The Russian government said Wednesday it had added a respected rights group to a register of "foreign agents," a label slapped on organisations seen as political and receiving foreign funding. The justice ministry said it

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The European Commission on Wednesday proposed adding seven countries including Saudi Arabia to the EU's money-laundering blacklist of governments that do too little to thwart the financing of terrorism and organised crime. The move comes

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An international court Wednesday ruled Iran can proceed with a bid to unfreeze assets in the United States, rejecting Washington's claims the case must be halted because of Tehran's alleged support for international terrorism. Washington

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The US Justice Department charged a former air force intelligence officer Wednesday with spying for Iran, saying she exposed a US agent and helped the Revolutionary Guard develop cyber targets in the US military. US

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President Donald Trump is ready to sign a border security funding deal, despite failing to get anywhere close to the money he sought for a US-Mexico border wall, US media reported Wednesday. CNN and NBC

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Record snowfall covered Moscow on Wednesday, with streets and monuments blanketed in white and dozens of flights cancelled at the city's main airport. Snow coated trees and power lines from morning, but melted into deep

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Chinese telecom giant Huawei took a light-hearted dig Wednesday at New Zealand's decision to ban it from the rugby-mad nation's 5G infrastructure development, leaving officials in Wellington unimpressed. "5G without Huawei is like rugby without

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The last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a stinging criticism of Washington on Wednesday, accusing it of misleading the world over its exit from a key arms treaty and seeking to gain military superiority at

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A controversial offshore migrant detention centre on Christmas Island is to reopen, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Wednesday, as he doubled down on hardline policies after a historic legislative defeat. Morrison approved the reopening

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Right-wing and Catalan separatist lawmakers on Wednesday rejected Spain's draft 2019 budget, a move that could force Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez into calling early elections. Sanchez, who came to power in June thanks in part

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