World Jun 22, 2022

Western move to choke Russia’s oil exports boomerangs, for now

With China and India buying the Russian oil shunned by the West, Moscow is making even more money now from sales than it did before the war began.

World May 28, 2022

Ferocious Russian attacks spur fresh accusations of genocide in Ukraine

A new report by legal scholars and human rights experts said mass killings and deliberate attacks on shelters by Russian forces had established a "genocidal pattern” against Ukrainians.

Asia Pacific Mar 25, 2022

Coronavirus rules are swiftly falling away in Asia, with a big caveat

Many Asian-Pacific countries are dismantling thickets of COVID-19 rules at bewildering speeds, even though the omicron variant of the coronavirus is still raging in parts of the region.