China hosted a summit for African leaders last week while the Trump administration weighed adding two dozen more African countries to its travel ban list.

While Moscow has talked up its partnership with Iran, the deal does not require Russia to come to Iran's military aid The distraction of global attention away from Russia's war on Ukraine. "Kyiv has been forgotten" was a headline in Moskovsky Komsomolets And if the Kremlin's offer to mediate in the conflict was accepted,