November 21, 2024
International

Russia is prepared to talk about an exchange with the US when Griner is jailed

MOSCOW: The US and Russia agreed to privately negotiate a prisoner swap on Friday, one day after a Russian court handed US basketball star Brittney Griner a nine-year prison term for a drug offence. After Russia moved soldiers into Ukraine on February 24, Griner’s case, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and Women’s National Basketball Association […]

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According to data, Russia moved up to third place among coal suppliers to India in July

According to figures from the Indian consultancy Coalmint, Russia overtook China as India’s third-largest coal supplier in July as imports increased by more than a fifth from June to a record 2.06 million tonnes. Behind Indonesia, South Africa, Australia, and the United States—with Mozambique and Colombia alternately appearing in the top five—Russia has historically been […]

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Dozens of deaths in the destruction of the Donetsk prison are attributed to Russia and Ukraine

ODESA, Ukraine/KYIV: A jail structure looked to have been demolished by a missile strike or explosion, killing dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war, and Moscow and Kyiv each claimed blame for the incident on Friday.In their first phone conversation since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of its neighbour on February 24, the senior officials of […]

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