Russia says Washington’s move to ban U.S. federal agencies from using Kaspersky Labs software products “runs counter to fair competition” and is designed to hurt the Russian antivirus company’s global market position.
The European Union has prolonged its asset freezes and travel bans on Russian officials and Moscow-backed separatists in Ukraine for another six months, with Russia's new ambassador to the United States likely to remain on the list, diplomats said.
Officials in the mainly Shi’ite Iraqi province of Dhi Qar say at least 45 people have been killed and more than 80 others wounded in two attacks.
Russia's Defense Ministry says two Russian submarines in the eastern Mediterranean Sea have fired cruise missiles at Islamic State (IS) militant targets in Syria.
Local officials in southern Tajikistan say the director of the regional airport in the city of Khorugh has died after being thrown to the ground by a downdraft from President Emomali Rahmon's helicopter and hitting his head on a rock.
A series of anonymous bomb threats phoned in to authorities across Russia have continued with new threats in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) says it has appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to resolve claims brought by the Azerbaijani government that the company says have “hampered its news reporting inside the country for almost three years.”
Russia and neighboring Belarus on September 14 begin a joint military exercise near NATO’s eastern flank that has fanned already deep tensions between Moscow and the West.
The U.S. government has ordered all U.S. federal agencies to phase out use of Kaspersky Lab software products, citing “ties between certain Kaspersky officials and Russian intelligence and other government agencies.”
The Kremlin’s chief spokesman said Russian officials made direct proposals to Washington about full normalization of ties between the two countries following President Donald Trump’s election, but nothing came of it.
Germany has deported eight Afghan men whose applications for asylum were rejected, sending them back to Afghanistan on September 13.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson does not want diplomatic disputes between Washington and Moscow to escalate further and seeks an improvement of ties between the "two nuclear powers," a spokeswoman says.
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