The bloc’s 13th package of economic restrictions on Moscow will reportedly impact companies from third countries for the first time Beijing rejects “illegal sanctions” and will defend the interests of its companies, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has said following a report that the EU could blacklist some of the country’s firms for allegedly helping Russia…

Militants targeted synagogues, churches and the police in the Russian region of Dagestan  The southern Russian region of Dagestan was rocked on Sunday by a series of deadly attacks in two major cities, which claimed the lives of multiple civilians and at least 15 police officers, as assailants deliberately targeted synagogues and Orthodox Christian churches.

The MI5 chose to turn a blind eye of some of the crimes during the Troubles, a state-appointed investigator says British security forces had knowingly failed to prevent several murders of UK citizens in order to protect an informant in an armed resistance group active in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a high-profile report published on…