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Kremlin: Nope, Assad Isn't Headed for Divorce

Russia denies Turkish media reports that ex-Syrian dictator and Asma Assad are splitting

(Newser) - Russia on Monday addressed divorce rumors concerning Bashar al-Assad and his wife, Asma al-Assad, denying them outright. "No, they do not correspond to reality," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on a conference call about the media reports out of Turkey alleging the Assads' split, per Reuters . Peskov also...

Putin Vows to Ask Assad About Austin Tice

Russian president speaks on Ukraine war, Syria upheaval in his hourslong annual address

(Newser) - If Russia's reputation has been made weaker by its ongoing war in Ukraine and the recent regime change in Syria, Vladimir Putin isn't acknowledging it. At his annual news conference and call-in show in Moscow on Thursday, which the AP deemed a "tightly choreographed event" that lasted...

Assassinated Russian General Spread Wild Claims About US

Kirillov claimed US-sponsored labs were working on pathogens designed to infect Russians

(Newser) - The Russian general assassinated in Moscow on Tuesday was responsible for spreading misinformation as well as chemical weapons, Western officials say. Ukraine's security services have claimed responsibility for the killing of Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, chief of Russia's Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Protection Troops.
  • Misinformation. Kirillov spread misinformation
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Russia Says It Has Man Who Placed Moscow Bomb

Suspect said Ukraine offered him $100K, European residency, according to FSB

(Newser) - Russia says it's detained a man who confessed to planting and detonating the bomb that killed a top Russian general in Moscow on Tuesday. Ukraine took responsibility for the killing of Igor Kirillov, chief of Russia's Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Protection Troops, after charging him in absentia with...

Ukraine Takes Out Russian 'War Criminal' on His Home Turf

Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov was accused by the West of overseeing the use of chemical weapons

(Newser) - Ukraine says it assassinated a top Russian general responsible for the use of chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops on Tuesday. Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, chief of Russia's Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Protection Troops, and his assistant died outside an apartment building in Moscow when a bomb concealed in an...

Gershkovich Reports From 'Unique Vantage Point'

He looks at powerful but little-known Russian agency that has been arresting Americans

(Newser) - Evan Gershkovich says that when he was arrested in Russia last year and became the first foreign correspondent charged with espionage since the Cold War, he "never stopped reporting." In his first piece for the Wall Street Journal since he was released in August after 16 months in...

Tigers Raised Together, Released Apart Are Now Mates

Love story is one part of a conservation success that could see tigers repopulate Russian range

(Newser) - Siberian tigers inhabit only a tiny pocket of their historical range in Russia's Far East, but a feline love story is raising hopes that the endangered species—numbering no more than 750—could repopulate much of Asia. The story begins in the early 2010s when scientists rescued six orphaned...

Zelensky's Update on Ukraine's War Death Toll Differs From Trump's

Ukraine president gives 'rare update' on death toll, says 43K soldiers have died

(Newser) - In a social media post Sunday, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said 43,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died since Russia invaded the country in 2022. In what the BBC calls a "rare update" on war casualties, he said another 370,000 injuries have been reported, though some of those injuries...

Russia Grants Asylum to Assad
Russia Says It's
Taken In Assad
Dec 8, 2024 1:15 PM CST

Russia Says It's Taken In Assad

Biden tells nation US actions 'shifted the balance of power' in the Middle East

(Newser) - Ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has arrived in Moscow with his family, Russian state media reported Sunday, and was granted asylum "for humanitarian reasons." The report could not immediately be confirmed by outside outlets. Russia had supported Assad's government, and a Kremlin official said Syrian rebels provided...

Assad Is Out. Now What?


Assad Is Out.
Now What?
the rundown
Dec 8, 2024 7:50 AM CST

Assad Is Out. Now What?

