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There is no “sensible explanation” for the EU eschewing Russian gas supplies, the president has said Russia sees absolutely no sense in the EU’s current policy of forgoing Russian energy supplies, particularly gas, President Vladimir Putin told the Russian Energy Week forum on Wednesday. He added that “the modern political system in [the West] obviously…

Beijing would gain a strategic beachhead under a draft security agreement with the Solomon Islands, the New York Times reports China has reportedly negotiated a secret security pact with the Solomon Islands, setting off alarm bells in the US and Australia because of the potential for Beijing gaining a South Pacific beachhead from which it…