Russian scientists are poring over the well-preserved remains of a woolly rhinoceros that likely roamed the Siberian hinterland more than 12,000 years ago after it was found in the diamond-producing region of Yakutia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin takes an icy dip to mark Epiphany
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has braved ice-cold temperatures for an Epiphany Dip in a pool outside of Moscow, according to a video and photos posted by the Kremlin press pool on Tuesday. In the footage, the 68-...
Russian woman who swam under Siberia’s ice may have broken the world record
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Wearing nothing but a bathing suit, a swimming cap and an underwater mask, the 40-year-old woman plunged into a carved-out section of a frozen Siberian lake, before diving under the ice to swim in water estimated to...
Russian police raid home of opposition activist Lyubov Sobol, Navalny says
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Moscow Police raided the home of Russian opposition activist Lyubov Sobol early Friday and took her in for questioning, according to a series of tweets from opposition leader Alexey Navalny and his team. "Today at 7 ...
US reaches out to intelligence alliance partners on suspected Russian hack
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White House National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien held a call on Tuesday with his counterparts in an international intelligence sharing alliance to discuss the suspected Russian cyberattack on US government agenc...
State Department says US believes Russian FSB used a Novichok nerve agent to poison Navalny
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The State Department on Wednesday issued the most decisive statement yet from the Trump administration blaming the Russian Security Service for the poisoning of opposition leader Alexey Navalny, days after CNN repor...
Massive data breach may have been discovered due to ‘unforced error’ by suspected Russian hackers
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US officials and private sector experts investigating the massive data breach that has rocked Washington increasingly believe the attackers were ultimately discovered because they took a more aggressive "calculated ...
Treasury Department email accounts compromised in suspected Russian hack, top Senate Democrat says
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US Treasury Department email accounts were compromised in the suspected Russian hack of government agencies, a key Democratic senator said Monday, adding new details about the extent of the wide-reaching breach. Se...
Ancient wolf cub found ‘perfectly preserved’ in Canadian permafrost. We even know what it ate
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A perfectly preserved wolf puppy, hidden away in permafrost for 57,000 years and described by researchers as "the oldest, most complete wolf," has been discovered in Yukon, Canada. The creature, named Zhùr by the l...
Google Doodle pays tribute to the last male northern white rhino
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Sunday's Google Doodle is paying tribute to Sudan, believed to be the last northern white rhino born in the wild. The illustration looks back on this day in 2009 -- when Sudan and three other white rhinos arrived a...
Fire at Russian care home kills 11 elderly residents with mobility issues
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Eleven elderly residents were killed in a fire at a care home in Bashkortostan, Russia early on Tuesday morning, according to the state-run news outlet Tass. They had mobility issues and could not be quickly evacuat...
Russian missile drill triggers false alarm at US military base in Germany
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A Russian military exercise triggered an unusual warning at a critical US military base in Germany on Saturday that ballistic missiles had been launched, according to multiple US defense officials. The warning at R...
Trump moves to sanction Turkey over Russian missile defense system under pressure from Congress
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The Trump administration will sanction Turkey for its purchase of a Russian surface-to-air missile system more than a year after Ankara took delivery of the weapons, a delay that so frustrated Congress that lawmaker...