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EBRD puts Ukraine at the heart of its annual gathering in Riga

It was deliberately symbolic that the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) chose Riga for its 35th annual meeting. Latvia, one of the EBRD's earliest countries of operation is an example of the EBRD's successes.

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Sudan, DRC top annual Norwegian Refugee Council ranking of world's neglected displacement crises

The 10 most neglected crises for the year include Colombia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Honduras, Ecuador, Cameroon, Nigeria and Mozambique, “spanning three continents and tens of millions of people the world continues to ignore”.

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Romanian president nominates adviser Eugen Tomac as PM, proposes technocratic government

President Nicușor Dan says the "only possible solution" to Romania's ongoing political crisis is a prime minister independent of the parties in parliament.

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The Singapore to Malaysia migration reshaping Southeast Asia

An industrial migration is quietly shifting the economic landscape of Southeast Asia, particularly that surrounding Singapore and Malaysia.

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Maduro taps P Diddy's acquittal lawyer as Venezuela drug trial looms

Ousted Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro has recruited a lawyer from Sean "Diddy" Combs' defence team as he fights US drug charges from a Brooklyn jail cell.

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Venezuela's Rodríguez visits India to seal Caracas's oil comeback

Behind Delcy Rodríguez's New Delhi visit lies a bigger story: how Venezuela's resurgent oil exports fit into Washington's strategy to wean India off Russian crude.

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Inventory drawdowns mask impact of Hormuz disruption as clock runs down towards a September supply crunch

Global oil markets are relying heavily on inventory drawdowns to offset a supply shock caused by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, with OECD stockpiles potentially reaching stress levels by mid-September if current trends persist, according to Oxf

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Russia goes on the offensive against Armenian PM Pashinyan

Ahead of Armenia’s June 7 parliamentary election, Russia is carrying out a full-scale pressure campaign against Nikol Pashinyan’s government.

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Brazil seeks new partners, expands credit lines as US tariff threat mounts

Turkey's official inflation shows minimal change in May at 33%

Russia eyes Azerbaijan to plug food import gap as Moscow-Yerevan ties fray

Brazil seeks new partners, expands credit lines as US tariff threat mounts

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva vowed to pursue alternative trade partners and pledged to attend next month's G7 summit in France, as his government scrambled to contain the fallout from fresh US tariff threats.

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Germany and France have circulated a non-paper proposing a new approach to the enlargement process that would accelerate the gradual integration of Southeast European countries and Moldova into the EU.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić travelled to Montenegro for regional summit despite warnings over threats to his safety and a string of cross-border incidents.

Qatar Airways is expanding its African network with a new Port Sudan service from July 2, resumed flights to Seychelles, Kigali and Marrakesh, and added frequencies across Egypt and southern Africa.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen accused Moscow of using economic pressure against Yerevan as Armenia continues to deepen ties with the European Union.

The US House just voted 215 to 208 to end the Iran war, by passing a new War Act, that is unlikely to have any impact on the Iran conflict as US President Donald Trump is widely expected to veto the motion.

Tech

Ashgabat takes steps to neutralise Starlink use.

Uzbekistan is betting heavily on technology as the next engine of economic growth, with state-backed IT Park emerging as the centrepiece of the country’s ambitions to become Central Asia’s leading exporter of digital services.

Russia has presented a domestically developed neuromorphic processor called “Altai”, a brain-inspired chip designed to perform artificial intelligence tasks with significantly lower power consumption than conventional processors.

The six-year facility for Poland's biggest e-commerce player will co-finance Allegro's strategic 2026-2030 plan to push its technological edge.

Despite strong potential, fragmented policies, limited access to growth capital and weak links between business and research hold the region back.

Opinion

Europe is in a historic decline that threatens its economic model, political autonomy and global influence, and lacks the intellectual framework needed to reverse the trend, according to the head of France's elite Sciences Po university.

The world has changed in a very fundamental way. For most of the last century the world has been run on the lines of Great Power Geopolitics: them and us; the enlightened and the barbaric; the rich and the poor.

An opposition win would not be an economic, political or geopolitical disaster.

I actually suspect that no-one seriously believes in the existence of the "Thucydides trap": not the Chinese, not the West, and probably not even Graham Allison, the author of the concept (he's too smart for this).

During his seven years as president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s attitude to Ukraine’s history has changed radically.

Data

National investment fund UzNIF enjoys 32% price bounce since groundbreaking IPO.

The Indonesian Rupiah has entered highly volatile territory, dropping to its weakest historical valuation on record as the currency broke through its psychological support wall to cross the IDR18,000 per US dollar mark.

Job shedding, however, strongest since November 2023.

Russia’s services sector contracted at a faster pace in May as weaker customer demand and financial strains among clients weighed on activity, according to S&P Global data, signalling continued pressure on the economy despite falling inflation.

Consumer spending rose sharply as households benefited from sizeable pre-election fiscal transfers and improving confidence.

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The Philippines is not alone as other countries bordering the South China Sea are also starting to push back. Surprisingly given shared Communist ideals is Vietnam, which has become one of the region's most active challengers of Chinese claims.

The European Union has for the first time imposed trade restrictions on a third country for systematically facilitating the circumvention of sanctions against Russia, marking a significant escalation in Brussels' efforts to tighten the pressure.

Central Asia is moving to convert its vast reserves of critical minerals into economic and geopolitical leverage as governments seek to position the region at the centre of global supply chains increasingly shaped by geopoliitcal competition.

Reporter responds: If that is the case, why is ‘poll theft victim’ Kilicdaroglu playing along with political engineering that opens way to consolidation of Turkish leader’s power?

Azerbaijan is accelerating both fossil fuel and renewable energy development as it seeks to entrench its role as a reliable supplier to Europe and emerging markets, Energy Minister Parviz Shahbazov told the 31st Baku Energy Forum.

Blogs

What began as an environmental campaign against the planned development linked to Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner has rapidly evolved into a broader protest movement.

He’s passionate but ultimately dull. While he’s directing matters, the regime can happily go about dismantling the opposition.

German businessmen are going to the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Russia’s premier investment forum, in a public show of the fraying commitment to cutting off commercial ties under the sanctions regime.

Kyrgyzstan wants more infrastructure maintenance funds. Afghanistan is preparing to divert river flows for irrigation. Disagreements could mount.

Is Aleksandar Vučić finally running out of road? In Serbia, it is the question that follows every large protest.

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Vietnam’s central province of Gia Lai is emerging as a renewable energy investment hub, with several large-scale wind power projects secured in the first months of 2026.

Hungary’s ambition to become Europe’s electric vehicle battery hub is colliding with a growing environmental reality: the country is running short of water, Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) said in a report.

As of mid-2026, China remains the centre of gravity in the EV world.

In part in order to reduce its heavy reliance on imported energy, India has an ambitious plan in place - a renewable energy capacity of 500GW by 2030.

Experts fret over possible damage to eco-balance caused by cloud-seeding. “If you take a cloud from one place, it will harm another place,” says one scientist.

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