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U.S. and Russian officials have finished their first talks on ending the war in Ukraine, with Kyiv and its European allies ...

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Thousands of people protested in the Serbian city of Kragujevac on February 15, blocking central streets in the latest in a wave of student-organized demonstrations demanding government accountability ...

Patel, Trump’s nominee to be FBI director, was paid $25,000 last year by a film company that has promoted anti-Western views ...

(AP Photo, File) Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya looks on during an interview with The Associated Press at the annual meeting of the World ... (AP Photo, File) Belarusian ...

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has dismissed ... cent of the electorate appeared to have backed Mr Lukashenko. "Will the rest fit inside the prisons?" he wrote on X. Following the results, the ...

Alexander Kazakov/Sputnik ... of the Special Military Operation (the Kremlin’s euphemism for the war). Image Oleg V. Panchurin, center, at a meeting of the ultranationalist Liberal Democratic ...

Putin ally Alexander ... said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. He dismissed “the voices that sound from the West”. China, Venezuela and Pakistan also congratulated Lukashenko.

The Kremlin has voiced its approval of Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko’s victory in the recent presidential election in Belarus, ignoring Western disapproval. Lukashenko, who has held power since ...