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Russia has brought a string of treason cases against scientists researching super-high flight speeds, an area that underpins its development of hypersonic missiles. In the latest, physicist Anatoly Maslov was sentenced to 14 years on Tuesday. President Vladimir Putin has boasted of Russia’s prowess in hypersonic missiles and Moscow has acknowledged using them in the Ukraine war. RUSSIA’S MILITARY CLAIMS …

The U.S. Supreme Court turned away on Monday a Canadian former Guantanamo Bay detainee’s bid to vacate his convictions for the 2002 murder of an American soldier in Afghanistan and other crimes he committed at age 15 to which he later pleaded guilty. The justices declined to hear an appeal by Omar Khadr, now age 37, of a lower court’s …

India’s anti-terror police have arrested four Sri Lankan nationals in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad for suspected links to the Islamic State, police said on Monday. The arrests were made late on Sunday at the city’s airport following a tip-off, said Vikas Sahay, the top police officer in Gujarat state where Ahmedabad is located. “Preliminary investigations show they were …

Leonid Pasechnik, the leader of the Russia-installed administration of Ukraine’s Luhansk region said on Monday that Kyiv had used French supplied missiles in an attack near the city of Luhansk. Pasechnik posted videos showing the aftermath of the alleged Ukrainian missile attack at a settlement near Luhansk. Writing in his telegram channel Pasechnik claimed that French supplied cruise missiles SCALP …

Tens of thousands of Haitians and Venezuelans who fled hunger, violence and natural disasters to seek refuge in southern Brazil are once again struggling to rebuild their lives following severe flooding in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), around 46,000 refugees currently live in the state, including 29,000 Venezuelans …

Peeking out from under a hat and with his face covered, the Russian fighting for Kyiv described unrelenting battles in the northeastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv where Moscow’s forces opened a new front last week. “The situation is difficult, the intensity is very high, there is fighting almost every ten minutes,” said the mortarman, who identified himself only by his …

Panama President-elect Jose Raul Mulino on Thursday pulled business leaders and an economist into his ranks, the first cabinet selections in what Mulino has promised will be an administration friendly to the private sector. Mulino, whose government will begin the transition process next month, tapped business leader Felipe Chapman for the economy and finance minister post and economist Javier Martinez-Acha …

Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska dismissed the latest U.S. sanctions on a series of companies that the U.S. Treasury said were connected to a scheme to evade sanctions and unlock frozen shares as nonsense. “This balderdash isn’t worth the time,” Deripaska said by message via a spokesperson in response to a Reuters request for comment about the latest U.S. sanctions. “While …

With the oldest population in the European Union, where one in four are aged over 65, it’s little surprise that Italy is home to the world’s fastest 90-year-old woman sprinter. Emma Maria Mazzenga claimed another world record in the 90 and over age group this month when she ran the 200 meters outdoors in 51.47 seconds. Born on Aug. 1, …

Turkey has opened the ancient Chora church, one of Istanbul’s most celebrated Byzantine buildings, to Muslim worshipers after it was used as a museum for more than 70 years, making it the second such major conversion under President Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan, a champion of pious Muslims in Turkey and head of a party with Islamist roots, turned Istanbul’s world-renowned Hagia …