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Ukraine searches Russian vessel over fuel delivery to Crimea
Ukrainian prosecutors said they searched a Russian vessel in the Black Sea port of Kherson on Saturday as part of an investigation into a suspected illegal delivery of Russian fuel to annexed Crimea …read more Source: Al...
Thousands defy crackdown to rally in Moscow
Tens of thousands of Russians staged yesterday what a monitoring group called the country’s biggest political protest for eight years, defying a crackdown to demand free elections to Moscow’s city legislature.Police rounded up scores of people after the demonstration in Moscow and at another rally in Saint Petersburg, and detained a...
Serena powers past No 1-bound Osaka, Halep retires hurt
Serena Williams won the rematch on Friday, dominating Naomi Osaka 6-3, 6-4 to ensure the Japanese star won’t leave Toronto with a title to go with her number one world ranking.Williams fired 12 aces and didn’t face a break point as she beat Osaka for the first time in three games— avenging her shock loss in last year’s...
Serena storms into third round in Toronto
Serena Williams made a solid start to her first US Open tune-up with a 6-3 6-3 victory over Elise Mertens on Wednesday while Naomi Osaka took a step closer to regaining her world No 1 ranking by reaching the last 16 of the Rogers Cup.Three-times champion Williams, playing her first match since falling to Simona Halep in the Wimbledon final,...
Ukrainian president says asked Putin to curb separatists
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday said he had asked his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to put pressure on separatist fighters in the east, after four Ukrainian soldiers were killed in a grenade attack. “I called him urgently. I told him that this brings us no closer to peace,” Zelensky said during a briefing,...
Four soldiers killed in eastern Ukraine grenade attack
Four Ukrainian soldiers were killed in a grenade attack in the war-torn east of the country on Tuesday, Kiev said, the highest daily casualty toll over the past two weeks. The troops died in a rocket-propelled grenade attack near the village of Pavlopil close to the Kiev-controlled port city of Mariupol, said Oleksandr Danylyuk, secretary of the...
Russia warns British media after RT fined for coverage of poisoned spy
* UK fines state-financed Russian TV channel * RT says fine is wrong and disproportionate * Russia warns British media of consequences Russia on Friday warned British media operating on its territory that they should be ready for consequences after Britain’s media regulator fined the state-financed RT television channel over its coverage of...
Russia warns of ‘consequences’ after Ukraine seizes tanker
Ukraine on Thursday seized a Russian tanker it said was used in a naval confrontation last November amid sensitive prisoner swap talks between the two countries, at loggerheads since 2014. Kiev’s SBU security service said it stopped the tanker, the Neyma, as it entered the port of Izmail in the southern Odessa region. Investigators seized...
Rebalancing of power within the global financial system
In today’s world, access to global networks is a critical source of power, but the resulting interdependence can also generate vulnerability. The power flows from centrality: being a hub that connects all (or most) other nodes. The threat of denying access to such hubs can be a powerful sanction against bad actors. But if that power is...
Ukraine president on course for unprecedented majority after election win
Ukraine’s new president, former comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy, appeared likely on Monday to become his country’s first leader since the fall of communism whose party has a parliamentary majority. Under Ukraine’s mixed election system, Zelenskiy’s Servant of the People party won by a landslide in both party list voting and...
