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The US Navy Is Paying for the Iran War Out of Its Payroll Accounts

New Delhi, Aug. 28 -- A sailor's pay is the last thing a navy touches. It is the account nobody raids, because the consequences of getting it wrong are immediate and personal and impossible to explain... Read More


Russia Calls France's Tanker Seizures Piracy. Its Own Lawyers Have a Better Argument.

MOSCOW, Aug. 28 -- The word Moscow keeps reaching for is the one word that guarantees it loses. Artem Studennikov, who runs the First European Department at the Russian Foreign Ministry, told RIA Nov... Read More


Moscow Says the Line to Kyiv Is Open. What It Carries Is Prisoner Swaps.

MOSCOW, Aug. 28 -- Every few months a Russian official confirms that the line to Kyiv still works, and every time the confirmation lands the same way: as reassurance about plumbing rather than news ab... Read More


Modi to Meet Putin at SCO Summit in Bishkek as India Pushes to Rebalance Bilateral Trade

New Delhi, Aug. 28 -- For Indian industrialists watching the rupee pile up in accounts they cannot easily repatriate from Russia, the Modi-Putin bilateral scheduled for August 31 on the sidelines of t... Read More


Ninety Americans Are Missing in Nepal, and the Lists Do Not Agree

KATHMANDU, Aug. 28 -- Ninety is a number the State Department arrived at by counting people nobody had heard from. It is not a casualty figure, and the department was careful to say so. Tommy Pigott,... Read More


Ratko Mladic, 'Butcher of Bosnia' Convicted of Genocide, Dies in Hague Prison at 84

New Delhi, Aug. 28 -- THE HAGUE - The tribunal had said no just one day before he died. Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb commander convicted of genocide for ordering the execution of more than 8... Read More


CENTCOM Declares Hormuz Mine-Free. Iran Calls It Propaganda.

DUBAI, Aug. 28 -- Ten commodity vessels passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday. Before February, roughly twenty million barrels of oil crossed that passage every day. On Thursday night, the ... Read More


Russia Warns UK Military Sites Could Be Targeted Over Storm Shadow Missiles in Ukraine War

LONDON, Aug. 28 -- The missiles that struck a shopping centre in Donetsk on Wednesday were British. That single fact has now drawn Russia's clearest threat yet against the United Kingdom itself. Mari... Read More


Iran Links Strait of Hormuz to US Talks, Warns Escalating Sanctions Will Have a Price

Mohsen Rezaei, Aug. 28 -- TEHRAN - The tankers crossing the Strait of Hormuz have been sailing through a provisional corridor that Iran controls and Iran can close. On Wednesday, Tehran's most senior ... Read More


Trump Bans Chinese Equipment From US Power Grid, Orders Utilities to Find What's Already Inside

New Delhi, Aug. 28 -- The executive order Donald Trump signed Wednesday does not simply prohibit new Chinese hardware from the American power grid. It demands that the utilities running that grid begi... Read More