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Vladimir Putin has not ruled out peace talks - but says there can be no ceasefire while Russia is under attack from Ukraine. The Russian president made the comments to journalists after meeting African leaders in St Petersburg. He said Moscow has not rejected talks on Ukraine - and an…

‘We call on the president of the People’s Republic of China, India and Brazil not to come to (the) Brics summit in solidarity with President Putin,’ Julius Malema said Putin’s potential visit had posed a dilemma for South Africa, as he is the target of an ICC arrest warrant, but…

As Vladimir Putin was welcoming African heads of state to a summit in St. Petersburg, renegade warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin stole the limelight in the president’s home city, schmoozing with visiting officials and lauding a military coup in Niger. The Wagner mercenary group leader was supposed to go into exile in…

Russia has signed agreements for military cooperation with over 40 African countries, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Friday in St Petersburg. “For the purposes of bolstering the defence capability of the continent’s countries, we are developing partnerships in the military and military-technical spheres,” Putin said during the second and…

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The Russian government has written off over $20 billion of debt historically owed by African nations, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday. President Putin who announced the debts forgiveness at a plenary session of the Russia-Africa forum in St. Petersburg, also said that Moscow would allocate more funds to help…

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the trade turnover between Russia and African countries had increased by almost 35% in the first half of 2023 despite international sanctions and the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking at a trilateral meeting with the Chairperson of the African Union, President of the Union…

Yael Tauman Kalai’s breakthroughs secure the digital world, from cloud computing to our quantum future. Yael Tauman Kalai, a cryptographer at Microsoft’s New England Research and Development Center, focuses on ways to safeguard computations. Katherine Taylor for Quanta Magazine IntroductionYael Tauman Kalai is a pioneering theoretical computer scientist who’s won…

Alibaba’s cloud and computing division has added Meta’s recently released large language model Llama2 into ModelScope, an open-source “model-as-a-service” platform owned by the e-commerce giant. This enables Chinese corporations to train their own AI models or develop applications based on Llama2. The move coincides with the cloud unit’s preparations for…

T aoiseach Leo Varadkar has said he does not think the Irish Government would offer condolences to Russia in the event of Vladimir Putin’s death. Mr Varadkar was responding to a question relating to Ireland’s historical foreign policy. He said he did not believe an Irish delegation would be present…