Category: 4. World

Editor’s note: This item has been updated with Russian Economy Minister Maxim Reshetnikov’s statement.

Russia’s economy slowed sharply from April-June of 2025 and has entered a phase of “technical stagnation,” German Gref, the head of Russia’s…

NEW DELHI: In an unusual exchange caught on live microphones, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about biotechnology, organ transplants, and the possibility of living for 150 years as they walked together to…

The Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, still reeling from deadly Israeli strikes last week, launched a missile at Israel on Thursday and accused UN staffers of spying for the Jewish state.

Defense Minister Israel Katz responded to the missile…

Guyanese President Irfaan Ali has claimed a second five-year term in office, even as official final results from Monday’s general election are yet to be published.

Ali’s People’s Progressive Party (PPP) secured at least 242,000 votes in the poll,…

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to China, to attend the SCO leaders’ summit in Tianjin, was by any measure a milestone.

Modi’s first visit to China in seven years represented a long-awaited breakthrough in…

India has cut taxes on hundreds of goods to boost consumption and mitigate the potential impact of steep US tariffs.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Wednesday that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) panel had simplified the consumption…

US President Donald Trump’s administration said Wednesday it was “very troubled” by the divestment by Norway’s $2 trillion wealth fund from US construction equipment group Caterpillar, adding that Washington is directly engaging…