AN American citizen identified as Michael Travis Leake has been arrested and detained by Russian authorities on drug trafficking charges. According to NBC, Leake, a paratrooper and musician was arrested in Moscow on Saturday. The US citizen in question has been charged with “illegal production, sale or shipment of narcotic …
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RUSSIA will start teaching three major African languages at Lomonosov Moscow State University. The languages will help forge closer ties with the continent. These are Swahili, Amharic and Yoruba Starting this year, the Russian government will begin teaching three major African languages in a few Moscow schools as part of …
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China issued a sharply worded warning to the European Union on Monday against sanctioning Chinese companies that do business with Russia. “We urge the EU not to go on this wrong path. Otherwise, China will take firm actions to safeguard our legitimate and lawful rights and interests,” said Chinese Foreign …
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Russia’s armed forces said on Tuesday they were evacuating more than 200 people from Sudan on four military transport planes. The defence ministry said in a statement the evacuees included diplomats, military personnel and other Russian nationals as well as citizens of “countries of the former Soviet Union and other …
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RUSSIAN strikes killed one person and wounded three others in the Ukrainian region of Kherson, a regional official said Monday. Moscow also launched a hail of missiles across Ukraine early on Monday, with Kyiv reporting it had shot down most of the projectiles. “Over the past day, the enemy carried …
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UKRAINE and Russia said Monday they had returned around 100 soldiers each in the latest prisoner exchange between the two warring countries. Kyiv and Moscow have periodically carried out prisoner swaps since Russia invaded Ukraine more than a year ago. “We are returning 100 of our people,” the Ukrainian president’s …
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A 50-year-old man and his 11-year-old daughter were killed after Russian missiles struck a house in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, officials said on Sunday. It was the latest Russian strike on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine as Moscow’s invasion stretches into its second year. “The enemy carried out a …
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THE United States has resumed surveillance drone flights over the Black Sea region following a Russian fighter jet intercept on Tuesday that led to the downing of a U.S surveillance drone, two U.S. officials said on Friday. An RQ-4 Global Hawk flew a mission to the region on Friday, the …
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THE latest Russian missile barrage against Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure has marked one of the largest such attacks in months. On Thursday, Russia fired more than 80 missiles in a massive effort to overwhelm Ukrainian air defenses and cripple the country’s energy system. Russia has been regularly launching similar strikes since …
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Moscow confirmed Thursday it had exchanged US basketball star Brittney Griner, who had been jailed in Russia, for notorious arms trafficker Viktor Bout, who was serving a 25-year sentence in the United States. “On December 8, 2022, at the Abu Dhabi airport, the exchange of Russian citizen Viktor Bout for …
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