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Trump says the US has 'gotta shoot' at Russian planes performing barrel rolls if diplomacy fails
Presidential hopeful said Obama was too busy 'playing golf' to deal with aggressive moves from Russian jets.
Police arrest 'Russian Ripper' believed to have murdered 17 prostitutes
DNA evidence allegedly showed that the killer was a 51-year-old ex-police worker who had already been arrest for the murders.
Bashar al Assad's Syrian regime 'is colluding' with Isis to ease militants' losses
Documents are said to show how Palmyra was only recaptured after deal with militants.
USA complains after Russian jet barrel rolls just metres from reconnaissance plane
War of words intensifies after second military incident in a month over the Baltic Sea.
Syria: At least 20 air strikes hit rebel-held areas of Aleppo
The source of the strikes is unclear, according to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
UN calls on Ukraine and Russia to cease hostilities as fighting esclates
Ukraine and Russia blame each other for a flare up in fighting during UN Security Council meeting.
Big feline fight sees first ever case of a tiger killing and eating a lynx
The cat battle took place in Russia's far east.
Russian rocket launch fails before take-off at new Vostochny spaceport while Putin looks on
Technical problems led to failure for the site's first rocket launch.
Watch protesters clash with police during Finnish-Russian nuclear site break-in
Police estimated that close to 50 protesters gathered near the Fennovoima site in northern Finland.
MH17: BBC slams 'misleading' headlines claiming its film proved a Ukrainian jet downed airliner
Kremlin-backed media have pounced on reports claiming conspiracy behind airline tragedy.
Chernobyl anniversary: Health impacts from radiation still felt 30 years after nuclear disaster
Radiation from the Chernobyl disaster led to thyroid cancer, mental health problems and blindness.
Shakespeare 400th anniversary: Russia celebrates British literature
If you love British literary works and if you are in Russia – this year is for you.
Vladimir Putin's National Guard 'must be allowed to fire into crowds' say lawmakers
Formation of new force whose duties include maintaining public order was announced by Putin in April.
Faces of Chernobyl: Remembering the tragedy 30 years on
How the 1986 nuclear accident still haunts the plant's workers, residents and clear up staff.
Fifa president Gianni Infantino hopes video referees will be used at the 2018 World Cup
The International Football Association Board is testing the technology over a two-year period.
Comic book shows Vladimir Putin bent on world domination for Russia
The latest instalment of the Divinity series shows the Russian president keen to restore a lost empire.
Russian fighter jet barrel-rolls over US reconnaissance plane in perilous manoeuvre
Russian fighter jet veers within 15 metres of a US Air Force reconnaissance plane.
Doha oil meeting breaks up without agreement on output freeze
Talks fail after Saudi Arabia demands arch-rival Iran's participation in freeze.
Vladimir Putin opens up on Panama Papers, meldonium and remarriage
President defends Russian athletes, saying meldonium use does not constitute doping.
Russia: In Q&A, Vladimir Putin asked 'if two world leaders were drowning, who would he save'?
In his annual Q&A, the Russian president fielded questions on the economy and foreign policy.
Nato calls Russian warplane fly-by 'unsafe and unprofessional'
The jets allegedly flew simulated attack passes near a US guided missile destroyer.
Russia blamed for crashing Swedish air traffic control to test electronic warfare capabilities
Sources say attack was so severe Swedish authorities informed NATO members from neighbouring countries.
Panama Papers: Russia's culture minister Vladimir Medinsky hits out at media coverage
Medinsky told IBTimes UK corruption allegations in the leaked documents damaged the west more than Russia.
Goldman Sachs warns Opec meeting in Doha will not deliver 'bullish surprise' for oil prices
Saudi Arabia, Russia and about 13 other major oil producers expected to meet at the Qatari capital on 17 April.
Suicide bombers strike Stavropol police building in Russia
No one else was injured according to Russian news agencies.
Chernobyl: Haunting photos of abandoned ghost towns 30 years after the nuclear disaster
The accident was a result of a mismanaged test at the Soviet nuclear plant, leaving clouds of nuclear matter spreading across the western USSR and Europe.
Vladimir Putin: Do you suffer from 'Putinphobia'?
Five reasons that could make you 'Putinphobic'.
Inside the Turkish field hospital where Syrian Islamist fighters are patched up and sent back to war
Doctors treat fighters from Ahrar al-Sham and other Islamist militias just miles from Syria's border
Why have 30,000 Russians joined Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo?
Dozens of arrests in Montenegro and Russia of members highlight how Japanese cult has resurfaced in Europe.
Kim Philby: Britain's too-posh-to-probe Soviet spy deceived himself as much as MI6
Philby's 1981 lecture to Stasi recruits revealed his delusion about his role as a spy.