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Sky News
42 minutes ago
- Sky News
India hints it will keep buying Russian oil
India has indicated it will defy threats made by US President Donald Trump and continue buying Russian oil. The world's third-largest crude importer - after China and the US - cashed in on cheap Russian oil when its price plummeted after Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Historically, it had bought most of its crude from countries in the Middle East. But this changed after the invasion in February 2022, when western countries slapped sanctions on Russia in a bid to choke off money fuelling Moscow's war chest. It prompted the recent energy crisis that saw household bills in the UK soar. On Friday, the Indian foreign ministry said its relationship with Russia was "steady and time-tested", and warned against viewing it through the lens of another country. Addressing a weekly meeting, spokesman Randhir Jaiswal said India's general position on procuring energy was guided by supply in the markets and prevailing global circumstances. The sentiment was echoed by two further government sources cited by the Reuters news agency. "These are long-term oil contracts," one of the sources said. "It is not so simple to just stop buying overnight." India is highly dependent on oil imports, which supply 87% of its needs, according to the International Energy Agency. The comments follow a threat made by President Trump to impose a 25% tariff on goods from India, as well as an additional import tax, because of New Delhi's purchases of Russian oil. The US president made ending the war in Ukraine a top priority - pledging to do so within his first 24 hours in office. But recently Mr Trump - who has repeatedly praised the Mr Putin over the years - has started to sour on the Russian leader for failing to agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine. 4:22 He called it "disappointing" and also threatened new economic sanctions on Russia if progress is not made. Mr Trump also this week said he had ordered two US nuclear submarines to be positioned in the "appropriate regions" in a row with former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev. The pressure on India comes after it upped it Russian crude purchases from 68,000 barrels per day in January 2022 to 1.12 million barrels per day by June that year. Supplies rose as high as nearly 40% of India's imports at one point, making Russia the largest supplier of crude to New Delhi, according to the Press Trust of India, citing data from analytics firm Kpler. Home to 1.3 billion people, India is expected to become an even bigger oil consumer over the remainder of the decade, fuelled by spectacular growth in its economy, as well as rising population and demographics. Demand has been rising fastest for petrol, with rising household incomes sparking a boom in motorcycle and car ownership.
Daily Mail
2 hours ago
- Daily Mail
Venus Williams reflects on harrowing health battle a year on from surgery: 'I was told I could bleed to death'
Venus Williams has opened up on the depths of her recent health struggles, a year on from having surgery to remove fibroids from her uterus. The 45-year-old Williams, who recently confirmed her engagement to her actor boyfriend Andrea Preti, took a 16-month break from tennis due to the issue, returning to the court back in July. Now, for the first time, Williams has revealed just how much her condition was impacting her life away from tennis in a moving Instagram post 12 months on from her operation in New York. 'On this day 1 year ago I was having surgery, an open myomectomy to remove fibroids and a large focal adenomyoma that was imbedded in the muscle of my uterus,' Williams wrote on Instagram. 'What a difference a year makes! I played my first tournament in over 16 months and I am now preparing for the US Open. This post is in celebration of the last day of fibroid awareness month. There can be happy endings!' Williams won her first singles game since March 2024 at the Citi Open in Washington D.C. in July, the latest landmark step on her road to recovery. The 45-year-old took a 16-month break from tennis, before returning to the court back in July She told reporters at the tournament that the difference in her health is 'night and day' from the summer of 2024. But Williams told her 2 million followers on Instagram that she was now opening up her journey to recovery to reassure other women with the same condition. 'I was told I was inoperable,' she wrote. 'I was told I could bleed to death on the table. 'I was told to get a surrogate and forget the hope to carry my own children. I was misdiagnosed. 'I went untreated for years and years and years. It's so important to advocate for your health! I suffered from severe anemia, debilitating pain, excessive bleeding and abnormally frequent menstrual cycles for many years. It affected my tennis and the trajectory of my career.' 'I told my story so other women don't have to go through this and so they can get better sooner. I play tennis now because I can play healthier than ever, it is a dream come true!' It promises to be an emotional return to Queens for Williams later in August at the competition she first won in 2000. Williams confirmed her engagement to her Italian boyfriend Preti on her return to the game in DC, telling the crowd after her win: 'My fiancé is here and he really encouraged me to keep playing. 'There were so many times where I just wanted to coast and kind of chill. Do you know how hard it is to play tennis? You guys don't know how much work goes into this, like it's 9 to 5 except you're running the whole time. 'Lifting weights and just like dying and then you repeat it the next day. So he encouraged me to get through this and it's wonderful to be here. He's never seen me play.' The couple were first linked last summer when they were on vacation on the Amalfi coast. Speculation over their engagement had been rife for months - Williams was seen practicing with a huge ring back in February.
