Claire Shipman, an award-winning journalist and Columbia alumna, has been appointed acting president of Columbia University ...

On March 28, 2005, an 8.6-magnitude earthquake jolted the western coast of Sumatra, killing about 1,000 people and destroying ...

Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that he thought Vladimir Putin would die soon - but who would replace him at the end of his reign?

The remarks were "totally disgraceful," Oleksandr Merezkho, the chair of Ukraine's parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee told Newsweek.

March 26, 2000, Vladimir Putin won the Russian presidential election, making him the official successor of Boris Yeltsin, who had ...

Last December, it was reported that the Russian Federation, thanks to its growing alliance with North Korea, intended to sell ...

He is poised to continue this game of pretending to seek peace while waging war for months. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Politicians and diplomats have blasted Trump’s special representative Richard Grenell over his claim that the nuclear weapons ...

In what was largely a formality, Vladimir Putin was confirmed in office in the Russian presidential elections with 52.9% of the vote on March 26, 2000.  The result of the elections was a foregone ...

Hecker’s story is a grizzly odyssey. The book is full of crisp soundbites. One I liked best, towards the end of the book, quotes someone saying that Russia has become, not an emerging economy, but a ...

Putin wins first presidential term; Saudi King Faisal assassinated; Italian fascists set up postwar trade union; Mussolini ...