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Russian President Vladimir Putin has commented on Ukraine’s “counteroffensive” and warned about consequences for Kiev’s attempts to stage “terror attacks.” So far, Moscow has shown “restraint” in its reaction, but that may change, the president warned on Friday at a press conference in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, where a Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit …

Poland could end up in a military conflict with Russia within three to ten years, Deputy Defense Minister Marcin Ociepa told the Polish newspaper DGP in an interview published on Wednesday. Warsaw would need the time remaining before the supposed war to acquire as many arms as possible, he added.  “There …

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has urged Greece to stop its alleged military buildup in the Aegean islands, threatening its neighbor and fellow NATO ally with a “heavy price” that it might end up paying. “Your occupying the islands does not bind us. When the time, the hour, comes, we …

US President Joe Biden announced to the press on Wednesday that he has cancer, although it is unclear whether he misspoke. Speaking at an event on climate change in Massachusetts, the president claimed that pollution in his home state of Delaware caused his illness. “You had to put on your …

German tennis star Alexander Zverev looks set to miss out on this summer’s Wimbledon after withdrawing from his French Open semi-final opposite Rafael Nadal with what he described as a “very serious” injury to his ankle. The third-ranked player in the world appeared to roll his ankle at the end …

Ukrainians appear to be losing unity amid military defeats in the Donbass and the economic crisis in the rest of the country. The surge of patriotism that arose when the Russian army was close to Kiev appears now, in the last days of May, to have been exhausted. Along with it, …

One of football’s most well-known power brokers, Mino Raiola, is in ‘critical condition’ but contrary to reports has not succumbed to a serious illness. It was claimed on Thursday that Raiola had passed away at the age of 54 after a battle with an unspecified illness, although those reports have …

When I was elected to the Russian parliament, a decade and a half ago, my colleagues put their trust in me to chair the Committee on Natural Resources, Environmental Management and Ecology. Since then, this body within the State Duma is called the “Committee on Ecology, Natural Resources and Environmental …

As a result, power outages, stunted economic recovery and political fallout could have ramifications across the continent. In the longer term, the failure of EU policymakers will undermine energy security, make its industries less competitive, and have a negative impact on Europe’s cohesion and role in the world. Coming frost …

Standing alongside Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs, Blinken slammed Russia as issuing “increasingly belligerent rhetoric” and alleged that the country was conducting “unusual troop movements” along Ukraine’s border. “Any escalatory actions by Russia would be of great concern to the United States, as they would to Latvia, and any renewed …