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The US has blasted the nine-year prison sentence of US basketball star Brittney Griner, who is being held in Russia on account of drug charges. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, said that the sentencing "puts a spotlight on our significant...

The UN nuclear chief warned that Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine “is completely out of control.” Speaking to the Associated Press, Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, issued an urgent plea to Russia and...

A ship carrying grain left the port of Odessa on Monday morning. It is the first since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February. Russia has been blockading Ukrainian ports, but the two sides agreed to a deal to resume...

Greece will switch off floodlit monuments earlier as part of an EU-wide drive to reduce energy reliance on Russia and burn fifteen percent less gas this winter, Environment and Energy Minister Kostas Skrekas said on Sunday. In an interview with...

Russia is transferring billions of dollars to Turkey for the construction of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant in southern Turkey, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Russian state-owned company Rosatom sent around $5 billion last week to its Turkish subsidiary which is...

Footage showing a Ukrainian priest being attacked by a Russian priest with a cross during a soldier's funeral was leaked online.

A chess robot grabbed and broke the finger of a seven-year-old opponent in Moscow because the boy ‘violated’ the safety rules of the game by taking his turn too quickly. Local media outlets have reported that the chess-playing robot was...

Russia will pull out of the International Space Station (ISS) after 2024 and focus on building its own orbiting outpost, the country’s space chief said on Tuesday. Yuri Borisov, who was appointed to lead the state-controlled space corporation Roscosmos earlier...

Russia said on Sunday that the aim of its invasion of Ukraine is to topple the government of President Volodymyr Zelensky. Speaking to envoys at an Arab League summit in Cairo, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow is determined...

A British Navy warship HMS Portland has tracked two Russian submarines in the North Sea. The British submarine hunter shadowed the vessels from Russia's Northern Fleet after they surfaced separately northwest of Bergen, Norway. The two submarines were tracked as...