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North Korea’s elite Ponghak Beer enters Chinese market seeking foreign currency

North Korea’s Ponghak Beer, the beer of choice among North Korea’s elite, has appeared in the Chinese market. Alongside Taedonggang Beer, which was already widely...

Trump megadonor’s firm gets first Venezuelan oil deal – FT

Commodity trader Vitol will begin selling crude seized by the US following the attack on the South American country earlier this month ...

Putin talks to Iranian president

The Russian leader has phoned Masoud Pezeshkian amid mass protests in the Islamic Republic ...

Poland to produce landmines, abandoning treaty

Warsaw is gearing up production of anti-personnel mines for potential deployment along its border with Russia, a defense ministry official has said ...

Would Russia negotiate with Stubb? Don’t count on it

The Finnish president would face a frosty reception in Moscow ...

Why does Zelensky keep switching defense ministers?

All of the Ukrainian leader’s defense chiefs are linked by the same common thread: corruption ...

Prof. Schlevogt’s Compass No. 38: Dethroning the green god – Venezuela and Petrodollar conspiracies

Why reserve-currency politics are an overrated lens for understanding US intervention – the Trumroe world is cruder ...

Why are EU leaders suddenly being nice to Russia?

The German chancellor, French president and Italian prime minister appear to have seen reason in making up with Moscow. But is it genuine? ...

France warns US over Greenland

The seizure of the Arctic island would endanger Washington’s trade with the bloc, the French finance minister has said ...

Xi lauds ‘turnaround’ with key US neighbor

Canada has sought a rapprochement with Beijing amid tensions between Ottawa and Washington ...

Trump envoy outlines demands on Iran

Tehran must drastically cut its missile and nuclear programs to reach a diplomatic agreement with the US, Steve Witkoff has said ...

Germans should work more – Merz

The chancellor, who has increasingly been channeling public funds into the country’s militarization, has criticized his compatriots’ labor ethic ...

Kremlin welcomes European U-turn on talks with Russia

Moscow has noted a “positive evolution” in statements from Berlin, Paris, and Rome, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said ...

India weighs future of investment in Iranian port amid US sanctions

New Delhi has said it is in dialogue with Washington amid reports it could exit the Chabahar port project ...

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