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By Tara McKelvey BBC News, Washington Image source, WHITE HOUSE POOL Wendy Sherman, one of the world's most powerful diplomats, is known as the Silver Fox because of her silver-white mane and her canny deal-making style. On Wednesday, she is helping to lead the US-Russia talks in Europe. Ms Sherman…

Banking regulators in the UK are considering closer scrutiny of cloud providers in light of recent outages and the financial services sector's increasing dependence on the computing model. The Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) is currently looking into how it can get more access to data and systems…

Kazakhstan’s President, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, has described deadly violence last week as an attempted coup d’état. He told leaders of a military alliance of ex-Soviet states the action had been coordinated by a “single centre”, but did not name those responsible. Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, said Kazakhstan had been targeted by…

Kyiv, Ukraine – With their country’s fate being discussed at this week’s US-Russia talks, Ukrainians took to the streets over the weekend to defend their independence and champion an additional cause – that of Kazakhstan’s protests. On Sunday, demonstrators in Kyiv and Kharkov, Ukraine’s second largest city, held signs that…

The 21st century's great bogeyman returns, on seemingly endless fronts, to test yet another American president. Few figures the world wide have gone mano a mano with Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden. But Russian President Vladimir Putin has. From Windows 95 to iPhone…

MOSCOW—The flood of Russian troops into Kazakhstan to help shore up the embattled government sends a clear signal to both the West and other former Soviet republics: Russian President Vladimir Putin will brook no threat to what he views as Russia’s inviolable sphere of influence. The venture into Kazakhstan, at…

In the face of rising Western hostility, Russia ‘would not want to see India and China fighting with each other’, Chinese scholar says A Russia-India-China platform, as proposed by President Vladimir Putin, would ‘increase the stability factor in general Sino-Indian relations’, Hu Shisheng explains Read More

RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR Putin and his Kazakh counterpart Kassym-Jomart Tokayev held a “lengthy” phone conversation to discuss the situation in Kazakhstan following unprecedented unrest, the Kremlin has said. It said that Tokayev informed Putin “in detail” about the situation in the country, “noting that it is developing towards stabilisation,” the…

Intel showed off what you can expect from its purchase of Screenovate last December: cross-platform communication from your PC to Android tablets, smartwatches, iPhones, and more—all reserved for specific Evo PCs. On December 6, Intel bought Israeli developer Screenovate, reportedly for $100 million. The company is now part of Intel’s…

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Kazakhstani counterpart Kassym-Jomart Tokayev held a "lengthy" phone conversation to discuss the situation in Kazakhstan following unprecedented unrest, the Kremlin said Saturday. It said that Tokayev informed Putin "in detail" about the situation in the country, "noting that it is developing towards stabilisation," the…