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Russia’s economy has been able to weather Western-led sanctions in large part due to strong energy exports.

Despite being rich in oil and gas fields, Iraq has been importing most of its gas from Iran, placing it in a risky economic and security situation.

Text messages, a whistleblower lawsuit and an internal investigation reveal the lengths to which Medtronic, the world’s largest medical device company, allegedly “groomed” doctors to overuse its vascular products in patients at a veterans hospital.

Text messages, a whistleblower lawsuit, and an internal investigation reveal the lengths to which Medtronic allegedly "groomed" doctors to overuse its vascular products at a veterans hospital.

Text messages, a whistleblower lawsuit and an internal investigation reveal the lengths to which Medtronic, the world’s largest medical device company, allegedly “groomed” doctors to overuse its vascular products in patients at a veterans’ hospital.

British defense officials noted that Russia is losing an average of 824 troops per day in February.

The 18-year-old girl crashed her father’s Porsche 911 into a toll booth, California, after she lost control of the speeding car.

Yevgeny Prigozhin was challenged in an interview about the tactics of his private military company.

Europe imposed a ban Sunday on Russian diesel fuel and other refined oil products, slashing energy dependency on Moscow and seeking to further crimp the Kremlin’s fossil fuel earnings as punishment for invading Ukraine. The ban comes along with a price cap agreed by the Group of Seven allied democracies. The goal is allowing Russian…

The new sanctions create uncertainty about prices as the 27-nation European Union finds new supplies of diesel from the U.S., Middle East and India.