Waning Western support, heavy losses and lack of battlefield gains have apparently hugely dented the hopes of Kiev and its backers Ukraine is heading towards 2024 with mounting battlefield casualties, a lack of tangible military progress, the now-official failure of its counteroffensive efforts, its ever-widening conscription drive, as well as a shrinking flow of financial…

95% of the country’s transactions with India and China were conducted in local currencies last year National currencies were used in 95% of Russia’s trade with China and India last year, the secretary general of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Tatiana Monaghan, revealed on Monday.

In a phone call with his Iranian counterpart, the French leader expressed his ‘disappointment’ over the stalled nuclear talks French President Emmanuel Macron held a lengthy phone conversation with Iran’s Ebrahim Raisi on Saturday, focusing on efforts to revive a crucial nuclear agreement with Tehran. The call lasted nearly two hours and followed a meeting…