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MOSCOW: South Africa's president, in Russia as part of a delegation pushing for peace between Kyiv and Moscow, on Saturday (Jun 17) told his Russian counterpart the fighting had to stop. His delegation put forward a set of principles that the Kremlin deemed "very difficult to implement", a day after…

A delegation of the joint African initiative to settle Russian-Ukrainian crisis met on Saturday with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg to present elements of the African initiative.  The African delegation included the Presidents of South Africa, Senegal, the Comoros, and Zambia, and representatives of Uganda and the Republic…

Putin said he was open to 'constructive dialogue' - Copyright AFP Jim WATSON South Africa’s president, in Russia as part of a delegation pushing for peace between Kyiv and Moscow, on Saturday told his Russian counterpart the fighting had to stop. His delegation put forward a set of principles that…

Advanced computing has helped researchers solve a decades-old mystery about light localization in 3D structures. The study found that light can be trapped or “localized” in random packings of metallic spheres, paving the way for potential developments in lasers and photocatalysts. Credit: Yale University A team of researchers has harnessed…

Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed that Moscow's deployment of tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus has already happened, reminding the West that it could not inflict a strategic defeat on Russia. "The first nuclear warheads were delivered to the territory of Belarus. But only the first ones, the first part. But…

DUBAI - Russian President Vladimir Putin met with United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday, and discussed strategic partnerships in addition to stabilizing the Ukraine crisis.  The two leaders expressed their commitment to ongoing bilateral ties, according to the state-owned…

A project to establish a Russian industrial zone within Egypt’s Suez Canal economic zone is currently being discussed, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during his visit to the UAE pavilion at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. The UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed proposed tripartite cooperation between Russia, Egypt…

‘Our troops are moving in conditions of extremely severe fighting, enemy aviation and artillery advantage,” Ukrainian Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malyar said on Telegram. The official said the Ukrainian military had advanced in some areas near the Russian-occupied city of Bakhmut as well as in the southern Zaporizhzhia region. A…

According to recent reports from LatePost, major Chinese internet companies that have a cloud computing business have placed substantial orders with NVIDIA following this year’s Spring Festival. ByteDance, for example, has ordered over $1 billion in GPUs from NVIDIA this year. One source close to NVIDIA stated that ByteDance has…

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing division of Amazon, experienced an outage on Tuesday that temporarily left engineers unable to access certain tools and affected a number of businesses and organizations. The Boston Globe and the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority were among those who tweeted that their websites…