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June 01, 2023 02:56 PM IST Although WhatsApp's parent company Meta Platforms Inc was last year banned in Russia as an "extremist" organisation, the messenger app - which is widely popular in Russia - has not previously faced penalties for failing to remove prohibited information.
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June 01, 2023 12:38 PM IST The South Asian nation took 1.96 million barrels a day from Russia last month, 15% more than the previous high in April, according to data from Vortexa Ltd. Shipments from Saudi Arabia slipped to the lowest level since February 2021, figures from the shipping analytics company show.
- June 01, 2023 08:38 AM IST
Market appears to be stuck in a no-man’s land for now. Those sitting on paper profits are loathe to sell as the market is resisting efforts to drag it lower. At the same time, expensive valuations are holding back bulls from chasing prices
- May 31, 2023 11:32 AM IST
Ukrainian drones struck wealthy districts of Moscow, Russia said in what one politician called the most dangerous attack since World War Two. Meanwhile, Kyiv was also hit from the air for the third time in 24 hours.
- May 31, 2023 11:07 AM IST
Hvaldimir is moving swiftly away from the areas where beluga whales are commonly found, such as the Arctic Ocean and the frigid waters around Norway and Greenland.
- May 31, 2023 09:56 AM IST
Although the current environment for natural gas is bearish, all it would require is a light tailwind for the situation to change in the winter
- May 31, 2023 09:13 AM IST
The White House said it did not support attacks inside of Russia and that it was still gathering information on the incident, which Putin called an attempt to scare and provoke Moscow.
- May 30, 2023 01:13 PM IST
The attack came just weeks after the Kremlin was hit in a drone strike that Russia blamed on Ukraine.
- May 30, 2023 12:13 PM IST
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said two people were injured, one of whom was hospitalised, in the early morning attack. The residents of several parts of two apartment blocks had been evacuated but later returned.
- May 30, 2023 08:44 AM IST
Calling it a "massive" attack launched in several waves, Serhiy Popko, the head of Kyiv's military administration, said on the Telegram messaging app that Russia conducted the assault using Iranian-made Shahed drones only.
- May 30, 2023 06:21 AM IST
"A massive attack!" Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on the Telegram messaging app. "Do not leave shelters."
- May 29, 2023 02:54 PM IST
Reuters witnesses said residents headed for shelters in metro stations as the sky above Kyiv filled with blast clouds and smoke trails.
- May 29, 2023 02:38 PM IST
Indian state oil firms have invested USD 5.46 billion in buying stakes in four different assets in Russia. These include a 49.9 per cent stake in the Vankorneft oil and gas field and another 29.9 per cent in the TAAS-Yuryakh Neftegazodobycha fields.
- May 29, 2023 12:32 PM IST
Valery Zaluzhny, commander-in-chief of Ukraine's armed forces, said on social media that a total of "up to 40 missiles" and "around 35 drones" had been launched, of which 37 and 29 were downed.
- May 29, 2023 06:28 AM IST
Ukrainian military said it had downed 58 of the 59 launched drones, described by the air force as a record assault with the Iranian-made "kamikaze" drones. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said all 36 drones targeting Kyiv had been destroyed.
- May 27, 2023 09:28 PM IST
Even as Putin refers to the fighting as distant “tragic events,” the war keeps hitting home — with growing fissures in the military leadership, unease among the Russian elite and worrying signs for the economy
- May 27, 2023 06:39 PM IST
Relations between Russia and Germany, which used to be the biggest buyer of Russian oil and gas, have broken down since Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022
- May 26, 2023 10:00 AM IST
A better approach than crossing over into Russia might be simply to cut Crimea, which Putin annexed in 2014, from Russian supply lines. With luck, Putin would at that point decide that he’s had enough and grudgingly enter peace negotiations. But if Putin came under military pressure in Russia proper, he could go to any extreme
- May 26, 2023 06:50 AM IST
Japan will freeze assets of 78 groups and 17 individuals in Russia and ban exports to 80 Russian entities such as military-affiliated research labs, according to the bulletin.
- May 26, 2023 06:11 AM IST
It said former President Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Putin's powerful security council, had spoken during a visit to Vietnam. Medvedev often makes hard line comments and last month described Ukrainian authorities as an infection.
- May 25, 2023 03:15 PM IST
The deployment of the missiles was first announced by President Vladimir Putin in March.
- May 25, 2023 12:59 PM IST
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said it had been an "uneasy night" but commended the work of air defences.
- May 25, 2023 12:19 PM IST
"During the past night, six drones were shot down or blocked ... in different parts of Crimea," Sergei Aksyonov wrote on Telegram, adding "there were no victims or injured".
- May 24, 2023 05:01 PM IST
The Russian president wades back into US politics, declaring the Donald’s enemies his enemies too. Shouldn’t that make Republicans think?
- May 24, 2023 04:34 PM IST
Alexander Shiplyuk, head of Siberia's Khristianovich Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ITAM), is suspected of handing over classified material at a scientific conference in China in 2017, the sources said.
