TikTok and Netflix are suspending their services in the country. Facebook has been blocked. Twitter has been partially blocked and YouTube’s future is in doubt. Even as President Vladimir Putin tightened his grip on Russian society over the past 22 years, small pockets of independent information and political expression remained […]
Andrew Shearer, director general of the Office of National Intelligence, said China’s President Xi Jinping appears to be planning to dominate the Indo-Pacific region and use it as a base to overtake the United States as the world’s leading power. A “troubling new strategic convergence” between Beijing and Moscow has […]
Oil has surged on worries global supplies will be disrupted because Russia is one of the world’s largest energy producers. Stocks yo-yoed, oil prices climbed and the price of nickel surged so much that trading for it was shut on Tuesday, as the US banned imports of oil from Russia […]
MUMBAI: India’s National Stock Exchange (NSE) said on Monday two key indexes were now operating normally after they earlier stopped updating “intermittently” – a glitch that came amid sharp drops in Indian shares. The country’s biggest bourse had flagged problems with the blue-chip NSE Nifty 50 index and Nifty’s bank […]
BEIJING/SHANGHAI : China’s foreign exchange regulator surveyed banks last week, asking about their business ties with Russia and risk management processes in a bid to gauge spillover effects on China from the West’s tough sanctions against Moscow, seven banking and policy sources told Reuters. The State Administration of Foreign Exchange […]
BRUSSELS: The European Union has asked the UN nuclear watchdog to safeguard Ukraine’s nuclear plants, two of which are now under Russian control, and mobilise international help in case of an emergency, according to a letter seen by Reuters. Russian forces have seized Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s biggest, […]
BRUSSELS: The European Union has asked the UN nuclear watchdog to safeguard Ukraine’s nuclear plants, two of which are now under Russian control, and mobilise international help in case of an emergency, according to a letter seen by Reuters. Russian forces have seized Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’ biggest, […]
SEOUL: The chief of South Korea’s ruling party was admitted to hospital on Monday after being hit on the head by a stranger while campaigning for this week’s presidential election, in which early voting has been marred by some lapses. A tight race between Lee Jae-myung of the ruling Democratic […]
WASHINGTON: Russia is recruiting Syrian fighters experienced in urban combat as it ramps up its assault on Ukraine, according to US officials quoted by the Wall Street Journal on Sunday. Moscow, which launched an invasion into its Eastern European neighbour on February 24, has in recent days recruited fighters from […]
ANKARA, TURKEY – MAY 11: In this illustration photo logo of TikTok is displayed on a smartphone and a pc screen in Ankara, Turkey on May 11, 2021. “In light of Russia’s new ‘fake news’ law, we have no choice but to suspend livestreaming and new content to our […]