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A general view of a cogeneration plant in Schwerin, Germany. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Germany’s Cabinet approved a draft law on Wednesday (August 6, 2025) aimed at fast-tracking the rollout of geothermal energy projects, as part of its goal to eliminate fossil fuel-based heating by 2045. Interest in geothermal energy has surged since Russia’s…
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Recruits undergo combat assault training under the supervision of officers of Russia’s Southern Military District in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict, at a firing range in the Rostov region, Russia. | Photo Credit: REUTERS North Korean soldiers are likely fighting in Ukraine alongside Russian troops, with some believed already killed and more expected to be…
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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has said he is seeking “common ground” in talks this week with his Chinese counterpart on ending his country’s war with Russia. Mr. Kuleba met on July 24 with Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Guangzhou, a major commercial and manufacturing centre…
Slowly but steadily this summer, Russian troops are forging through Ukraine’s outgunned and undermanned defenses in a relentless onslaught, prompting the West to push for new weapons and strategies to shore up Kyiv. That, in turn, has brought new threats by President Vladimir Putin to retaliate against the West — either directly or indirectly. The…
U.S. President Joe Biden during a a reception celebrating Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, in the Rose Garden of the White House, in Washington, U.S., May 13, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President Joe Biden signed into law a ban on Russian enriched uranium on Monday, May 13, 2024, the…
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Russian police detain a man trying to lay flowers at a monument in St. Petersburg to honour Alexei Navalny on Feb. 17, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP When charismatic opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was gunned down on a bridge near the Kremlin in February 2015, more than 50,000 Muscovites expressed their shock and outrage the…
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