Russia has deployed additional troops and equipment, including tanks to stop the advancing troops (file). Moscow, Russia: Moscow on Saturday launched a “counter-terror operation” in three border regions adjoining Ukraine to halt Kyiv’s biggest cross-border offensive in the two-and-a-half-year conflict. Ukrainian units stormed across the border into Russia’s western Kursk region on Tuesday morning in … Read more
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on October 04, 2023 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no … Read more
Traders work the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on July 25, 2023, in New York City. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they … Read more
President Vladimir Putin said Friday that he sees no current threat to Russia’s sovereignty that would warrant the use of nuclear weapons but again warned Moscow could send weapons to states or others to strike Western targets. Speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Putin said use of nuclear weapons is only possible in … Read more
Mohammad Mokhber, 68, has been appointed as Iran’s interim president following the death of Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash. Mokhber, Iran’s first vice president, now leads a three-person council responsible for organizing a new presidential election within 50 days.Who is Mohammad Mokhber? Iran’s New PresidentMohammad Mokhber was born on September 1, 1955. He is … Read more
China’s economic forays into resource rich Central Asia, a region which shares deep historical, political and economic ties with Moscow, has created certain discomfiture in the Russian establishment. In a recent trade meet in Uzbekistan a Russian trade official emphasised that Russia and China were “equal partners with an equal share in trade turnover” in … Read more
Retired U.S. general David Petraeus says the risk of a terror attack in Canada is “elevated” following an attack at a concert hall in Moscow that left 139 dead last week, for which an ISIS splinter group claimed responsibility. Petraeus told The West Block host Mercedes Stephenson that an attack of such a scale makes … Read more
A Republican candidate for Congress in Washington state has suggested the CIA and Ukraine may be responsible for a terrorist attack last week that killed 143 people in Moscow, echoing a theory pushed, without evidence, by Kremlin propagandists. Joe Kent, a conservative firebrand in a likely rematch with first-term Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, whom he … Read more
Russian officials say an attack at a concert hall on the outskirts of Moscow on Friday has left dozens dead and many more injured. U.S. officials say they are monitoring the situation, which also resulted in a large fire at the building in the Russian capital. Global Affairs Canada says it is looking into the … Read more
Descrease article font size Increase article font size The U.S. has issued a warning for American nationals in Moscow to avoid large gatherings, including concerts for the next 48 hours, saying it’s monitoring reports of “imminent plans” by extremists to target large gatherings. The alert was posted to the website of the U.S. embassy in … Read more
