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Ukraine applies to NATO alliance. How easy will it be to become a member?

Ukraine is formally applying for a fast-track membership to the NATO military alliance, but experts say it will likely take years for the country to actually become a member.

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Robert Hanssen, ex-FBI agent who spied for Soviet Union, Russia, found dead in prison cell

The identification and business card of former FBI agent Robert Hanssen are seen inside a display case at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, May 12, 2009. Hanssen was sentenced to life in prison without parole for spying for the Soviet Union and Robert Hanssen, the former FBI agent who was serving a life sentence for being a Soviet and Russian spy, was found dead in his prison cell Monday. Hanssen, 79, was found unresponsive at the Federal Correctional Complex in Florence, Colorado, around 6:55 a.m.

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The Wagner Group: How a private militia has grown to shape the war in Ukraine

Ukraine rages on and Western allies pledge additional support for the next phase of the fight, one man has drawn attention as an outsized influence on the Russian side of the invasion.Yevgeny Prigozhin is the defacto leader of the Wagner Group, a private militia that has helped shape the war in Ukraine like few private entities have in the past. The Wagner Group has been at the helm of the battle for Bakhmut, the bloodiest and longest of the war.

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Aakash Health buys Tashkent hospital

NEW DELHI : New Delhi-based Aakash Healthcare Pvt. Ltd on Wednesday said it has acquired Asia Med Centre in Uzbekistan’s Tashkent for $4 million. The upgraded 60-bedded multi-speciality hospital will be opened to public on 23 November.

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Explaining Putin: The World War 2 roots of today’s Russo-Ukraine conflict.

The purpose of this article is to fully examine the roots and emotional motivations of Putin's cataclysmic decision to invade Ukraine. Whilst there is little to no justification for the declaration of a military conflict or the invasion of foreign territory, there is nostalgia and extreme patriotism driving Putin's decision to annex Ukraine and the Crimea.

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Congress obstructed Manmohan Singh from implementing GST: Health minister

Manmohan Singh was among the world’s renowned economists… he had said that there should be ‘One Nation One Tax’ as India’s finance minister. And later, Manmohan Singh became the prime minister," said Mandaviya. He said Dr Singh could not implement GST for 10 years because "In 12 countries in the world ‘one nation one tax’ was implemented and business persons were unsatisfied owing to teething problems faced by any new large-scale policy.

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Mikhail Gorbachev, final Soviet leader who ended Cold War, dies at 91

Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, hospital officials in Moscow said.Gorbachev, the last Soviet president, forged arms reduction deals with the United States and partnerships with Western powers to remove the Iron Curtain that had divided Europe since World War Two and bring about the reunification of Germany.“Mikhail Gorbachev passed away tonight after a serious and protracted disease,” Russia’s Central Clinical Hospital said in a statement.Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed “his deepest condolences” on Gorbachev’s death, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Interfax news agency.“Tomorrow he will send a telegram of condolences to his family and friends,” he said.

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Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev dead at 91, Russian media reports

Original image caption - Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian Politburo member and second in line at the Kremlin, announces the death of Soviet Defence Minister Marshal Dmitri Ustinov, before departing from Edinburgh Airport for Russia, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Mikhail Gorbachev, who as the last leader of the Soviet Union waged a losing battle to salvage a crumbling empire but produced extraordinary reforms that led to the end of the Cold War, has died at 91, Russian media reported Thursday.News organizations quoted a statement from the Central Clinical Hospital as saying he died after a long illness. No other details were given.Though in power less than seven years, Gorbachev unleashed a breathtaking series of changes.

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U.N. meeting set to talk nuclear weapons as Russia-Ukraine war heightens concerns

There was already plenty of trouble to talk about when a major U.N. meeting on the landmark Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty was originally supposed to happen in 2020.

