Watch live: Vladimir Putin expected to attend concert for Russian Defender of Fatherland Day
Watch live as Russians attend a Defender of the Fatherland Day rally, which is being held in Moscow.
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Teacher stabbed to death in French school as 16 year-old student arrested
Knife-wielding teenager burst into classroom and attacked teacher as she gave Spanish lesson in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, near Bordeaux
Vladimir Putin to meet top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi ahead of Ukraine war anniversary
Wang Yi is the first highest-level Chinese official to visit Russia after its invasion of Ukraine
US energy firms use Ukraine war to lock in long-term gas contracts
Oil and gas companies seek expansive contracts to tackle short-term problem of tight European gas supply American oil and gas companies are pushing to solve the short-term problem of a tight European gas supply, driven by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, …
Germany expels two Iranian diplomats over dual national’s death sentence
Germany on Wednesday said it was expelling two diplomats from the Iranian embassy in Berlin over the death sentence an Iranian court handed down against an Iranian-German national.
Putin aiming to divide US public opinion with nuclear treaty pullout, experts say
Russian president accused of ‘playing to rifts in the United States’ by raising specter of nuclear war between Moscow and westVladimir Putin’s threat to suspend Russian participation in New Start, the last remaining nuclear arms treaty with the US, rep…
Germany expels 2 Iranian diplomats over death sentence
Germany says it is expelling two Iranian diplomats over the death sentence imposed in Iran against one of its citizens
In Orikhiv, a Ukrainian ‘town of ghosts’, a few endure Russian bombardments
Just a few kilometres from the southeastern front line, Orikhiv has become a ghost town a year after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Urakine. Houses have been destroyed, buildings reduced to rubble and shops are closed due to daily Russian bo…
Putin ‘tried and failed’ to launch intercontinental ballistic missile during Biden visit to Ukraine
Putin did not mention the missile launch in his state of the nation address as he did in 2022
Watch live: View outside Biden’s Warsaw hotel as he prepares to meet eastern Nato allies
Watch live views outside Joe Biden’s hotel in Warsaw as he prepares to meet eastern Nato allies today, 22 February.