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Russia to expand Islamic banking rollout

Demand for Sharia-compliant financial products is growing, according to Russia’s largest lender, Sber. ...

Israel and Lebanon extend truce amid airstrikes, Hezbollah attacks

The fragile ceasefire reached on April 16 has been extended for another 45 days ...

Trump backs ‘status quo’ on Taiwan – US envoy to United Nations

Mike Waltz said Washington maintains its policy of “strategic ambiguity” regarding tensions with China...

Boeing ordered to pay $49.5 million to family of 737 MAX crash victim

A jury awarded compensation over the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines disaster linked to a software...

Oil diplomacy: How Russia shields India’s Red Sea deliveries

New Delhi’s strategic shipments passing through the volatile region have remained untargeted largely because of Moscow’s influence ...

Trump rival targeted in ‘swatting’ incident – Reuters

Police received a report last month that a man had killed his partner in the home of a US Republican presidential candidate ...

Negotiators close to Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal – NYT

A US-brokered agreement could halt the fighting in Gaza for two months, officials told the paper ...

Top Wall Street banker issues dire warning on US economy

Jamie Dimon calls for the snowballing US debt burden to be addressed before it turns into crisis ...

Foreign tourism in Russia projected to soar

A new e-visa scheme has already sharply boosted arrivals from abroad ...

Mayor calls on men to impregnate their wives

The head of the city of Nevinnomyssk, southern Russia, has called for a more than tenfold increase in the birth rate ...

Uganda disowns ICJ judge over vote in Israel genocide trial

Justice Sebutinde argued that the case against Israel was political not legal, and that ‘genocidal intent’ was unproven ...

EU state steps closer to banning Russians from buying property

Finnish Defense Minister Antti Hakkanen has formed a working group tasked with preparing the legislation ...

Big brands poke fun at EU country’s corruption scandal

Ads by IKEA and other furniture retailers in Portugal allude to the money police found stashed in envelopes at a former official’s office ...

NATO won’t defend US – Trump

The former president doesn’t believe that the allies will honor their commitments ...

Israel poised to invade Lebanon – media

Hezbollah has reportedly received intelligence that the IDF is ready for a war on two fronts ...

The US creates crises around the world, then wants China to solve them

Washington likes to make others sort out its messes, but Beijing won’t play this game – and is thus branded a disruptive force ...

Germans expected to make their own bomb shelters – Bild

The national draft emergency defense plan reportedly sees ordinary citizens ...

Western states halt funding of UN Palestinian refugee agency

Israel has accused UNRWA workers of helping Hamas kill civilians ...

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