Sri Lanka News Explorer
Last 7 Days
Older News
- Older than 2023-Dec (470)
Narrow by Category
- USA, New York (470)
China, along with Russia, avoided joining the throng that congratulated Biden last weekend after he and vice presidential running mate Kamala Harris secured enough Electoral College votes to unseat President Donald Trump.
President Trump’s re-election campaign lost its libel case against CNN for an opinion piece accusing the campaign of seeking help from Russia in the 2020 election. The campaign filed suit in March over Larry Noble’s opinion piece from June 13, 2019 — in which he claimed
- Anti-logging campaign inspired by one man (Category: Technology)
- Election's forgotten victims (Category: Australia, Queensland)
- Pleas for mercy (Category: Australia, Queensland)
- Bligh hails long-time friend's decision (Category: Australia, Queensland)
Russia is reporting good news on its coronavirus vaccine tests.
Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe is predominantly focused on the FBI, though the prosecution of top level officials appears “unlikely,” according to a report. Sources familiar with the investigation told Fox News Monday
Alexei Navalny blasted a court hearing Tuesday over whether he should be sent to prison for years — calling it a scare tactic to force Russians into submission. The outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin was arrested Jan. 17 upon returning from Germany and accused of violating probation conditions for a 2014 money laundering conviction....
Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V is about 91 percent effective and appears to prevent serious cases of infection, according to a study published Tuesday. The results in the British medical journal The Lancet are from a Phase 3 trial of about 20,000 people in Russia last fall. Concerns
Yulia Navalny was detained during a huge rally in the capital, Moscow, at least the second time she has been detained during the mass protests in support of her 44-year-old husband who survived a poisoning last year.
MOSCOW — Russian police have issued a strong warning against participating in protests planned for Sunday to call for the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin’s most prominent foe. The warning comes amid detentions of Navalny associates and opposition journalists and a police plan to restrict movement in the center of Moscow...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed an extension of the US-Russia New START nuclear arms control treaty. The move, confirmed by the Kremlin, was expected after legislation authorizing renewal unanimously passed the Russian parliament. Putin signed the bill just days after speaking
The carcass is estimated to be about 20,000 to 50,000 years old.
Russian authorities on Tuesday launched a fraud investigation into leading government critic Alexei Navalny, alleging that he spent nearly $5 million in donations to his various organizations on himself, according to reports. Navalny is currently in Germany recuperating from an attempted assassination by poisoning in August, which an investigation alleges was perpetrated by the Russian...
Russia has admitted its COVID-19 death toll is three times higher than previously reported — making it the country with the third-largest number of fatalities from the pandemic. Experts have long doubted President Vladimir Putin’s repeated claims of a low death rate from the virus
A Russian law enforcement agency is threatening Putin critic Alexei Navalny with jail time unless he returns to the country for hearing.
Edward Snowden, the former national security contractor who fled to Russia after leaking classified documents from the U.S. government, has welcomed his first child, he and his wife announced on social media over the weekend.
Britain considered him the biggest double-crosser ever. Russia loved him. Now, he’s dead. George Blake had been self-isolating from the coronavirus near Moscow — his country home was a gift from the KGB — when he died Saturday at the age of 98, the Sun reported. “I think that the word
at the plant in central Russia’s Ulyanovsk region...
counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, Stone lashed out at the...
Russia expects “nothing positive” will come from President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration, top government officials warned. The admissions came from two top Kremlin associates, each of whom spoke candidly on Wednesday about their thoughts on the 46th commander-in-chief
had already commuted in July — were convicted in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia...
Poisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny duped a Russian spy into confessing to the botched assassination attempt — revealing that nerve agent had been smeared on his underpants, according to a report. The 44-year-old opposition leader posed as a senior official from Russia’s National
India, Poland, Switzerland, Russia and Hong Kong barred visitors from the UK Monday after Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned that a mutated variant of the virus, up to 70 percent more infectious, had been identified in the country.
The Utah senator said the massive cyberattack discovered earlier this week, which officials say could be the biggest hack on the American government ever, must be met with a vigorous response and without delay.
Sen. Mitt Romney said Russia acted with "impunity" when it hacked a number of federal agencies and scores of private companies worldwide - a cyber attack that must be met with a response from the US.
President Trump and his top advisers appear to be at loggerheads over who is to blame for the ongoing cyberattack on government and corporate computer systems – as well as its seriousness. “The Cyber Hack is far greater in the Fake News Media than in actuality,” Trump tweeted Saturday in his first public comments on...
It’s the hack attack that lacks blowback. Christopher Krebs was the director of the federal government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in March, when a massive breach of the nation’s computer systems — allegedly conducted by Russia — took hold
- David Shapiro: Finding laughs between groans as election goes overtime (Category: USA, Hawaii)
- Vaccines offer the key to speed of Hawaii’s economic recovery (Category: USA, Hawaii)
- Vaccines offer the key to speed of Hawaii’s economic recovery (Category: USA, Hawaii)
- Vaccines offer the key to speed of Hawaii’s economic recovery (Category: USA, Hawaii)
He also suggested Russia was not really to blame, directly contradicting American intelligence and even Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
The closure of US offices in Vladivostok and Yekaterinburg is a reaction to coronavirus restrictions, the State Department said.
Russia is behind the ongoing hack of a spectrum of government agencies and corporations, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday night. “This was a very significant effort, and I think it’s the case that now we can say pretty clearly that it was the Russians that engaged in this activity
critic had been trailed and spied on for four years by Russia’s Federal Security Service before...
- David Shapiro: Finding laughs between groans as election goes overtime (Category: USA, Hawaii)
- Vaccines offer the key to speed of Hawaii’s economic recovery (Category: USA, Hawaii)
- Vaccines offer the key to speed of Hawaii’s economic recovery (Category: USA, Hawaii)
- Vaccines offer the key to speed of Hawaii’s economic recovery (Category: USA, Hawaii)
WASHINGTON — State Department officials on Monday announced the Trump administration is sanctioning Turkey for its “unacceptable” purchase of a $2.5 billion missile defense system from Russia. The sanctions come more than a year after Turkey purchased Russia’s S-400 system
Popular Topics
- Political crisis (47)
- Foreign exchange reserves (51)
- Russia (470)
- ITN News (95)