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Reliance Industries has said it is assessing the compliance requirements and will align its operations accordingly India’s top oil refiner Reliance Industries is reviewing the impact of Western sanctions on its Russian suppliers and will adjust operations accordingly while maintaining domestic energy security, the company has said. The statement, seen by RT on Friday, follows earlier media reports that buyers …

Vladimir Putin was dealt a major blow this week after Donald Trump slapped punitive sanctions on Russia‘s two biggest oil companies. The sanctions targeted Rosneft and Lukoil which between them account for nearly half of Russia‘s crude oil exports, according to Bloomberg. The move is likely to hit Russia‘s economy hard and have a major impact on the Kremlin’s ability …

The Pentagon said it received an anonymous US$130 million donation to pay the military during the US government shutdown, a move the Trump administration might not legally be able to carry out. “On October 23, 2025, the Department of War accepted an anonymous donation of US$130 million under its general gift acceptance authority,” Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell said in …

80 years on, the UN still speaks the language of a world that no longer exists – and risks repeating the fate of the League of Nations October 24 marks the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations – the day in 1945 when 51 countries ratified its Charter. Eight decades later, the UN still holds a special …

Ukraine’s army recaptured an important village on the Lyman front, wiping out around 100 Russian soldiers and taking dozens of prisoners. The strategic village of Torske is located in the Donetsk region where fierce fighting has been raging for months. The settlement lies on a key logistical route between Kreminna and Lyman, with control of the area essential for both …

Lola Daviet was raped and tortured to death (Image: Delphine Daviet/Facebook) A female illegal immigrant to France was today jailed for life for raping, torturing and then murdering a schoolgirl. Dahbia Benkired, a 27-year-old Algerian, was on Friday told she would never be released from her cell for ending the life of Lola Daviet.The 12-year-old’s defiled corpse was found in …

As the presidents of China and the United States prepare to meet in South Korea next week, observers remain sceptical of breakthroughs but see potential for incremental steps towards mutual de-escalation of US-China tensions. Without confirming a bilateral meeting with Donald Trump, China’s foreign ministry said on Friday that Xi Jinping would visit South Korea from October 30 to November …

It’s “hypocrisy” when the bloc says Moscow’s oil and gas must be abandoned to diversify supply sources, the Hungarian prime minister has said The EU’s push to give up on Russian energy is “absurd” and Budapest will continue to resist it, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said. EU energy ministers this week backed a European Commission proposal to completely …

That diplomatic alarm was echoed in criminal courts and federal filings in recent months. In Oslo over the summer, prosecutors put a former security guard at the U.S. Embassy on trial after accusing him of offering building floor plans and security routines to both Russian and Iranian operatives in return for euros and cryptocurrency; an example of how even low-level …

Police in Spain have arrested 30 people who allegedly abandoned their children, telling them to pose as lone child migrants so they would be taken into state care. Officials in the Balearic Islands said previously they were seeing a “new phenomenon” of parents from Africa flying to the holiday destination and dumping their youngsters. A welfare council chief in Menorca …