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86-year-old woman recognized as world's longest-serving flight attendant

FILE IMAGE - American Airlines’ longest-serving flight attendant, Bette Nash (L), greets passengers disembarking from her daily return flight to Boston at Ronald Reagan Washington Airport in Arlington, Virginia on Dec. 19, 2017.

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Putin marks Victory Day as Russia presses Ukraine assault

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine - Russian forces pushed forward Monday in their assault on Ukraine, seeking to capture the crucial southern port city of Mariupol as Moscow celebrated its Victory Day holiday.Determined to show success in a war now in its 11th week, Russian troops pummeled a seaside steel mill where an estimated 2,000 Ukrainian fighters are making their last stand in the port city of Mariupol.The mill is the only part of the city not overtaken by the invaders. Its defeat would deprive Ukraine of a vital port and allow Russia to establish a land corridor to the Crimean Peninsula, which it seized from Ukraine in 2014.The Ukrainian military's General Staff warned of a high probability of missile strikes and said that Russian troops were seizing "personal documents from the local population without good reason" in Russian-controlled areas of Zaporizhzhia — the city where many fleeing Mariupol have gathered.

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As Russia’s ‘Victory Day’ nears, mood in Moscow appears mixed

Nazi Germany with an economy reeling from the West’s most stringent economic sanctions in modern times.As Russia’s military operation in Ukraine grinds towards the end of its third month, President Vladimir Putin will underscore the enormous sacrifices made by the Soviet Union to defeat Adolf Hitler in World War Two in a Victory Day speech in Red Square on Monday.The sanctions imposed by Western nations since Putin launched the invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 have tipped Russia towards its worst economic crisis since the years following the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, though the Kremlin says it will build up its own production while seeking new markets in Asia.

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Russia makes last minute payment to avoid default, U.S. official says

Russia staved off a default on its debt Friday by making a last-minute payment using its precious dollar reserves sitting outside the country, U.S. Treasury officials said.The amount of the payment was not disclosed, but earlier this month Russia’s finance ministry said it tried to make a $649 million payment due April 6 toward two bonds to an unnamed U.S.

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For sale: Moon dust collected by Neil Armstrong during Apollo 11

One of the few photographs of Neil Armstrong on the moon shows him working on his space craft on the lunar surface. LOS ANGELES - Have you ever wanted to own a piece of the moon? Well, now you can. Moon dust samples collected by none other than Neil Armstrong himself during the historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969 are currently up for auction. The auction item up for bid at Bonhams in New York City includes five samples of lunar dust worth up to $1.2 million, according to the auction house. "I think one of the keys for this is that it’s from the contingency sample.

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Russia’s head of Chechnya republic says forces will ‘take Kyiv’

Ramzan Kadyrov, the powerful head of Russia‘s republic of Chechnya, said early on Monday that there will be an offensive by Russian forces not only on the besieged port of Mariupol, but also on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities.

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Here’s what Putin’s alert means for the risk of nuclear war

Vladimir Putin’s implied threat to turn the Ukraine war into a broader nuclear conflict presents President Joe Biden with choices rarely contemplated in the atomic age, including whether to raise the alert level of U.S. nuclear forces.The turn of events is all the more remarkable for the fact that less than a year ago, Putin and Biden issued a statement at their Geneva summit that seemed more in keeping with the idea that the threat of nuclear war was a Cold War relic.

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Photos show aftermath of Ukraine invasion, troop buildups in Russia and Belarus

New satellite images are providing a clear view of the damage Ukrainian military infrastructure has already suffered after Russia’s military invaded the country on Thursday.

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Statues of presidential dogs unveiled at Lincoln Memorial

WASHINGTON - In addition to honoring the country’s past leaders, Presidents Day 2022 also honored some of the first families’ pets as life-size statues of the presidential dogs were unveiled.Jinx, a dog food company, rolled out the one-day exhibit at the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Monday. The exhibit included Abraham Lincoln's dog, Fido, Jackie O's dog, Pushinka and Barack Obama's dog, Bo."Over the past couple of years, we've realized how much we depend on our pets for emotional support," Jinx co-founder Sameer Mehta said in a news release.

