RUSSIA

Analysts are predicting that oil prices will strike $100 a barrel in 2022 amidst mounting fears that production will fail to keep up with ravenous demand for energy and geopolitical tensions that add to supply fears.

The authorities reportedly used helicopters to try and locate the alleged drone, but the efforts ended in vain.

As talks with the United States over Ukraine remain futile, Russia has clarified it does not reject the idea of implementing military hardware in Venezuela and Cuba if the West increases enmity.

A warship of the British Royal Navy had a collision with a Russian submarine it was tracking at sea that was caught on camera by a film crew traveling onboard the vessel when the incident happened.

The rocket part reentered the Earth's atmosphere over the South Pacific Ocean.

As tension grows at the Russia-Ukraine border, China announces meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Officials from the U.S. and U.K. have discussed how to deter Russia from “further aggression against Ukraine.”

While Russian official denies it is preparing for an attack against Ukraine, Russia has amassed more than 90,000 troops near the border. 

President Biden says he won't send US troops to Ukraine if the current conflict with Russian leader Vladamir Putin escalates.

On Tuesday, President Joe Biden held a two hour long video call with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin amid a new standoff over Ukraine. The president imparted on Putin the United States and its NATO allies' resolve to punish any invasion.

President Biden is prepared to impose massive economic sanctions that would severely hinder the Russian economy if Vladimir Putin invades Ukraine.

U.S. and Russian leaders met in Sweden amid growing tensions around Russia's military movements in Ukraine.

OPEC said they would continue to pump more crude despite concern about what kind of threat the COVID-19 Omicron variant poses to the global economy.

President Vladimir Putin said if NATO countries cross Ukraine “red line” it could trigger a strong response from Russia.

Following the missile strike, astronauts now face four times greater risk than normal from space junk.

Germany halts Russia's Nord Stream 2 pipeline following growing political pressure from Ukraine and the U.S. to scrap project.

Pfizer-BioNTech announced a deal with a United Nations supported medical supply group to expand production of its COVID-19 antiviral pill. The new deal would expand access to COVID-19 treatment to poorer nations to fight against the virus. 

In a press conference on Monday, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg clarified that NATO and allied nations stand with Ukraine against Russia.

The prisoners were urinated on and raped by male prisoners. Some inmates were also violated using a blunt object, according to prisoner rights group Gulagu.net.

Two men allegedly responsible for the Sodinokibi/REvil ransomware attack in July were charged by the Department of Justice.

Life expectancy in the United States has dropped by its highest amount since World War II during the COVID-19, the highest drop in life expectancy among rich countries, second only to Russia.