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Billionaire businessman Elon Musk, head of Tesla, held talks with Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang in Beijing on Sunday after arriving unexpectedly aboard a private flight. During the talks, Li described Tesla's presence in China as "a successful example of Chinese-American economic and trade cooperation." Musk praised the "hard work" of his Chinese team in Shanghai, which had made the Tesla plant there the best performing in the company. Musk added that he was looking to enhance cooperation with China. Media reports indicated that the surprise visit had to do with data transfer issues. Accordi......

Russian opposition activist Leonid Volkov, a close ally of the late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny who died in an Arctic prison just over three weeks ago, has shown himself to be combative following a violent attack outside his home in Lithuania. "We will carry on and not give up," said Volkov in a video published on Telegram on Wednesday. Volkov, who lives in exile in Lithuania and served as Navalny's chief of staff, was attacked and injured outside his home Tuesday evening. The attack was a "typical bandit salute" by Russian President Vladimir Putin's henchmen, he said. "They literally wanted......

The team of the late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who was President Vladimir Putin's fiercest domestic opponent, said it plans to organize a public memorial service in Moscow by Friday. "We are looking for a hall for Alexei's public farewell," Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh wrote on Monday on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter. The planned date is the end of the current working week, she added. Navalny died suddenly on February 16 in the prison camp with the unofficial name "Polar Wolf" in the Siberian Arctic region of Yamal, Russian authorities said. The circumstances of h......

Russian President Vladimir Putin sat in the cockpit of a supersonic strategic bomber during a test flight, the Interfax news agancy has reported. The plane, a TU-160M, took off from the military airfield in Kazan, and the flight lasted around 30 minutes, according to the Interfax report. The decision to take part in the flight was made by Putin the day before during a visit to the aircraft factory, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying. Details of the flight were not revealed in advance, because they were classified as a military secret. After the flight Putin described the bomb......

The mother of jailed Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny has commented on the reports of her son's death in a Russian prison camp. "I don't want to hear any expressions of sympathy," she was quoted as saying on Friday by independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta. She last saw her son during a visit to the prison camp last Monday, she added. "He was alive, healthy and full of life." Supporters of Navalny said earlier they have not yet received direct confirmation of his death and have only seen a general announcement issued by the prison system....

Actor and former US politician Arnold Schwarzenegger was briefly detained by German customs officers at Munich Airport on Wednesday for allegedly failing to declare a valuable luxury watch. Austrian-born Schwarzenegger was eventually able to continue on his journey, said a spokesman for the main customs office in Munich on Wednesday evening. He was also able to take the watch with him. Criminal tax proceedings had been initiated against Schwarzenegger, a world-champion bodybuilder and action film star who also served two terms as governor of the US state of California. According to the customs......