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The Chinese and Russian leaders speak by phone and agree on the need for mutual support on security issues Chinese President Xi Jinping told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in a phone call Wednesday that Beijing will keep backing Moscow on issues of “sovereignty and security”.

An arbitration court in Russia has ruled that assets of German company Linde be confiscated over its refusal to honor contract obligations to build a gas processing plant in the country in 2022. The German firm received an advance payment from a Russian company in 2021 but, after the EU launched its sanctions campaign against Russia…