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Philadelphia's Ukrainian community worries as tensions rise between Ukraine and Russia

NORTH PHILADELPHIA - Troops in the United States are on high alert over escalating tensions between Ukraine and Russia. Local leaders in Philadelphia’s Ukrainian community are worried."Somebody’s getting ready for a big battle. And, what would anybody feel like? Before a major war? To that locality – WWII.

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Russian invasion of Ukraine concerns soaring, here’s what’s happening

ordered by the State Department to leave the country on Jan. 23.

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US males lost 2.2 years of life on average to COVID-19, study says

LOS ANGELES - U.S. males experienced the largest loss in life expectancy in 2020 during the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published by Oxford University on Monday. Researchers noted that approximately 2.2 years of life for American males was lost due to the increased mortality rate attributed to COVID-19. "The COVID-19 pandemic triggered significant mortality increases in 2020 of a magnitude not witnessed since World War II in Western Europe or the breakup of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe," Oxford researchers wrote. RELATED: US saw biggest drop in life expectancy since WWII due to ongoing COVID-19 pandemicThe study echoes previous research which found that life expectancy in the U.S.

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Life expectancy falls in 27 of 29 nations amid COVID-19

Life expectancy dipped during the COVID-19 pandemic, the magnitude of which had not been seen in a single year since World War II in Western Europe and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe, according to a study of 29 countries.

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NASA’s Apollo moon program wasn’t sustainable but with commercial space, Artemis can be

Americans have not stepped foot on the moon in nearly 50 years but that’s going to change very soon.

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Former 'Miracle on Ice' hockey star Mark Pavelich passes away

NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 09: American hockey player Mark Pavelich #16 of Team USA in action during the 1980 exhibition game against the Soviet Union on February 9, 1980 at Madison Square Garden in New York, New York. (Photo by Bruce Bennett Studios vi ((Photo by Bruce Bennett Studios via Getty Images Studios/Getty Images))SAUK CENTRE, Minn. (FOX 9) - Mark Pavelich, a former member of the 1980 Team USA "Miracle on Ice" hockey team, has passed away in a residential treatment center in Minnesota, according to the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office.Pavelich, 63, was receiving care at Eagle's Healing Nest in Sauk Centre when he died.

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George P. Shultz, secretary of state in the Reagan administration, passes away at 100

Former U.S. Secretary of State George Schultz attends a birthday celebration held in honor of Ronald Reagan at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library February 6, 2011 in Simi Valley, California.

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Reagan's longtime secretary of state George P. Shultz dies

WASHINGTON – President Ronald Reagan’s longtime secretary of state, George P. Shultz, who spent most of the 1980s trying to improve relations with the Soviet Union and forging a course for peace in the Middle East, has died. He was 100.

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Sputnik V Covid vaccine 91.6% effective in Phase-III trial: Peer-reviewed data

'RUSSIA WAS RIGHT'Russia approved the vaccine in August, before the large-scale trial had begun, saying it was the first country to do so for a COVID-19 shot.

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‘Wake-up call’: Doomsday Clock remains at 100 seconds to midnight amid COVID-19 pandemic, political strife

LOS ANGELES - The Doomsday Clock remains at 100 seconds to midnight, the closest symbolic point to humanity’s destruction since the Cold War when the U.S. and Soviet Union tested their first thermonuclear weapons. The time is unchanged from 2020, when the hands move the closest to midnight in the clock’s history.The last time the Doomsday Clock was set this close to symbolic destruction was in 1957 when the U.S.

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British double agent George Blake dies in Russia at 98

MOSCOW – George Blake, a former British intelligence officer who worked as a double agent for the Soviet Union, has died in Russia. He was 98.Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, known as SVR, announced his death Saturday in a statement, which didn't give any details.

