MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Up to 20,000 extremists enter the European Union under the guise of refugees every year, Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) spokesman Maj. Gen. Sergey Kovalyov said at the Moscow Conference on...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The US troops in Iraq only assist the country’s army in fighting Daesh* and do not carry out any military operations, Muhammad Abadi, general secretary of the Iraqi Defense Ministry, told Sputnik on Wednesday.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Foreign media employees in the Syrian province of Hama conducted a staged filming of the "death" of a family due to alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian troops, Maj. Gen. Viktor Kupchishin, head of the Russian center for...
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A drunk teenager caused a fatal accident on a highway in Moscow that led to the death of a retired MMA fighter.
Egor Lyachenkov, the grandson of the former Vice President of automobile manufacturer AvtoVAZ, Nikolai Lyachenkov, was reportedly...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – UK police arrested on Wednesday a 20-year-old man in London on suspicion of terrorism offenses, the police said in a statement.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Sri Lankan authorities will reimpose a nationwide curfew starting on Wednesday evening and into the early hours of Thursday, as the country continues recovering from the deadly Easter bombings, News 1st reported, citing...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Libyan National Army (LNA) led by Khalifa Haftar is planning to take Tripoli in two or three weeks, believes that the operation will not take long, Khairi Tamimi, the head of the LNA General Commander’s Office, told Sputnik...
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov addressed the eight Moscow Conference on International Security (MCIS) in Moscow.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia has started assembling the six Su-30SM fighters that will be delivered to Myanmar under a 2018 bilateral contract, Myanmar Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing told Sputnik.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov will visit Baghdad on 24-25 April, meetings are scheduled with Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi and President Barham Salih, Borisov's office said.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The number of people killed in a series of deadly blasts that hit Sri Lanka on Sunday has risen to 359, Ada Derana news portal reported on Wednesday, citing police.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Tuesday he would send back garbage that came to the Philippines from Canada and threatened to declare war against Ottawa.
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Earlier this month, the Justice Department released Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s final report on the alleged Trump-Russia collusion and Russian interference in the 2016 US elections. The report says no evidence of collusion between Moscow and...
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The dispute over a group of four Kuril islands — Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan and Habomai — has been souring Moscow-Tokyo relations for decades and serves as the main stumbling block to signing a permanent World War II peace treaty.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Over 70 people have been charged for various offences in connection with a wave of climate change protests in London, dubbed the Extinction Rebellion, that has been disrupting the UK capital for more than a week now, the...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Paris appreciates Moscow's proposal to assist in rebuilding the Notre Dame cathedral after it was partially destroyed by a devastating fire but a final decision regarding the rebuilding of the church has not been made yet, French...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The eighth Moscow Conference on International Security (MCIS) will start its three-run day run on Tuesday under the aegis of the Russian Defence Ministry at the Radisson Collection Hotel in the Russian capital.
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Lyle J. Goldstein
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A Putin-Kim summit will mainly be another photo-op for the North Korean leader. But Moscow has more cards to play in Pyongyang than is commonly realized.
One interpretation of the stunning victory of Volodymyr...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Some members of the Daesh State terrorist group have reached the south of Africa after the defeat in Syria, Russian Deputy Defence Minister Gen. Alexander Fomin told the RT broadcaster.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - As many as 36 migrants trying to cross the English Channel in boats have been intercepted by the UK Border Force and Royal National Lifeboat Institution vessels, Sky News reported on Monday.
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