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Sergei Guneyev/POOL/AFP via Getty Images (HONG KONG) — While one war continues to rage in Ukraine and another is threatening to boil over in the Middle East, Chinese President Xi Jinping held court in Beijing for visiting dignitaries, presenting his vision of “an open, inclusive and interconnected world” through his signature global infrastructure project, the […]

Vladimir Nikolayev/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — Russian President Vladimir Putin offered his first comments Thursday on the mysterious plane crash that presumably killed Wagner Group head Yevgeny Prigozhin and the private military company’s co-founder Dmitry Utkin along with eight others near Kuzhenkino, Russia, on Wednesday. The comments were made hours after the bodies of […]

NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images (MOSCOW) — A Moscow court has sentenced one of Russia’s most high-profile Kremlin critics, Vladimir Kara-Murza, to 25 years in prison on charges of treason for criticizing the war in Ukraine — in what was widely viewed as a show trial. The unprecedented sentence is the lengthiest ever given to […]