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A relentless pursuit of economic growth, twinned with the impact of climate change, has put an “unprecedented” one million species at risk of extinction, scientists say in a landmark report on the damage done by modern civilization to the natural world. Only a wide-ranging transformation of the global economic and …

Turkey will never bow to U.S. sanctions over its agreement to purchase Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile defense systems, Vice President Fuat Oktay said on Sunday regarding a deal that has strained ties between the NATO allies. Washington says the systems are not compatible with NATO equipment and may compromise its …

Donald Trump has called on the US, Russia, and China to reduce their nuclear arsenals amid reports that his administration is planning to propose a landmark arms control deal with Beijing and Moscow. In an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, the US president said that he welcomed Russia’s …

Reports say at least 17 Syrian government forces have been killed in attacks by foreign-backed terrorists in northern Aleppo province. The attacks were launched shortly after midnight on Saturday by two al-Qaeda-linked terror groups, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and Hurras al-Deen, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. Thirty …

Nearly 40 world leaders and scores of finance officials are gathered in Beijing to build a new platform for international trade and counter US unilateralism and protectionist policies. Dubbed as the Belt and Road (BRI) initiative, they aim to reinvent the ancient Silk Road to connect Asia to Europe and …

Moscow will start shipping its S-400 air defense missile systems to Turkey this summer, the chief of Russia’s state arms trade agency said. The deal is going through as Ankara ignores pressure from its ally, the US. Aleksandr Mikheyev of Rosoboronexport told Russian media on Wednesday that all issues pertaining …

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has arrived in Russia’s the Far East for the first summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Governor of Primorsky Region Oleg Kozhemyako officially welcomed Kim at the railway station in the Russian city of Vladivostok on Wednesday. Putin and Kim are scheduled to meet in …

One of the top 50 richest Russians, banker Oleg Tinkov, wants to present what he calls a first private icebreaker to the public next year, before the €100 million vessel sets sail to the Antarctic among other destinations. Founder and owner of Tinkoff Bank, worth $2.2 billion, is going to …

So it turns out that, indeed, President Donald Trump was not exonerated at all, and certainly not “totally” or “completely”, as he claimed. Special counsel Robert Mueller didn’t reach a conclusion about whether Trump committed crimes of obstruction of justice – in part because, while a sitting president, Trump can’t …

US President Donald Trump unleashed scathing remarks about special counsel Robert Mueller’s “crazy” report on Friday, saying it was written by “angry Democrats” and contains statements which are “total bulls**t.” Trump wrote a series of tweets criticizing the report, which cleared him of any collusion or conspiracy with Russia but …

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un will visit Russia for talks with Vladimir Putin this month, the Kremlin said Thursday, as tensions between Washington and Pyongyang spiked higher. The Kremlin announced the talks just hours after North Korea launched a blistering attack on US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, demanding …

The full text of the Mueller report has been released – and could trigger one of the biggest rushes to download a document ever seen. The 400-page document can be found here and reveals the key findings of a two-year investigation into Donald Trump by Robert Mueller, rocking Washington as …

Russian researchers have found liquid blood and urine inside the frozen carcass of a foal that died 42,000 years ago in Siberia’s Verkhoyansk region. The animal’s body fluids were extracted during an autopsy and tested in the hope of cloning the extinct species, according to Semyon Grigoriev, director of the …

Nearly four weeks after President Donald Trump declared himself completely exonerated of conspiring with Russia to win office or obstructing justice, Americans will on Thursday get a chance to judge for themselves with the release of a redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s final report on the politically charged …

US Vice President Mike Pence warned Turkey on Wednesday that it could risk its membership in NATO if it goes ahead with plans to buy a Russian air defense system despite widespread international opposition. Pence’s escalating rhetoric came after Turkey insisted on Wednesday that the Russian deal was done, signaling …

The Ukrainian government has banned all unscheduled direct flights to Russia following a recent visit to Moscow by two opposition politicians. Interior Minister Arsen Avakov announced the ban on Wednesday and said opposition presidential candidate Yuriy Boyko and chairman of the political council of the ‘Opposition Platform – For Life’ …

Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s ex-lawyer, is giving dramatic testimony before the House Oversight Committee and has told the congressional panel the president “is a racist, a conman and a cheat”. Cohen said: “I am ashamed that I chose to take part in concealing Mr. Trump’s illicit acts rather than listening …

US President Donald Trump seems to be on a steady course, and that is instability. Because it is the only one or two more faces still remain in their positions from the group that entered the White House and taken the first steps in the presidency. According to Reuters, on …