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Russia has decided to quit the International Space Station “after 2024”

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The newly-appointed chief of Moscow’s space agency told President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday. The announcement comes as tensions rage between the Kremlin and the West over Moscow’s military intervention in Ukraine and several rounds of unprecedented sanctions against Russia. Russia and the United States have worked side by side on the ISS, which has been in orbit since 1998. “Of …

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EU members with the exception of Hungary agree on a plan to cut gas consumption

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15 percent and reduce their dependence on Russian supplies, a day after Russian energy giant Gazprom announced plans to further limit flows to Europe. Gazprom says it will cut daily gas deliveries through the Nord Stream pipeline to 33 million cubic metres a day, about 20 percent of its capacity, continuing the progressive constriction of …

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said this week that Moscow is expanding its military aims in Ukraine beyond the eastern Donbas region

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The Russian military has been experiencing difficulties on the ground, prompting many to wonder whether it is realistic for the Kremlin to expand the scope of its Ukraine operations. President Vladimir Putin’s stated goal for the February 24 Russian invasion of Ukraine was the “demilitarisation and de-Nazification of Ukraine”, a prevarication that many took to mean a wholesale Russian takeover, including …

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A Russian air strike killed seven people, four of them children, in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib region on Friday

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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it confirmed the deaths “including four children who are siblings, two men and an unidentified person… as a result of Russian air strikes,” in the Jisr al-Shughur countryside. The children are all under 10 years old, said Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the British-based Observatory. Six of the …

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Russia on Thursday restored critical gas supplies to Europe through Germany

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Europe through Germany via the Nord Stream pipeline after 10 days of maintenance, but uncertainty lingered over whether the Kremlin would still trigger an energy crisis on the continent this winter. Germany, which is heavily dependent on Russian gas, had feared that Moscow would not reopen the pipeline after the scheduled work and accused Moscow …

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Tuesday thanked Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for mediating talks

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 The export of grain from Ukraine, saying there was some progress. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Putin that Tehran and Moscow need to stay vigilant against “Western deception”, calling for long-term cooperation between them, state TV reported on Tuesday. Russian leader Vladimir Putin Tuesday praised his talks with the presidents of Iran and Turkey, speaking …

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Joe Biden arrived in Saudi Arabia for a two-day visit on Friday

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As the war in Ukraine and the Middle East’s vexed geopolitics have prompted the US president to reverse course after having vowed to make the Wahhabist monarchy a “pariah” because of the 2018 killing of exiled journalist Jamal Khashoggi. A crucial meeting began with a fist bump as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) welcomed Biden at a …

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For more than three months Oleksandra Osadcha, who fled Ukraine with her two children at dawn on February 24

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Drove from one country to another trying to find a place that “feels like home”. Russia invaded Ukraine that day, and the 26-year-old social media and marketing manager immediately made a decision to leave, threw things into her car and set off for the Polish border. But, after two weeks in Poland and a month …

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A deal to restore the pact limiting Iran’s nuclear program is not imminent

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Price told journalists he could not discuss the specifics of the final remaining issues in the 11 month-old negotiations over restoring the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which aims at preventing Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons. “We are not in the practice of negotiating in public,” Price said, amid reports that a deal …

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