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Rita Ora risks backlash by filming music video inside controversial Soviet Union 'communist UFO'

Rita Ora has risked controversy once more by deciding to film her latest music video inside a building built to honour communism and the Soviet Union.

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'Gorbachev. Heaven': Film Review

A lyrical portrait of a former political giant in his twilight years, Vitaly Mansky's Gorbachev. Heaven is an unusually intimate docu-memoir that feels like an epitaph.

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Russian President Putin says will get Covid-19 vaccine when possible

Sputnik V, was developed by Moscow's Gamaleya Institute.The vaccine, called “Sputnik V" in homage to the world’s first satellite launched by the Soviet Union, has been hailed as safe and effective by Russian authorities and scientists.Recently, the Russian-made vaccine has been proven to be 91.4 per cent effective in providing protection against COVID-19 and has demonstrated 100 per cent efficacy against severe coronavirus cases, the vaccine's developers said."The efficacy of the Sputnik V vaccine is 91.4 per cent, based on the final control point analysis of data obtained 21 days after administering the first dose," Gamaleya Center and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said in a statement.The vaccine demonstrated 100 per cent

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Chinese capsule with moon rocks begins return to Earth

BEIJING – A Chinese space capsule bringing back the first moon rocks in more than four decades has begun its return to Earth. The Chang’e 5 lunar probe left the moon’s orbit on Sunday morning by activating four engines for about 22 minutes, the China National Space Administration said in a social media post.The mission landed on the moon earlier this month and collected about 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) of samples.

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Poles voice fears of 'Polexit' as govt defies EU over budget

WARSAW – As the Polish government plays a game of chicken with the European Union over its next long-term budget, some Poles are voicing fears that a drawn-out conflict could put their country on a path toward an eventual departure from the bloc, or “Polexit.”Poland's conservative government, led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski's Law and Justice party, denies that it has ever wanted to leave the 27-member bloc and popular support for EU membership runs extremely high.But critics fear the combative tone of Polish leaders — who have recently compared the EU to the Soviet Union and used terms like "political enslavement" to describe Poland's predicament in the standoff — could create momentum, which if unstopped, could accidently bring the nation to the

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Chinese probe prepares to return moon rocks to Earth

BEIJING – A Chinese probe that landed on the moon transferred rocks to an orbiter Sunday in preparation for returning samples of the lunar surface to Earth for the first time in almost 45 years, the space agency announced.The upper stage of the Change’e lander blasted off Friday from the lunar surface. If the mission succeeds, it will make China the third country after the United States and former Soviet Union to bring moon rocks to Earth.The ascent stage docked with a robot spacecraft orbiting the moon at 5:42 a.m.

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Germany agrees $662 million to aid Holocaust survivors

BERLIN – Germany has agreed to provide more than a half billion euros to aid Holocaust survivors struggling under the burdens of the coronavirus pandemic, the organization that negotiates compensation with the German government said Wednesday.The payments will be going to approximately 240,000 survivors around the world, primarily in Israel, North America, the former Soviet Union and Western Europe, over the next two years, according to the New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, also referred to as the Claims Conference.With the end of World War II now 75 years in the past, Holocaust survivors are all elderly, and because many were deprived of proper nutrition when they were young today they suffer from

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Yuri Orlov, physicist and Soviet dissident, dies

Adrian ChoYuri Orlov, the Russian physicist who championed human rights in the Soviet Union before being deported to the United States in 1986, died on 27 September at his home in Ithaca, New York, The New York Times reports. He was 96.

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Scores arrested in protest against Belarus' president

KYIV – Hundreds of women calling for the authoritarian president to step down protested in Belarus’ capital on Saturday, continuing the large demonstrations that have rocked the country since early August.Police blocked off the center of Minsk and arrested more than 60 demonstrators, according to the Viasna human rights organization. Some of those arrested were chased down by police in building courtyards where they were trying to take refuge, Viasna said.Protests, by far the largest and most persistent in Belarus since independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, began Aug.

