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Ukraine fears repeat of Mariupol horrors by Russia elsewhere in Donbas

Moscow-backed separatists pounded eastern Ukraine's industrial Donbas region Friday, claiming the capture of a railway hub

It's India's time, again

The global order is up in the air and India is being wooed by all. It opens up possibilities unimaginable until recently on economic, strategic and military issues

Cash-strapped Sri Lanka takes Russia oil as fuel crisis persists

The sole refinery is set to receive crude today, enabling its restart after 2 months

Crude oil prices increase supported by the prospect of a tight market

EU nations are negotiating deal on Russian oil sanctions that would embargo shipment deliveries but delay sanctions on oil delivered by pipeline to win over Hungary and other landlocked member states

Actively support Russia's move to expand BRICS bloc, says China

"China will work on BRICS-related parties to continue to have in-depth discussions on BRICS expansion and determine the standards and procedures for that on the basis of consensus.

No disruption in Russian LNG supplies from Gazprom due to sanctions: GAIL

Earlier this month, Moscow slapped sanctions on owner of the Polish part of the Yamal pipeline that carries Russian gas to Europe, as well as the former German unit of the Russian gas producer Gazprom

GAIL says it's open to buying Russian oil-gas assets if offered good deal

GAIL is considering buying gas from challenging local fields to address surging local demand for natural gas, including striking long-term liquefied natural gas import deals with global companies

8 bn rubles of Indian oil companies stuck in Russia, says officials

All dividend income prior to Ukraine war was repatriated but the one that accrued after that is stuck, said Harish Madhav, Director (Finance), Oil India Ltd, which is one of the partners in the fields

We can't let Putin win this war: German Chancellor on Ukraine conflict

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday said Russian President Vladimir Putin cannot be allowed to win his war in Ukraine and sought to end any dependence on Russian fuels

Live news: 7 soldiers dead after vehicle falls in Shyok river in Ladakh

Live news updates: Ukrainian President Zelenskiy said Ukraine was not eager to talk to Russia's Vladimir Putin but that it has to face the reality that this will likely be necessary to end the war

Security Council split spells end of an era for US-led sanctions on N Korea

The two countries on Thursday vetoed a US-led push to impose more UN sanctions on North Korea over its renewed ballistic missile launches

Countries attempting to isolate Russia only hurting themselves: Putin

Vladimir Putin said that the countries, which are attempting to isolate Russia, are primarily only harming their economies

'Stop playing' with Russia, end war: Ukrainian Prez Zelenskyy tells West

"Ukraine will always be an independent state and it won't be broken," President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said

China, Russia veto new UN sanctions on N Korea over recent missile launches

The vote in the 15-member SC was 13-2 and marked a first serious division among the five veto-wielding permanent members of the U.N.'s most powerful body on a N Korea sanctions resolution

Russian central bank slashes key rate to 11%, sees room to cut further

It announced the move at an extraordinary meeting after cutting the key rate to 14 per cent in April

Shell may sell Russian LNG plant stake to Indian consortium: Report

Shell seeks to sell 27.5% stake in Sakhalin-2 plant; Shell in talks with group of several Indian firms, say sources

'Thank God,' says Putin on exit of some foreign companies from Russia

Putin has cast the invasion of Ukraine as a turning point in Russian history: a revolt by Moscow against the United States, which he says has humiliated Russia since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union

WEF 2022: The reasons to worry just keep piling up for Davos executives

World economic forum (WEF) 2022: The risk of a global recession -- a repeated topic at meetings -- was just one reason for wanting a ceasefire as the Russia-Ukraine war enters its fourth month

Russia poised to cut interest rates to stem ruble rally that's gone too far

An unscheduled policy meeting for Thursday has spurred expectations for a big reduction, and the possibility that capital restrictions may be loosened further

Russian FM Zakharova hints at strengthening defence amid Japan hostility

Zakharova criticised Tokyo for clinging to these already traditional training events, distorting their goals and content, and wrongly linking them with Russia's special military operation in Ukraine