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The teacher will spend 5 years in jail and 15 more in a “strict-regime penal colony”. (Representational) Washington: A Russian military court has jailed a teacher for 20 years on “high treason” charges for sending money to Ukraine, with the defendant saying colleagues reported him to authorities. Russia has unleashed a mass crackdown on dissent…
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US expressed deep concern over Russian President Putin’s threat to supply North Korea with weapons. Washington: The United States expressed deep concern Thursday over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threat to supply North Korea with weapons, warning such a move would “destabilize” the Korean peninsula. Putin, during a rare visit to Pyongyang, signed a mutual defense…
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Image for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Russia resumed its aerial pounding of Ukraine’s power grid and Kyiv’s forces again targeted Russian oil facilities with cross-border drone strikes, seeking to curb each other’s ability to fight in a war that is now in its third year, officials said on June 20. With no…
Her trial will be held behind closed doors, as is customary in such cases in Russia. London: A Russian-American woman arrested earlier this year while visiting family in Russia went on trial for alleged treason on Thursday after authorities accused her of raising money to send to the Ukrainian army. Ksenia Karelina, who was born…
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The pact was signed by North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin (file). Seoul: North Korea’s state media on Thursday unveiled the full text of a mutual defence pact signed a day ago by its leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin, which Kim said would elevate bilateral ties…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, second left, shakes hands with Vietnamese officials upon his arrival at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, on June 20, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Vietnam early on June 20 for talks with the country’s Communist leaders after concluding a defence pact with North Korea…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin visits an exhibition of IT and creative industry at the Labour Quarter creative cluster in Yakutsk, republic of Sakha also known as Yakutia, Russia Far East, Russia, on June 18, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP NATO is concerned about support Russia could provide for North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs, the…
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President Vladimir Putin arrived in North Korea early on June 18, Russian news agencies reported, after he said the two countries want to cooperate closely to overcome U.S.-led sanctions in the face of intensifying confrontations with Washington. Mr. Putin was met at Pyongyang’s airport by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, according to the news…
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Officials from over 90 states spent the weekend at a 2-day summit trying to resolve the conflict. Burgenstock, Switzerland: World leaders on Sunday backed Ukraine’s independence and territorial integrity, and the need for eventual talks with Russia on ending the war — but left the key questions of how and when unresolved. More than two…
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Moscow: Two prison guards at a jail in southern Russia have been freed without harm after they were taken hostage by Islamic State inmates, with the assailants “liquidated”, the country’s prison service said Sunday. “During a special operation… the criminals were liquidated and the employees taken hostage were freed and were not wounded,” the service…
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