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A Cold War has started over coronavirus vaccine with allegations of Russian cyberattacks

Vaccine nationalism is already a concern as countries jockey to secure doses of future shots, desperate for a way out of a global crisis that’s slammed their economies.

UK accuses Russia of trying to steal Covid vaccine research

Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre said vaccine & therapeutic sectors have been targeted by APT29, which it said is ‘almost certainly’ part of Russian state intelligence.

Putin cemented his future, but Russia faces key hurdles ahead — from economy to foreign policy

Putin can now stay in power for another two terms — until 2036. At that point, aged 83, he will have been in power a decade longer than Josef Stalin.

Russia’s Sechenov University successfully completes clinical trials of Covid-19 vaccine

According to Sechenov University's Alexander Lukashev, the objective of the trial was to show the vaccine's safety for human health, which was successfully done.

The wild decade: the 1990s laid the foundations for Vladimir Putin’s Russia

By the late 1990s, nationalism was both a threat and an opportunity in Russia. And Putin’s new constitutional changes fits in right with that anxiety.

UK confronts China and Russia as it seeks to assert itself on world stage after Brexit

The escalation of tensions comes after it emerged Britain is preparing to phase Huawei out of plans for fifth-generation telecommunications networks.

How India lined up US, Russia on its side of LAC and China was forced to return friendless

China is disengaging from the LAC, and also taking back the message that India has far more friends in the world today. The last 24 hours have truly been PM Modi’s.

Kim Jong-un says virus did not touch N Korea, 4 July could worsen it in US & other Covid news

As the Covid-19 pandemic shows no signs of letting up, ThePrint highlights the most important stories on the crisis from across the globe.

Trump dismisses reports on Russian bounties to kill US soldiers in Afghanistan as ‘hoax’

It was Trump’s first public remarks since US media reported that interrogations of captured extremists revealed Russia paid bounties to kill US & UK troops.

Russia to deliver S-400 by 2021-end, but will supply missiles and bombs amid LAC tensions

The S-400 is capable of destroying incoming hostile aircraft, missiles and even drones within a range of up to 400 km. It has a tracking capability of nearly 600 km.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.