Daily Mail
2 hours ago
- Daily Mail
Former Trump and Epstein lawyer threatened with arrest over feud with pierogi vendor
Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump 's former attorney Alan Dershowitz was threatened with arrest after getting into a spat with a pierogi vendor on Martha's Vineyard. Dershowitz was at the West Tisbury Farmers Market on Wednesday when he claims Good Pierogi declined to sell to him because of his 'politics'. Video of the aftermath showed a police officer threatening to arrest the lawyer for trespassing unless he left the area. 'They couldn't say no blacks, they couldn't say no Jews, and they can't say... no Trump supporters, I'm not a Trump supporter, but they can't say no Trump supporters,' he said to the officer. 'I've been going here for 53 this farmer's market. I have never been refused service,' he added. The two went back and forth for several minutes arguing about the law until the officer said Dershowitz was 'causing a disturbance'. 'I had four people come up to me and say that the gentleman with the blue shirt is causing a disturbance,' the officer said. 'I have multiple reports—' 'But they're wrong,' Dershowitz interrupted. 'I'm not causing a disturbance.' Dershowitz then said he wanted to stay at least 20 feet away from the pierogi stand and encourage people not to patronize them. 'If you do that on the premises you will be asked to leave because you're disrupting the business,' the officer said. Dershowitz tried to insist that he knew the law better than the officer, but the interaction wound down once the officer said he would arrest Dershowitz for trespassing if he stayed at the farmer's market. After some more arguing, Dershowitz agreed to leave. Krem Miskevich is the owner and operator Good Pierogi. Miskevich, who was born in Warsaw, Poland, also runs a catering business on Martha's Vineyard. Dershowitz told Daily Mail that Miskevich was the one who declined to sell him the six pierogi he asked for. 'And he said "no,"' Dershowitz claimed. 'I said "oh, you've run out of pierogi? Too bad." [The vendor allegedly said] "no no no, we have plenty of pierogi. I just won't sell them to you".' Dershowitz said he asked why and Miskevich allegedly replied, 'I won't sell them to you because I don't approve of your politics. I don't approve of who you've represented. I don't approve of who you support.' In a post on X, Dershowitz declared that he would be 'suing' and called the Good Pierogi a 'bigoted vendor'. Daily Mail approached Good Pierogi and Miskevich for comment. 'The clear implication was that he opposed me because I defended Donald Trump on the floor of the Senate,' Dershowitz said. Dershowitz was one of the lawyers who defended Trump in his first impeachment trial in 2020. He was also part of the 'Dream Team' that convinced a jury to acquit O.J. Simpson in his 1995 murder trial. His most controversial past client though was unquestionably Epstein, whom he represented in 2008 when the financier was first formally accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls. With the representation of Dershowitz and others, Epstein secured what many have called a lenient plea deal from the Miami US Attorney's Office that led to him only serving 13 months jail. Dershowitz didn't mention Epstein as a reason the pierogi vendor could have turned on him, however, he did claim that the vendor looked at him funny during an earlier visit when he was wearing a T-shirt that said, 'Proud American Zionist'. 'It became evident to me that he opposed my being a Zionist, my support for Israel,' he said. Dershowitz said he informed an official with the farmer's market that he would take 'legal action' against it 'to make sure that they only have booths by people who will sell to everybody, that they don't allow people to have booths on this quasi-public property that discriminate on the basis of race or religion or gender or politics'. He told Daily Mail that he isn't going to have to sue the farmer's market because management told him 'they're probably going to change their bylaws'. 'I don't have to sue. I've won,' he added. Ethan Buchanan-Valenti, the manager of the farmer's market, previously told the Vineyard Gazette that he is in the process of reviewing the bylaws, 'to make sure everyone at the market is always being respected and their rights protected'. A spokesman for the West Tisbury Police Department confirmed to Daily Mail that Dershowitz showed up to Saturday's farmer's market. 'He came by earlier today,' the spokesman said. 'There was no incident he caused. He was not disorderly.' The spokesman added that the Good Pierogi stand was not at the market today, as it usually only makes an appearance on Wednesdays. This is not the first highly public spat that Dershowitz has had with someone on Martha's Vineyard. Back in 2021, he and Larry David — whom he was friends with for 25 years — got into a screaming match at a general store, according to Dershowitz. The comedian was reportedly furious that Dershowitz patted Trump's former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the back, which was first reported by PageSix.
