MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar and US Syria Envoy James Jeffrey held talks in Ankara to discuss the establishment of a safe zone in Syria east to the Euphrates river that would be free from PKK and YPG, whom Ankara views as...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The United States hopes to restart the working-level negotiations with North Korea within a couple of weeks, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said.
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The US Justice Department told former Special Counsel Robert Mueller in a letter on Monday that he should limit his testimony before Congress this week to discussing his public report on the US President Donald Trump’s alleged collusion with...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia has not received any offers from the United States considering Washington's initiative to create an international coalition for patrolling the Strait of Hormuz, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told Sputnik...
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David Axe
Security, Middle East
Why is Moscow helping Tehran?
The International Federation of Air Line Pilots’ Associations and Israeli Airports Authority in late June 2019 announced that many flights lost the GPS satellite signal while flying...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Italy's Lega party will "not take no for an answer" regarding the issue of autonomy for Lombardy and Veneto, Matteo Salvini, the Italian deputy prime minister and the Lega leader, announced on Monday.
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The rise of cryptocurrency has sparked intense debate on its role in central banking systems, as well as economic viability in monetary supply chains.
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On the third anniversary of the release by WikiLeaks of the DNC emails, Ray McGovern looks back at how the DNC diverted the damaging contents into a trumped up conspiracy blaming Russia with no evidence at all. By Ray McGovern…Read more...
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President Donald Trump said Monday that Robert Mueller shouldn’t testify to Congress about the investigation into the president’s involvement in alleged obstruction of justice with links to Russia.
Trump has doubled down on his attacks...
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced recently on Twitter the “need” for a federal investigation into the popular Russia-based image-editing technology for smartphones called “FaceApp.”
“BIG: Share if you used #FaceApp: The FBI...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Argentine's permanent representative to international organisations in Vienna, Rafael Grossi, may be appointed as the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a diplomatic source in Vienna said on Monday.
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Mark Episkopos
Security,
And you thought this deal was dead.
As Moscow moves to mass-produce the Su-57 in much larger quantities than previously expected, the Indian Air Force (IAF) is cautiously signaling its interest in Russia’s...
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Michael Peck
Security,
Russia is offering to sell more Su-35 fighters to Beijing – and Chinese media reports that Beijing may accept.
For now, it may indeed make sense for China to buy fighters from Russia: the two nations, which once fought a...
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Joe Cheravitch
Contributor
Joe Cheravitch is a defense analyst with the Rand Corporation.
Cyber-confrontation between the U.S. and Russia is increasingly turning to critical civilian infrastructure, particularly power...
In some other universe, this would be the week that Donald Trump's presidency begins to fail.
In that happier alternate reality, former Special Counsel Robert Mueller would testify this week before Congress about the Trump campaign's links with...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said in a speech at the ministerial meeting of the Coordinating Bureau of Non-Aligned Movement on Sunday that the US sanctions against Iran amount to 'economic terrorism' that encourages...
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Hackers have stolen a massive trove of sensitive data and defaced the website of SyTech, a major contractor working for Russian intelligence agency FSB (Federal Security Service). BBC Russia, which reported the breach, said “it’s possible that...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to a question at a joint news conference at the Bocharov Ruchei state residence in Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi on Wednesday, May 17, 2017. The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry announced Friday, that Putin...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The US took note of the reduced flows of illegal migrants at the US southern border brought about by Mexico's increased immigration enforcement efforts, State Department spokesperson said in a statement on Sunday following talks...
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The Russian government is used to perpetrating hacks, but it just became a target -- and the data says a lot about its goals. A hacking group nicknaming itself 0v1ru$ infiltrated the servers of SyTech, a contractor for the FSB intelligence agency...
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