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Leaders and politicians around the world have expressed their condolences as news spread that the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, whose reforms helped end the Cold War and free Eastern Europe from communism, but also led to the collapse of the Soviet Union, died overnight at the age of 91. Some in Russia and elsewhere took to social…

MOSCOW, Aug 21 (Reuters) - At least 16 people died and another three were hospitalised after a lorry collided with a stationary minibus in Russia's Ulyanovsk region on Sunday, local law enforcement said."According to preliminary data, the driver of a heavy goods vehicle did not slow down in good time and hit a stationary minibus," the Ulyanovsk…

Last month a UN report found new evidence that Russia had committed war crimes in Ukraine with deliberate killings and widespread use of torture. But they have yet to examine the intentional destruction of cultural property, which also is a war crime. Ukraine accuses Russian forces of targeting churches, libraries, and looting the country's most…

TOKYO (AP) — Hiroshima on Saturday remembered the atomic bombing 77 years ago as officials, including the head of the United Nations, warned against nuclear weapons buildup and as fears grow of another such attack amid Russia’s war on Ukraine.“Nuclear weapons are nonsense. They guarantee no safety — only death and destruction,” said U.N.…

President Volodymyr Zelensky has held a special meeting to consider the issue of compensation for damage and losses caused to Ukraine by Russia’s military aggression. The relevant report was published on the president’s website, Ukrinform reports. Zelensky at the meeting noted that the issue of compensation for…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Russian state media outlets have been offering words of support for Former President Donald Trump amid the FBI raid of his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida in an attempt to sow discord in the U.S."The Russians understand that Donald Trump is a hot button in America and they use their narratives to foment…

KYIV -- On August 24, Ukrainians celebrate Independence Day, a major national holiday marking the declaration of independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. This year, it comes exactly six months after Russia launched a large-scale invasion aimed to strip Ukraine of that independence.On the weekend preceding the public holiday, damaged Russian…

Comment on this storyCommentMoscow and its separatist allies in Ukraine are using a vast and punitive “filtration” system to detain, interrogate and surveil Ukrainians, according to U.S. officials and human rights investigators, and have forcibly transferred hundreds of thousands to Russia since the start of the war.The system operates in…

Taiwan’s Kinmen island, with China’s Xiamen in the background. Soldiers on the island targeted a Chinese drone, which flew away towards Xiamen © Getty ImagesTaiwan has begun targeting Chinese drones flying over its outlying islands for the first time, highlighting the risk that Beijing’s military pressure on Taipei could lead to actual…

A well head and drilling rig in the Yarakta oilfield, owned by Irkutsk Oil Company (INK), in the Irkutsk region, Russia, March 11, 2019. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko/File PhotoRegister now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comRegisterAug 18 (Reuters) - OPEC is keen to ensure Russia remains part of the OPEC+ oil production deal after 2022, OPEC…