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The Ukraine team, now led by Rustem Umerov, is due to meet U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and special envoy Steve Witkoff in Florida on Sunday, a U.S. official said.

Four Russia-bound men were arrested at O.R. Tambo International Airport on Thursday and Friday following a tip-off.

Turkey's Transport Ministry said the tanker sustained only "minor damage" and that none of the crew were hurt.

The Caspian Pipeline Consortium said it would resume operations when the drone threat was lifted.

A Russian drone attack targeted the Ukrainian capital in the early hours of Saturday, killing one person and wounding seven, authorities said.

The republics of Bashkortostan and Tatarstan and the Sverdlovsk region recorded the highest numbers of confirmed fatalities.

Authorities suggested the two tankers may have been hit by devices while heading toward the Russian port of Novorossiysk.

Businesses have indicated they plan to pass the increase onto consumers, who have already been strained in recent years by surging inflation.

The state media regulator said it was imposing new restrictions on the messenger, which it claimed is being used to organize terrorist activities.

The influential body said it was "not surprised" by the designation and vowed to continue its work remotely.

Anna Khobotova, a self-described psychotherapist, lawyer and human rights advocate, runs a network of rehabilitation centers for troubled adolescents in and around Moscow, the Sverdlovsk region and the Rostov region.

Prime Minister Bart De Wever called the plan “fundamentally wrong” and warned it could expose Belgium to severe legal and financial risks.

Sources said Kozak has been traveling frequently to Israel since his resignation, not out of concerns for his own safety but to undergo medical treatment.

The meeting comes nearly a month after Orbán visited Washington to secure a one-year exemption from U.S. sanctions against Lukoil and Rosneft.

The three athletes were invited to take part in the upcoming Games after passing background checks confirming they have no ties to the military and do not publicly support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The new law means that many medical graduates will start their careers at regional or rural hospitals in exchange for state funding.

Russia’s Roscosmos space agency said it has “all necessary spare parts” and vowed to repair the cosmodrome “in the near future.”

Foreign Minister Wang Yi will be traveling to Moscow at the invitation of Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu.

Russia’s Embassy in Pyongyang had said last week it was actively promoting Russian language education for North Korean university students.

Average suggested donations for baptisms rose about 50%, wedding ceremonies doubled and funeral rites increased 71%.

ACF condemned the ruling as an unlawful addition to a series of politically motivated labels applied to the group.

The Russian leader did not indicate which provisions in the draft he supported, only saying it could “serve as a basis” for future agreements.

Frequent and in some cases permanent mobile internet outages and restrictions have transformed the lives of ordinary people in Russia’s regions. 

Hotel reservations for Chinese travelers in December are already up around 50% compared with the same period last year, according to market researchers.

Russian Judo Federation president Sergei Soloveychik called the decision “historic,” saying he was pleased Russia had been reinstated.

The move is Russia’s answer to Poland closing its consulate in Gdansk after accusing Moscow of orchestrating sabotage on its rail network.

Ukraine took responsibility for the 2022 attack but has insisted that those arrested in Russia were unaware that they were transporting explosives.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said its air defenses intercepted 118 Ukrainian drones, including 18 over the southern Samara region.

Russian officials meanwhile voiced little interest in budging on their earlier hardline demands for ending the war.

Moldova said six Russian drones violated the country’s airspace on Tuesday, with at least one crashing onto the roof of a home.

Oleg Gumenyuk joined the Russian army in 2024 under a law allowing convicts to suspend or erase their sentences if they complete military service or receive certain state honors.

Investigators said the facility had been operating illegally since August and that children “were subjected to beatings and torture.”

Japarov hosted Putin in Bishkek less than two weeks after joining the four other Central Asian heads of state in Washington for a summit.

President Donald Trump said there were “only a few remaining points of disagreement” in a draft plan for ending the war in Ukraine.

Witkoff reportedly told Ushakov that Putin should flatter Trump over the Gaza ceasefire and say "that you respect that he is a man of peace."

The arrests are part of a probe into an association that presents itself as a humanitarian organization offering aid to civilians in Ukraine's Donbas region.

Although Alexander Shtefanov opposes both the war and Putin’s government, he often breaks with other exiled anti-war opposition figures.

The HRL has uncovered the existence of 210 re-education and military camps across Russia where some of the children are being held.

Andrei Karpov was arrested in June on charges of bribery and abuse of power after he was accused of providing sensitive documents to his nephew.

“Having children should be considered fashionable. It should be the norm to have children as soon as possible after reaching adulthood,” the Federation Council speaker said.

The FSB claimed the teenager, who was not identified by name, had been recruited via Telegram by an unnamed “terrorist organization” that it said was “coordinated” by Ukrainian intelligence services.

Putin is accompanied by cabinet ministers and business figures, including billionaire Roman Abramovich, Kremlin officials said.

Authorities in Kyiv, meanwhile, said Russian strikes on the city killed at least six people and injured 14 others, including a child.

U.S., Ukrainian and European officials have been hammering out the details of a peace framework after a 28-point U.S. plan leaked last week.

Prosecutors said Danylo Bardadym had acted "in the interest of a foreign military intelligence service" and that Russia had been "aware" of his plans.

Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina reportedly proposed banning online marketplaces from offering discounts to customers who pay for goods using their own subsidiary banks.

The interception reportedly happened sometime in the past two weeks as the ships traveled west through the Dover Strait.

The security agency claimed the two men had been recruited online to place a so-called derailing device along a stretch of train tracks.

President Volodymyr Zelensky also indicated that some Ukrainian talking points may be included in the proposal agreement.

Trump’s shot at Ukraine and U.S. allies reflected the Republican’s annoyance over the war, which Russia began.