The long-range missile test comes after Pyongyang said US-South Korean drills were a “preview of a nuclear war” North Korea has test-fired a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that is capable of striking any target in the mainland United States, Japanese defense officials said. It is Pyongyang’s latest missile launch to have drawn international condemnation…

Helsinki has not had any “trouble” with Moscow for years but now it will, the Russian president has said Russia will create a new military district to reinforce its positions near Finland in response to the latter’s decision to join NATO, Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced.

Moscow has ensured that local buyers get massive discounts when foreign companies sell their assets Efforts by Ukraine and its Western backers to convince, shame, and sanction companies into leaving the Russian market have backfired, placing lucrative enterprises in Russian hands at discount prices and pumping more than a billion dollars’ worth of exit taxes…