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As Russia faced Western outrage over its invasion of Ukraine, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was quietly being welcomed back to the club of Middle Eastern leaders in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) last week, his first foreign trip in more than a decade of war aside from forays to key backers Russia and Iran. With world attention focused on eastern Europe, the geopolitics of the Middle East are being redrawn from multiple directions. Key players are embracing new ambitions and alliances in the ...

LONDON — As Russia faced Western outrage over its invasion of Ukraine, Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad was quietly being welcomed back to the club of Middle East…

As Australia and New Zealand last week pressed ahead with plans to ease border restrictions, Hong Kong this week introduced its toughest measures yet against COVID-19 and authorities in China locked down the aluminum-producing city of Baise, pushing the price of the metal to its highest levels in 14 years. After two years battling the COVID-19 pandemic, and with the global vaccination campaign against it under way for more than a year, some parts of the world are trying to shrug off the disease,...

As the world reopens, China faces tough COVID choices

The same US "intelligence community" that brought us 'weapons of mass destruction in Iraq' and 'Trump-Russia collusion' claimed in November that Moscow is preparing to invade Ukraine any day now. The harder Moscow denied it as 'fake news', the...

Though there was an uptick in Russian stocks on Wednesday, and the rouble regained some lost ground against the U.S. dollar, Ukraine’s sovereign debt is now priced among the world’s worst performing international bonds, hitting its ability to borrow. For Ukraine, this poses yet another problem in addition to the Russian troops, tanks and assorted weaponry massed near its borders, not to mention cyber attacks https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/exclusive-ukraine-suspects-group-linked-belaru...

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APPS-ETHIOPIA/COLUMN (COLUMN, PIX):COLUMN-As death toll rises in Ethiopia, Middle East powers fuel drone race

LONDON — As Russia moved troops and vehicles to its border with Ukraine last month, videos posted on social media and Russian television showed often crude…

As countries around the world imposed new COVID-19 restrictions this week following a rise in concern over the Omicron variant of the virus, China announced it would aim to deliver another 1 billion vaccines to Africa and push ahead with hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics in February. It was a reminder of the self-confidence Beijing ...