President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has blamed the unrest on “terrorists” who received foreign training and support. The mass protests in Kazakhstan began peacefully over the New Year’s weekend, with marchers denouncing a sharp rise in fuel prices. They spread quickly from the western part of the Central Asian nation to more […]
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BREST (France): The European Union and China are planning to hold a summit in late March, the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Friday amid concerns over a Chinese blockade of Lithuania’s exports. “An EU-China summit is planned, at first glance for the end of March. It will give […]
MOSCOW: Russia has dismantled ransomware crime group REvil at the request of the United States in an operation in which it detained and charged the group’s members, the FSB domestic intelligence service said yesterday. The arrests were a rare apparent demonstration of US-Russian collaboration at a time of high tensions […]
KYIV: Ukraine was hit by a massive cyberattack warning its citizens to “be afraid and expect the worst”, and Russia, which has massed more than 100,000 troops on its neighbour’s frontier, released TV pictures today of more forces deploying in a drill. The developments came after no breakthrough was reached […]
SEOUL: North Korea fired at least two ballistic missiles today, its third test in less than two weeks, just hours after criticising a US push for new sanctions over the previous launches as a “provocation” and warning of a strong reaction. Two weeks of missile launches by North Korea, retaliatory […]
A US voting company has filed a $1.6bn (£1.1bn) defamation lawsuit against Fox News over a claim that the firm had rigged the 2020 presidential election. Dominion Voting Systems has argued that in an effort to boost its ratings, Fox News falsely claimed that the company had rigged last year’s […]
The proposed laws would seek to remove hurdles to voting which were enacted in the name of election security. US president Joe Biden has all but conceded defeat for this year on the Democrats’ elections and voting rights legislation. Mr Biden declared he will not give up, but he is […]
LONDON: British police will not investigate gatherings held in Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s residence during a coronavirus lockdown unless an internal government inquiry finds evidence of potential criminal offences, the Metropolitan Police said. Johnson’s leadership is in the balance as he faces calls to resign from some in his party […]
ANKARA: President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday told ambassadors from the European Union that the bloc had not provided meaningful support in battling migration and that it had not reciprocated Turkey’s efforts to improve relations. Ties between Ankara and the bloc reached a boiling point in 2019 due to a dispute […]
LONDON: A woman suspected of working on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party has been attempting to improperly influence members of parliament, the speaker of the House of Commons said in a letter to lawmakers today. Speaker Lindsay Hoyle said Britain’s MI5 domestic intelligence service had found that the woman […]