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[ad_1] G-7 leaders stand together after the family photo. Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in the Japan on Saturday to attend the Group of Seven (G-7) summit, giving him a rare chance to both drum up support from the world's rich democracies and sound out "Global South" leaders with long ties to Russia. The Ukrainian president's attendance at the G-7 summit in Hiroshima, the first city to suffer a nuclear attack, also put in sharp relief western concerns over the nuclear threat posed by Moscow. G-7 members — the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Italy and Canada — are grappling with the immense challenges posed by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and tensions with China, notably over Taiwan and economic security. Worried by the outsized role China now plays in supply chains in everything from semiconductors to critical minerals, the G-7 issued a communique that set out a common strategy tow

[ad_1] Any attempt to arrest President Vladimir Putin after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant for the Kremlin chief would amount to a declaration of war against Russia, his ally Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday. The ICC issued an arrest warrant on Friday, accusing Putin of the war crime of illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine. It said there are reasonable grounds to believe that Putin bears individual criminal responsibility. Former President Dmitry Medvedev told Russian media that the ICC, which countries including Russia, China and the United States do not recognise, was a “legal nonentity” that had never done anything significant. Any attempt to detain Putin, though, would be a declaration of war, said Medvedev, who serves as deputy chairman of Putin’s powerful security council. “Let’s imagine — obviously this situation which will never be realised — but nevertheless let’s imagine that it was realised: The current head of the nuclear

[ad_1] Moscow — A U.S. journalist working for The Wall Street Journal has been arrested in Russia on charges of spying for Washington, Russia's FSB security services said Thursday. The announcement marks a serious escalation in Kremlin's efforts to silence perceived critics, a crackdown that gained momentum following Russia's military operation in Ukraine last year. The FSB security services said they had "halted the illegal activities of U.S. citizen Evan Geshkovich," saying The Wall Street Journal reporter was "suspected of spying in the interests of the American government." Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, is seen in an undated photo from his LinkedIn profile.  Evan Gershkovich/LinkedIn Their statement confirmed that Geshkovich, 31, was working with press accreditation issued by the Russian foreign minist

[ad_1] African leaders push Putin on grain deal resolution, peace plan A bakery along an alley in Cairo on July 27, 2023. Khaled Desouki | AFP | Getty Images African leaders gathered in St. Petersburg for a Russia-Africa summit urged President Vladimir Putin to move ahead with their peace plan for the conflict in Ukraine and provide guarantees for the safe passage of grain to their countries. "The African (peace) initiative deserves the closest attention, it mustn't be underestimated," Congo Republic President Denis Sassou Nguesso told Putin and African heads of state, according to a Reuters translation. "We once again urgently call for the restoration of peace in Europe," he added. Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi also called on Russia to restore the Black Sea Grain Initiative, which Moscow exited last week. Prior to the withdrawal, it had allowed for the safe, global export of grain from Ukraine. Putin says Russia withdrew from the pact because