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Following political developments in the past fortnight, two state-level policy changes in the Middle East are likely to combine to have a substantial impact on regional stability.

In Washington, the war in Ukraine can day-in, day-out feel like a bureaucratic exercise. A question of overseeing huge resources, votes in Congress and overworked diplomats on another flight out of Dulles. More like a war game, for American players, than an actual war. But on Tuesday that spell briefly…

One Ukrainian player withdrew from the tournament while a Russian player has been warned for wearing a Spartak Moscow shirt.

The White House says it will be ‘impossible’ for Moscow to obtain any useful material from the downed craft

Lloyd Austin says incident would not deter US from flying where nternational laws allowed

Pentagon says video has been edited for length but shows sequence of events

Chairwoman of the Russian Federation Valentina Matviyenko started on Wednesday discussions in Algeria with its officials, mainly the scheduled visit of Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune to Moscow in May. Meanwhile, President of Eurojust the European Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation Ladislav Hamran has pledged to assist Algeria in its efforts…

US releases footage of drone incident over Black Sea; Moscow says it will attempt to retrieve wreckage of US drone from water

The Pentagon released on Thursday a video showing a Russian military jet intercept a US drone downed over the Black Sea two days ago, in what was the first direct encounter between the world's leading nuclear powers since the Ukraine war began. The rare Pentagon move came a day after…