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The US is working to create alternative government systems on Syrian territory which goes against its promises to respect the country’s territorial integrity, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. Responding to a question posed by RT’s Caleb Maupin at Friday’s briefing at UN Headquarters in New York, Lavrov commented on America’s role in the […]

The United States federal government began partial shutdown at midnight Friday after Senate Democrats voted to block a bill over immigration and spending. A measure to fund the government until the middle of February was passed in the House of Representatives on Thursday. But the Republican-led Senate was unable to sway enough Democrats to vote for the […]

The bodies of nine Syrian refugees who crossed into Lebanon have been found frozen in a mountainous area near the border with Syria, according to the Lebanese army. The Lebanese army said it is continuing to search for other displaced people trapped in the snow [Jamal Saidi/Reuters] The military said in a statement that the […]

A teacher and five students were wounded in an attack Friday morning on a school in the far eastern Russian republic of Buryatia. Russians are still reeling from a knife attack in the city of Perm on Jan. 15 in which 14 schoolchildren were injured. Read more: At Least 14 Russian Schoolchildren Injured in Knife Attack […]

Cash assistance provided with EU humanitarian support helps refugees as well as the local economy. © WFP/Miguel Tomas Over the past two years, EU humanitarian support has been instrumental to the World Food Programme’s (WFP) work in Djibouti. Every month, WFP ensures 18 500 refugees are given assistance in the form of food and cash. […]

Israel has officially apologized for the killing of three Jordanians and offered to compensate their families, Jordan’s foreign ministry said Thursday. Jordanian security forces on guard before protesters near the Israeli embassy in Amman on July 28, 2017. (AFP) On July 23 last year, a security guard for the Israeli embassy shot dead a Jordanian […]

Aleppo, SANA-Units of the Syrian Arab Army restored control over Qaytal village in the southern countryside of Aleppo province. 19 January، 2018 SANA’s reporter in Aleppo said that army units, in cooperation with allied forces, on Friday continued their operations against terrorists’ hotbeds and fortified positions in the southern countryside of the province, restoring control […]

Louise Turpin, left, and David Turpin, second from right, pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of torture, child abuse, abuse of dependent adults and false imprisonment Thursday in Riverside County Superior Court. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)  The siblings who were discovered this week living captive in a Perris tract home were tortured and […]

President Vladimir Putin waded into a frozen lake in a traditional celebration of Epiphany. The annual baptism is a long-running staple of the Orthodox Church, with believers across Russia taking the midwinter dip. © RT Putin took the plunge into an ice-hole in Lake Seliger, north of Moscow, to commemorate the baptism of Christ in the […]

U.S. military helicopters fly near the Futenma No. 2 Elementary School in Ginowan, Okinawa, on Thursday.  Photo: KYODO The U.S. Marine Corps flew helicopters above an elementary school next to a U.S. air base in Okinawa on Thursday despite promising Japan it would try to avoid such flights after a window from a CH-53E chopper fell on […]