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EIJING | Xinhua |  At the just-concluded sessions of China’s top legislature and top political advisory body, or the “two sessions,” Chinese President Xi Jinping called for major moves to deepen reform to inject strong impetus into promoting high-quality development, arousing heated discussions among the media and the public. So, …

MOSCOW, RUSSIA  | Xinhua | Russian President Vladimir Putin won 87.28 percent of the votes in the presidential elections after all ballots were counted, the Russian Central Election Commission (CEC) announced on Monday. The Russian presidential elections were held for three days from March 15 to 17. Under Russian presidential …

MOSCOW, RUSSIA| Xinhua | Russian election authorities said Saturday that about 160,000 cyberattacks on the country’s remote electronic voting resources were blocked. The attacks were mainly directed toward the voting portal, with 30,000 attacks launched against the monitoring portal for the remote electronic voting system, said Ella Pamfilova, head of …

NEW DELHI | Xinhua | India’s Election Commission on Saturday said the country’s forthcoming general elections will be conducted in seven phases starting April 19. India’s Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar announced at a press conference the complete schedule of the elections which will run through June 1. According to …

MOSCOW | TASS | March 16, 2024 marks ten years since the Crimean referendum, where the majority of citizens of Crimea and Sevastopol voted in favor of reunification with Russia. A treaty on Crimea’s and Sevastopol’s accession to Russia was signed on March 18, 2014. The Republic of Crimea is …

MOSCOW | TASS |  Moscow’s Western opponents actively tried over the past year to disrupt the Russian presidential election, Russia’s Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told TASS on Saturday. “Our opponents stirred up not just a week or a month ago. It seems to me that over the past year …

* The bill, which still needs passage in the Senate to become law, would prohibit TikTok from U.S. app stores unless the social media platform is spun off from its parent company ByteDance. * TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew warned that if the bill is signed into law, it will …

 COMMENT | DANI RODRIK |  Few terms in economics are as ideologically loaded as “free trade.” Advocate it nowadays, and you are likely to be regarded as an apologist for plutocrats, financiers, and footloose corporations. Defend open economic borders, and you will be labeled naive or, worse, a stooge of the …

BERLIN | TASS | The majority of Bundestag MPs voted against a new resolution of the Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union bloc, demanding that Germany send Taurus missiles to Ukraine. As many as 495 parliamentarians out of 690 present voted to reject the resolution, 190 voted in its favor and …

Washington, US | VOA |  Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish official in the United States, called on Israel Thursday to hold new elections, saying he believes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost his way” in the country’s bombardment of Gaza. Schumer, long an ally of the Jewish …