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Image copyright EPA Image caption Medical staff are on strike demanding a full closure of the border with the mainland Hong Kong is to impose a mandatory 14-day quarantine on all visitors from mainland China as it battles to prevent the spread of a coronavirus outbreak.The policy comes into effect…

When it comes to foreign policy, the Trump administration has made a point of making nice with modern-day autocrats such as Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un, and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. A new draft executive order obtained by Architectural Record called “Making Fede…

By: AP | Moscow | Published: February 5, 2020 9:43:43 am It has remained unclear why the Russian leader is rushing through constitutional changes four years before the end of his term.Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that a nationwide vote on constitutional changes he proposed wouldn’t be used to…

(WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration on Wednesday imposed sanctions on a Moscow-based private railway company that last month opened passenger service between Russia and Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula that Russia annexed in 2014. The sanctions target Grand Service Express, its CEO and seven people who were slapped with European Union…

Image copyright Israeli Prime Minister Image caption Hours after her release Issachar (L) and her mother were greeted in Moscow by the Israeli prime minister and his wife (2nd R) Russia has released a dual US-Israeli national who was detained on charges of drug trafficking last year. Naama Issachar, 26,…

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will limit railway service with China from Jan. 31, leaving only direct trains between Moscow and Beijing, in response to the coronavirus crisis, Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova said on Wednesday. “Under a decision of the em…

Image caption Several cities have seen protests and this banner warns of a "constitutional coup" but not all Russians are so concerned Two weeks after Vladimir Putin announced a radical overhaul of the constitution, loyal officials in Moscow have been moving at lighting speed to implement his changes. Deputies in…

U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he holds a news conference at the 50th World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, January 22, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstReutersOver the last few years, President Donald Trump has named many, many individuals he claims he doesn't know when they've been embroiled in controversy.There's plenty…

(Bloomberg) -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lobbed a rare direct rebuke at the rulers of Abu Dhabi over their backing of Khalifa Haftar and the Russian mercenaries fighting on his behalf in Libya.Erdogan said that the emirate is bankrolling thousands of Russian fighters who support the forces controlled by…

Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor criticized Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Sunday for his reported cavalier dismissal of Ukraine in a recent interview. “Do you think Americans care about Ukraine?” an angry Pompeo asked Mary Louise Kelly, host of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” she recounted. Kelly said Pompeo was…