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Jihadist arrested over plot to get followers to infect Tunisian police with coronavirus

Two terrorists have been arrested in Tunisia after potting to cough, sneeze and spit at members of the country's security forces (pictured) to infect them with the coronavirus.




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Tunisia 'recognises a same-sex marriage', LGBT rights group says

Equal rights group Shams (pictured, founder Mounir Baatour) says a 26-year-old Tunisian man was allowed to register a marriage which had taken place in France on his birth certificate.




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Tunisia denies recognising same-sex marriage after LGBTQ group claimed it had done so 

Tunisia has denied becoming the first Arab government to honour same-sex marriage after the civil union of two gay men in the country was celebrated by an LGBTQ organisation.




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Coronavirus forces Russia to hold slimmed down Victory...

By Gabrielle Tétrault-FarberMOSCOW, May 9 (Reuters) - Russia marks 75 years since the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two on Saturday, but...




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Indonesia reports 533 new COVID-19 cases, biggest in a day

JAKARTA, May 9 (Reuters) - Indonesia reported on Saturday 533 new coronavirus infections, the biggest daily increase, taking the total number to 13,645,...




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Russian volunteers search for fallen World War II soldiers

KHULKHUTA, Russia (AP) - Crouching over the sun-drenched soil, Alfred Abayev picks up a charred fragment of a Soviet warplane downed in a World War II battle...




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Russia's Putin urges unity as he presides over slimmed...

By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber and Andrew OsbornMOSCOW, May 9 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin told Russians on Saturday they are invincible when they...




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Russia, Belarus mark Victory Day in contrasting events

MOSCOW (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin marked Victory Day, the anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, in a ceremony shorn of its...




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Putin marks Russia´s Victory Day in virus-reduced ceremony

The president laid flowers at the tomb of the unknown soldier outside the Kremlin in Moscow.




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Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy admits he was wrong for Ukraine conspiracy theory

Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy, 68, walked back on his comments that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 presidential election during an interview on CNN on Monday.




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Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus dupe Maxine Waters in phone call posing as Greta Thunberg

Rep Maxine Waters was duped into thinking she was speaking with Greta Thunberg in a prank phone call with Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov published on YouTube Thursday.




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Drama in the Malaysian FA Cup semi-final as freekick from his own half seals late win

Spectacular scenes unfolded in the semi-finals of the Malaysia FA Cup, after the most bizarre of late goals hit the back of the net during Pahang's victory over visiting Perak.




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Kourtney Kardahsian pushes her Pomeranian in pram in jokey Instagram post during self-isolation

Kourtney wore a graphic beige sweatshirt and pink logo'd sweatpants. Her long hair was styled in a top knot and she sported sunglasses.




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Russia is interfering in 2020 election to help Donald Trump, intelligence officials tell Congress

The official was part of a briefing to the House Intelligence Committee, which is chaired by Democratic Trump enemy Adam Schiff, and told lawmakers about Russia's repeat offending.




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Russia denies 'paranoid' claims it is interfering in 2020 race to help Donald Trump

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied today that Russian operatives loyal to Vladimir Putin (pictured right in Moscow today) were interfering in the 2020 election to help Donald Trump (left).




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Trump calls revelation officials say Russia is interfering a 'misinformation campaign by Democrats'

Donald Trump dismissed a report claiming his former acting Director of National Intelligence told Congress Russia wants him to win in November, claiming it's just another Democrat 'hoax.'




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Russian man saws off his own leg while high on 'zombie drug' spice

Graphic pictures showed the man lying on a hospital bed and clutching at the stump of his left leg which was cut off above the knee in the city of Projopyevsk, 2,100miles east of Moscow.




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Trump warns Democrat voters to 'be careful' of Russian interference

The Commander-in-chief took to Twitter on Saturday morning after news that Democratic front-runner Bernie Sanders was recently told by officials that Russia is trying to help his campaign.




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Trump says NOBODY has briefed him about the Russians helping Sanders campaign

President Donald Trump has denied getting told by to intelligence officials that Russia is intervening in the 2020 primaries and wants to help Bernie Sanders.




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Intelligence official 'OVERSTATED' role of Russia in 2020 election to help Trump win a second term

Shelby Pierson,inset, is the intelligence community's top election security official. She told lawmakers on Thursday that Russia was resuming interference efforts. Trump is main.




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At least 29 Turkish soldiers are killed in 'Russian' airstrike on their positions in Syria

The governor of Hatay Doğa said the soldiers had been attacked in Idlib by regime forces and as a result 'twenty-nine were martyred'.




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Jealous lover who knifed Russian beauty blogger to death in jailed

GRAPHIC CONTENT: Maxim Gareyev, 33, a highly-educated IT worker from Moscow, has been jailed for the murder of 24-year-old Ekaterina Semochkina after stabbing her to death.




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Russia sensationally claims Australia COVERED UP the MH17 tragedy and tampered with evidence

Dr Alexey Pavlovsky believes integral evidence from the Malaysian Airlines flight that was shot down over the Ukraine was falsified by Australian investigators.




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Government sets up 'counter-disinformation unit' over fears Russia is spreading fake news

Creating fears about shortages of products in shops to 'spread uncertainty' and undermine the West would be straight out of the 'Russian toolbox', one British official said.




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How Saudi Arabia is trying to CRIPPLE Russian oil industry by flooding world market

Saudi Arabia slashed its oil export prices over the weekend and declared a price war with Russia that sent global markets reeling and marked the sharpest decline in oil futures since 1991.




