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Two-time grand slam champion Naomi Osaka has played powerful, clean tennis to defeat Shelby Rogers in straight sets and return to the US Open semi finals.Fourth-seeded Osaka's sharp serving and superior return game was on show as she accounted for unseeded American Rogers 6-3 6-4 in one hour and 20…

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. — Reuters/Files BERLIN: Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been removed from a medically induced coma and is responding to speech, Berlin’s Charite hospital said on Monday. The hospital, which has been treating Navalny since he was airlifted to Germany after falling ill on a Russian domestic flight…

BERLIN—Germany signaled it is prepared to reconsider its Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project with Russia in light of the poisoning of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, who was roused from an induced coma on Monday. Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has been a champion of the pipeline project, couldn’t rule out…

President Trump denied there is any proof that Russia poisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny at a White House press conference on Friday, saying he would be "very angry if that is the case."Why it matters: Trump, in his first public comments since Nalvany fell ill during a flight from Siberia to…

Around six in the evening on December 28, 2018, Paul Whelan was in his room at the Metropol Hotel, a stately Art Nouveau building across from Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre. He was in town for the wedding of an American friend who was marrying a Russian woman. Whelan, who was forty-eight…

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Thursday avoided assigning direct blame to Russia for the poisoning of Putin's top opponent, Alexei Navalny. Russia has a long history of attacking dissidents.  Other world leaders have explicitly demanded an explanation from the Russian government, and Biden directly blamed the Kremlin for…

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…