Police in St. Petersburg say they have apprehended a group of Russian men who are accused of fabricating and selling phony identification documents from a non-existent Caribbean island state.
The cockpit voice recorder from a Russian airliner that crashed outside Moscow in February captured the desperate last words of the pilots as they tried to reverse the aircraft's downward course shortly after takeoff, a news report says.
Britain's counterterrorism police took over the investigation into the sudden and severe illness of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter as media reported that Skripal's son died last year of unknown causes on a visit to Russia.
Russia's ban from international athletics over widespread doping was extended by the sport's governing body on March 6 and the country was warned it could face further sanctions this year.
A top U.S. intelligence official has predicted that Russia plans to interfere in the upcoming U.S. congressional elections, but says officials are unsure exactly how and when.
Britain will respond "robustly" if any foreign government was behind the sudden and severe illness of a former Russian spy and his daughter, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has said, warning that no attempt to take a life on U.K. soil will go unpunished.
British police investigating the sudden and severe illness of a man identified as former Russian spy Sergei Skripal are "alive to the fact of state threats," the country's top counterterrorism officer says.
The International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) says it was forced to halt aid delivery to the rebel-held enclave of eastern Ghouta in Syria the previous day after the security situation worsened while aid workers were on the ground.
At least 31 suspected insurgents, including Islamic State militants, were killed over the past 24 hours in ground and air strikes launched by the Afghan Army in different parts of the country, the Defense Ministry said on March 6.
A man identified by British media as a former Russian spy and his companion remained in intensive care early on March 6 while British authorities launched an investigation into why they fell critically ill.
The United States has lambasted Moscow for its "brutal" complicity in civilian deaths in Syria's rebel-held enclave in the eastern Ghouta region, accusing Russian aircraft of flying bombing missions in defiance of a United Nations cease-fire.
President Vladimir Putin has claimed that Russia thwarted nearly 500 spies in 2017, and urged the Federal Security Service (FSB) to step up cybersecurity efforts and strengthen measures to protect secret communications.
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