The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

The chef is signing off from his world-famous Sydney Harbour restaurant. He talks snow eggs, training hundreds of chefs, and presidential personal tasters

Experts say smaller guardrails around arms control are still in place

Thorbjørn Jagland's communications suggest he stayed at the convicted sex-offender's home while holding influential diplomatic posts

A deputy chief of Russian military intelligence has been shot and wounded

Lieutenant ​General Vladimir ‍Alexeyev in internsive care after shooting in residential building in the Russian capital

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A wartime boom in Russia has given way to sluggish growth, tax hikes and squeezed public services. Will it affect the conflict in Ukraine?

The ambitious goal has been discussed between Ukrainian and US negotiators, sources said

Russia, Ukraine and the US met for a second time this week for trilateral talks to discuss a possible cessation of hostilities. Once again little was resolved apart from a prisoner swap, something that has happened several times over the four years of the full-scale conflict between the two countries.

The actions of Fifa’s fawning president as well as the Olympics leader’s coded call for ‘neutral ground’ underscores the hollowness of the global bodies’ values