's northern border, as the death toll rose to 14 in an aerial bomb attack on a large construction supplies store in the city of Kharkiv. The bombing of Kharkiv on Saturday afternoon also left 43 injured and 16 missing, Kharkiv Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said initially after the attack. In a video statement from Kharkiv, Zelenskyy said that Russia is preparing offensive actions 90 kilometers (55 miles) northwest of Ukraine's second largest city. He said that Russians «gather another group of troops near our border.»

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Russia from advancing further into the northeastern Kharkiv region and are now counter-attacking, but Moscow is intensifying its assault on other parts of the front, Ukraine's army said Friday. Kyiv has been battling a fresh Russian land assault in the Kharkiv region since May 10, when thousands of Moscow's troops stormed the border, making their biggest territorial advances in 18 months. President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the region's capital on Friday to discuss the battle for Vovchansk, a town that sits fewer than five kilometres (three miles) from the border.

South Korea on Friday imposed sanctions on seven North Korean individuals and two Russian vessels over weapons trade and other activities between Pyongyang and Moscow deemed in breach of U.N. Security Council resolutions, Seoul's foreign ministry said. The Russian vessels had been carrying a large quantity of containers between Russia and North Korea transporting military supplies in a clear violation of the United Nations Security Council resolutions, the ministry said in a statement. The United States and South Korea have accused North Korea of transferring weapons to Russia for use in its war in Ukraine. Both Moscow and Pyongyang have denied the accusations, but vowed last year to deepen military relations.