Zakia Wardak, the Afghan consul-general for Mumbai, is accused of trying to bring 25 bricks of gold into India from Dubai.
Since President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine, attacks and harassment of Russians – prominent or not – have been blamed on Moscow’s intelligence operatives across Europe and elsewhere.
Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines says joint exercises show ‘China definitely wants Russia to be working with them and we see no reason why [Russia] wouldn’t’.
During an interview with the Economist, Macron said “I’m not ruling anything out”, when asked if he stood by comments earlier this year about the potential to send Western troops to Ukraine.
Moscow exhibit features a US-made M1 Abrams battle tank that was taken out by a ‘guided rocket and kamikaze drones’.
House Armed Services Committee hears Washington’s concerns that Moscow plans to arm a satellite with an ‘indiscriminate’ device.
20 companies based in mainland China and Hong Kong were among hundreds of entities hit by the wide-ranging move.
Moscow’s forces are accused of using the choking agent chloropicrin against enemy troops.
Russia, in recent weeks, has unveiled a strange-looking – albeit apparently effective – innovation that has been referred to by some Ukraine war observers as the ‘turtle tank’.
In 2021, there were 691 foreign tourists. In 2022, that figure rose to 2,300. Last year, there were 7,000. The numbers aren’t huge – but there’s a buzz around Afghan tourism.
‘Serious delays in support have meant serious consequences on the battlefield’ for Ukraine, said Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Kyiv on Monday.
Russian troops ‘will likely make significant tactical gains in the coming weeks’ while Kyiv awaits badly needed weaponry from the US, a Washington-based think tank said.
Konstantin Gabov and Sergey Karelin have denied the charges for which they will be detained for a minimum of two months.
While the assessment didn’t dispute Putin’s culpability for the death, it found that the timing possibly wasn’t as intended by Putin, the WSJ report said.
Court documents allege that suspect Dylan Earl was connected to the proscribed terrorist group the Wagner Group, the domestic Press Association news agency reported.
Ukraine sidelines US-provided Abrams M1A1 battle tanks for now, in part because Russian drone warfare has made it too difficult for them to operate without detection or coming under attack, US officials said.
Trip would be the long-time leader’s first abroad since his re-election, amid Western claims that China is propping up Russia’s war effort in Ukraine.
Sanctions have made it harder to access Western cultural products such as films and music, so younger Russians are turning to countries like South Korea and Japan for entertainment.
Moscow vetoed a resolution to prevent an orbital arms race, prompting the US to ask if Russia was hiding something.
The weapons, with double the striking distance, were used for the first time to bomb a Russian airfield in Crimea and Russian forces in another occupied area.
Reports suggest US has discussed sanctions on some Chinese banks over their trade with Russia, but analysts say moves to remove China from the Swift interbank financial system could create a ‘huge problem’ for global trade.