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January 20, 2019

Bomb blasts rock Syria’s Damascus and Afrin

A bomb blast hit Damascus on Sunday, in a rare attack in the Syrian capital that has been largely insulated from violence during nearly eight years of war. The explosion came as another bomb in the northern city of Afrin…

January 20, 2019

Trump had conversations on Moscow tower up to the 2016 US elections: lawyer

US President Donald Trump had conversations about a proposed project to build a Trump Tower in Moscow throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, far later than previously acknowledged, his lawyer said Sunday. Trump’s conversations with his then personal lawyer and fixer,…

January 20, 2019

Russians protest Kuril islands handover to Japan

Hundreds of Russians protested against a feared giveaway of strategic islands to Japan on Sunday, two days before a key summit between the countries’ leaders in Moscow. Between 300 and 500 people gathered on Suvorovskaya Square, just outside Moscow city…

January 19, 2019

Russian court extends detention of Belarussian model

A Belarusian model who claimed she had proof of Russian collusion with the Trump election campaign, had her detention in Moscow extended by three days by a Russian court on Saturday. Anastasia Vashukevich, also known as Nastya Rybka, has been…

January 19, 2019

Russians dive into icy waters on Epiphany

Crowds of Orthodox believers took the traditional plunge in freezing waters Saturday as they celebrated Epiphany across Russia, despite winter temperatures reaching -40 degrees Celsius in some regions. Russian police estimated Saturday morning that over 2.4 million people in the…

January 19, 2019