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From McDonald's rebranding in Russia to takeaways from the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore – Here's your June 13 news briefing

The European Union has imposed its first-ever sanctions related to cybercrime on individuals and entities, including Russian military agents, North Korean firms and Chinese cyberspies allegedly involved in attacks worldwide.

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and her deputy are going to be meeting with a bunch of high-level officials, say the G7, the G20 (including Russia) and the IMF, around the world ...

New analysts are alleging that Russia is once again engaged in a disinformation campaign, this time related to COVID-19. Go beyond the headlines... - What has Putin’s role been in spreading “gray ...

On Monday, December 9, The World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) banned Russia from competing in international sports competitions for four years. WADA imposed the ban after an emergency meeting of its executive ...

Last Friday, The New York Times reported that a Russian military intelligence unit covertly offered rewards to Taliban militants in Afghanistan to kill American or British coalition troops stationed in the region ...

Moscow has made it clear that the escalating tensions between the US and Iran will not stop it from getting into a defense deal with Tehran.

On Wednesday, United States Envoy for Arms Control Marshall Billingslea pushed China to reconsider participating in trilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations, calling for the end of their “Great Wall of Secrecy.”

Letters written on May 27 and June 7 by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi respectively, were made public this week.

The US is making it even clearer whose side of the Ukraine-Russia war it’s on. On Wednesday, American lawmakers passed more than US$40 billion worth of aid for Ukraine across party lines, ...

On Wednesday, January 15, the Russian government announced a wave of resignations after President Vladimir Putin proposed changes to the constitution that would give more power to the cabinet, parliament and prime ...

Ukraine's First Lady Olena Zelenska has recently taken on a more public role and visited the US this week to appeal for more weapons and air-defense systems.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine led to multiple rounds of Western sanctions against Russian businesses and billionaires. With that, many Russian oligarchs are trying to flee these measures, finding a home in ...

According to Russia’s Defense Minister, Sergei Shoigu, Moscow has successfully created the world’s first hypersonic nuclear weapons. The weapons system, called Avangard, utilizes hypersonic technology in tandem with traditional ballistic missile structures, ...

The EU is looking into sanctioning Vladimir Putin’s two daughters, Maria and Katerina, over the war crimes in Ukraine. Right now their names are just on a list of people to be ...

You might have seen some of those disturbing photos of dead Ukrainians in a city called Bucha, which is northwest of Kyiv. Now there’s a big discussion about whether or not the ...

A week after the US Secretaries of Defense and State made a trip to Kyiv to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led a congressional delegation to the ...

After Russia threatened to use its United Nations Security Council (UNSC) veto, the United Nations (UN) passed a resolution on January 10 that reduces the amount of humanitarian and medical aid given ...

On Sunday, Russia reported an additional 153 deaths from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) bringing the total number of fatalities to 3,541. The additional 153 deaths mark the nation’s ...

The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have gone interplanetary as the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia’s Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities announced they were postponing a planned mission to Mars. ...

Wednesday, July 1, was the last day of a week-long voting period in which Russians reportedly approved multiple amendments to their constitution. Among the controversial changes proposed by President Vladimir Putin was ...

US intelligence officials told members of Congress that Russia was interfering in the 2020 presidential election in an attempt to get President Trump re-elected, according to reports. The revelation was first published ...

Due to a price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia, the price of oil has hit a 17-year low in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Go beyond the headlines... - What ...

Russian economist and politician Mikhail Vladimirovich Mishustin has been elected as the country’s new prime minister, a day after the entire government resigned on January 15. Russia’s lower house of parliament, the ...

The leaders of France, Germany, Romania and Italy visited Kyiv on Thursday to show their support for Ukraine. This comes a day before the EU's executive arm is expected to formally recommend ...

When your football team wins a match to qualify for the World Cup, it’s understandable to get really pumped up and maybe even forget about the other team and what they might ...

However the war in Ukraine ends, one thing is certain – someone will have to pay to rebuild the country. The question, then, is who? According to a leaked proposal draft, one ...

The US sent two of its top diplomats, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, to Kyiv to meet with Ukrainian President Zelenskiy on Sunday.

The Senate Intelligence Committee has reaffirmed that Russian operatives interfered in the 2020 election to help President Donald Trump secure his victory. Go beyond the headlines... - What did the Senate Intelligence ...

Since Russia invaded Ukraine, China’s Xi has spoken with quite a few world leaders, including Putin.

The Biden administration is threatening full-blocking sanctions, which cuts off access to the network on which the US dollar is traded. 

