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Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov has accused the West of attempting to turn this country into “a second Afghanistan” amid Moscow’s ongoing military offensive in Ukraine. Speaking at the meeting with his Pakistani counterpart, Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, in China on Wednesday, Lavrov described the current situation in Ukraine as an attempt by…

Inflation and surging lending costs have dented private spending, an official report indicates Retail sales in Sweden plunged the most on record last month, as inflation and soaring borrowing costs continued to squeeze consumers’ spending power.