The Japanese government has announced plans to lift a ban on lethal weapons exports, marking the latest shift away from the country’s post-war pacifist policy, CNBC writes. As noted, in a statement on...
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Iran executed on Tuesday a man convicted of helping set fire to a major mosque in Tehran and of collaborating with Israel and the US during pre-war protests, Euronews writes, referring to Iran’s judic...
A national memorial honouring Queen Elizabeth II will feature a statue of the late monarch as a young woman in her Garter robes, the Daily Mail writes. Unveiled on Tuesday to mark what would have been...
King Charles visited an exhibition dedicated to his late mother’s fashion on Monday, the first in a number of events which the British royals will attend to mark what would have been the late Queen E...
Apple on Monday named longtime hardware boss John Ternus as its next CEO, Reuters writes. Ternus will replace Tim Cook. Cook, a supply-chain genius who boosted Apple’s market value by $3.6 trillion i...
Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin met with Gurgen Arsenyan, Armenia’s ambassador to Russia. The parties discussed a number of issues related to bilateral relations, in light of the outc...
Residents of apartment buildings in Russia can now be fined up to 80,000 rubles for carrying out noisy renovation work during midday lunch hours, RIA Novosti writes. A designated quiet period has been...
Azerbaijan has lodged a strong protest with Belgium and the Netherlands over documents adopted by their parliaments on April 16, which Baku describes as anti-Azerbaijani and related to the peace proce...
Japan now has a special name for days that are 40C or hotter, Euronews writes. ‘Kokushobi’ translates as cruelly hot, brutally hot or severely hot. It is the first time the Japan Meteorological Agency...
When David Henderson-Stewart first visited Russia’s Raketa watch factory, its few remaining watchmakers were huddled in winter coats over vintage equipment, Reuters writes. The British former lawyer ...
The crisis in the Middle East will not bypass the CSTO region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said during a meeting of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly Council, according to TASS. Lavrov also d...
The CSTO is ready to resume cooperation with the OSCE, with which ties had previously been suspended, RIA Novosti writes, citing CSTO Secretary General Talatbek Masadykov. “We are closely monitoring t...
