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Alexei Navalny has been repeatedly arrested and detained in the past Russian authorities have opened a criminal case against opposition leader Alexei Navalny, an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin, for allegedly slandering a veteran of World War II. The Investigative Committee, which handles probes into major crimes, announced the…

(BEIJING) — China’s capital was bracing Monday for a resurgence of the coronavirus after more than 100 new cases were reported in recent days in a city that hadn’t seen a case of local transmission in more than a month. The United States, meanwhile, continued to struggle with an outbreak…

Russian President Vladimir Putin | Alexey Druzhinin/AFP via Getty Images ‘I see nothing good for the country,’ says the Russian president. Russian President Vladimir Putin said anti-racism protests in the United States are a “sign of some deep-seated internal crises.” In excerpts of an interview with state-owned Rossiya 1 television…

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By Alexander MarrowMOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced a Jehovah's Witness to six and a half years in prison after finding him guilty of organising the activities of a banned extremist organisation, his lawyer said.The ruling at the Pskov City Court, handed to 61-year-old Gennady Shpakovskiy, was…

The U.S. and Russia have agreed to start arms control talks later this month as the only remaining treaty between the two largest nuclear powers is poised to expireBy DEB RIECHMANN Associated PressJune 8, 2020, 8:54 PM3 min readWASHINGTON -- The U.S. and Russia have agreed to start arms control…

Image copyright Getty Images In our series of letters from African writers, Nigerian novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani says children are now having to police their credulous parents on WhatsApp.Just a few years ago, local comedians had a field day with jokes about elderly Nigerian mothers and their nonchalant attitudes towards…

Last night a flurry of reports from CBS, The New Yorker, the AP, NBC news and others presented a new version of what happened a week ago Monday outside the Episcopal Church in front of the White House, what now seems clearly to have been a turning point, at least…

Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a state of emergency in the city of Norilsk after a massive oil spill in the Arctic region.Read More

Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a state of emergency in the city of Norilsk after a massive oil spill in the Arctic region. An estimated 20,000 tons of fuel from a power plant spilled onto a road, and a large part made its way into an river on May 29.A…