Growing ties. Chinese Premier Li Qiang met with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk on Thursday, a day after holding talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. According to Belarusian state media, Li and Lukashenko signed a free trade agreement for services and investment. Belarus hopes to increase its services exports to China by […]
Kazakh priorities. Kazakhstan will not “blindly follow” Western sanctions against Russia if they hurt Kazakh companies that are the main employers in their sectors,...
U.S. support for Kazakhstan. The U.S. is considering ways to help Kazakh businesses affected by Western sanctions against Russia find alternative markets, U.S. Ambassador...
Careful calibration. Hezbollah wants to strike back at Israel within days and may move forward without Iran, which apparently has not decided on its...
Last year, approximately 30 percent of the world’s population experienced moderate to severe food insecurity. This means some 2.3 billion people “compromised on the...
Russian support. Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu arrived in Iran on Monday for an official visit. He met with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian,...
Russian downturn. The Russian economy could soon see a significant slowdown. According to the Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper, which cited data from Russia’s ACRA rating...
Emergency preparations. Poland is preparing a mass evacuation plan as part of its new civil protection and defense law, according to Interior Minister Tomasz...
Smoothing the waters. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba met on Wednesday with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou....
Committed to Europe. Serbia on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding with the European Union on development of sustainable raw materials, batteries and electric...
European migration. The European Commission will propose changes to the bloc’s visa regime this month, according to a report by Euractiv. The outlet, citing...
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