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The American women’s basketball star was traded for a Russian arms dealer in a deal that came after months of negotiations between two hostile superpowers.

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The Canadian province wants to stop selling cheap power to cryptocurrency miners and direct energy to other areas, a priority shift.

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On the cover of TIME, the year ended as it began. In January, our cover featured Alexei Navalny, the imprisoned Russian opposition leader and famous dissident, who warned, in a profile by TIME senior correspondent Simon Shuster, against appeasing Vladimir

In just three tumultuous hours, Castillo went from decreeing the dissolution of his country’s Congress to being replaced by his vice president and put under arrest.

As Americans celebrate a deal between Russia and the U.S. which secured athlete Brittney Griner’s release, the family of another prisoner in Russia remains concerned. Paul Whelan, a 52-year-old former resident of Michigan, was first detained in December 2018 by

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Detained American Paul Whelan is happy the Biden administration was able to secure the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner from a Russian penal colony, but he’s “greatly disappointed” that his release wasn’t able to be negotiated. “I am greatly