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Canadian and Latvian armed forces on Monday will begin training Ukrainian soldiers in Latvia, Canada's Defence Minister Anita Anand said on Wednesday.

Russia provided 14.4% of Spain's gas imports in March, up from 8.7% a year earlier, Spanish government data showed on Tuesday.

Lithuania's parliament on Tuesday approved a windfall tax on the banking industry's net interest income for 2023 and 2024 following a sharp rise in European Central Bank interest rates to tackle soaring inflation.

Kazakhstan Railways has rescinded a provisional ban on transportation of oil products to the Russian Black Sea port of Taman, initially planned for May 8, according to a document from the state-owned railway operator seen by Reuters on Friday.

China's skidding factory sector taps brakes on economic recovery

Gazprom Armenia, a subsidiary of Russian energy giant Gazprom, said on Thursday that the company had resumed gas supplies to Armenia, which were suspended on Monday due to maintenance.

There is no progress in removing obstacles to Russian grain and fertiliser exports caused by the West's "sanction strategy", a senior Russian diplomat in Washington said on Tuesday, ahead of the expiry of a deal safeuarding Ukrainian grain exports.

Emerging market currencies and stocks were subdued on Tuesday, as many traders returned after a long weekend to digest mixed factory activity data ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve's rate decision this week.

Some Ghana bondholders received coupon payment of WB-backed bond

Kazakhstan's banking regulator plans to block Halyk Bank and other lenders that have received state support from paying dividends until they readjust profits for the amount of that support, it said on Wednesday.