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Two former FBI officials settle lawsuits with Justice Department over leaked text messages
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two former FBI officials settled lawsuits with the Justice Department on Friday, resolving claims that their privacy was violated when the department leaked to the news media text messages that they had sent one another that disparaged former President Donald Trump. ...
A Russian Navy research vessel is suspected of violating Finnish territorial waters
HELSINKI (AP) — A Russian vessel is suspected of a territorial violation of Finland’s marine area in the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea, the Finnish defense ministry said on Friday. The suspected violation, which the Finnish Border Guard is currently investigating,...
Russia detains former deputy defense minister on corruption charges in the latest military arrest
MOSCOW (AP) — A former Russian defense ministry official was arrested on corruption charges, the Russian security services said Friday, the latest in a series of high-profile military arrests. Former Deputy Defense Minister Gen. Dmitry Bulgakov was detained in Moscow and ordered...
Agreement with Russia is 'deal with the devil,' adviser to Ukrainian president says
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Signing an agreement with Russia to stop the war with Ukraine would amount to signing a deal with the devil, a top adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, as pressure mounts on the country to seek an end to more than two years of fighting. A...
A Russian man accused of staging a car bombing on Ukrainian orders has been arrested
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's top security agency said Friday that it arrested a man accused of staging a car bombing on Ukrainian orders. The Federal Security Service, or FSB, showed a video of the handcuffed suspect walking off a plane from Turkey escorted by masked officers. ...
Chinese and Russian bombers patrolling off Alaska raise concerns about growing military cooperation
WASHINGTON (AP) — Russian and Chinese bombers flew together for the first time in international airspace off the coast of Alaska, in a new show of expanding military cooperation that U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday raises concerns. The flights Wednesday were not...
Ukraine's foreign minister in Hong Kong calls on officials to stop Russia from evading sanctions
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Thursday called on Hong Kong to prevent Russia and Russian businesses from using the region to circumvent sanctions. Kuleba met with Hong Kong leader John Lee as part of a visit to China. He called on the...
Russia arrests another high-ranking defense ministry official
MOSCOW (AP) — A court in Moscow on Thursday ordered the head of a Defense Ministry’s construction division to be detained for two months on suspicion of abuse of power, Russian news agencies reported, the latest in a series of arrests of high-ranking ministry officials this year. ...
2 years after Ukrainian POW deaths, survivors and leaked UN analysis point to Russia as the culprit
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The former prisoners of war still puzzle over the strange events leading up to the night now seared into their memories, when an explosion ripped through the Russian-controlled Olenivka prison barracks and killed so many comrades two years ago. Among the...
Russia's Putin hosts Syria's Assad in the Kremlin as tensions rise in the Middle East
Russian President Vladimir Putin met President Bashar Assad of Syria in the Kremlin, video distributed by the Kremlin press service on Thursday showed. Putin told Assad he was concerned that tensions are rising in the Middle East, but neither leader provided further details on their...
