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The Pentagon is easing restrictions to allow a small number of private American defense contractors to work inside Ukraine, ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tajik opposition activist Dilmurod Ergashev was reportedly taken into custody by authorities as he disembarked a plane in ...