Western nations slapped debilitating sanctions on Russia after the start of the Ukraine campaign in February, including import and export restrictions that have snarled supply chains.

Finland’s economic affairs minister Mika Lintilä said more than 60% of Finnish citizens want the country to become a member of NATO after the Russian invasion of Ukraine

The Extinction Rebellion (XR) had said on its website that it planned to block a major Parisian location to disrupt the electoral cycle and its "business as usual" attitude.

In a recent interview to Fox News, Prof Amy Wax from the University of Pennsylvania alleged that “Blacks” and “non-Western” groups have “a tremendous amount of resentment and shame against western people for [their] outsized achievements and contributions".

US President Joe Biden during the 2021 US-ASEAN summit had announced $102 million in new initiatives to expand engagement with ASEAN on covid-19 recovery and health security, climate change, economic growth and other areas, the White House said.

The besieged port city in Ukraine's southeast has been among the hardest hit due to Russia's invasion of its neighbour.

2020 was a long and contentious year politically which ended with a win for Biden, America, and India. That is good news. The better news is that the best is yet to come.