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Syeda Mubeena Hashmi Posted in World

US Envoys Arrive in Moscow for Key War Talks

US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Moscow on Saturday to discuss Washington’s plan to end the Russia-Ukraine war. The pair, representing President Donald Trump, are expected to travel to Kyiv after talks in Moscow. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of seeking to undermine diplomacy through overnight strikes on Kyiv’s airports and a civilian target in Dnipro that killed five people. He said Ukraine remained committed to diplomatic efforts. Read More…

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Syeda Mubeena Hashmi Posted in World

Russia to Respond to Germany’s Cultural Centre Move

Russia will close Goethe-Institut branches in Moscow, St Petersburg and Yekaterinburg following Germany’s decision to shut the Russian House of Science and Culture in Berlin, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday. Speaking in Vladivostok, Lavrov also denied Russian involvement in a drone incident at Leipzig Airport earlier in August. He said Berlin acted on the assumption that the drone resembled those used by Russia, calling the decision an end to Germany’s cultural presence in Russia. Read More…

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Alina Hashmi Posted in World

Iran’s president thanks Putin for Russia’s backing in war with US

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for Moscow’s stance during the US-Israel war on his country. “We appreciate and thank you for your positions at every stage, both during the period when the fighting and acts of aggression were taking place and under normal circumstances when the United States was imposing sanctions on us, both at the United Nations and in international forums,” Pezeshkian said at a meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Kyrgyzstan. Read More…

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Hafsa Mustafa Posted in World

Moscow hopes US-Iran pact will be formalised soon: Lavrov

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has expressed hope that a reported agreement between the United States and Iran would be formalised in the coming days, while also commenting on prospects for ending the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East. Speaking at a news conference in Minsk, Belarus, Lavrov said Moscow hoped that understandings announced by Washington, Tehran, and Islamabad regarding the Iranian crisis would soon be translated into a signed agreement. Read More…

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Hafsa Mustafa Posted in World

Moscow will do 'everything' to help secure Mideast peace, Putin assures Araghchi

Russian President Vladimir Putin has told Iran's top diplomat that Moscow would do everything it could to help secure peace in the Middle East, during a meeting in St. Petersburg. "For our part, we will do everything that serves your interests, the interests of all the people of the region, so that peace can be achieved as soon as possible," Russian state media quoted Putin as telling Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Monday. Putin also hailed "how courageously and heroically the people of Iran are fighting for their independence… Read More…

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Hafsa Mustafa Posted in World

Nearly all Russian personnel left Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant

Russia has withdrawn almost all its staff from Iran's sole nuclear power plant, built and operated with help from Moscow, the head of Russia's atomic energy agency said Monday. "We began the final rotation at the Bushehr station," Alexei Likhachev said, adding that 108 people were evacuated while just 20 - top managers and those responsible for equipment safety - remained at the station. Russia began evacuating its staff from the plant due to the threat of air strikes amid the US-Israeli war on Iran. Read More…

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Hafsa Mustafa Posted in World

Russia drone strike on market in Ukraine kills five, wounds 19

A Russian drone has hit a covered market in the eastern Ukrainian city of Nikopol, killing five people and wounding 19, officials have said, as Moscow pressed on with intensified daytime attacks. The market, in Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk region, was hit at 09:50 AM (0650 GMT) on Saturday, the local prosecutor's office said. Regional governor, Oleksandr Ganja, said in a Telegram post that three women and two men were killed. Read More…

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Alina Hashmi Posted in World

Russia tells European nations to provide proof of Navalny poisoning

Russia is demanding that European countries ⁠that accused ⁠Moscow of poisoning Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny with a dart frog toxin ⁠provide concrete data to support their allegation. The United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands said on Saturday that analyses of samples from Navalny’s body had confirmed the presence ‌of epibatidine, a toxin found in poison dart frogs in South America and not found naturally in Russia. They said Moscow had the “means, motive and opportunity” to administer the poison to him. Read More…

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Alina Hashmi Posted in World

Russia, Ukraine set for Geneva peace talks as military strikes continue

The United States-mediated talks between officials from Russia and Ukraine in Geneva have ended, with Moscow describing them as “difficult, but business-like” and Kyiv calling them substantive and saying there was progress. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announces sanctions against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko over “his assistance in the killing of Read More…

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