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Iran Urges Asian Partners To Drop The Dollar From Bilateral Trade

Members of the Asian Clearing Union (ACU) – a nine-strong group of central banks including those of India, Pakistan and Iran – are to launch a new cross-border financial messaging system in the coming weeks, as an alternative to the main…
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Russia And Iran Plan To Challenge The Suez Canal With New Trade Corridor

While the battle rages on in Sudan between the military and a paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the big question for oil market observers is whether the fighting will negatively impact land-locked South Sudan’s oil…
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NATO reaches back to Cold War past with first major defense plans

NATO will step back to the future at its Vilnius summit in July, with leaders set to approve thousands of pages of secret military plans that will detail for the first time since the Cold War how the alliance would respond to a Russian attack. The…
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Russia imports US and Western aircraft parts despite sanctions, NYT says

Despite the sanctions imposed on the Russian aviation industry, aircraft parts manufactured by the American company Boeing and the French company Airbus are still imported by Russian companies, according to the New York Times. Since…
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UK and US, kingpins of private military industry, mull designating Wagner

Britain is set to designate Russia’s private security company Wagner Group as a “terrorist organization”, according to a report in The Times of London, in line with similar plans being debated in the US and the European Union. A…
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Russia proposes regional grouping to deal with Taliban

Russia has proposed forming a regional security group with India, China, Iran and Pakistan to influence Afghanistan‘s Taliban administration to usher in an effective governance model and bring stability to the…
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US trying to meddle in Afghanistan’s affairs: Lavrov

Washington is trying to interfere in Afghanistan again and there is solid evidence to confirm this, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)…
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Chomsky: Russia Behaves Moderately in Ukraine War

According to the American intellectual and linguist Noam Chomsky, who has been a critic of US foreign policy for decades, Russia behaves with restraint and moderation in Ukraine. Chomsky compared Russia’s way of warfare with the American…
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BRICS Urges Immediate Ceasefire and Political Dialogue in Sudan

BRICS deputy foreign ministers and special envoys expressed concern over continued clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, urging an immediate ceasefire and dialogue to achieve political transition in Sudan with…
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Russian Deputy Prime Minister Novak To Discuss Energy Cooperation With Iran

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak and the country’s Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina are set to visit Iran next month, Iran’s Deputy Oil Minister Ahmad Asadzadeh said, according to the Information Agency of the Islamic…