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Major oil producers meeting in Vienna Wednesday agreed to reduce their collective crude production levels by 2 million barrels a day starting next month, but...

OPEC+ alliance makes big cut to world oil production to boost sagging prices, which could mean rising costs at the pump

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its oil-exporting allies announced a 2 million barrel per day cut in oil production Wednesday, bucking months of pressure from Washington to increase production and potentially spiking gas p

OPEC+ looks set for deep oil output cuts when it meets on Wednesday, curbing supply in an already tight market despite and other consuming countries to pump more.

A similar timeframe was implemented by Russia for Crimean residents in 2014.

"Western elites deny not only national sovereignty and international law; their hegemony has the pronounced character of totalitarianism, despotism, and apartheid," Putin asserted. "They brazenly divide the world into their vassals, into so-called civilized countries and everyone else who,

Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West of "Satanism" and bemoaned that "there are supposedly genders besides women and men" on Friday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Ukraine's application for rapid ascension into the NATO alliance on Friday, which coincides with Russian President Vladimir Putin's approval of the annexation of four Ukrainian territories.

Putin hosts ceremony for four occupied Ukrainian regions.

Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service has evidence of a "Western trace" in the Nord Stream explosions, Director Sergey Naryshkin claimed

New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern warned allowing free speech online leads to rhetoric that can be as dangerous as military weaponry.

New Zealand communist Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern labeled internet freedom a "weapon of war" in her most recent UN speech before the General Assembly this week. Leftist Ardern, who ruled her country like a 20th Century despot during the COVID pa

At the General Debate during the 77th session of the UN General Assembly, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov declared that the United States government is attempting to turn the entire planet into its “backyard”. He also called attention to the US’s use of unilateral sanctions against

Russia has confirmed it will formally annex parts of Ukraine where occupied areas held a Kremlin-orchestrated "referendum" on living under Moscow's rule that the Ukrainian government and the West denounced as illegal and rigged

The outbreak of Sudan ebolavirus cases is already linked to at least 23 deaths, and one expert tells CBS News he sees it "getting worse before it gets better."

The embassy warned dual citizens could be entered into Putin's conscription or prevented from leaving the country.

A former Polish defense minister credited the United States with blowing holes in two Russian natural gas pipelines to Europe, Nord Stream 1 and 2. Der Spiegel says the CIA warned Germany of a potential attack on the pipelines several weeks ago.

Damage To Nord Stream Pipelines "Unprecedented;" May Have Been 'Sabotaged' The plot thickens about what caused damage to three lines of the Nord Stream gas-pipeline system under the Baltic Sea to Europe. Some European officials suspect

Dmitri Medvedev, a former Russian president, said that Russia has the right to use nuclear weapons 'if the use of conventional weapons threatens the very existence of our state.'

Any use of nuclear weapons by Russia is unacceptable and would have severe consequences, NATO said on Tuesday after an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin .