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Shavkat Mirziyoyev won Sunday's presidential poll in Uzbekistan to start another five years as head of Central Asia's most populous country. The incumbent has always been the big favorite to win the vote, and the only…

Russia and the United States released their latest nuclear weapons tally at a time when ties between Moscow and the US-led NATO military alliance were in freefall.The Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday released its latest report on "the…

Sixty-five years ago Soviet troops crushed the Hungarian revolution. The Soviet Union launched a propaganda campaign blaming the West for the uprising and bloodshed. Howard Norton, a reporter for the Baltimore Sun, reported from…

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The mainstream media, defending Biden's White House amid the president's polls, urged Americans to lower their expectations of daily living conditions instead of blaming the federal government for their new problems, the panel discussed on…

Oct 19, 2021 Left links of domestic spies Big budget movies like "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" and "True lies" sparked the intrigue with the shock of someone discovering that their spouse or…

"I assumed the MiG-31 pilot would love nothing better than an opportunity to fire his missiles at an SR-71 Blackbird," Ed Yeilding, SR-71 Blackbird pilot. “Flying straight towards…

JIUQUAN, China, October 16 (Reuters) - China on Saturday launched a rocket carrying three astronauts - two men and a woman - to the central module of a future space station where they will live and work for six months, the longest orbit…

The glaring errors became clear shortly after a former Wisconsin judge issued subpoenas earlier this month in a Republican review of the state's 2020 presidential election. Some of the requests referred to the wrong city. At least…

The Nobel Peace Prize awarded last week to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, journalists from the Philippines and Russia respectively, was an important reminder of the vital role civic actors play in promoting international peace. It also…

Protein Plan and Green DealThe reasons for the commission's plan are manifold. Soybeans were previously mainly used to produce vegetable oils, but their market value exploded when what was left after oil production began to be used as a…

October 9, 2021HYDROGEN A controversial since the tragedy of the Hindenburg, a filled airship that caught fire in 1937. Boosters say gas is a low-carbon miracle that can power cars and homes. The hydrogen economy, they hope, will redraw…

The United States is committed to taking action so that the Babyn Yar tragedy is not repeated. “So on this anniversary, we honor the memory of all who are lost in Babyn Yar, we recommit ourselves to…

A former member of the Quad-City Symphony Orchestra is suing the organization, claiming he was fired for expressing widespread conservative beliefs about the Black Lives Matter movement. Yuri Grankin,…

BERLIN (AP) - The organization that handles claims on behalf of Jews who suffered under the Nazis said on Wednesday that Germany had agreed to extend compensation to Jewish survivors who endured the siege of Leningrad during the Second…

A University of Chicago associate professor of geophysics spoke out against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on Tuesday after the university canceled its invited lecture amid criticism from activist groups on campus.During…

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Marvel heroes are some of the most complicated heroes in all of comics. It was their claim to fame when they were first…

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - The ruling party in the former Georgian Soviet Republic leads the partial results in national municipal elections, but municipal elections in the country's four largest cities will likely need a second tower. The…

Kurt Campbell, the Biden administration's coordinator for Indo-Pacific affairs at the National Security Council, recently declared that "The period which has been widely described as the engagement ended. This shift from a…

Couple support Pacific Grove hotel construction project We have been living in our residence just up the street from the American Tin Cannery in Pacific Grove since 1984, so we know the location very well and are writing to you to express…

In 1938, at the height of Stalin's Great Terror, Russian ballet dancer Nina Anisimova was arrested by the NKVD, the Soviet secret police. His alleged crime was to work as a Nazi spy. Although she could not be found…

VILNIUS, Lithuania - It has never been a secret that China tightly controls what its people can read and write on their cell phones. But it came as a shock to Lithuanian officials when they discovered that a popular phone made in China…

KEMEROVO, Russia - A Siberian court has found a group of eight people guilty of negligence in a 2018 fire in the city of Kemerovo that killed 60 people, including 37 children.Zavodskoi District Court found on September 30 the former…

BRUSSELS, Sept.29 (Reuters) - The European Union, Britain and Italy have urged Russia to commit to achieving net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 and to step up plans to fight it climate change before COP26.Russia, one of the biggest…

The UK fuel crisis made headlines around the world. And the country is trolled, maybe on social media but certainly on Russian media. Presenters and journalists, at times smiling, compared it to Soviet Russia where the…

UNITED NATIONS (PA) - China's ambassador to the UN on Tuesday expressed hope that President Joe Biden will translate his statement that the United States does not intend to start a "new cold war" with China in action, saying it should…

Former JNU student union president and CPI leader Kanhaiya Kumar is the latest in a long line of left-wing leaders to join Congress or form a strong association with the party.In fact, two-time Bihar MP Shakeel Ahmed and Rajya Sabha's…

In July, Boris Plotkin of the technology team at Gap Inc. celebrated his 30th birthday with the company. He began his career in July 1991 as a Production Support Analyst before taking on various positions…

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What Happened September 26th in New York Ranger HistoryOn that date in 1972, Canada and the Soviet Union played in Game 7 of the Summit Series, with Canada winning 4-3 to tie the series at 3-3-1. The New York Rangers team made key…

