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China-Russia relations
Secure Arctic shipping route essential for China, senior official says
Trade lanes using Strait of Malacca, Red Sea and Suez Canal could be disrupted during ‘major international crisis’, Beijing forum told.
19 Dec 2025 - 8:30PM
Russia
Putin says West holds key to peace as Russia advances in Ukraine
19 Dec 2025 - 8:43PM
Ukraine war
EU agrees US$106 billion loan for Ukraine, but without Russian assets
19 Dec 2025 - 3:41PM
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Ukraine war
Russia deploys nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile to Belarus amid Ukraine talks
Russian state media says it would take the weapon only 17 minutes to reach Nato headquarters in Brussels.
19 Dec 2025 - 3:57AM
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Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko delivers a speech in Minsk on Thursday. Photo: Belarusian presidential press service via AFP
Ukraine war
Putin vows victory in Ukraine as US and Russia prepare for Miami talks
Russian leader boasts of battlefield gains in Ukraine while his envoys prepare to meet the Americans this weekend.
18 Dec 2025 - 2:58PM
Ukraine war
Trump administration readies new sanctions if Putin rejects peace deal
The new measures could arrive this week, targeting the tankers and traders fuelling Putin’s war as peace talks reach a critical stage.
17 Dec 2025 - 6:31PM
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Ukraine war
Zelensky demands justice as nations back Ukraine reparations; will Russia pay?
US$232 billion in frozen Russian assets are central to a new Hague-based commission managing Ukraine war damage claims.
16 Dec 2025 - 9:39PM
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a press conference in The Hague, Netherlands on Tuesday. Photo: EPA-EFE
Ukraine war
Ukraine claims disabled Russian submarine in first underwater drone attack
Ukraine says strike is a historic first, but Russia denies attack caused any damage.
16 Dec 2025 - 1:53PM
Ukraine war
US officials say Washington agrees to give Ukraine security guarantees
‘Article 5-like’ security offer emerges at talks in Berlin in a bid to secure an end to the nearly four-year Russia-Ukraine war.
16 Dec 2025 - 2:55PM
Britain
UK spy and military chiefs give threat assessment in ‘age of uncertainty’
Head of MI6 says ‘we are now operating in a space between peace and war’, as defence chief urges ‘whole nation’ prepare for evolving threats.
16 Dec 2025 - 2:18PM
Russia
Pussy Riot punk protest group declared ‘extremist’ by Russian court
The ruling outlaws the feminist group from operating in Russia and puts anyone linked with them at risk of prosecution.
15 Dec 2025 - 11:30PM
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Pussy Riot members perform in Cambridge in Britain in November 2022. Photo: Reuters
Ukraine war
Zelensky suggests Ukraine could drop Nato goal for security guarantees
The shift, which includes a call for ‘Article 5-like’ guarantees, comes as Washington presses for an end to the four-year Ukraine war.
15 Dec 2025 - 9:16AM
Ukraine war
Europe fears hidden Russian threat in Trump-backed Ukraine peace plan
Europe worries a US plan for a demilitarised zone in the Donbas region may help Moscow to reinvade Kyiv.
14 Dec 2025 - 10:39AM
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Belarus
Belarus frees 123 prisoners in exchange for US sanctions relief
Peace prize laureate Ales Bialiatski, opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova and 121 others have been released by one of Russia’s key allies.
13 Dec 2025 - 10:38PM
Ukraine war
Over 1 million in Ukraine lose electricity after strikes on infrastructure
Kyiv and its allies say Moscow aims to cripple Ukraine’s power grid to deny residents access to light, heat and running water.
13 Dec 2025 - 9:25PM
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A Ukrainian power plant worker walks in front of a damaged production hall after a Russian missile attack this month. Photo: AP
China-EU relations
EU fears China’s role in Russia’s war on Ukraine is deepening
Multiple sources confirm increase in Beijing backing before China-Russia ties are discussed by ministers from the EU’s 27 members on Monday.
14 Dec 2025 - 4:47PM
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Ukraine war
Ukraine retakes Kharkiv areas as Russian troops ‘completely cut off’ in Kupiansk
Disputing Moscow’s claim of controlling Kupiansk, Ukraine retakes villages and isolates Russian troops amid fierce eastern battles.
12 Dec 2025 - 8:59PM
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Zelensky floats referendum on territory, as US pressure mounts to end war
Ukraine’s president says Russia wants ‘the whole of Donbas’ in return for peace, but Ukrainians must have their say.
12 Dec 2025 - 3:35PM
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Ukrainian servicemen prepare targets with images depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin. Photo: Reuters
Ukraine war
Proposals on territorial concessions by Ukraine sent to Trump: Merz
The German chancellor emphasised Ukrainian consent in peace talks amid diplomatic tensions.
11 Dec 2025 - 7:30PM
Ukraine war
Ukraine sends US a revised peace plan as Trump blasts European allies
US president says ‘pretty strong words’ were used in his discussion with leaders from the UK, France and Germany.
11 Dec 2025 - 2:10PM
Russia
Crew killed in Russian military plane crash during test flight
State media reported seven people were on board at the time of the crash.
9 Dec 2025 - 11:26PM
Ukraine war
European allies back Ukraine’s Zelensky after Trump criticism
Ukrainian president met leaders in London and Brussels, declaring that ceding territory to Russia - a central point of the US proposal - was impossible.
9 Dec 2025 - 9:16AM
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street in London. Photo: AP
China-Russia relations
Chinese firms gear up for Russia’s reopening amid talks aimed at peace deal
Many Chinese exporters expect the first wave of post-war demand in Russia to come from infrastructure.
7 Dec 2025 - 8:57PM
Ukraine war
Hungary’s Orban to send team to Russia, expecting end of Ukraine war
The PM is anticipating a post-war landscape in which sanctions are lifted and Russia becomes reintegrated with the Western economy.
7 Dec 2025 - 5:40AM
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Ukraine war
Ukraine’s Zelensky holds ‘very substantive’ call with Trump envoys
The president’s negotiators are in Florida for talks on a US-led plan to end the war with Russia.
7 Dec 2025 - 1:20AM
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