Pyongyang, April 25 (IANS) Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of Russia’s lower house of parliament, visited North Korea to attend the opening ceremony of a memorial museum honouring soldiers killed while fighting for Russia in its war with Ukraine, a Russian report said Saturday.Volodin, chairman of the State Duma, “has arrived in the DPRK on a working visit” to “take part in the opening ceremony of a memorial complex and museum … honouring the courage of Korean servicemen who took part in the liber…
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New York, April 25 (IANS) Iran and the US appeared to be readying for communicating again, if at arm’s length and with secondary-level interlocutors, as a team from Tehran arrived in Pakistan and a US group was set to head there on Saturday. After the second round of talks that was to have taken place this week or over last weekend didn’t take off because Iran refused to join, there has been some delicate manoeuvres by Tehran to reopen contacts.As the stalemate continues, Tehran has closed the S…
Washington, April 23 (IANS) US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended a temporary sanctions waiver affecting Russian oil, saying it helped prevent a sharper spike in global prices, even as Democrats warned it could boost Moscow’s war finances and keep fuel costs high.Testifying before a Senate panel, Bessent said the move was aimed at stabilising supply during a volatile period.“Treasury was able to create the more than 250 million barrels on the water,” he said.He added that without th…
Seoul, April 22 (IANS) North Korea’s public security minister and Russia’s interior minister have held talks on boosting exchanges and cooperation on law enforcement, the North’s state media said Wednesday, amid deepening bilateral ties between the two nations.Russian Internal Affairs Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev and North Korea’s Public Security Minister Pang Tu-sop shared their countries’ experiences and accomplishments on law enforcement during their talks in Pyongyang the previous day, the …
Washington, April 17 (IANS) China’s rapid military expansion and technological advances dominated a US Congressional hearing, with top intelligence officials warning that Beijing is accelerating capabilities across all domains to challenge American power. Lawmakers were told that China remains the foremost strategic concern, with its military modernisation unfolding at an “alarming pace”.Lieutenant General James Adams III, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), said the C…
Moscow, April 13 (IANS) Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov on Monday admitted that the US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is likely to impact international markets negatively. “Most likely, such actions will continue to negatively impact international markets; this can be assumed with a high degree of certainty,” the Kremlin spokesman was quoted as saying by Russia’s leading Tass news agency during a regular media briefing in Moscow.Responding to another question, he asserted that …
Jaipur, April 13 (IANS) In a notable engagement linking diplomacy with civilisational heritage, Haji Syed Salman Chishty, cleric of Ajmer Sharif Dargah and Chairman of the Chishty Foundation, met Ambassador Neelam Rani, Consul General of India in St. Petersburg.The interaction focused on strengthening India-Russia ties through art, culture, spiritual traditions, and people-to-people engagement, Dargah officials said on Monday.The meeting took place during Chishty’s official visit to Russia, wh…
Moscow, April 10 (IANS) Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a ceasefire for Orthodox Easter, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressing Kyiv’s willingness to abide it. According to the Kremlin, the ceasefire will remain in effect from 4 pm (Moscow time) on April 11 and until the end of April 12, leading Russian news agency Tass reported.The statement reads, “By decision of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, a ceasef…
London, April 10 (IANS) The Russian Embassy in Britain dismissed a claim by British Defence Secretary John Healey of Russian submarine activity in the North Atlantic as neither credible nor verifiable.Earlier Thursday, Healey said Britain and Norway had led a month-long operation to track Russian submarines near key undersea cables and pipelines in the North Atlantic, Xinhua news agency reported.The Russian embassy said in a statement that it was “impossible to either believe or verify” Healey’s…
Moscow, April 1 (IANS) Six crew members and 23 passengers were killed when a Russian An‑26 military transport plane crashed in Crimea, the Russian Ministry of Defence confirmed early Wednesday.The aircraft collided with a cliff, a source at the scene told TASS news agency.The Russian defense ministry said late Tuesday that the An-26 had lost contact during a scheduled flight over the Crimean Peninsula, Xinhua news agency reported.According to preliminary information, the crash was caused by a …