BEIJING—When China’s top two leaders sought to reassure foreign executives increasingly frustrated over the country’s stringent Covid-control measures last week, Chinese leadership seemed to be speaking with two voices. On…

On a Sunday in early April, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church stood inside the Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces outside Moscow and delivered a sermon endorsing President…

LONDON—The U.K. government on Wednesday began a national-security probe into a Chinese-controlled company’s purchase of a British computer-chip factory, a move that could lead it to unwind the deal almost…

WASHINGTON—The Biden administration accused the Russian government of helping Iran’s blacklisted military unit sell hundreds of millions of dollars of oil around the globe, as Washington levied a barrage of…

The 30 years of Russian participation at Davos spanned globalization’s arc, an era that many participants are convinced is over, its demise accelerated by the war in Ukraine. Source link

KYIV, Ukraine—Russian forces were pushing to encircle two cities in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, part of an all-out assault to take control of the Donbas area, which is making progress…

BRUSSELS—European Union officials on Tuesday suggested the bloc might not decide whether to impose an oil embargo on Russia for weeks, as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is the…

WASHINGTON—The Treasury Department moved to cut off Russia’s ability to make payments on its dollar-denominated sovereign debt, putting Russia on a path toward defaulting on its foreign debts this summer…

TOKYO—North Korea fired a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile early Wednesday that flew only briefly before landing in the sea east of the Korean Peninsula, South Korea’s military said. The missile…

SANTA CRUZ DE LORICA, Colombia—A former leftist guerrilla-turned-senator, Gustavo Petro, is favored to be the next president of a country he pledges to transform by phasing out oil and coal…