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A single arrest in a Tuscan port is rarely international news. But the Italian police’s decision to seize Scheherezade last Friday in Marina de Carrara was different. For one thing, Scheherezade is not a person, but a 459-foot luxury superyacht. And for another, American officials say her true owner, through …

?????? Authoritarian Belarusian leader and Vladimir Putin’s ally, Alexander Lukashenko, has defended the war in Ukraine but rallied against suggestions that Russia might use nuclear weapons against Ukraine.   Russian strongman, Vladimir Putin helped Lukashenko cling to power in 2020 after his widely disputed presidential re-election sparked mass protests in …

Israel has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin has apologized after his foreign minister said that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had “Jewish blood”. Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov (pictured bottom left) speaking to Italian TV on Sunday, days after Israel marked Holocaust Remembrance Day – one of the most solemn …

President Vladimir Putin is more likely to launch nuclear war rather than concede defeat to Ukraine, a top Russian state TV editor has said.   Margarita Simonyan, editor of state broadcaster RT and one of the Kremlin’s highest-profile media bosses, made the remarks on TV on Wednesday night, declaring that Mr. …

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has stated that there is no end in sight to the Russia-Ukraine war unless Russia decides to end it. The UN leader went to Moscow on Wednesday April 26 to have a face to face meeting with Russian president, Vladimir Putin before going to Ukraine on …

A senior Russian officer dubbed the ‘Butcher of Bucha’ has been promoted by President Vladimir Putin for overseeing several atrocities in the Ukrainian town.   Commander Azatbek Omurbekov has been promoted from Lieutenant Colonel to full Colonel despite men under his command being accused of gang rape, torture, and mass civilian executions.    …

President Vladimir V. Putin used a choreographed meeting with his defense minister to claim major progress in the war, saying that he ordered Russian troops to blockade a steel plant where Ukrainian fighters and civilians have taken refuge.

Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that the entire world should be worried that Russia could use tactical nuclear weapons during its invasion of Ukraine.   Zelensky was responding to a question by CNN journalist, Jake Tapper about CIA Director William Burns’ warning that Russian President Vladimir Putin might use a …