Moldovan President Maia Sandu said on Wednesday that electoral corruption and illegal external financing from Russia were the ...

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The Space Race is history. Now, the US is racing China over AI, laying out its strategy in a combative new action plan.

While it is hard to quantify the program’s effect in absolute terms, its history offers valuable lessons for today, not least ...

The USSR-built Plokštinė Missile Base once housed nuclear missiles aimed at Western Europe. Abandoned in the late 1970s, it’s now a museum where visitors enter an underground time capsule to see the ...

Australian Olympians who competed at the 1980 Moscow Games have finally been recognised for their efforts 45 years later.

After breaking from the Soviet Union, Azerbaijan first grew close to Turkey, Iran’s regional rival. Later, it also deepened ...

Led by gold medallist Michelle Ford, the 121 Australians who defied government pressure to boycott the Moscow Olympics have ...

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The new law provides compensation for material and moral damages incurred by victims of deportation and their descendants.

A tsunami hit coastal areas of Russia’s Kuril Islands, Japan and Hawaii and Alaska after a powerful, 8.8-magnitude earthquake ...

Authorities in Russia's far eastern Kamchatka peninsula said Wednesday a tsunami warning had been lifted, more than 11 hours ...