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Kremlin Press Service With presidential elections just weeks away, Vladimir Putin’s annual address to the Federal Assembly on Thursday was widely expected to be a campaign speech, rather than the traditional roadmap for the year ahead. Speaking from Moscow’s Manege exhibition hall, Putin set out Russia’s goals for the next six years and beyond with the help […]

Egypt’s President Sisi at inauguration of New Alamein City (Photo: Al-Ahram) Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi inaugurated via video conference on Thursday the first phase of New Alamein City in Marsa Matrouh governorate and other national projects. The first phase of the city includes 5,000 housing units to be available for reservation in April, according to […]

MAn aid convoy carrying humanitarian supplies for 50,000 displaced people has arrived in Afrin in Syria. (File photo: Reuters) An aid convoy carrying humanitarian supplies for 50,000 displaced people has arrived in Afrin in Syria, a spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Thursday, as Turkey wages an offensive in the […]

AA Photo Turkey on Thursday accused the U.S. of a double standard in trying to dictate which terrorist groups can be fought or not. Speaking to reporters in Ankara, Deputy Prime Minister and government spokesman Bekir Bozdağ said Turkey is fighting Daesh terrorists in Syria like the U.S. “Turkey is also focusing on Daesh. We […]

President Vladimir Putin stressed that Russia’s Arctic fleet is and will remain the strongest in the world, as the country has been strengthening the military infrastructure in the region to secure its interests there. Fyodor Ushakov multifunctional ice breaking platform supply vessel is moored at the marine terminal in Murmansk © Pavel Lvov / Sputnik […]

Ahmad Alhaw. Photo: DPA A Palestinian jihadist who killed one man and wounded six other people in a German supermarket knife rampage last year was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison. Ahmad Alhaw, 27, had admitted to the murder and assaults in the river port city of Hamburg. In delivering the sentence, the judge […]

(CNN)President Donald Trump, carefully attuned to the emotional national debate unfolding after last week’s school shooting in Florida, signaled Thursday that he is willing to pressure Congress to take action on guns. He faces stiff odds. Changing the nation’s gun laws poses a test of leadership for a President with fractured relations on Capitol Hill, […]

A nuclear explosion. FILE PHOTO / Sputnik By training its European allies to use their nuclear arms, the US is moving towards an atomic war with Russia, forgetting that it would mean the end of the human civilization, retired Lieutenant General Evgeny Buzhinsky told RT. The US military is preparing the armed forces of the […]

Photo: DPA Foreign hackers have invaded the data network of Germany’s federal government and security authorities, according to information obtained by the German Press Agency (DPA). The Russian hacker group known as APT28 has successfully attacked Germany’s foreign and defence ministries and captured data, security circles stated on Wednesday. This is in spite of the […]

Smoke rose from the besieged enclave of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus on Tuesday, February 27 [Bassam Khabieh/Reuters] Hours into second attempt at implementing Russian truce, government shelling intensifies in towns near front lines. Syrian government forces have clashed with rebels on the outskirts of Eastern Ghouta, despite a Russian-sponsored truce that is now in its second day, […]