Relatives of students of school No 175 where two attackers opened fire; at least one teacher and eight students are reported dead. Yegor Aleyev/TASS (Photo by Yegor Aleyev\TASS via Getty Images) MOSCOW – At least seven school children and one teacher were killed and many more wounded after a lone ...
Read More »Talks to save Iran nuclear deal get off to good start
Representatives of the European Union and Iran attend nuclear talks at the Grand Hotel Vienna in Austria on Tuesday. Photo: Lars Ternes/EU delegation in Vienna via APA/DPAR VIENNA – Iran, Russia and the United States reacted positively Tuesday to the opening exchanges in a first day of talks in Vienna ...
Read More »Russia, under fresh US sanctions threat, says ready to issue Eurobond soon
PARIS – Russia stands ready to tap the Eurobond market any moment, and it expects foreigners’ share among holders of its OFZ treasury bonds to stabilize in 2021 despite the threat of fresh US sanctions, a deputy finance minister told Reuters. The risk of new sanctions increased after US President ...
Read More »‘Takes one to know one’: Putin mocks Biden over ‘killer’ comment
MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday mocked Joe Biden for calling him a “killer” – saying “it takes one to know one” – as ties between Moscow and Washington sank to new lows. US President Biden s comments sparked the biggest crisis between Russia and the United States in ...
Read More »Israel slams UN Human Rights Council after Russia, China, Pakistan elected
NEW YORK: Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan assailed the international body on Tuesday after its members elected several countries widely criticized for their human rights records to the premier UN body tasked with defending human rights. China, Russia, Cuba and Pakistan were among the 15 countries that ...
Read More »Alexei Navalny ‘stable’ in Berlin hospital
BERLIN: Leading Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who has suffered a suspected poisoning, was in a stable condition in hospital on Saturday after being flown to Berlin following a standoff over his medical evacuation from Russia. A convoy including two yellow ambulances brought Navalny from Berlin’s Tegel airport to the renowned ...
Read More »Putin claims to develop COVID-19 vaccine
MOSCOW: Russia President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia has become the first country in the world to give regulatory approval to a COVID-19 vaccine after barely two months of human trials, a move hailed by Moscow as evidence of its scientific prowess. The development paves the way for ...
Read More »Russia says deal to make UK-developed vaccine is on
MOSCOW: Russia will unveil a deal with AstraZeneca to manufacture a COVID-19 vaccine being developed by the pharmaceuticals giant and Oxford University, its wealth fund head said on Friday, adding this showed Moscow had no need to steal vaccine data. Britain, Canada and the United States said on Thursday that ...
Read More »Russia trying to hack and steal virus vaccine data: NCSC
LONDON: Hackers backed by the Russian state are trying to steal COVID-19 vaccine and treatment research from academic and pharmaceutical institutions around the world, Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said on Thursday. A co-ordinated statement from Britain, the United States and Canada attributed the attacks to group APT29, also ...
Read More »Russia claims to have developed ‘safe’ covid vaccine
MOSCOW: The Russian defence ministry said on it had developed a “safe” coronavirus vaccine following clinical trials on a group of volunteers. The ministry said 18 people had participated in the research and were discharged without “serious adverse events, health complaints, complications or side effects”. The results of the trials ...
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