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China’s Xi meets Russian FM Lavrov, calls relations with Moscow ‘precious’

comments did appear to reference growing fears that the shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz could trigger a global food crisis as critical fertiliser and fuel exports are blocked from leaving the Gulf. The strait

First Thing: Huge climate cost of emissions from US immigration enforcement flights

Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, pressured the US to [evacuate staff from its embassy in Kyiv](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/26/ukraine-war-briefing-russia-pressures-us-embassy-evacuate-attacks-kyiv)** during a phone call with the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio. Russia has threatened

Putin remains uncompromising on Ukraine, but is public discourse on war changing in Russia?

Sergei Lavrov once told me in an interview. That fits. But I recently heard an updated version from veteran pop and folk singer Nadezhda Babkina. After receiving an award from President Putin, Babkina told