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Johnson KO'd in 12th round
Aug27

Johnson KO'd in 12th round

BAHAMIAN Tureano ‘Reno’ Johnson was stopped in the 12th and final round by unbeaten Sergiy Derevyanchenko of Ukraine in their IBF middleweight eliminator on Friday night at the Buffalo Run Casino in Miami, Oklahoma. …read more Source:...

NATO Chief Says 2 Experts to Attend Russia-Belarus War Games 
Aug25

NATO Chief Says 2 Experts to Attend Russia-Belarus War Games 

WARSAW – NATO’s chief says the military alliance will send two experts to attend Russia’s war games with Belarus, after Minsk invited them to take part. The war games, known as Zapad (West in Russian) and starting on Sept. 14, have raised tensions between NATO and Russia. Zapad will see thousands of troops and equipment from Russia...

Trump Says He Wasn’t Being Serious in Remarks About Putin
Aug12

Trump Says He Wasn’t Being Serious in Remarks About Putin

BEDMINSTER – President Donald Trump said he was not being serious when he thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for ordering a drastic reduction in the number of U.S. diplomatic employees and saving the U.S. significant cash. “Absolutely, I think you know that,” Trump told reporters Friday when asked about the comments he made a...

Controversial Film About Russian Czar Cleared for Release

MOSCOW – A historical film about the last Russian czar’s affair with a ballerina has been cleared for release, the Culture Ministry said Thursday, a decision that follows months of disputes and angry calls for its ban. “Matilda,” which describes Nicholas II’s relationship with Matilda Kshesinskaya, has drawn virulent...

FBI Agents Searched Former Trump Campaign Chair’s Home
Aug09

FBI Agents Searched Former Trump Campaign Chair’s Home

WASHINGTON – FBI agents have searched one of the homes of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, whose past foreign political work has been swept into the investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election. A Manafort spokesman confirmed the search Wednesday. Manafort spokesman Jason Maloni said in a...

2 Members of Russian Punk Band Pussy Riot briefly detained
Aug07

2 Members of Russian Punk Band Pussy Riot briefly detained

MOSCOW – Two members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot were briefly detained Monday after rallying for the release of a Ukrainian filmmaker outside his Siberian prison. During Sunday’s protest in Yakutsk where Oleg Sentsov is serving his sentence, the band members unfurled a banner on a nearby bridge that read “Free...

U.S. to Respond by Sept. 1 to Russia’s Expulsion of Diplomats
Aug07

U.S. to Respond by Sept. 1 to Russia’s Expulsion of Diplomats

The Trump administration has yet to decide how to respond to Russia’s move to expel hundreds of American diplomats, but plans to deliver a response to Moscow by Sept. 1, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Monday. A day after sitting down in the Philippines with Russia’s top diplomat, Tillerson said he’d asked...

Poland Rejects Migrants from Middle East, North Africa
Aug07

Poland Rejects Migrants from Middle East, North Africa

Minister: Poland is open for migration… we issued 1,267,000 visas for Ukrainians. We are also open for migration, not only from Ukraine, but also from Belarus. …read more Source:...

GOP Senators Reject Trump’s Blaming Congress for Russia Rift
Aug03

GOP Senators Reject Trump’s Blaming Congress for Russia Rift

WASHINGTON – Republican senators said Thursday that President Donald Trump was wrong to blame Congress for deteriorating relations with Russia. Lawmakers instead faulted Russia for allegedly meddling in last year’s U.S. elections and for its interventions in other countries. “I was shocked by that,” conservative Sen. Pat Toomey,...

Trump Signs ‘Seriously Flawed’ Russia Sanctions Bill
Aug02

Trump Signs ‘Seriously Flawed’ Russia Sanctions Bill

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed what he called a “seriously flawed” bill imposing new sanctions on Russia, pressured by his Republican Party not to move on his own toward a warmer relationship with Moscow in light of Russian actions. The legislation is aimed at punishing Moscow for interfering in the 2016 U.S....