UNITED NATIONS (PA) - Russia, China, Pakistan and the United States are…

Mr. Editor,The dust has settled on the current politico-ideological disposition of the PPP / C. The admission of former party secretaries-general Donald Ramotar and Clement Rohee that the PPP / C is no longer a Marxist / Leninist party…

Prime Minister Indira Gandhi strongly defended the decision to recognize the Heng Samrin government in Kampuchea. Speaking to a press conference in Jakarta, she recalled that her party had decided to recognize the Heng Samrin…

As all eyes were on the besieged Capitol Hill on Jan.6 and the United States slipped into an extreme domestic crisis, a secret crisis was swelling with China, according to new book revelations by reporters Bob Woodward and Robert Costa.…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Azerbaijan on Thursday lodged a complaint with the highest United Nations court accusing neighboring Armenia of a "policy of ethnic cleansing" against Azerbaijanis.The case was brought before the International…

The founder of the Jane Collective criticized the Texas abortion law, saying it is emblematic of a "big brother state". The Jane Collective was an…

Today it's Wednesday September 22 the 265th day of 2021. There are 100 days left in the year. Fall arrives…

President Biden, battling growing doubts from US allies about his commitment to work with them, used his first United Nations speech on Tuesday to call for "relentless diplomacy" on climate change, the pandemic and efforts to mitigate the…

Between 1891 and 1973, over thirty-seven million M1891 three-line rifles were produced, making it one of the most manufactured firearms of the 20th century. Today, most gun enthusiasts and gun historians simply call him the Mosin-Nagant.…

TEHRAN - A consultant in European and international affairs believes that the EU is absent and powerless in the face of unilateral US sanctions against other countries. "The European Union's position is absent and powerless on US…

The first thing I did when I left the bar was stack crates out of an alleyway, so yes, Peripeteia is an immersive sim. You play as an ex-cyborg soldier named Marie, reduced to odd jobs and mercenary jobs in a town where the main source…

It's quite a journey - nearly 6,400 kilometers - from Tomsk, Russia, one of the oldest cities in freezing Siberia, to sunny Netanya, and the cultural distance is just as vast.But in 2015, Arkady Mayofis, founder and owner of…

Michael adkins We should always think twice before insulting someone. My daughter's teenage grandson recently put his hand on my shoulder and said, “Daddy, you are bald. I replied, “Grandson, don't…

Governor Spencer Cox moderates a discussion with Senator Mitt Romney on Friday, September 17. Romney spoke at the Hinckley Center and urged Americans to protect their constitutional freedoms against authoritarianism. (Addie…

Sep 18, 2021ANDREI GROMYKO. And that was during the Cold War, a period of relatively calm American political analysis. To what extent does Gromyko's observation seem more applicable to the first eight months of Joe Biden's presidency.…

While the American, British and French allies all maintained airports in the West Berlin enclave, these were closed to West German air traffic, military or otherwise, due to Four-Power regulations governing the divided city. Not…

AdvertisingAs the Taliban inflict a humiliating defeat on the United States after 20 years of nation-building efforts, with the rapid collapse of the Afghan government, some are desperate for a scapegoat. Since the announcement of the…

Subscribe to our newsletter special edition for a daily update on the coronavirus pandemic. A senior White House adviser has escalated the war of words between the Biden administration and Republican…

Submitted by Pad Finnigan. In the previous article, we read how the Clover Park School District proposes to inject race and racism into their curriculum, supposedly to improve students' academic performance. But why? We know the…

Belarusian Kremlin-backed dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka has been hit with sanctions for his brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests. (Pavel Orlovsky / BelTA via REUTERS)…

WASHINGTON DC - Today, in a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, US Energy Secretary Jennifer M. Granholm and Ukrainian Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko signed a joint declaration…

Hundreds of Afghans desperate to flee the Taliban continued to crowd Kabul airport on Friday, even after one of the deadliest bombings in the country's history, as the death toll in the previous day's explosion was approaching 200 with…

By comparison, the business in Kabul doesn't look exactly like the Berlin Airlift, in which food was flown to West Berlin, rather than people being evacuated.Update August 24, 2021, 8:07 PM ETBut as a model of humanitarian and political…

NOTtoo long ago, Pakistan and Afghanistan were called Af-Pak: two countries hugging each other, doomed to live and die together. You couldn't choose your neighbors, we were told. Geography, we were taught, was our destiny.There has been…

The United States signed its first arms deal with the Soviet Union in 1972. Since then, there has always been a warning that if its opponent in Moscow does not live up to the terms of the deal, the US United had to preserve the ability to…

For decades, I have exhibited on my shelves two minor pieces of Gandhara sculpture, a stylized head of Buddha and a fragment of a stone frieze, an art form that developed in the northern region. -western Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan…

There is an old Soviet tale about Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. At lunchtime, he retired to his office and looked at the world map. The map was centered on the Soviet Union. The old Bolshevik was staring at him as if it were a giant…

For more than seven decades, very credible witnesses and sophisticated sensors observed mysterious objects fly in a way that defy easy explanation. But until recently the old presidents, High intelligence officials, members of Congress…

