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Elon Musk was present during a phone conversation between U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...

The U.S. Justice Department on November 8 unsealed criminal charges that detail a plot backed by Iran to kill President-elect ...

In a move that extends Russia's crackdown on dissent, the Justice Ministry on November 8 added several high-profile ...

A Tajik opposition activist who was deported from Germany was arrested immediately upon his arrival in Dushanbe. Dilmurod ...

The prosecution has requested a six-year prison sentence for 68-year-old Russian pediatrician Nadezhda Buyanova on charges ...

Moscow summoned a Canadian diplomat on November 8 to rebut Western allegations that Russia's secret services had orchestrated ...

An Almaty regional court in Kazakhstan upheld the 7-year prison sentence handed to journalist Duman Mukhammedkarim for ...

The last known time Oleh Tatarov flew to Moscow was on April 22, 2019, a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy ...

The last known time Oleh Tatarov flew to Moscow was on April 22, 2019, a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy ...

European Union leaders are holding an informal summit in Budapest to discuss the continent's security and Russia's unprovoked ...

A former North Korean soldier says even the country’s elite troops are ill-prepared for frontline action against Ukraine, ...