Washington’s efforts to preserve its hegemony risk starting a new global war, Vyacheslav Volodin has warned Russia’s State Duma chairman has compared the US government to a company executive, who has run a business into the ground and now wants to try again with a new corporation.

Nearly 100,000 tons reportedly remain blocked at ports in Latvia, Estonia, and Belgium Western countries have still not released Russian fertilizer cargoes intended as humanitarian aid for poor African nations, the Foreign Ministry in Moscow said on Sunday.

The country’s economy will take a major hit in the fourth quarter of the year, according to its central bank Israel’s central bank revised down its economic growth forecast on Monday amid risks arising from the escalation of the Gaza conflict.