Putin hosts Global South leaders at BRICS summit meant to counterbalance Western clout

KAZAN, Russia (AP) — China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi and other global leaders arrived Tuesday in the Russian city of Kazan for a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies that the Kremlin hopes to turn into a rallying point for defying what some see as the Western liberal...

South Korea warns it can send arms to Ukraine after reports of North's troops in Russia

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea warned Tuesday it could consider supplying weapons to Ukraine in response to North Korea allegedly dispatching troops to Russia, as both North Korea and Russia denied the movements. The South Korean statement is apparently meant to pressure...

Putin hosts a summit to show the West it can't keep Russia off the global stage

Russian President Vladimir Putin will be meeting this week with China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iran’s Masoud Pezeshkian, defying predictions that the war in Ukraine and an international arrest warrant would turn Putin into a pariah. ...

US defense chief promises Ukraine what it needs to fight Russia but goes no further

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The United States “will get Ukraine what it needs” to fight its war with Russia, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on an unannounced visit to Kyiv on Monday, but he gave no hint that Washington might endorse key planks of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's...

South Korea calls for immediate withdrawal of North Korean troops allegedly in Russia

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea on Monday demanded the immediate pullout of North Korean troops allegedly deployed in Russia as it summoned the Russian ambassador to protest deepening military cooperation between Pyongyang and Moscow. South Korea's spy agency said Friday it...

Russia says it is investigating the claimed shoot-down of a cargo plane by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces

Brazil's Lula cancels trip to Russia for BRICS summit after an accident

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Sunday canceled his trip to Russia for a BRICS summit after an accident at home that left him with a cut on the back of his head, slightly above the neck, his office said. The 78-year-old leader was scheduled to...

Serbia's president thanks Putin for gas supplies and vows he'll never impose sanctions on Russia

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — European Union candidate Serbia will continue to refuse to impose sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine despite Western pressure, Serbia’s leader said after his telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday. ...

US writer Anne Applebaum appeals for arms for Ukraine as she accepts German peace prize

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The prominent American journalist and historian Anne Applebaum urged continued support for Ukraine as she accepted a prestigious German prize on Sunday, arguing that pacifism in the face of aggression is often nothing more than appeasement. Applebaum made her...

Kyiv launches more than 100 drones over Russia as a missile strike on Ukraine injures 17

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian air defenses shot down more than 100 Ukrainian drones Sunday over Russia’s western regions, Moscow officials said, while 17 people were injured in the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih in a ballistic missile attack. Such large-scale aerial attacks are...