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Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping lead three of the global powers who are capitalizing on the waning influence of the United States. MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/AFP/Getty Images Its been a noisy, …

(WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration is planning to open a U.S. consulate in Greenland for the first time in decades amid increased strategic and economic interest in the Danish territory. The State Department says in a letter to Congress that re-establis…

MOSCOW (AP) President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian military on Friday to work out a quid pro quo response after the test of a new U.S. missile banned under a now-defunct arms treaty. In Sunday's test, a modified ground-launched version of a U.S. Navy T…

MOSCOW, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday told the Defence Ministry and other government agencies to analyse the threat posed by a new U.S. missile test and to prepare a reciprocal response. The Pentagon said on Monday it had test…

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Irradiated victims of a Russian weapons test were taken to civilian hospitals (archive pic) Russian medics who treated radiation victims after a military explosion in the Arctic had no protection and now fear they w…

Mr. Pifer allowed that demanding the return of Crimea to Ukraine seemed much less realistic than an end to the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Its hard to see how Ukraine gets the leverage to get Crimea back, he said. In his remarks on Tuesday, Mr. Trump made n…

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- In the midst of a hotly contested election and a tussle with U.S. Democrats, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just completed a trip to Ukraine. This is not a hiatus from politics. He is simply moving the campaign trail to Kyiv,…

French President Emmanuel Macron has told his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, that it is "vital" a ceasefire goes into force in northwest Syria, where Moscow-backed government forces are leading a military offensive against rebels. Macron, who on Monday…

Bormes-les-Mimosas (France) (AFP) Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday vowed to prevent the emergence of any mass demonstrations in Moscow like the "yellow vest" anti-government protests that erupted in France late last year. "We would not want such …

The last week of internet madness started, of course, with the death of Jeffrey Epstein, and the numerousresultantconspiracytheories that followedincluding one shared on Twitter by the President of the United States. Of course, it didn't help that Epstein was…