Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday urged world powers to do their utmost to help end Russia's invasion by the end of the year, as G7 leaders planned new sanctions and vowed to support Kyiv "as long as it takes."

U.S. President Joe Biden and his peers from the Group of Seven rich nations, meeting in the Bavarian Alps, pledged to

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Ukraine’s richest oligarch has filed a lawsuit against Russia in Europe’s top human rights court, citing “grievous violations” in Russia’s seizure of Ukrainian property and resources since the start of Moscow’s invasion in late February.

Rinat Akhmetov, a steel tycoon who owns Ukraine’s largest steel manufacturer Metainvest, filed the lawsuit in t

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Updated at 5:24 p.m. on June 27 to add Russia's denial.

Russia shot down reports that it defaulted on its external debt Monday, after a deadline on $100 million in interest payments passed.

Bloomberg had earlier reported that Russia has defaulted on its foreign debt after the expiration of the grace period on about $100 million in interest Sunday

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“No war” and “They are lying to you” were not messages Russian viewers expected to see during a news bulletin on state-run television. 

But that was exactly what happened when producer Marina Ovsyannikova stormed a live broadcast waving an anti-war poster shortly after Russia’s attack on Ukraine. 

“The atmosphere was terrible at Channel One at the b

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U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner, who is in detention in Russia on drug charges, will go on trial in Russia on July 1, a court said on Monday.

Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and WNBA champion, was detained at a Moscow airport in February after she was found carrying vape cartridges with cannabis oil in her luggage. 

She was charged

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Russia-based web searches for pirated Microsoft products including the Windows operating system have skyrocketed after the company halted sales in the country over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, the Kommersant daily reported Monday. 

The U.S. tech giant behind the software that runs on over 1 billion devices worldwide announced the suspension of new

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