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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, touching base with the Russian leader three days after returning from a visit to Ukraine.

ExxonMobil produced a report on Monday that anticipated oil demand reaching a “plateau” in 2030 and remaining fairly stable for the next 20 years – a prediction far out of line with political narratives of a “transition to green energy.”

Nigerian Shiite militants with close ties to the government of Iran allegedly killed at least two police officers in Abuja.

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield condemned the Houthis for creating an ecological disaster by attacking an oil tanker.

On the third anniversary of the Kabul airport bombing that killed 13 American service members and 170 Afghans during President Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, Vice President Kamala Harris put out a statement praising Biden’s “courageous” decision to withdraw and insisted he made no mistakes worth mentioning.

Federal prosecutors filed charges in New York on Monday against Yuanjun Tang, a Chinese dissident and veteran of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, for working as an illegal operative of the People’s Republic of China.

Russian officials have filed criminal charges against CNN reporter Nick Paton Walsh for reporting from a Russian town occupied by Ukraine.

The general narrative of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) this week was to erase Kamala Harris’s dismal record as vice president — indeed, to somehow pretend that former President Donald Trump has somehow been in office all this time and she is running as a plucky challenger brimming with hope and joy.

The Chinese government issued record-high mining quotas for rare earth minerals this week, reaching a new high of 270,000 tons that exceeds 2023’s total by 5.88 percent.

The Greek-flagged oil tanker MV Sounion was left adrift and burning in the Red Sea after attacks from the Houthi terrorists of Yemen.

During his visit to Chechnya, Russian President Vladimir Putin was filmed kissing a gold-leafed Quran at a major mosque.

Canada’s much-feared railroad stoppage has begun after a last-ditch round of talks between railroad companies and unions failed.

The Taliban announced that U.N. Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Afghanistan Richard Bennett has been banned from entering the country.

South Korean officials found toxic substances in women’s accessories that Chinese e-commerce giants Shein, AliExpress, and Temu sell.

Russian President Vladimir Putin paid his first visit to Chechnya in 13 years on Tuesday, meeting with erratic Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.

The administration of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is heeding left-wing demands to stay out of a dispute between railroad companies and unions.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday extending temporary residency to foreigners who share “traditional Russian spiritual and moral values” and would like to take a vacation from “the destructive neoliberal ideological agenda.”

The Korea Times on Tuesday reported some consternation in Seoul over the mysterious disappearance of “denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula” from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) platform.

The FBI, ODNI, and CISA stated that hackers linked to the Iranian government were responsible for attacking the Trump campaign.

China’s Ministry of Water Resources logged the most floods recorded in a single season since China began keeping records in 1998.

China’s National Bureau of Statistics on Friday released economic data that showed youth unemployment rose to 17.1 percent in July, an increase from 13.2 percent in June and the highest level recorded in 2024 so far.

The Chinese government has implemented tighter health screening for travelers from Africa, where a new outbreak of monkeypox or “mpox” was recently declared a global public health emergency by the World Health Organization (W.H.O.).

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Azerbaijan on Sunday for a two-day state visit, looking to bolster Russia’s relationship with the aggressive Islamist power even as relations with Armenia — Russia’s former best friend in the region — deteriorate.

Three weeks after freeing Wall Street Journal report Evan Gershkovich in a hostage swap for dangerous Russian criminals held in the United States and Europe, Moscow is threatening to arrest a group of Washington Post journalists who crossed the border with Ukrainian troops to file a story on their incursion into Kursk.

Oil prices slip as investors digest the latest downbeat economic news from China, with extended slumps in retail and real estate.

Two senior U.S. officials said on Thursday that Russia has diverted “several thousand troops” from Ukraine to defend against the Ukrainian incursion into Kursk.

Nigeria accused a Chinese company of using “unorthodox means” and “subterfuge” to seize Nigerian government property abroad.

Doctors in India are considering upgrading their protests to a national strike, shutting down all but essential medical services on Saturday.

The World Health Organization on Wednesday took the long-discussed step of declaring a global health emergency over the monkeypox or “mpox” outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which has begun spreading into neighboring African nations.

Chinese censors began deleting coverage of a gruesome story about corpses stolen to provide raw materials for bone grafts.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) found on Tuesday that three years after the Taliban takeover, 48 percent of Afghanistan’s population is living below the poverty line, 12.4 percent are suffering “food insecurity,” and 23.7 million rely on foreign aid.

The Taliban on Wednesday celebrated the three-year anniversary of the disastrous Biden-Harris withdrawal that gave them power in Afghanistan, more secure in power than ever despite constant complaints from the international community about their appalling human rights offenses.

Investigator Jerry Dunleavy resigned to protest the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s probe of the Biden-Harris disaster in Afghanistan.

Belgorod declared a state of emergency on Wednesday as Ukrainian forces pummeled the region with missile and drone strikes.

Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio announced on Wednesday he will step down in September rather than seek reelection.

Argentina’s housing supply has exploded, and rental prices have plummeted since President Javier Milei junked a socialist rent control law.