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Two years ago, British intelligence alleged that Russia's military intelligence agency, known as the GRU, used a nerve agent from the Novichok family — an exotic Soviet-developed class of chemical weapons — to poison one of its former spies, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter, Yulia. Depending on whom you ask,…

(Source: Baidu Cloud) Beijing-based technology giant Baidu, Inc. on Tuesday joined hands with Shunde District Government of Foshan City, Guangdong Province to hold a ceremony signing a project investment cooperation agreement and Baidu Cloud Computing (Shunde) Center officially settled in Shunde with a total installed scale of servers exceeding 200,000…

OTTAWA — Canada's minister of foreign affairs says he is deeply troubled by reports from German experts who have concluded that a Russian political opposition figure was poisoned with the same type of nerve agent used on a former spy in 2018. OTTAWA — Canada's minister of foreign affairs says…

BERLIN—Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was poisoned with Novichok, a chemical nerve agent, the German government said Wednesday, presenting the strongest evidence yet that the attack could have been carried out by Russian state agencies. Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Moscow to explain the revelation, which she described as an…

Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption activist, was attacked with the nerve agent Novichok — a calling card of the Russian security services — Germany's government announced on Wednesday.The state of play: Navalny remains in a coma in a Berlin hospital two weeks after falling ill on a…

Five new quantum information science centers will marry the R&D strengths of academia, industry and U.S. national laboratories Credit: Getty Images Fully functional quantum computers and a new quantum industry may appear much sooner than many have anticipated—thanks to five new National Quantum Information Science Research centers just announced by…

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MOSCOW—Yegor Zhukov is the face of a new generation of Putin opponents using social media as well as student rallies to stand up to the regime. On Sunday night, he was beaten up outside his home in Moscow hours after posting a YouTube video criticizing Putin. In a statement to…

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has formed a police force to intervene in Belarus if he decides it is necessary to support embattled President Alexander Lukashenko. Speaking on Russian state TV, Putin said Lukashenko “asked me to set up a certain police reserve - I have done so”.He went on to say that…