2 individuals were eliminated after a torrent of water poured over a cofferdam in northwestern Russia early Monday and flooded the surrounding location, authorities said.Water gotten rid of the temporary barrier between 2 locks of the White Sea-Baltic Canal in the republic of Karelia, regional head Artur Parfenchikov composed on the Russian social networks website

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Russia's TASS state news agency said Sunday the Paris Olympics organizing committee had stripped four of its journalists of accreditation to cover the Games after they attended initial events.

TASS said that the removal of the reporters' accreditation, essential to cover the Games, was "completely unexpected" after the journalists had entered

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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday threatened to relaunch production of intermediate-range nuclear weapons if the United States validated its intent to deploy missiles to Germany or somewhere else in Europe. If the United States performs such strategies, we will consider ourselves liberated from the unilateral moratorium formerly embraced on

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A Russian navy ship arrived in Cuba on Saturday for a three-day stay, six weeks after Moscow sent a submarine and other naval vessels to check out the communist state off Florida's coast.The Smolny training ship was welcomed with salvos from Cuban artillery before it anchored in Havana's harbor, where residents and tourists collected to take a look.Russi

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Mali's army and its Russian allies suffered a major setback and significant losses Saturday while fighting separatists in the country's north, a spokesman for the rebels told AFP.

The West African nation's military leaders that took power in a 2020 coup have made it a priority to retake all of the country from separatist and jihadist forces,

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Russia on Saturday slammed the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games as a "massive failure".

Foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova gave a long list of shortcomings at Friday's ceremony, which was not broadcast live on Russian television.

"I wasn't planning to watch the opening. But after seeing the photos, I couldn't believe it wasn't a

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