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Petrol could soon reach $1 a litre as Saudi Arabia launches a price war with Russia

Petrol could plummet to $1 per litre after a price war erupted between Saudi Arabia and Russia.




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Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin quietly meets RUSSIA'S ambassador while the markets plunge

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin met with Russia's ambassador to the U.S. amid the steep drop in financial markets Monday.




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Russia hired British politicians to 'go after' enemies of Vladimir Putin claims rights campaigner

Bill Browder, a human rights campaigner and former fund manager in Russia, made the explosive allegations in his testimony to the intelligence and security committee.




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Russian officials accused of ordering the deaths of hundreds of dogs and cats

Animal rights campaigners in Russia's coldest city, Yakutsk, have bitten back against officials who claimed that 260 dead animals were slaughtered over fears of the spread of rabies in the region.




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Russia rushes to copy China and build new hospital to deal with coronavirus

City mayor Sergey Sobyanin has ordered a £92million hospital to be built 40 miles from Moscow's city centre even though Russia currently has only 34 cases.




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Coronavirus Russia: Work starts on second new hospital

Moscow officials have banned gatherings of more than 50 people in a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus. It comes as plans to speed-build a 500-bed hospital to treat victims were revealed.




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Coronavirus Russia: Putin launches hi-tech surveillance and AI

President Vladimir Putin said the spread of coronavirus in Russia is  'under control' today, after touring a new facility built to spot empty supermarket shelves and to track quarantined citizens.




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Russia to send a spacecraft to the MOON for the first time in 45 years

The Lunar-25 lander will be the first time Russia has launched a spacecraft to land on the surface of the Moon since 1976 - when Lunar-24 touched down.




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Girl, 15, saved from certain death in Russia

This is the dramatic moment a rescuer manages to save a 15-year-old girl who was falling from a balcony of a Russian tower block while she was more than 140-feet above the ground.




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Devil-worshipping babysitter wearing a fake beard killed a six-month-old baby in a Russian forest

Viktoria Aimetdinova, 23, strangled, stabbed and burned baby Bogdan Gafner in a forest 'to save world from apocalypses'. She has been sentenced to forced psychiatric treatment in Russia.




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New Channel 4 documentary reveals how Vladimir Putin rose to become Russia's mobster in chief

Short of stature and with a strangely expressionless face, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin seemed the image of a boring bureaucrat when he was elected Russia's third president 20 years ago.




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Russia's youngest coronavirus victim, 36, posted updates of her illness

Russia's youngest Covid-19 victim who was working from home and looking after her children before she succumbed to the disease, posted updates of her illness while losing her fight for life.




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Arizona man, 26, is TRAPPED in Moscow airport after Russia shut its borders over coronavirus

Trenton Thurber had been trying to make it home to Tucson via JFK from Sheremetyevo International Airport on March 30 when his flight was canceled. 'There's no way to get out', he said.




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Dow is set to drop 100 points as doubts grow over Trump's promise of Saudi-Russia oil price deal

Stock indexes gained about 2 percent on Thursday as oil prices soared on hints of a Saudi-Russia deal, but doubts returned Friday on whether the rebound would last as demand tapers off.




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Doctor's husband shoots five people dead in Russia

Anton Franchikov (pictured with his wife Svetlana), 31, berated a group of people from his balcony before grabbing a hunting rifle and opening fire when they came inside.




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Ex-MI6 spy behind the 'dirty dossier' on Donald Trump is sued by three Russian oligarchs

The British spy behind a notorious 'dirty dossier' on Donald Trump's links to Russia is being sued by three oligarchs in the High Court (pictured, former MI6 spy Christopher Steele).




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Inside Russia's £92 million new emergency coronavirus clinic

These first pictures show the wards at the new £92million clinic in Moscow which in recent days has seen 10,000-plus construction workers deployed round the clock.




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China closes border with Russia and drives city under Wuhan-style lockdown

Chinese city Suifenhe on the border with Russia has gone into full lockdown after detecting a total of 127 imported coronavirus cases. A makeshift hospital is being built and will be ready on Saturday.




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Russia's coronavirus tally rises above 10,000 with Moscow at its epicentre

The country reported a record one-day rise of 1,459 new cases on Thursday as well as an increase in the national death toll from 13 to 76.




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Russian mystic flies in executive jet to 'protect Moscow and St Petersburg from coronavirus'

Orthodox elder Iliy Nozdrin was seen alongside another prominent priest with icons and a cross blessing residents of Moscow and St Petersburg. He flew in a jet above the two cities.




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Coronavirus Russia: Zenit St Petersburg use a DRONE to send Malcom his player of the month award

Brazilian Malcom had been in good form before the shutdown, putting in two impressive displays - scoring a goal and providing one assist and being crowned as the best player in March.




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Footnotes show Steele dossier 'contains falsehoods from a Russian disinformation campaign'

According to declassified footnotes from the Steele dossier, the FBI found reported falsehoods among the allegations against Trump's election campaign




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Moscow is heading for a similar level of coronavirus infection as New York, Russian virologist warns

Professor Sergei Netesov says Moscow is facing a major crisis with hospitals already in emergency mode and the health service stretched to the limit.




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Russian animal rescuers allowed to break lockdown and drive 1,600 miles to save abandoned bear cubs

Russian animal rescuers were given special permission to break lockdown and drive 1,600 miles from Tver to save three bear cubs in Kirov, Russia. The cubs were abandoned for two days.




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Coronavirus threat on International Space Station after Russian launch official tests positive

Concerns circulate whether crew aboard the International Space Station could have been infected with coronavirus prior to a launch, after a senior Russian official present tested positive.