Moscow says the Dutch court’s ruling was based on partisan evidence while its arguments were discarded The decision taken on Thursday by a Dutch court on the MH17 plane crash was absolutely political, the Russian Foreign Ministry has insisted in a statement. Earlier in the day, judges found three people guilty of downing the Malaysian passenger…

The region shouldn’t become an “arena for a big power contest,” the Chinese president says Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Thursday that the Asia-Pacific area was “no one’s backyard,” urging for greater regional cooperation on development and security. Xi’s statement was made in written remarks to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Thailand and…

Serbia will receive an additional 2 million cubic meters of gas per day from Russia starting December 1, Dusan Bajatovic, the head of state energy provider Srbijagas, told RIA Novosti on Thursday.