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Electric vehicles displaced about 1.7mn barrels a day (b/d) of oil consumption worldwide in 2025, up from 0.4mn b/d in 2020, according to the International Energy Agency's Global EV Outlook 2026 , published in June.

More than half of Russians have already decided how they'll vote in Duma election - poll

Trade in goods between Russia and China rose 26.3% year-on-year to $159.2bn in January-July 2026 , the Russian Trade Mission in China said on August 7, citing Chinese customs data, Vedomosti reported.

Russia has destroyed more than half of the Kyiv region's pre-war warehouse capacity since its full-scale invasion began, after strikes overnight on

Ukraine's drone campaign against Russian refineries has rocked not only Russia's own fuel market but those of Central Asia too, Carnegie Politika's

North Korea earned as much as $22bn in foreign currency between 2022 and 2025, nearly four times the total for the previous four-year period, according

A "truce" between the UAE and Iran, agreed after direct contacts between senior officials in mid-June, is helping both countries manage the fallout

Corruption worries Ukrainians more than the nightly bombing of thier cities by Russia, according to a new poll released on Auugst 7.

EU gas storage is refilling at one of its slowest paces in 15 years, and the numbers say the bloc has almost no chance of reaching its 90% target by November.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Kyiv has reached an agreement with the United States to receive monthly deliveries of Patriot interceptor