Mideast balance of power shifting, with Iran seen as suffering a major blow

(Newser) - The fall of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria is expected to bring about a fundamental shift in the balance of power in the Mideast. But exactly how that will play out is still in flux. Coverage:
  • Possible vacuum: The Wall Street Journal reports that the speed with which the government
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Romania Voids Election Results Over Russian Interference

Court orders rerun of presidential vote after allegations of Russian TikTok campaign

(Newser) - A top Romanian court on Friday annulled the first round of the country's presidential election, days after allegations that Russia ran a coordinated online campaign to promote the far-right outsider who won the first round. The Constitutional Court's unprecedented decision—which is final—came after President Klaus Iohannis...

Ukrainian Kids Sent to Russia on Putin's Orders: Report

Russian president financed and facilitated coerced adoption, which could be a war crime

(Newser) - Yale University researchers offer what they say is strong evidence of war crimes by Vladimir Putin in a new report alleging Russia's president and senior Kremlin officials authorized the coerced fostering and adoption of Ukrainian children. It finds 314 children as young as 2, mostly from Ukraine's Donetsk...

Putin Approves Record Military Budget

EU reiterates funding pledges for Ukraine's war effort

(Newser) - As senior European Union officials arrived in Kyiv to express their unflinching support for Ukraine's war effort, Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a new budget with a record military spending. More than $145 billion of the 2025 budget will go to national defense, a nearly one-third share that's...

First Kim Sent Troops to Russia. Now, a Pledge

North Korea vows to 'invariably support' Putin in his war in Ukraine

(Newser) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed his country will "invariably support" Russia's war in Ukraine as he met Russia's defense chief, the North's state media reported Saturday. A Russia military delegation led by Defense Minister Andrei Belousov arrived in North Korea on Friday, amid growing international...

Investigators Think Chinese Ship Dragged Anchor for 100 Miles

The Yi Peng 3 is suspected of cutting 2 undersea cables in the Baltic

(Newser) - European investigators have a suspect—and now the world has more details. The Wall Street Journal has the latest on the Yi Peng 3 bulk carrier , a Chinese commercial ship that is suspected of severing two fiber-optic cables in the Baltic Sea. The vessel has been flanked by European warships...

Trump Picks Envoy for Russia, Ukraine

Keith Kellogg laid out an America First agenda for incoming administration

(Newser) - President-elect Trump said Wednesday that he has chosen Keith Kellogg, a highly decorated retired three-star general, to serve as his special envoy for Ukraine and Russia. Kellogg, who is one of the architects of a staunchly conservative policy book that lays out an "America First" national security agenda for...

Dems Suggest Tulsi Gabbard Is 'Compromised'

Republicans are pushing back hard against the claims

(Newser) - Republican senators pushed back on Sunday against criticism from Democrats that Tulsi Gabbard, President-elect Trump's pick to lead US intelligence services, is "compromised" by her comments supportive of Russia as well as secret meetings she attended as a congresswoman with Syria's president, a close ally of the...

To Attract Recruits, Russia Offers Debt Forgiveness

Latest incentive is good up to nearly $100K

(Newser) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law granting debt forgiveness to new army recruits who enlist to fight in Ukraine. The measure, whose final version appeared on a government website Saturday, underscores Russia's needs for military personnel in the nearly three-year war, the AP reports. According to Russian...

Putin Signs Measures Backing the Kremlin's Family Values

One law bars adoption to nations that allow gender transitioning

(Newser) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday signed into law a bill banning adoption of Russian children by citizens of countries where gender transitioning is legal. The Kremlin leader also approved legislation that outlaws the spread of material that encourages people not to have children. The bills, which were approved by...

Putin Gives North Korea More Than 70 Animals

Gift to Pyongyang zoo includes lion, bears, yaks

(Newser) - North Korea has sent thousands of troops and millions of artillery shells to Russia and received a menagerie in return. Vladimir Putin has sent more than 70 animals to Pyongyang in what the Telegraph describes as a "symbol of friendship" between the Russian leader and Kim Jong Un. Officials...

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