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Representatives from heavyweight financial and legal advisers Lazard and Clifford Chance arrived in Sri Lanka to kick off the restructuring of over $12 billion in debt, the island nation's prime minister said on Tuesday. The advisers…

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been transferred out of his prison colony to an unknown location, a top aide said on Tuesday. "Where Alexei is now, and which colony he is being taken to, we don't know," Leonid Volkov, Navalny's…

Authorities in China's capital warned on Tuesday that a COVID-19 surge in cases linked to a 24-hour bar was critical and the city of 22 million was in a "race against time" to get to grips with its most serious outbreak since the pandemic…

A further 70 people have been evacuated from Lysychansk and its surrounding settlements, Luhansk Governor Haidai has said. Haidai described the conditions in the region as “real hell” in a Telegram post. He explained that residents…

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could create “new vulnerabilities” in Europe to illegal drugs by triggering shifts in smuggling routes and potentially exposing more people to narcotics, the Lisbon-based European Union drugs agency has warned.…

Russia’s energy giant Gazprom has said it would be reducing the daily gas deliveries via the Nord Stream pipeline to Germany due to the “repair” of compressor units by German company Siemens. “Gas supplies via the Nord Stream gas…

The European Court of Human Rights, ECHR, ruled on Tuesday that Russia's legislation on "foreign agents" violated the rights of the groups designated as such and ordered Russia to pay many of them compensation. Russia uses the term…

UK will 'do whatever is necessary' to secure Britons release - Truss UK Seeks Release of Two Condemned Britons Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said the UK government will do "whatever is necessary" to secure the release of two Britons…

Spending money on new coal, oil and gas as a result of the war in Ukraine is "delusional", according to UN Secretary General António Guterres. Many countries want to increase their own 'fossil fuel' production in order to depend less on…

Pope Francis is reported as saying Russia's use of mercenaries in Ukraine, including Chechens and Syrians, is "monstrous" in an article in the Italian daily newspaper, La Stampa. The piece, which reports the Pope's conversation with…