During a visit to Armenia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said there is no cause for "too much optimism" over a resolution of the long-standing conflict over Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Russia's meteorological service has confirmed there were "extremely high" concentrations of the radioactive isotope ruthenium-106 (Ru-106) in several parts of the country in late September, AFP reported on November 20.
President Donald Trump has announced that the United States will designate North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism amid heightened nuclear tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is set to meet with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Elmar Mammadyarov, in Baku on November 20 for talks expected to focus on bilateral relations and the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has failed to form a three-way coalition with her conservative Christian Democrats (CDU), the Greens, and the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP), bringing up the possibility of new parliamentary elections.
Reports from Zimbabwe say the country's ruling party has dismissed President Robert Mugabe as its leader.
Senior aides will present U.S. President Donald Trump with a $47 million plan to finance and sell high-tech defensive weapons to Ukraine to bolster its efforts to repel Russian aggression in the region, ABC News reported, quoting a State Department source.
The commander of U.S. nuclear forces says he would resist any “illegal” order from a president to launch a strike and would attempt to recommend an alternative move.
Russia has vetoed a proposal to temporarily keep alive a UN investigation into who is responsible for chemical weapons attacks in Syria, one day after blocking a one-year extension of the inquiry.
The UN Security Council is holding discussions aimed at passing a one-month extension of the mandate to allow experts to determine responsibility for chemical-weapons attacks in Syria, one day after Russia vetoed an approved U.S. proposal.
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