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Image copyrightTwitter Greta Thunberg has changed her name to Sharon on Twitter, in honour of a game show contestant who appeared to have no idea who she was. While appearing on BBC's Celebrity Mastermind, actor Amanda Henderson was asked to name the teenag…

The State Department on Monday announced Mr. Pompeos trip, which also had stops planned in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Cyprus. The department had said Mr. Pompeo intended to reaffirm U.S. support for Ukraines sovereignty and territorial integrity on h…

Russian President Vladimir Putin had a phonecall with US President Donald Trump on Sunday, December 29, according to a statement published by the Kremlin. The White House confirmed the call took place 24 hours later. In the call, Putin thanked Trump for pro…

MOSCOW (AP) As Russian President Vladimir Putin marks two decades in power, he boasts about his achievements but remains coy about his political future a reticence that fuels wild speculation about his intentions. Putin points to the revival of Russias globa…

MOSCOW, RUSSIA -- This year was the hottest ever registered in Russia, the country's weather chief said on Monday, as climate change pushes global temperatures to record highs. "This year in Russia was the hottest for the entire period of instrumental obse…

The U.S. ambassador in Warsaw came to Poland's defense on Monday following repeated claims by Russian President Vladimir Putin that Poland bears blame for the outbreak of World War II.

China and Russia made hypersonic weapons a national priority. We didnt, William B. Roper, the head of Air Force acquisitions and technology, said on Friday. Every service now has a major hypersonics program in a departmentwide effort to catch up. The United …

(MOSCOW) — Russia confirmed Friday that it will appeal its four-year Olympic ban for manipulating doping data. The Russian anti-doping agency, known as RUSADA, sent a formal letter disagreeing with the sanctions imposed earlier this month by the World Anti-D…

Countries like China, Iran and Saudi Arabia have already restricted what their citizens can access and how they can communicate with one another on the internet. Russia's project -- nicknamed Runet -- presumably follows suit and lets the government filter con…

Media captionThe three-carriage train made the journey across the Kerch Strait to Taman in Russia President Vladimir Putin has heralded the opening of a railway bridge to the Russian-annexed Crimea peninsula by posing in the driver's cab and praising constru…