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Ukraine war: religious leaders are playing an important (and unusual) role
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 19 hours agoSaid Ismagilov, one of Ukraine’s top muslim leaders, joined the armed forces to fight against Russia’s mass invasion, claiming a Quranic justification for his decision. Moscow
People flee Idaho town through a tunnel of fire and smoke as Western wildfires spread
Tri-City News· 14 hours agoVideos posted to social media include a man who said he heard explosions as he fled Juliaetta, about...
What we know about Eurostar disruption ahead of Paris Olympics
Yahoo News UK· 21 hours agoNATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said in June that the alliance had seen several examples of...
Russian ex-defence minister arrested for corruption, says Interfax
Reuters via Yahoo Canada News· 19 hours agoRussia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Friday that Dmitry Bulgakov, a former deputy defence minister, had been arrested and charged with corruption, the Interfax news agency reported ...
A tanker plane crash has killed a firefighting pilot in Oregon as Western wildfires spread
CTV News· 12 hours agoA tanker plane that disappeared in eastern Oregon while fighting one of the many wildfires spreading...
Putin and al-Assad meet as Middle East tensions continue to rise
Euronews via Yahoo Canada News· 2 days agoRussian President Vladimir Putin has met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Moscow to discuss...
Russia arrests another high-ranking defense ministry official
The Canadian Press via Yahoo Canada News· 1 day agoMOSCOW (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 ...
Russia and China should join forces in Southeast Asia, Lavrov tells Wang at Asean meeting
South China Morning Post via Yahoo Finance Canada· 21 hours agoRussia and China should join efforts to counter interference from external forces in Southeast Asia, Moscow's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told his Chinese counterpart as ...
Russia hikes import tariffs for consumer goods from 'unfriendly countries'
Reuters via Yahoo Canada News· 7 days agoRussia increased imports tariffs for consumer goods, including wine, beer, candies, biscuits and...
A Russian internet pioneer is handed a 2-year prison sentence by Moscow court
Toronto Star· 3 days agoAlexei Soldatov, who served as deputy minister of communications in 2008-2010, was convicted Monday on charges related to a deal to transfer a pool of IP addresses to a foreign-based organization ...