Legacy has become increasingly important for those who occupy the highest offices in British public life. All high level public servants, especially Prime Ministers, must now have an implicit understanding of the importance of ensuring that they are at least not remembered with venom - if they cannot be remembered fondly.
Russian President Vladimir Putin greeted on Thursday the participants of 26th International Financial Congress (IFC 2017) and noted the need to implement advanced technologies to increase the competitiveness of the Russian financial sector and make its services available to people and business.
The crew of the Pacific Fleet’s nuclear submarine cruiser Tomsk carried out a test launch of a cruise missile and successfully hit its designated target during combat drills held at the Kura Missile Test Range on the Kamchatka Peninsula.
The Moscow District Military Court sentenced Zaur Dadayev to 20 years in prison for the February 2015 murder of Russian politician Boris Nemtsov, a Sputnik correspondent reported from the court Thursday.
Russia's Rosoboronexport state intermediary has sold 1,300 aircraft and helicopters worth $65 billion abroad since its formation in late 2000, Director General Alexander Mikheev said Thursday.
Future FBI Director Cristopher Wray said that he would be interested to look into Kiev’s alleged meddling in the electoral process in the United States. According to political analyst Alexei Zudin, this is another alarming signal from Washington to the Ukrainian government.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) sent 21 vehicles containing hundreds of metric tons of aid cargo to the citizens living in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian border service said Thursday.
South Korean financial regulator on Thursday ordered national fintech companies to implement measures to tackle terrorism financing in line with arrangements reached at the G20 summit in Hamburg, local media reported.
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker is joined by activist and author James Cockroft.
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On this episode of Fault Lines, Garland and Lee discuss the FBI Director confirmation hearings and the latest gossip on the Trump Jr story, the confirmed Ukrainian interference in the US presidential election, and a Detroit judge granting an ACLU request to halt the deportation of Iraqi refugees.
A fire, which occurred at the ammunition depot in the Turkish province of Kilis near the border with Syria on Thursday, left at least 10 servicemen injured, local media reported.
At least 24 militants affiliated with Taliban and Daesh terrorist groups, both of which outlawed in Russia, have been killed in airstrikes and ground operations in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province, local media reported Thursday citing the Afghan National Army (ANA).
Consensus between the United States and Russia, a key player in global affairs, is necessary to solve any pressing international issue, including such acute crises as the one currently transpiring in Syria, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said in an interview with Russia's Kommersant newspaper.
A meeting of the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) at the ambassadorial level convenes at the Alliance's headquarters in Brussels on Thursday.
The US Justice Department under former President Barack Obama allowed Russian lawyer Veselnitskaya into the country under "extraordinary circumstances" without a visa, long before she met with the US president's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., media reported, citing court and Justice Department documents and interviews.
A rally is being planned at Place de la Republique in Paris in order to protest US President Donald Trump's official visit to the city on Thursday, according to the organizers of the rally.
Russians gained optimism from the July 7 bilateral talks between Russian and US presidents, and some now have a brighter view of the US leader himself, the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) poll found Thursday.
On July 11, 2017, the US Missile Defense Agency, together with the Ballistic Missile Defense System Operational Test Agency and US Army soldiers of the 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, conducted a successful intercept test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system.
The Russian forces held drills using Iskander mobile missile systems in the country's eastern military district.
A 6.7-magnitude earthquake occurred near the coast of New Ireland belonging to Papua New Guinea, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported Thursday.
The government of the United Kingdom will publish the bill on the withdrawal from the European Union and other related documents on Thursday, media reported.
The spokeswoman of Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova criticized on Thursday a NATO made clip about the "freedom fighters" in the Baltic states, who fought against Soviet government in late 40-s and early 50-s, many of whom served in Nazi battalions during World War II.
Special Functions Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said Thursday that he will try to find solutions to diplomatic row around Doha during his visit to the Arab states, which is scheduled to take place next week.
Over 2,000 grenadiers are participating in the drills at firing ranges of Russia's Eastern Military District in Republic of Buryatia, Khabarovsk, Primorsky, Zabaikalsky, Territories and Region of Sakhalin, according to the press service of Eastern Military District.