Politics

IMAGE SOURCE,REUTERS Image caption, Navalny stood in the makeshift court in Pokrov jail as the verdict was read out Russia's most prominent opposition figure Alexei Navalny has been given nine years in a "strict regime penal colony" in a fraud case rejected...

Ukraine rejected a Russian ultimatum to surrender the besieged port city of Mariupol on Monday, as overnight Russian strikes destroyed a shopping mall in the capital Kyiv, killing eight people. Almost 350,000 people are trapped without water and electricity in...

  In Los Angeles, gas cost more than $5 a gallon last week. In the rest of the country, gas is a relative bargain at just over $4 a gallon. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images Oil prices surged to a 14-year...

    Media caption, Video shows people running to escape Russian shelling in Irpin, just outside of the capital Kyiv Russia is striking civilian targets in Ukraine, including hospitals, nurseries, and schools, the Ukrainian deputy prime minister has said. Olha Stefanishyna told the BBC...

  The U.S. on Thursday announced new sanctions against members of the Russian elite, including Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, and said it would block 19 oligarchs and 47 of their relatives and close associates from traveling to the United...

  Ukrainian mayor ‘waiting for a miracle’ as Russia expands assault on key cities     Kherson mayor warns city under Russian attack ‘will perish’ without help     U.S. prepares to expand financial attack on Russian oligarchs, aiming to seize billions held by Putin allies The...

Talks between Ukraine and Russia have started at the Belarussian border, Ukrainian presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak told Reuters via text message on Monday.Earlier the Ukrainian president’s office said Ukraine’s goal for the talks was an immediate ceasefire and the...

IMAGE SOURCE,REUTERS Image caption, Mr Putin described Western economic sanctions against his country as illegal Vladimir Putin has ordered Russia's military to put its deterrence forces, which include nuclear weapons, on "special alert". He told defence chiefs it was because of "aggressive statements"...

Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Russia’s Chechnya region and an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said on Saturday that Chechen fighters had been deployed to Ukraine and urged Ukrainians to overthrow their government. In a video posted online, Kadyrov...

As Queen Elizabeth II continues to recover from COVID-19, one blog doesn’t appear to be backing down from its claims that the monarch passed away. Watch: Queen Elizabeth II Tests Positive for Covid-19   Don't believe everything you read about Queen Elizabeth II. On Feb....