China and Russia “cannot be moved away” from one another, Chinese leader Xi Jinping told his counterpart Vladimir Putin Monday, in their first phone call since US President Donald Trump upended American foreign policy with a sweeping pivot toward Moscow as he pushes for peace in Ukraine.

Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, described on Sunday a three-and-a-half hour meeting he had with Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this month, part of what he said was a “trust-building” assignment given to him by President Trump.

The cause of the blaze is unclear but there have been numerous mysterious fires and explosions in Russia since Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

In 1844, the Dominican Republic was granted independence from Haiti. In 1933, it was announced that President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt would use a 263-year-old tattered Dutch Bible that had been in the possession of his family since 1670 for his inauguration on March 4.

As talks open today in Saudi Arabia between Washington and Moscow to end the war in Ukraine, President Trump’s eagerness to be a peacemaker at all costs can’t override the real

Oil prices settled higher on Tuesday as supply disruptions mounted in Russia and the U.S., while talks to end the war in Ukraine capped gains as this could boost supply from Moscow.

Unlike Nixon and Kissinger’s gambit in the 1970s, the strategy threatens to divide the West.

Umaro Sissoco Embalo's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin comes as Moscow continues its drive to build economic and security ties with countries in Africa.

The Cold War hasn’t been this hot since Lake Placid. Team USA vs. the Big Red Machine. This Red menace has nothing to do with Johnny Bench, Pete Rose, or the Soviet Union. Instead of Moscow,

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled to the United Arab Emirates late Sunday as momentum grows for potential peace talks ending Moscow’s war on the country. U.S. President Donald Trump last week suggested he would be meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Saudi Arabia.

Tim Whewell travels from Russia to America and across Europe to unravel the many different strands of pro-Moscow thinking, and offer a provocative analysis which challenges conventional thinking about the relationship between Russia and the West.