The United States recommends that China and Russia hold a meeting soon to discuss next steps in order to launch trilateral discussions on arms control, State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said in a statement on Thursday

The killing of a Chechen blogger and asylum seeker in Austria's Vienna might have been a contract murder or motivated by a quarrel, the representative of the police department of the Lower Austria region, Johann Baumschlager, said on Thursday

The United States recommends that China and Russia hold a meeting soon to discuss next steps in order to launch trilateral discussions on arms control, State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said in a statement on Thursday

The Kremlin does not see any links between the killing of a Chechen blogger in Vienna and the leader of the Chechen republic Ramzan Kadyrov, Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday

Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Russia's Chechen Republic, on Thursday suggested that foreign security services had a role in the killing of a Chechen blogger and asylum seeker in Austria's Vienna

Austria is currently not planning to open the borders for non-EU countries despite a recommendation of the Council of the European Union, Austrian Foreign Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg said on Wednesday, speaking on the easing of the entry restrictions in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic

The Austrian parliament's economic committee has endorsed a motion of the ruling coalition that will give the police the right to ask suspected coronavirus patients for details about their symptoms