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A top Russian researcher developing hypersonic innovations has been sentenced to 7 years in jail on charges of state treason, a spokeswoman for St. Petersburg's judiciary stated Thursday.Alexander Kuranov, the head of a St. Petersburg state research institute who oversaw the Soviet-era Ayaks hypersonic airplane program, was apprehended in 2021 at

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Investigators have arrested two German-Russian men on suspicion of spying for Russia and planning attacks in Germany — including on U.S. army targets — to undermine military support for Ukraine, prosecutors said Thursday.

The pair, identified only as Dieter S. and Alexander J., were arrested in Bayreuth in the southeastern state of Bavaria on

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At least seven people have been killed in historic flooding that hit the Ural Mountains cities of Orenburg and Orsk this month, independent media has reported, as authorities denied any casualties.

Orenburg is just starting to emerge from some of its worst flooding in almost a century after the nearby Ural River began swelling in early April and

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Rescuers were removing mountains of rubble on Thursday from the site of a lethal Russian missile strike on Ukraine's historic city of Chernihiv, where at least 18 people were killed in an attack that has prompted fresh pleas for allies to boost Kyiv's overstretched air defense systems.

Three Russian missiles crashed into the northern Ukrainian city

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Russian shelling killed two people in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region on Thursday, authorities said, as Moscow ramps up its assault to capture the war-battered region.

Outgunned and outmanned on the battlefield, Kyiv has ceded ground to Russian forces since late last year, evacuating hundreds of civilians from frontline areas amid an uptick in

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Some 20,000 protesters rallied in Georgia on Wednesday after legislators advanced a controversial foreign influence law that opponents state will undermine Tbilisi's longstanding European aspirations.In a vote boycotted by opposition deputies, 83 legislators from the judgment Georgian Dream celebration passed the first reading of the expense, which has been