IMF raises global growth forecast despite China’s recovery ‘losing steam’
An employee works on the assembly line of LED lighting products in China. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday raised its growth…
Russian Attack Threatens Even Alternative Routes for Ukrainian Grain
For shipping companies looking for a way to bring Ukrainian grain to global markets, the options keep dwindling, escalating a trade crisis that is expected to add pressure on global…
Russian convict recounts horrors of trench warfare in rare testimony
CNN — One fighter was shot twice, sent from the hospital back to the front, where he drank melted snow to live. Forced to assault Ukrainian positions repeatedly, until a…
Watch: George Alagiah’s extraordinary career
George Alagiah, one of the BBC’s longest-serving and most respected journalists, has died at 67, nine years after being diagnosed with cancer. Alagiah won awards for reports on the famine…
Igor Girkin: Russian blogger who called Putin a ‘lowlife’ arrested
CNN — A prominent Russian pro-war blogger who has criticized President Vladimir Putin and his military’s mishaps in Ukraine was arrested on Friday, in a move that suggested the Kremlin’s…
Boris Johnson nominee joins Lords as youngest peer
A former adviser to Boris Johnson has joined the House of Lords as its youngest member. Charlotte Owen, 30, who sits as Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge, was nominated in…
Russia Strikes Danube Port, Escalating Attacks on Ukraine Grain Routes
Russia for the first time on Monday attacked a port on the Danube River in Ukraine, close to the Romanian border, Ukrainian and Romanian officials said, destroying a grain hangar…
July 21, 2023 – Russia-Ukraine news
A Ukrainian artilleryman fires a 152 mm towed gun-howitzer D-20 towards Russian positions on the front line near Bakhmut, Ukraine, on July 20. Genya Savilov/AFP/Getty Images Russian President Vladimir Putin…
Alagiah: Winning trust in the worst moments
One of the BBC’s longest-serving and most respected journalists, George Alagiah, has died at the age of 67. Allan Little worked closely with Alagiah, and takes a look at his…
Dove owner Unilever says it will permit conscription of Russia staff
Russian army new conscripts attend a ceremony outside the Trinity Cathedral before their departure for garrisons in Saint Petersburg on May 23, 2023. Olga Maltseva | Afp | Getty Images…