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The beginning of a full-fledged military conflict around Taiwan could lead to the loss of 10.2 percent of global GDP. We are talking about the risks of losing about $ 10 trillion, Bloomberg reports, citing its own calculations.

The European Commission is making sure that there is no circumvention of EU sanctions against Russia by third countries, said EC spokesman Daniel Sheridan Ferry.

Sweden, after joining NATO, intends to send about 800 military personnel to Latvia, to the territory near the border with Russia

Germany increased its exports to Russia in November by 12.8% compared with the October - to 700 million euros, the report said the Federal statistical office of Germany (Destatis).

One of the factories of the German automaker Volkswagen in Lower Saxon Emden on Monday, January 8, suspended work due to strikes by farmers. This is reported by the Bild newspaper.

India and Russia are aiming to diversify bilateral trade, Russian Ambassador to India Denis Alipov said at a conference of the Valdai Club and the Vivekananda Foundation.

Lithuania and Latvia, thanks to an active increase in supplies, managed to move Belgium and the Czech Republic in the ranking of the largest beer exporters to Russia

Finland continues to transit Russian nuclear fuel. This was assured by the representative of the press service of the Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Administration (STUK) Risto Isaksson, TASS reports.

Rossotrudnichestvo is working on opening Russian houses in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, Pavel Shevtsov, deputy head of the agency, told RIA Novosti.

A U.S. aircraft carrier strike group and a group of three Philippine warships conducted joint exercises in the South China Sea amid growing tensions with China in the region, the Philippine Navy said on Thursday

Athletes from Russia and Belarus under neutral status are not qualified to participate in the Winter Youth Olympics, which will be held in South Korea from January 19 to February 1, 2024.

Microsoft will add a key to the keyboard of Windows 11 computers to connect the Copilot artificial intelligence. This was announced by the company's corporate vice president and marketing Director Yusuf Mehdi.

The Lithuanian authorities are considering the possibility of abandoning Russian as the language of instruction in schools, while introducing teaching in Ukrainian is not excluded.

India does not supply artillery shells to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) and takes a neutral position in the conflict.

In the Krasnoyaruzhsky district of the Belgorod region, the excavator driver ran into a mine and was injured after detonating equipment.