Even after Italy’s BRIexit, the central government, companies, and local authorities will likely continue, and even boost, relations with China across the board.

Poland will stop supplying weapons to Ukraine after a row about grain imports saw President Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticise the country at the UN and Warsaw summon Kyiv’s ambassador.

Justin Trudeau said he was not trying to “provoke” India in the row over the killing of a Sikh leader.

Ukraine looks to have lost a key military ally as Poland suspends arms shipments over a worsening grain dispute.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Wednesday that if Russia helped North Korea enhance its weapons programs in return for assistance for its war in Ukraine, it would be “a direct provocation”.