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Russian consumer prices rose 0.2% month on month and 9.4% year on year in June, in line with preliminary weekly data, according to the latest RosStat report....

Statement condemned ongoing democratic backsliding by the ruling Georgia Dream party, which has consolidated power via crackdowns on independent media, NGOs, activists and opposition politicians....

SOCAR has signed a memorandum of understanding to supply natural gas to Syria...

Press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders warned abuses threaten the country's EU accession process....

Immigration outweighed the natural population decline in 2024 in just three of the newer EU member states – Croatia, Czechia and Slovenia....

Imperial attitudes undermine ambitions for expanded influence....

US firm New Fortress Energy has decided to withhold an LNG cargo shipment to Puerto Rico amid a payment dispute causing the island to idle ten of its generators....

US helicopters have arrived in Panama to begin collaborative training exercises with local security forces, as tensions mount over the strategic waterway's future amid competing US and Chinese interests....

Concerns that the jihadist group is operating near borders with Central Asia “helped shift Russia's strategic calculus”....

Iran has launched exploratory drilling operations in the Caspian Sea after years of neglecting the region due to sanctions constraints and cheaper extraction costs from southern oil fields....

Iraq's oil exports to the United States will not be affected by the newly announced 30% US tariff introduced by President Donald Trump to address the trade deficit with Iraq....

Wildfires have ravaged North Khorasan province's forests for the third time in recent months, burning 25 hectares of natural areas in Haver region as climate change makes such extreme events increasingly common across Iran....

Syria has signed a strategic $800mn agreement with UAE logistics major DP World in a major investment move aimed at revitalising the country's maritime infrastructure....

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Esmail Baghaei, refuted reports of an imminent meeting between Iranian and US representatives on the nuclear issue....

South Africa's Electricity and Energy Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has presented a revised plan to achieve energy access for all South Africans by 2030....

Trump draws a line in the sand: 50% tariffs on Brazil unless it drops charges against Bolsonaro. The ultimatum sets up a high-stakes test of sovereignty between the hemisphere's top economies, with Brazil vowing to fight back....

Hungary will not proceed with the construction of the hydropower dam at Nagymaros, the border town with Slovakia, Energy Minister Csaba Lantos told news site Index in a background briefing....

Iraq's water resources Minister Awn Dhiab Abdullah said that “El Niño's negative impact” on Iraq is increasing, with 12 provinces now relying exclusively on groundwater....

Electricity market liberalisation and a VAT hike in August are expected to put upward pressure on prices....

Slovak populist Prime Minister Robert Fico expects an agreement between the European Union and Slovakia could be reached on Tuesday, July 15, over Slovakia lifting its veto of the EU's 18th round of sanctions against Russia....