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Heavy shelling dash hopes for Karabakh ceasefire

Hopes that a Russian-brokered ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan might hold were further dashed Sunday, with both sides accusing the other of intense shelling...

Intense shelling between Armenia, Azerbaijan forces erupts anew

Fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region spilled over into Thursday, with fresh shelling in the province’s capital ahead of...

Trump denies being briefed on Taliban bounty

US President Donald Trump denied Sunday being briefed on intelligence that reportedly showed Russia had offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing US soldiers...

70-something candidates spill baggage on the stage

Washington"•Bernie Sanders is 78 years old. So is Michael Bloomberg. Joe Biden is 77. The trio of septuagenarians topping the national polls for the Democratic...

Four decades on, veterans still think about Soviet-Afghan war

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Other walls have risen

On Saturday, the world marked the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. That wall stood for 10,316 days until it was...

Cubans queue as fuel crisis causes panic

Havana"•Ernesto Mirabal gave up a night’s sleep for a few gallons of gas at a Havana service station, where lining up for five hours...

TV show changes tourism in Chernobyl

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Russia’s role in world war gone in most French minds

Paris"•When world leaders gather for D-Day commemorations on Thursday, Vladimir Putin’s absence will be a sign of how Russia’s huge sacrifices in World War...

The eight North Korean filmmakers who defied Pyongyang

Seoul"•As the Korean War raged eight of Pyongyang’s young heroes"•all members of the North’s new elite, destined for a life of privilege and power"•left...

Revamped Russian animation goes for global audiences

In a slick Moscow loft, dozens of graphic designers peer at computers, compiling the latest scenes of Fantasy Patrol, a cartoon produced by Russia’s...

Estonian nationalists mark independence

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Prominent Chinese pastor defiant after church closure

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On the threshold of war

In an opinion piece in Time Magazine, former president of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev raised the specter of a third world war. Gorby...
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