When the West first threatened to cut Russia off from SWIFT back in 2014 after it annexed Crimea, Russia quickly started developing its own local payment system called SPFS, which uses the ...

Payments giant Visa said that despite the omicron variant of COVID, the war in Ukraine and rising inflation, it still had a pretty good fiscal quarter.

Some of the presidential candidates in Ukraine, for example, fled to Moscow eight years ago. 

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken went to Ukraine on Wednesday and warned that Russia could launch an attack on Ukraine on very short notice, but he said that US would do ...

Tensions have been high between the two nations since 2014, when Russia invaded eastern Ukraine. Today, there is a shaky cease fire in place.

A famous legend of “The Ghost of Kyiv” is circulating on social media, especially in Ukraine.

The next G20 summit is later this year in Indonesia, and it’s meant to host leaders from all the G20 countries. But, some people in the West aren’t too crazy about reports ...

Three weeks ago, Turkish Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Putin met in Tehran to discuss re-opening grain shipments from Ukraine through the Black Sea. Turkey and the UN mediated an agreement allowing ...

Russia saw inflation go up 2.2% in the week of February 26 and March 4, with Russian citizens already seeing around 9.2% inflation in February. And, economists don’t see it stopping anytime ...

In a televised address on Monday, Russian President Putin recognized two Russian-backed separatist regions in Ukraine and then ordered the Russian army into the area to “keep the peace.”  

Biden has called Putin a “killer” and has vowed to take a tougher stance with Russia on issues related to human rights and cyber hacking.

Basically, the meetings focused on how to either make sure that crypto payments weren’t being done anonymously, and how to try make it harder for ransomware attacks to freeze infrastructure, such as ...

With this Russian invasion of Ukraine, the West’s main goal has been to isolate Russia in every way possible. But there are reports of China and India helping the economy out by ...

China’s President Xi Jinping’s birthday was on June 15, during which he had a call with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. According to the Kremlin, the two leaders discussed working together more economically ...

Finland and Sweden officially applied to join NATO on Wednesday morning amid security concerns posed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. While both Nordic nations have remained non-aligned for more than 75 years, ...

NATO is a security alliance created by countries like the US, UK, EU and Canada initially to try and contain the spread of communism when the Soviet Union was around. Now it’s ...

On Monday, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that the bloc would increase the number of troops at high readiness from around 40,000 to more than 300,000 troops, citing an increased threat by ...

In an attempt to ease the shortage, the government removed the price cap on the New Year, which backfired. Prices doubled and hit poorer communities the hardest.

The price of oil is plunging right now, and it isn’t just because of the situation in Ukraine. 

Vladimir Putin vowed to continue Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, saying that peace talks with Ukraine had hit “a dead end.” Ukraine, for their part, accused the Kremlin of sabotaging the talks.

There’s a new longest passenger flight by distance, and the reason for it has to do with sanctions against Russia. 

US-listed Chinese stocks saw hundreds of billions wiped off in market value in just a few days after Russia reportedly asked China for help with the Ukraine war, scaring investors that Chinese ...

Iran says that Russia, a business partner of the country, wants a written agreement from the United States that its trade, investment and military-technical cooperation with Iran won’t be affected by these ...

From the first day of the G7 Summit to Hong Kong's Jumbo Kingdom mystery – Here's your June 27 news briefing

In case you missed it, the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue, which is Asia’s biggest defense conference, just wrapped up. Here are some key takeaways.

On Sunday, Russia defaulted on its nation's foreign-currency debt for the first time in a century because of Western sanctions that essentially made it impossible for the country to pay back its ...

Last year, the G7 committed to ending direct international financing of fossil fuel projects by the end of this year to try and fight climate change. But, since then, the Russia-Ukraine war ...

According to provisional trade data, India's exports for the financial year 2021/22 ending in March are looking hot, reaching a record high of US$418 billion for merchandise exports.

One of Russia’s biggest exports, oil, has taken a pretty big hit because of the international reaction to the invasion of Ukraine.

From Xi landing in Hong Kong to Putin's response to Finland and Sweden's NATO entry – Here's your July 1 news briefing

From the US Supreme Court abortion law leak to Hong Kong's further easing of COVID rules – Here is your May 4 briefing

Elon's Twitter bid, Hong Kong's COVID rules ease, Indonesia won't exclude Russia from G20 meeting, China's real estate sector. Here are several things you need to know to kickstart your day.

While the idea of spies infiltrating the US may feel like a throwback notion from the Cold War, in the three decades since the Russian Federation supplanted the fallen Soviet Union, Russian ...

