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Galtier and Mbappe were asked at a press conference whether they had discussed an offer from the state railway group to provide travel for them to away games
Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose country had massed some 150 000 troops on the border in recent months, on Thursday ordered military operations against Ukraine.
The 50th meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) got under way in the ski resort with an avowed focus on climate change but with starkly different visions over global warming…
Firefighters battled into the night to control the flames, declaring it was partially extinguished but completely under control
The killing of the 59-year-old has severely dented the kingdom’s image in the West and put powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on the defensive
The move came as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Khashoggi’s killing inside the Saudis’ Istanbul consulate had been meticulously planned
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that Jamal Khashoggi’s murder was ‘planned’ days in advance according to a ‘roadmap’ by a Saudi team
The accident in May 2014 killed 301 people when one of the pits of the Soma mine became engulfed by flames and carbon monoxide gas
The stakes were particularly high as the new president will be the first to enjoy enhanced powers, without even a prime minister
Ahmet Davutoglu is expected to hold discussions with the country’s opposition party in the hopes of forming a coalition, after losing in the polls.
President Vladimir Putin says Russia was obliged to protect the feelings of religious believers from Pussy Riot, slamming their antics as an "orgy".
Russia’s doomed probe for Mars spirals ever closer to the Earth before it plunges back into the atmosphere in a fiery end.
The cataclysmic collapse 20 years ago of the Soviet Union unleashed conflict, instability and poverty that are still felt today.
Russia on Wednesday marked 70 years since the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany, an event that apparently caught Stalin totally unprepared.
An ethnic Russian member of a North Caucasus militant group on Thursday emerged as the first suspect in the suicide strike on Russia’s main airport.
Russia on Wednesday blamed Polish failures for the plane crash that killed president Lech Kaczynski.
In a withering attack on President Dmitry Medvedev, Moscow’s ousted mayor Yury Luzhkov accused him of promoting a climate of repression
Russia fought a deadly battle on Tuesday to prevent wildfires from engulfing key nuclear sites.
Russia firefighters on Monday battled to prevent the worst summer wildfires in a generation from claiming more lives as 34 people were confirmed dead.
Russia and the United States sought on Wednesday to cool a heated scandal sparked by the arrest of 11 suspected Kremlin spies.
