(Reuters) – Thousands took to the streets in Russia’s far eastern city of Khabarovsk on Saturday to protest President Vladimir Putin’s handling of the regional political crisis and the suspected poisoning of his most vocal critic. Protesters chanted “Putin, have some tea,” in the case of opposition politician Alexei Navalny, …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia released previously classified footage of the world’s largest nuclear explosion, when the Soviet Union detonated the so-called Tsar Bomb almost 60 years ago. A hydrogen bomb with a force of one million million tons of conventional explosives exploded in a test in the October / October …
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The European Union has threatened Turkey with new sanctions – including tough economic measures – unless progress is made in reducing tense tensions with Greece and Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean. EU top diplomat Josep Borrell said Friday that the bloc wanted to “give a serious chance for dialogue” but …
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(Reuters) – Shares in German pharmaceutical company Bayer AG (BAYGn.DE) fell 3% on Friday after it said there were “bumps” in sealing its $ 11 billion settlement of U.S. lawsuits over its Roundup weed killer after a U.S. judge doubted the progress of the agreement. FILE PHOTO: Bayer AG logo …
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“I had a nightmare many times when I woke up to someone calling me and said, ‘Alexey was killed when something very bad happened to him,'” Volkov recalled in an interview with CNN. “I had this nightmare at least 10 times in my life.” Last week he lived that nightmare. …
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