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President Donald Trump reached out to Russian President Vladimir Putin several times in the years prior to running for election, according to new documents released by the Senate Intelligence Committee. The messages do not reveal collusion between Trump and Putin over the 2016 election. The links between his campaign and…

MOSCOW—Russian President Vladimir Putin warned top European leaders against interfering in the political crisis engulfing Russia’s longtime ally, Belarus, as protests against its leader continued to swell. Mr. Putin spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in separate calls Tuesday, a day before an emergency European…

MOSCOW — A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced an anti-Kremlin activist to two years in prison for displaying a life-size mannequin of President Vladimir Putin in a striped prison jumpsuit on a street in the city of Perm.The court found Alexander Shabarchin, a political activist in Perm, some 1,150 kilometers…

Russia has warned European powers that foreign interference in Belarus would be “unacceptable”, as EU leaders prepared for emergency talks on a crisis that could become a new flashpoint in relations between Moscow and the West. Diplomacy is intensifying around Belarus as its autocratic ruler of 26 years, Alexander Lukashenko,…

IBM has announced the tenth generation of its flagship Power processors, a smaller, faster, more energy-efficient seven-nanometre chip that businesses can expect to deploy inside their data centres in the second half of 2021. The Power10 processor, which will be manufactured by Samsung Electronics, is half the size of its…

In the late 1980s, India's external spy agency the Research & Analysis Wing (R&AW) managed to recruit two agents in the then Soviet Union who would go on to provide volumes of high value information. These agents were apparently related to Eduard Ambrosiyevich Shevardnadze -- a foreign affairs minister in…

Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko said Saturday his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, had pledged "comprehensive security assistance," as protests over last week's elections continue to sweep the country, per state news agency Belta.Why it matters: The statement adds to tensions in Belarus, where authorities have cracked down on demonstrations over last…

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Amazon today announced the general availability of Amazon Braket, a fully managed Amazon Web Services (AWS) product that provides a development environment for exploring and designing novel quantum algorithms. Customers can tap Braket — which launched in preview last December — to test and troubleshoot algorithms on simulated quantum computers…

Michael Bociurkiw is a global affairs analyst and a former spokesman for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Follow him on Twitter @WorldAffairsPro. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his; view more opinions on CNN. (CNN)With mass protests erupting in Belarus over a disputed presidential election on…