A Georgian court sentenced on Wednesday the country’s former president, Mikheil Saakashvili, to nine more years in prison after finding him guilty of embezzlement, the Interpress news agency reported.
Saakashvili, who was president from 2004 to 2013, was jailed for six years for abuse of power after he returned to Georgia in 2021. He has spent much of that sentence in a prison hospital.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on Wednesday that he informed a number of European counterparts about the “milestone” talks with the United States where Kyiv said it was ready to support Washington’s proposal for a 30-day ceasefire. After more than eight hours of meetings between Ukrainian and US officials in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, the United…
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said on Wednesday that he can confirm that supplies of arms from the United States to Ukraine through Poland have resumed and Starlink satellite internet services are working. Speaking to reporters alongside Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sabiha in Warsaw, he said he Poland was satisfied with new proposals on Ukraine.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview published on Wednesday, speaking in the context of a possible Ukraine peace deal, that Moscow will avoid compromises that would jeopardize people’s lives, Russian agencies reported. He reiterated Russia’s stance that it will under no conditions accept the presence of NATO troops in Ukraine, should there…
China will host Russia and Iran for trilateral talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme on Friday, Beijing’s foreign ministry said. “The three parties will exchange views on the Iranian nuclear issue and other issues of mutual interest,” a foreign ministry spokesperson said Wednesday. Iran confirmed it will hold talks this week with China and Russia on…
The heads of US and Russian spy agencies have spoken by phone and agreed to keep up regular contacts to lower the temperature in US-Russia relations, news reports said on Wednesday. In the first such contact in several years, CIA chief John Ratcliffe and the head of Russia’s external intelligence agency SVR Sergei Naryshkin spoke…
Lawyers for former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, who is bound for The Hague following his arrest on an International Criminal Court warrant tied to his deadly crackdown on drugs, filed a petition Wednesday demanding he be sent back to Manila. The 79-year-old faces a charge of “the crime against humanity of murder”, according to the…
