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The US and its European allies have tried to frame Ukraine's conflict as a battle between "democracy and autocracy." However, the characterization hasn’t received support from much of the rest of the world, including close US partners such as India and Japan.

India and China have deployed over 50,000 troops at forward locations in the western stretch of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) – a loosely demarcated line that divides the two countries. 

Johnson pushing to stay on as PM until autumn but is likely to face intense pressure from colleagues to quit that role too

President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris told Cherelle Griner they would pursue “every avenue” to bring her wife, Brittney Griner, home from Russia.

Chinese health authorities were actively deterred from requiring vaccinations earlier in the COVID-19 pandemic but nonetheless succeeded at vaccinating nearly the entire population of 1.4 billion people.

Iceland, Denmark, Norway and Estonia join Canada in ratifying the accession protocols for Finland and Sweden to join NATO

In March, the Biden administration began tapping one million barrels of oil per day from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), supposedly in a bid to get a grip on gas prices. 

The tobacco industry has long claimed smoking was a choice, but that was never true.

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said he had asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to open a credit line for fuel imports and resume Aeroflot flights to Sri Lanka.

The Russian Defense Ministry announced the preparation by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) of a provocation with chlorine in Nikolaevka, Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).

Residents of Poland were urged to save electricity due to the termination of gas and coal supplies from Russia. This statement was made by the head of the Department of Energy Regulation (URE) of Poland Rafal Gavin on the radio station TOK FM.

The North Atlantic Alliance has begun to ratify the accession of Sweden and Finland. This was stated by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, RIA Novosti reports.

Japan imposes an export ban on 90 organizations from Russia and Belarus in light of the situation in Ukraine, the bulletin says on behalf of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

Moscow condemns the ongoing Israeli strikes on the territory of Syria and demands their cessation, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Chinese manufacturers, who use the same principle of connecting parts as Lego, have moved from copying to creating their own products