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Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov says 26 missing miners were most likely also dead

In September, the country will hold parliamentary elections but critics fear the vote will be manipulated

President Barack Obama’s final defense budget unveiled this month calls for a $1.8 billion hike in nuclear arms

Navalny, a tireless critic of President Vladimir Putin, says the attack was linked to Kremlin

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made the statement on Thursday

Afghan president says the assault rifles will be directly transferred to security forces

US lawmakers banned future military use of the Russian engines after Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea region in 2014

Israel however, says it was sceptical the deal would hold

The announcement comes just one day after the deadliest extremist attack in the nearly five-year war

Blasts struck about 400 m from revered Shia shrine containing grave of a granddaughter of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)

Snowden says he wants a trial where he could make 'a public interest defense' then have jurors decide his case

Hollande said negotiations must resume, bombardments must stop, and aid must come

France remains extremely concerned by the dangerous escalation of the conflict

Airport argues 2010 legislation allowed airports not to put all those entering the building through a metal detector

Military officials fret about the possibility of an unintended clash between the two sides

The poster reads, "Don’t smoke, don’t be like Obama”

The two countries are also ready to coordonate their approaches on a large number of global and regional issues

The group found incidents of Internet censorship increased from 1,019 in 2014 to 9,022 in 2015

Three injured people rushed to hospital while authorities evacuated 131 residents and put them in temporary housing

Oil prices have tumbled about 70 percent since June 2014, hit by oversupply and sluggish demand

Almost 50 civilians were killed when missiles hit five medical facilities, two schools in rebel-held areas of Syria

Saudi Arabia's oil minister Ali al-Naimi and his Russian counterpart Alexander Novak will meet in Doha

Ahmet Davutoglu they will deliver an extremely decisive response if Russia continues behaving like a terrorist outfit

The raids also left dozens wounded, Observatory says

Almost every day we are accused of making new horrible threats against NATO, Europe or the US, says Russian PM

Russia will hold first ever joint Russia-Pakistan counterterrorism exercises in mountainous terrain this year

The suspects had planned to stage attacks in the Russian capital, Saint Petersburg and the Sverdlovsk region

Since September, the Russians have been carrying out strikes against groups of fighters opposed to Syrian President

Kerry accused the Russian military of using 'dumb bombs'

The meeting,will take place in Havana on February 12

The foreign ministry's statement comes a day after Russia accused Turkey of breaching the Open Skies treaty

Defence ministry says officer was training Syrian soldiers in use of new weapons when he was fatally wounded on Monday

Hammond says Putin is worsening Syrian civil war by bombing opponents of Islamic State

Russian Foreign Minister says it does not mean they are legitimate and not terrorist groups

Russia's Defense Ministry claims to have conducted 468 air strikes last week and hit more than 1,300 'terrorists'

Statement says Russia awaiting explanation from NATO, Pentagon and Turkish armed forces on a village shelling incident

Investigators said the blaze engulfed an area covering 3,000 square metres in the factory

Turkey shot down a Russian warplane in November in an incident that wrecked relations between the two countries

National and Pacific Tsunami Warning Centers says there was no risk the earthquake had caused a tsunami

German police last week rejected the teenager's account but nevertheless passed the case to the prosecutor's office

Arrivals from Russia for 2015 dropped to 3.65 million in 2015 from around 4.5 million in the previous year

US Treasury acting under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence said Putin was a picture of corruption

Berlin police last week rejected a rape claim by a 13-year-old German-Russian teenager

The first ever Russian-Pakistani special war-games is one of seven international exercises planned by Kremlin for 2016

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said seven children and one woman were among the dead

Seven joint exercises with the involvement of the relevant units of foreign states will be held

An inquiry into what happened published its long-awaited findings on Thursday

Russia's reported move into Qamishli comes as Ankara and Moscow are experiencing their biggest crisis in years

Focus was on enhanced security and training cooperation measures to expand joint military ties between the two armies

Litvinenko was poisoned at a London hotel in 2006 by a cup of tea laced with polonium-210