The streets of Siberia are hardly paved with gold -- but a runway in Yakutsk was strewn with the stuff after an aircraft hatch flew open accidentally on takeoff, Russian news reports said.
Cyber-attackers tried to trigger a deadly explosion at a petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia in August and failed only because of a code glitch, The New York Times reported.
A senior Russian diplomat says that Moscow will respond to a new set of U.S. sanctions by expanding its "blacklist" of Americans who are barred from traveling to Russia.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Moscow will kick U.K. diplomats out of the country in response to Britain's expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats over a nerve-agent attack on a former spy.
Syrian government forces and allied militias have raped and sexually assaulted women, girls, and men in a campaign to punish opposition communities -- acts that constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, the United Nations said on March 15.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the West is not looking to start a new Cold War or an arms race with Russia, but he reiterated that the military alliance will defend “all allies against any threat.”
Reports from Syria say thousands of civilians are fleeing the rebel enclave of eastern Ghouta into government-held territory, as government forces continue to advance.
Four Central Asian presidents are meeting in Kazakhstan for the first regional summit in almost a decade, a sign of improving ties following the death of divisive Uzbek leader Islam Karimov in 2016.
Allies have expressed support for Britain after it announced the expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats in retaliation for the poisoning of a former spy with a military-grade nerve agent, but offered no quick response to the incident.
Amnesty International has accused Russia of mounting a “fierce crackdown” on political activists ahead of this week’s presidential elections, systematically violating their rights through “arbitrary” arrests and detentions.
Britain will expel 23 Russian diplomats as part of a package of measures against Moscow, which ignored a midnight deadline to explain how a nerve agent developed during the Cold War was used to poison a former Russian spy in Britain.
British Prime Minister Theresa May is expected to announce measures against Russia on March 14, after Moscow ignored a midnight deadline to explain how a nerve agent developed during the Cold War was used to poison a former Russian spy in Britain.
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