Major processing plants are reportedly squeezing out smaller players for supplies from the sanctioned country China’s largest state-owned and private refineries are buying more Russian crude, driving up its price, and forcing smaller independent producers, known as ‘teapots’, to search for cheaper options, Reuters reported this week.

Systematically cutting off Berlin’s international partnerships and access to cheap energy may prove to be the country’s downfall By Timur Fomenko, a political analyst German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock described her recent visit to China as “more than shocking,” arguing that while Germany should not “decouple” from Beijing, it should no longer be Berlin’s most important…

Leaked documents suggest a British agent who was sent to Pakistan was psychologically unsuited to the task The British security services sent a UK national to infiltrate a jihadist camp on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border despite concerns about his mental wellbeing, The Times reported on Saturday, citing leaked government documents. On his return to the UK,…