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KYIV, Ukraine — In an impassioned speech upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday, the laureate from Ukraine seized the moment to make an incongruous but powerful point: At this moment in history, she said, the only way to secure democracy, human rights and a lasting peace in Ukraine …

American basketball star, Brittney Griner, has landed in Texas after she was released from a Russian prison in a high-profile exchange for a notorious arms dealer on Thursday December 9.   Griner, 32, who was arrested in Russia in February on drug charges, is expected to be transferred to a nearby military facility for …

CNN  —  A wealthy Russian businessman has been arrested as part of a “major operation” on suspicion of multiple offenses, the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency said in a statement Saturday. The 58-year-old man was arrested Thursday at his “multi-million-pound residence in London by officers from the NCA’s Combatting Kleptocracy …

At the Mina Rashid Marina, soon after Aggreko was contacted by The Times, workers removed the generator. “Having identified that the generator was being used to power a vessel that is allegedly connected to a sanctioned person, we immediately terminated this rental and have since recovered the generator,” the company …

KYIV — As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine entered its 10th month, Russian artillery pounded the strategic southern port city of Kherson two weeks after retreating from it, killing at least 10 civilians and wounding dozens more — and on Friday, triggering a hospital evacuation. Russian forces shelled the city and …

Russian missiles on Tuesday, November 15 landed in NATO member country Poland, killing two people, a serious security situation that can trigger ”Article 5” of NATO which says an attack on one member country is an attack on all.    Article 5 of NATO’s charter obliges countries to come to …

Crowds celebrated in Ukraine’s capital after the country’s forces swept into the southern port city of Kherson, which Russia had occupied for months.

Russia launched dozens of missile attacks across Ukraine at civilian targets. The barrage knocked out power in parts of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and left 40 percent of the city without water.

A Russian warplane smashed into a home in the Siberian city of Irkutsk while on a test flight. Russian state media reported there were no civilian casualties in the crash.

Hundreds of thousands of people in central and western Ukraine are without power after Russia carried out massive drone and missile attacks, as intense fighting continues in the southeastern region of Luhansk, Donetsk and Kherson where Russia has been struggling to stop renewed Ukrainian advances. Ukraine’s air force said in …