He restricted alcohol sales to two hours on workdays and effectively banned abortions in the region’s private clinics. He ...

Xi Jinping's friendship with Vladimir Putin has been cultivated over many visits and informal events, from pancakes to ...

Putin landed in Beijing on Tuesday amidst Xi's diplomatic display, chaining another summit with the Russian leader four days after meeting with Trump. In a bookstore in the Hongkou district, near the ...

Slang changes throughout history, with some words lasting and others dying out. There was a nickname used for alcohol in the ...

The Russian leader arrived in the Chinese capital after President Trump’s summit and Ukrainian strikes on Moscow.

Ukraine marks 18 May as the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Genocide of the Crimean Tatar People. The reason it still matters in 2026, and not only as a date on a calendar, is that the people ...

"When the APEC Bali summit in October 2013 coincided with Putin's 61st birthday, Xi presented him with a cake and the two leaders celebrated together over sausage and vodka," the newspaper recalled.

The 'Leviathan' and 'Loveless' director returns to the Cannes competition with his first film made entirely outside of Russia ...

US to invest $2 billion in IBM, other quantum computing firms The Trump administration will take $2 billion in equity stakes across nine quantum-computing companies, including a new IBM venture, in a ...

Three robbers who threatened to smash wine bottles on petrol station workers during a raid for cigarettes and alcohol have ...