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Russian authorities confirmed on Sunday that the 10 people killed in the crash of a private plane north of Moscow on Aug. 23 were those that had been listed on the jet’s...

Question: Provincial Councillor Spinelli, how do you think politics should adapt to the liquid modernity as described by Bauman? Answer: In a liquid society, traditional bonds and values are weakened, and politics...

As Russian high school students returned to classes after the summer break on Friday, they were expected to receive a heavily revised history textbook that claims that Ukraine is an “ultranationalist state”...

Pope Francis has long expressed a desire to visit Russia and China in hopes of healing the church’s historical rifts and ensuring the faith’s future in the populous East. On Friday, he...

Aug. 31, 2023, 10:49 a.m. ETAug. 31, 2023, 10:49 a.m. ETPolice officers at the scene of the fire on Thursday. The government, rights activists say, has prioritized building private apartments and student...

Olga Smirnova, a peace activist, at a court hearing in St. Petersburg, Russia, this month.Credit...Yevgeny Pavlenko/Kommersant, via Associated PressA district court in St. Petersburg, Russia, sentenced Olga B. Smirnova, a peace activist...

Updated Aug. 31, 2023, 3:38 a.m. ETAug. 31, 2023, 3:38 a.m. ETA fire tore through a building in downtown Johannesburg early Thursday, killing at least 63 people and injuring dozens of others, city...

When the last American soldier flew out of Afghanistan on Aug. 30, 2021, leaving the country to Taliban rule, the world braced for a human rights nightmare.In that sense, the Taliban have...

When the Spanish women’s national soccer team won the World Cup final this month, their compatriots had little time to celebrate before the behavior of the country’s top soccer official prompted a...

A group of military officers said they had seized power in the oil-rich Central African nation of Gabon early on Wednesday, overturning the results of a disputed election that returned the incumbent,...