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Russia's Lavrov meets Hamas chief, invites him to Moscow
GAZA (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in Qatar on Monday and invited him to visit Moscow, a Hamas official said, extending a diplomatic welcome to the...
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Western sanctions are hitting Russia harder than people realized
Sanctions linked to the Ukraine crisis could end up costing Russia 9% of its gross domestic product, the International Monetary Fund has said.Russia's economy is showing signs of stabilisation after...
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Russia is stalling an investigation into whether one of its capsized nuclear...
Russian customs has for the last 10 months held in impound samples from a sunken nuclear submarine that Russian scientists sent to their Norwegian counterparts to confirm whether the wreck poses any...
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The DOJ is launching a criminal probe into trades Deutsche Bank made for...
(Reuters) - The United States Department of Justice is investigating trades worth billions of dollars that Germany's Deutsche Bank AG made on behalf of its Russian clients, Bloomberg reported, citing...
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Russia just folded several branches of its military into a new 'Aerospace Force'
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has merged several branches of its military into the Aerospace Forces — a reorganization aimed at enhancing coordination and efficiency, officials said Monday.Defense Minister...
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The DoJ is looking into billions of dollars worth of trades Deutsche Bank...
(Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating trades worth billions of dollars that Deutsche Bank AG made on behalf of Russian clients, a person familiar with the situation told Reuters...
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Russia to UN: We are claiming 463,000 square miles of the Arctic
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has submitted its bid for vast territories in the Arctic to the United Nations, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.The ministry said in a statement that Russia is claiming 1.2...
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China and Russia are holding a joint military drill in the Sea of Japan
Russia and China are scheduled to hold joint military drills in the waters and airspace of the Sea of Japan, Beijing's Defense ministry announced.The exercises are set to take place between August 20...
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Europe risks losing Iran to China and Russia
Everybody seems to be greedily eyeing potential business deals with Iran after the nuclear deal reached with six world powers. This is no surprise. Iran’s economy is larger than Australia’s and twice...
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A Russian jewellery company created a ridiculous line of Apple Watches...
Jewellery brand Caviar has created a limited edition series of customised Apple Watches that pay tribute to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Lenin, and Peter the Great and cost £2,000 each. Up first...
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11 incredible pictures from Russia's International Army Games
Russia is under US and EU sanctions over its aggressive policies in Ukraine, and budget pressures have forced the Kremlin to radically scale back its production of high-end weaponry.But from August 1...
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France just cut a deal so that it won't have to deliver helicopter-carrying...
France and Russia have settled compensation issues over helicopter carrier warships that Paris has decided not to deliver to Moscow, President Francois Hollande's office said on Wednesday.Under the...
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US and Russia agree on Syria chemicals weapons draft
The United States and Russia have reached agreement on a draft UN resolution aimed at identifying those behind chemical weapons attacks in Syria in order to bring them to justice, a US official said on...
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France will pay Russia less than 1.2 billion euros over canceling 2 warship...
PARIS (Reuters) - The total cost to France of reimbursing Russia for cancelling two warship contracts will be less than 1.2 billion euros, French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Thursday.Le...
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The Russian government may be protecting the creator of the world’s most...
Researchers have linked one of the world’s most-used banking malware tools to an espionage campaign that may be tied to the Russian government.Fox-IT researchers made the allegation in a report titled...
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NASA signs $490 million contract with Russia to fly astronauts to the...
NASA said on Wednesday that it is being forced to extend its contract with Russia to fly astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) due to “continued reductions in the president’s funding...
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Putin isn't serious about actually getting a peace agreement in Ukraine
Mykola Azarov's call for early elections and "total regime change" in Kiev was a bit of a head scratcher.The ousted Ukrainian prime minister, after all, is deeply unpopular in his homeland and — with...
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US officials: Russian hackers knocked Pentagon email networks offline and...
A Russian cyberattack around July 25 against the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of Staff's email has resulted in the mail system being offline for almost two weeks, US officials told NBC.The attack affected...
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Russia is trying to take over the Arctic
Russia is resubmitting its claim of more than 460,000 square miles of the Arctic, including the North Pole, as its sovereign territory, saying it has enough evidence to convince the United Nations that...
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A new analysis highlights what Europe is doing wrong on Russia — and how it...
In a new analysis, European Council on Foreign Relations senior policy fellow Kadri Liik explores European sanctions against Russia and how European leaders should use them.She observes that Europe...
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