Extensive deposits of copper, gold, zinc, cobalt, and lithium are located in Afghanistan, as are gemstones such as emeralds, rubies, sapphires, garnets, and lapis lazuli. As part of a special report, ...

It might have been built by political prisoners from Russian army disposals tanks from Afghanistan, but it was tough. The new wagon looks the same, but it has the throttle-body fuel-injected 1.7 ...

He then followed this rhetorical support with concrete policies. Expectations for an era of heightened U.S.–Russian cooperation began to unravel in the mid-2000s. Indeed, future historians ...

Metropolitan Chrysostomos, who headed of the Vilnius-Lithuania Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church from 1990 to 2010, died on 6 January aged 90. “Metropolitan Chrysostomos was always an ...

(Adds missing word "court" in headline, corrects spelling of the word "to" in paragraph 4) MOSCOW :A Russian court fined Alphabet's Google 8 billion roubles ($77.9 million) on Tuesday for not ...

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WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden is expected to unveil new sanctions targeting Russia's economy this week, according to a U.S. official, as part of measures to bolster Kyiv's war effort against ...

Senior European Commission officials have ordered a review of Biden’s orders — which range from sanctions against Russia to trade and cyber security — to work out which reversals could have ...

President Joe Biden plans new economic sanctions against Russia and $500 million in military aid for Ukraine, aiming to strengthen Kyiv's position before Donald Trump takes office. The aid package ...

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Biden meets with Ukraine's President Zelenskiy in Washington ...