President Biden has been in the Middle East for the past few days trying to strengthen ties in places like Israel and Palestinian-occupied territories while also trying to repair them in Saudi ...

Joe Biden started a trip to the Middle East on Wednesday. The trip started in Israel, where he pledged to deepen relations between the US and Israel and with other countries in ...

From Putin and Erdoğan’s private meeting to Amazon's purchase of iRobot – Here's your August 8 news briefing

The price of precious metals, most notably copper, is on the downhill slide right now, and experts are saying it’s just going to get worse.

A new report found that, even though it’s been trying to lead the charge in shunning Russia and cutting off its economy, some EU member states have actually been the biggest buyer ...

One big downside of the introduction was that, even though world leaders are pledging to do more to stop climate change, it still isn’t enough. 

The administration has recently announced plans to implement a series of sanctions targeting the Russian economy, including six Russian companies that run cyberhacking operations for the Russian government.

Some high profile global investors are pulling some money out of China. The main fear is that the risks don’t outweigh the rewards of being there. For example, many investors aren’t loving ...

Russia’s foreign minister is going to India for a two-day visit on Thursday, during which one big meeting agenda item is oil.

The sanctions that the West has put on Russia are having some ripple effects, and the Eurozone is one of the places where those effects are starting to pop up.

Some of the areas Russia said it was looking to de-escalate things by pulling troops back saw more shelling on Wednesday, making people wonder if Russia was genuine in the first place.

Oil prices are still swinging around, reaching US$120 per barrel at one point. The IEA has already coordinated an international oil sale to try to calm the prices down. 

Following reports last weekend that Russia was offering Taliban combatants a bounty for killing American troops and their allies, United States President Donald Trump denied knowing about the scheme. A day later, ...

Both Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk criticize the Twitter board, Yellen meets global leaders to tackle impending food shortage and Ronaldo and partner announce death of baby boy. Here are several things ...

Shanghai's tentative reopening, the encircling of Mariupol, a Musk and Twitter relationship update – here are several things you need to know to kickstart your day.

From Australia and France making nice again to Russia's debt default – Here's your June 28 news briefing

From the Texas school shooting to Russia heading toward default – Here is your May 26 news briefing

From US recession fears to an update on the Musk-Twitter deal – Here is your May 17 news briefing

When countries buy arms, they’re not only purchasing weapons: they’re buying a relationship. The more advanced weaponry a country buys, the more connected the buyer and the seller become.

On January 2, protests erupted over the increase in gas prices after the government decided to remove price caps for them on New Year, a change that hit the poorer communities in ...

From an English museum returning pillaged art to Africa to Apple helping you focus – Here's your August 9 news briefing

From Brittney Griner's Russian prison sentence to Jeff Bezos' billionaire blunder – Here's your August 5 news briefing

From the group behind Sri Lanka's protest to Twitter officially suing Elon Musk – Here's your July 13 news briefing

Navalny’s arrest has sparked nationwide riots across the country and a scandal over allegations that Russian President Vladimir Putin has a secret US$1.3 billion compound on the Black Sea.

A recent US assessment determined there was no evidence that any foreign actors actively interfered in the election to change or erase votes or compromise the voting process.

But hypersonic means traveling at or above Mach 5. That’s a missile or drone traveling over 6,120 KPH, which is about 3,837 MPH.

From reports of the job market leveling out to Hong Kong's new COVID clusters – Here's your June 6 news briefing

From Shanghai roaring back to the end of the Depp-Heard court case – Here's your June 2 news briefing

A couple of days ago, India banned wheat exports because of local price increases, a move that freaked out much of the rest of the global community. See, Ukraine is a major provider ...

Generally speaking, when the US central bank increases its rate, it does it in quarter-point increments. But right now, inflation is at a four-decade high, and it's a problem around the world ...

Bakalchuk owns 99% of the Russian e-commerce giant Wildberries, making her the richest woman in Russia.

The price of nickel was going up with the Ukraine-Russian conflict because of supply concerns since Russia produces 17% of the world’s top-grade nickel.

This drop in the value of the ruble has crypto fans pointing to Bitcoin as a possible alternative because it isn’t centralized by or connected to any single government or entity. 

The attack is believed to have been carried out by the Russian foreign intelligence service known as the SVR. Russia has denied involvement.

In a TMS exclusive, Benno Zogg, a senior researcher in the Swiss and Euro-​Atlantic Security Team at the Center for Security Studies in Zurich, said that the arrest of Roman Protasevich is ...

As a framework for stopping the spread of intentional falsehoods, this action plan may offer an essential guide for dealing with disinformation, not just in Europe but in the US as well.