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Russian court extends detention of Russian-U.S. journalist Kurmasheva

KAZAN, Russia (Reuters) - A Russian court on Friday extended until Aug.5 the pre-trial detention of journalist Alsu Kurmasheva who hold Russian and United States citizenships, a Reuters correspondent

Former Iran parliament speaker signs up for presidential vote after Raisi death

DUBAI (Reuters) - Former Iranian parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani, a prominent conservative, was among candidates registering on Friday for an early election next month following the death of

Exclusive-China says it won’t join Swiss peace conference on Ukraine

By Laurie Chen and Liz Lee BEIJING (Reuters) -China will not attend a Ukraine peace conference in Switzerland next month because it does not meet its expectations, which include both Russia and

Far right AfD cracks Germany’s post-Nazi firewalls with success in the east

By Sarah Marsh and Andreas Rinke SONNEBERG, Germany (Reuters) - In a recent discussion by the east German district council of Sonneberg about getting refugees into work, Roland Schliewe of the

Ukraine’s Zelenskiy arrives in Sweden to sign bilateral security agreements

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday he had arrived in Sweden with plans to sign three bilateral security agreements. The Ukrainian president is in Stockholm to

NATO getting closer to war every week, Hungary’s Orban says

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - NATO's plans to get more involved in the war in Ukraine are like a firefighter trying to put out a fire with a flamethrower, Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday.

Ukraine missiles hit oil terminal at port Kavkaz in Russia’s Krasnodar region, military says

KYIV (Reuters) - Missiles fired by the Ukrainian navy struck an oil terminal at the Russian port of Kavkaz in the Krasnodar region on Friday, the Ukrainian military said via the Telegram messaging app

In South Africa’s coal belt ANC heartland, voters defect en masse

By Tim Cocks BOTLENG, South Africa (Reuters) - With South Africa's ruling party on track to get about 42% of the vote in the national election, the anger in its heartland coal-mining belt gives a hint

Exclusive-Ukraine’s Zelenskiy expected to attend Singapore security summit, sources say

By Xinghui Kok, Fanny Potkin and Idrees Ali SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is expected to attend the Shangri-La Dialogue security conference in Singapore this weekend,

Russia’s Medvedev says Moscow’s nuclear threats over Ukraine are no bluff

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Senior Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday that Russia was not bluffing when it spoke of the possibility of using tactical nuclear weapons against Ukraine and

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Gaza, Ukraine being fought on techno-battlefields. Indian military is 3 decades behind

My assessment is that the Indian armed forces are adopting emerging technologies for incremental change and not transformation—which is the need of the hour.

Even as SEBI lays down new curbs on F&O market, discount brokerages are changing business models

SEBI Tuesday unveiled rules to curtail retail participation in derivatives market. Options premia to be collected upfront from options buyer effective 1 Feb 2025.

‘No drone bombs or infiltration’, Army Chief says ‘battle of narratives’ must be controlled in Manipur

Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi says the Manipur conflict was triggered by a rumour and that the situation may be ‘stable today, but it is tense’.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?