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A recent Loudoun County School Board meeting was violently disrupted in part because of Critical Race…

Kazan eventually won the title of Russia's “third capital” from the city of Nizhny Novgorod in 2009, although it still lags behind Moscow and St. Petersburg in terms of living standards.…

MOSCOW - Belarusian anti-government activist found dead in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, on Tuesday, in what police described as murder or suicide, shining the spotlight on the risks faced by opponents of Belarusian leader Alexander G.…

Simone Biles is seeks to make history - several times - at the Tokyo Olympics. The gymnast is the favorite for gold in four individual events in Tokyo and is also likely to win another gold at the top of the United States in the team…

In recent years, Vladimir Putin has repeatedly referred to the ideas of Lev Gumilev - one of the fathers of modern Eurasism - in the context of the roles of civilization and cultural factors in Russian!-->…

CNNCNN's Anderson Cooper spoke to Jeff Bezos and his brother moments after they returned to Earth. Bezos said the experience of flying in space was "amazing" and almost impossible to express in words. Seeing planet Earth from its New…

Redheaded and overly sexualized spy Natasha Romanoff, played by Scarlett Johansson, was introduced to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) over 10 years ago in "Iron Man 2".…

It was an American-made aircraft that flew over Edmonton for use by the Soviet Union. This is the flight path of the Bell P-39 Airacobra, a WWII fighter linked to the history of Blatchford Field. The planes would pass through Edmonton en…

Russia started July with a double-record week as it faces two waves: a massive heat wave that produced some of the highest temperatures Russia has seen in over a century, and a third wave coronavirus infections. The past two weeks have…

The Soviet Union, officially known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or USSR for short, was a country made up of…

High carbon steel is strong but brittle, super tough but susceptible to shattering under sudden impact. Mild or mild steel is ductile, prone to bending but less likely to break. The two metals are a useful metaphor for…

As the United States completes the withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan after two decades of a bloody and criminal war, numerous reports indicate that the ongoing conflict has already started to spread to neighboring Tajikistan.…

Since the Olympic Games began in 1896, athletes have used the international stage to shed light on issues of social justice.One of the most iconic protests came from Tommie Smith and John Carlos, the 1968 200-meter gold and bronze…

Xi is too far away for a course correction. CPC General Secretary Xi Jinping believes he was chosen by fate to write a chapter in Chinese history that will last as long as the PRC, which he hopes will forever.…

Americans old enough to remember the prediction "We are going to bury you" pronounced by Nikita Khrushchev, Prime Minister of the Soviet Union from 1958 to 1964, might still recall…

Today in history Today is Thursday, July 8, the 189th day of 2021. There are 176 days left in the year. The highlight of today's history:On July 8, 1947, a New Mexico newspaper, the Roswell!-->…

The relationship between China and the United States is the central drama of world politics today. It captures and defines the current era: great power rivalry, ideological competition, the spread of advanced technology, and the weakening…

In July 1936, with the signature of Joseph Stalin, the political bureau of the Soviet Union adopted the resolution "On the production of Soviet champagne", and decreed that the proletariat should not miss the most…

VLADIVOSTOK, July 8. / TASS /. It would be a good step to sign a peace treaty between Russia and Japan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday. “Our Japanese colleagues always say that they want to…

On Saturday April 26, 1986, reactor 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant melted. Contaminated nuclear material was released into the atmosphere for about ten days, traveling to Western Europe and the United Kingdom. It became the worst…

Thanks to a compulsory vaccination campaign, smallpox, a deadly virus that decimated mankind for centuries, was eradicated in the Soviet Union around 1936. However, it continued to exist in various parts of the world. One of those places…

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - Senior Pakistani military and intelligence officials told members of parliament in a closed-door briefing on Thursday that they were losing influence over the Taliban and building border defenses for fear of an…

At 2:40 p.m. on September 11, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave orders to one of his subordinates. Among Rumsfeld's thoughts: Better info quickly.Pretty goodjudge so well enoughpress SH @ at the same timenot just UBL And:…

Artistic Gymnastics - Artistic Gymnastics World Championships 2019 - Women's Floor Final - Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle, Stuttgart, Germany - October 13, 2019 Simone Biles of the United States in action REUTERS / Wolfgang Rattay / File…

June 26, 2021ON 1 JULY The Chinese Communist Party will celebrate its 100th anniversary. He has always called himself "great, glorious and correct". And as it enters its second century, the party has good reason to boast. Not only did…

Belarusian dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka in Sochi with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on May 29. (Sputnik / Sergei Ilyin / Kremlin via REUTERS)…

They kicked out diplomats. Penalties imposed. Fought proxy wars. Their war of words never really ends. But despite the often thorny relationship between the United States and Russia - and despite the brief "recall" of ambassadors that…

"I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First of all, I must admit that over the past few years I have been sorely disappointed with white moderates. I almost came to the unfortunate conclusion…

Joe Biden was the first US Senator to support Jimmy Carter as president in 1976. Now, as his presidency begins in earnest, Biden could do worse than emulate his old friend. Not Carter the politician, but Carter the president. In politics,…