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Bocharova, star of 1st Soviet Olympic gymnastics team, dies

LAUSANNE – Nina Bocharova, an Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast in the first Soviet Union team sent to a games, has died. She was 95.The Ukraine-born Bocharova died in Rome on Monday, the International Gymnastics Federation said Thursday.

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Isiah Thomas' Olympic hopes were denied, not once but twice

Isiah Thomas loved to play road games, and the ones he could have been part of in 1980 might have been unlike any other in his career.The Olympics. Inside the Soviet Union.

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Why the hunt for a coronavirus vaccine is the new space race

Russia isn’t having a Sputnik moment.The announcement Tuesday by Russian President Vladimir Putin that his country was the first to approve a coronavirus vaccine did not provoke the awe and wonder of the Soviet Union’s launch of the first satellite into orbit in 1957. Instead, it was met by doubts about the science and safety.But the claim underscored how, like the space race, the competition to have the first vaccine is about international rivalries as well as science.

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Science and politics tied up in global race for a coronavirus vaccine

WASHINGTON – No, Russia is not having a Sputnik moment.The announcement Tuesday by Russian President Vladimir Putin that his country was the first to approve a coronavirus vaccine did not provoke the awe and wonder of the Soviet Union’s launch of the first satellite into orbit in 1957. Instead, it was met by doubts about the science and safety.But it also underscored how, like the space race, the competition to have the first vaccine is about international rivalries as well as science.

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Russia approves world’s first Covid-19 vaccine

Sign up here for GlobalData's free bi-weekly Covid-19 report on the latest information your industry needs to know.Russia has awarded regulatory approval to a Covid-19 vaccine, becoming the first country in the world to register a coronavirus vaccine for use. The vaccine, Sputnik V, reflects the former Soviet Union’s space race successes.

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Cold War rivalries split the Olympics in Moscow in 1980

U.S. to boycott the first Olympics held in the Soviet Union after Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in December 1979.

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Russia plans mass vaccinations for coronavirus as early as October

MOSCOW – Russia boasts that it’s about to become the first country to approve a COVID-19 vaccine, with mass vaccinations planned as early as October using shots that are yet to complete clinical trials -- and scientists worldwide are sounding the alarm that the headlong rush could backfire.Moscow sees a Sputnik-like propaganda victory, recalling the Soviet Union’s launch of the world’s first satellite in 1957.

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Russia's race for coronavirus vaccine raises concerns in the West

MOSCOW : Russia boasts that it’s about to become the first country to approve a COVID-19 vaccine, with mass vaccinations planned as early as October using shots that are yet to complete clinical trials -- and scientists worldwide are sounding the alarm that the headlong rush could backfire.Moscow sees a Sputnik-like propaganda victory, recalling the Soviet Union’s launch of the world’s first satellite in 1957.

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A new world order for the coronavirus era is emerging

BERLIN : In July 1945, at the close of World War II, the leaders of the US, Great Britain and the Soviet Union gathered at a Prussian royal palace in Potsdam outside the conquered German capital to hammer out the new global order. The seeds were sown for the Cold War.As visitors in face masks ponder the consequences of those decisions at a new exhibition to mark the 75th anniversary of the conference, the geopolitical map of the world is again being redrawn.

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With first spacecraft to Red Planet, United Arab Emirates poised to join elite Mars club

Sedeer El-ShowkThe United Arab Emirates (UAE), a small Persian Gulf nation, is on the cusp of a big breakthrough: joining the United States, the Soviet Union, Europe, and India in the elite club of nations that have successfully sent spacecraft to Mars. On 15 July, the Emirates Mars Mission (EMM)—also known as the Hope satellite—is set to launch on a Japanese rocket, arriving at the Red Planet in February 2021.Planners hope the mission will boost UAE industry and science capacity while also delivering sorely needed data on the martian atmosphere.

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India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0