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Tim Ayres urges insurers to expedite their payouts to NSW flood victims; Russia and Ukraine exchange prisoners of war, hours ...

Russia’s battlefield strength in Ukraine has started to wane and it could run into serious shortages of manpower and weaponry by next year, even as President Donald Trump retreats from pressure on ...

The European Union is preparing a new package of sanctions targeting Russia to increase pressure on Moscow to end its war ...

The draft measures may also include new restrictions on Russian banks and a ban on constructing future Nord Stream gas ...

Kyiv, Ukraine – Russia and Ukraine exchanged hundreds more prisoners on Saturday as part of a major swap that amounted to a rare moment of cooperation in otherwise failed efforts to reach a ceasefire.

The EU is also weighing additional transaction bans on about two dozen banks and some $2.84 billion worth of fresh trade restrictions as it seeks to further curtail Russia’s revenues and ability to ge ...

WASHINGTON, May 24. /TASS/. Russian hockey star and Washington Capitals captain Alexander Ovechkin will soon come to Russia with his family, wife Anastasiya Shubskaya said on Instagram.

The European Union is considering cutting more than 20 banks from SWIFT, the international payments system, as well as ...

After 19 months of pounding Gaza, Israel is now under growing pressure from unlikely quarters – some of its closest Western ...