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Ukraine denies its drones targeted Putin’s residence
AFP, Published on 30/12/2025
» KYIV - Ukraine said on Tuesday there was no “plausible” evidence it launched a drone attack on one of Vladimir Putin’s residences, accusing Moscow of peddling false claims to try to manipulate talks on ending its invasion.
'Severely restricted': Russia's Saint Petersburg faces cultural crackdown
AFP, Published on 18/11/2025
» SAINT PETERSBURG - Russian bookseller Lyubov Belyatskaya sighed as she lamented the "climate of widespread anxiety" that has taken hold in her native Saint Petersburg amid the war in Ukraine.
Taiwan can join Apec summit if it sticks to one-China principle, Beijing says
South China Morning Post, Published on 06/11/2025
» HONG KONG — Taiwan's participation in next year's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in Shenzhen as a regional economy will depend on its adherence to the one-China principle, Beijing said on Wednesday, amid growing cross-strait tensions.
Poison killed Putin critic Navalny, wife says
AFP, Published on 17/09/2025
» WARSAW - The wife of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said on Wednesday that laboratory analysis of smuggled biological samples found he was killed by poisoning while incarcerated at an Arctic prison in February 2024.
Redford's Sundance legacy 'beyond comprehension' for US filmmakers
AFP, Published on 17/09/2025
» SUNDANCE (UNITED STATES) - Robert Redford was rarely spotted at Sundance in his final years, yet the late Hollywood legend forever looms large at the influential US movie festival he co-created.
Sinner on the march as tearful Gauff, Swiatek toil at US Open
AFP, Published on 29/08/2025
» NEW YORK — Reigning men's champion Jannik Sinner charged into the third round of the US Open on Thursday as Coco Gauff and Iga Swiatek battled to keep their title bids intact.
Sinner, Swiatek romp through at US Open
AFP, Published on 27/08/2025
» NEW YORK - World number one Jannik Sinner began his bid for back-to-back US Open titles with an emphatic victory on Tuesday as women's draw favourite Iga Swiatek swept into the second round.
Freed Belarus opposition figure urges Trump to help release all prisoners
AFP, Published on 22/06/2025
» VILNIUS - Belarus opposition figure Sergei Tikhanovsky, who was released following an appeal from the White House, said Sunday that US President Donald Trump could secure the freedom of all Belarusian political prisoners.
Defending our rights is now even deadlier
Oped, Published on 09/05/2025
» The harassment, detention, torture, and eventual murder in 2006 of Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian investigative journalist who exposed government corruption, the horrors of the Second Chechen War, and the increasingly autocratic regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is the subject of a new film, Words of War.
Moscow plans to use seized US-owned company to feed Russian army
Reuters, Published on 17/04/2025
» LONDON — Plans are afoot for an American-owned company seized by the Kremlin and placed under state control to be used to supply food to the Russian army, a document seen by Reuters showed, potentially threatening Moscow's warming relations with the United States.