The United States urged China on Tuesday to join trilateral nuclear arms talks with Moscow, calling Beijing's secrecy around growing stockpiles a "serious threat to strategic stability."U.S. President Donald Trump said last year he had discussed a...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Daesh* terrorist group is now headed by one of its founding members, Amir Mohammed Abdul Rahman al-Mawli al-Salbi, The Guardian reports citing intelligence officials.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Yemeni government soldiers pushed the Houthis out of a mountain range in the Nihm district of the central Sanaa province on Tuesday and killed dozens of rebels during the offensive, the Yemeni Armed Forces said.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Wuhan local authorities in central China’s Hubei province have taken additional measures to monitor people and vehicles moving in and out of the city amid the outbreak of a new deadly coronavirus, the official People’s Daily...
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On Monday a United Nations Security Council meeting convened to assess inconsistencies within the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons report on alleged chemical attacks in Douma, Syria in 2018 at the request of Moscow, as earlier,...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia's proposed changes to the constitution will be accompanied by a wide-scale information campaign and public discussion, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - A busy area in central Cologne was evacuated and transport restricted on Monday as a bomb squad prepares to defuse a WWII explosive device, the German city’s administration said.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Putin on Tuesday met in the Kremlin with Chaika and deputy head of the Investigative Committee Igor Krasnov, whose candidacy had been proposed by the head of state for the post of the prosecutor general.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Israeli police have prohibited drones and other aircraft from flying over certain areas of Jerusalem during the World Holocaust Forum this week, a Tuesday statement from the police read.
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Kyle Mizokami
Technology, Europe
Here's what they can do.
Key point: Kilo-class subs are powerful and cheaper than nuclear-powered vessels to produce. Moscow has them train for a wide variety of missions in case Russia ever fought NATO.
Unlike...
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Move over "Moscow Mitch." The Senate majority leader has a new mocking moniker thanks to the famed Watergate reporter.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Bulgaria’s opposition Socialist Party has filed a motion of no confidence in the government over environmental pollution and a water crisis, media said Monday.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Honduras has officially declared Lebanon's Shia movement Hezbollah a terrorist organisation, Deputy Security Minister Luis Suazo said on Monday.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Somalian government has offered Ankara to partake in oil exploration along Somalia's continental shelf in analogy with Turkey's drilling operations in Libya, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday.
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MOSCOW -- A heating pipe burst Monday in a small Russian hotel, flooding rooms with boiling water that killed five people and left six others injured in the central city of Perm, emergency officials said.
The nine-room hotel was located in the...
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Donald Trump is being impeached because of his immoral, illegal and corrupt actions against Ukraine.
He tried to force their newly elected president to announce an investigation into one of his own political rivals. He committed attempted...
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US experts are again claiming that Russian social media campaigns have disrupted US elections, sowed anti-Western sentiment in Africa, and "inspired China and Iran to adopt similar tactics against protesters and political adversaries", the New York...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has confirmed to The Times of Israel newspaper that he would be visiting Israel this week to attend the World Holocaust Forum scheduled for Thursday in Jerusalem, adding that he was "not...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Iranian media have quoted the country's aircraft safety inspector as saying that Iran is examining the flight recorders from the Boeing 737 that was accidentally downed earlier in January and has not taken a definitive decision to...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The current rise in greenhouse gas emissions calls into question the hope that the world will achieve Paris climate deal goals aimed at curtailing global warming, Rae Kwon Chung, a UN climate expert and laureate of the 2007 Nobel...
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