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DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A building collapsed in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo on Wednesday, killing at least 11 people, including three children, the Syrian state television reported. The TV said the illegally built, five-story building in Aleppo’s southern neighborhood of Fardous collapsed in the evening. It said seven women, […]

Vladimir Putin wants to make you uncomfortable, and he has a plan. The Russian president is now prosecuting an energy war parallel to his military war in Ukraine. The goal is to force energy costs higher — way higher — during the upcoming winter, as a way of flexing Russia’s […]

NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) — Former New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu — whose early, lonely stand against segregationists in the Louisiana legislature launched a political career at the forefront of sweeping changes on race — died Monday, a family friend confirmed. He was 92. Ryan Berni, a longtime friend of […]

Putin is afraid to go to the G20 summit in Indonesia Peskov indicated that security factors will be taken into account when deciding on Putin’s participation in the G20 summit. Read also: Lavrov snubbed at G20 FM meeting “In order to make a decision on the format of our participation, […]

Tucker Carlson offered up some unsolicited advice for Republican candidates running in the November midterms: “make fun of Lindsey Graham”. The Fox News host’s tips came during his Friday night prime-time programme, where he eviscerated the US senator for getting too involved in foreign policy — a strategy that he […]

President Joe Biden’s Iran envoy is scheduled to brief members of Congress in a classified setting about the status of nuclear negotiations with Tehran, according to a Sept. 2 memo obtained by POLITICO. The briefing, which is for members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is scheduled for Sept. 14, […]

Federal agents were seen Thursday morning searching an apartment in a Manhattan high-rise and an estate in the Hamptons that authorities allege are connected to a Russian oligarch who recently had his yacht seized, according to sources familiar with the matter. Homeland Security Investigations and FBI agents, along with New […]

GENEVA (AP) — China’s top U.N. envoy said Beijing remains “firmly opposed” to the release of a long-anticipated report about Xinjiang from the office of U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet, just hours before her self-imposed deadline for its publication was set to expire Wednesday — her last day on […]

The Navy said on Tuesday that it foiled an attempt from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) to capture an unmanned drone in the Arabian Gulf. In a statement, the U.S. 5th Fleet said it observed the Shahid Bazar, an IRGCN support ship, trying to detain a Saildrone Explorer […]

KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images Russia is working to blame another Ukrainian for the killing of political commentator Darya Dugina, the daughter of Alexander Dugin, a prominent Russian philosopher known as “Putin’s Brain,” often credited with shaping Russia’s narrative about Ukraine. On Monday, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) released […]