Putin's speech comes at a time when Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine prepare to hold annexation referendums in four eastern regions of the country.
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The USS Higgins and HMCS Vancouver transited the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday in a joint operation to reinforce the route's status as an international waterway.
An ancient shipwreck found off the shore of Israel and loaded with cargo from all over the Mediterranean shows that traders from the West still came to port even after the Islamic conquest of the Holy Land, researchers say.
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A small explosive-laden boat was reportedly found near the naval base at Sevastopol in the annexed Crimean Peninsula.
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"Life on the run must be demanding. Are his main accounts being monitored," a critic of Do Kown said.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will face off on Thursday with his Ukrainian and Western counterparts, including U.S.
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South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol asked U.S. President Joe Biden to help address Seoul's concerns that new U.S.
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg also said the war will unlikely end anytime soon unless Russia accepts Ukraine as a sovereign nation.
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Direct flights from Moscow to Istanbul or Dubai have sold out for this week.
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The Russian soldier said his comrades were raping Ukrainian women to vent their despair and hatred over losing against Kyiv's army.
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The Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria on Wednesday reached $14.25 billion pledged as world leaders seek to fight the killer diseases after progress was knocked off course by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Russia on Wednesday released 10 foreigners it had captured in Ukraine, including five Britons and two Americans, in a prisoner exchange brokered by Saudi Arabia.
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U.S. President Joe Biden accused Russia on Wednesday of making "reckless" and "irresponsible" threats to use nuclear weapons and said Moscow had violated the core tenets of United Nations membership by invading Ukraine.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin's mobilization of thousands of extra troops for the war in Ukraine will escalate the conflict and his threat to use nuclear weapons was "dangerous and reckless rhetoric," NATO's secretary general said on Wednesday.
Vladimir Cerron, the head of the far-left party that ushered Peruvian President Pedro Castillo into power last year, told Reuters on Tuesday that his congressional bloc is still committed to staving off impeachment attempts against the embattled leader.