Saudi Arabia and Russia agreed Tuesday to freeze oil output at January levels during a meeting in Doha, HE the Minister of Energy and Industry Dr Mohamed bin Saleh al-Sada said.
A British minister expects a continuing need for investing in defence and security due to the ongoing conflicts and persistent threats in the region.
Ukraine on Monday banned the transit of Russian trucks across its territory in a tit-for-tat response to an escalating trade war between the feuding ex-Soviet states.
The world has plunged into a "new Cold War", the Russian premier said Saturday, as East-West tensions over Syria and Ukraine dominated a gathering of world leaders in Germany.
Three people were killed on Wednesday when a passenger minibus hit a mine in separatist eastern Ukraine during a relative calm in fighting in the 21-month war.
Spain’s Juan Jose Lobato clinched a summit finish victory in the key stage three of the Tour of Dubai yesterday as Italy’s Giacomo Nizzolo seized the overall leader’s blue jersey.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday blasted as "laughable" Russia's accusation that Turkey was actively preparing to invade Syria.
Oil fell on Tuesday, with US crude briefly slipping below $30, dented by worries about demand amid a mild winter and concerns of rising supply as hopes for a deal between Opec and Russia on output cuts fade.
At least 12 people, including three children, perished in a fire in a Moscow factory that caused the roof to collapse, Russian authorities said on Sunday.
President Vladimir Putin probably approved a Russian intelligence operation to murder ex-KBG agent Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium-210, a British inquiry into the 2006 killing in London concluded.
A suicide bomber struck a minibus near the Russian embassy in downtown Kabul Wednesday, killing four people in the latest deadly attack in the Afghan capital despite an international push to jumpstart Taliban peace talks.
Qatar and Russia have expressed desire to “deepen and diversify” their economic relations, especially in energy and investment sectors, and to raise the level of their ties to that of “strategic partnership”.
