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The former president, who looks set to win the party nomination for another White House run, can be expected to bring the US more in alignment with Putin’s Russia, with help from the likes of senators Tom Cotton and Ted Cruz.

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  • It’s the fourth straight year for China to top the Gallup poll of perceived enemies of the US; Russia was second
  • Gallup said 5 per cent of the roughly 1,000 adults taking part in the survey called the United States its own worst enemy

The names of those sanctioned are set to be released after the EU measures are formally adopted in the coming days. Kremlin critic Navalny died in an Arctic prison on February 16.

President Vladimir Putin hailed the ‘return’ to Russia of annexed Ukrainian territories, after winning an election slammed as illegitimate by Western powers.

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The president accused Kyiv of seeking to disrupt the poll by shelling Russian territory and sending soldiers to try to pierce his country’s borders.

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Concerns about Beijing’s potential to threaten US national security have spurred several bills seeking more scrutiny about who is representing Chinese interests.

Joint exercises in Gulf of Oman focus on rescuing hijacked merchant ships and feature Chinese and Iranian special ops teams and PLA guided-missile destroyer.

Voters headed to the polls in Russia on Friday for a three-day presidential election that is all but certain to extend President Vladimir Putin’s rule by six more years.

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Putin said in the interview published on Wednesday that Russia was technically ready for nuclear war and that if the US sent troops to Ukraine, it would be considered a significant escalation of the conflict.

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The arrest of Baek Kwang-soon comes as relations between Seoul and Moscow have deteriorated since the Ukraine war, while ties between Moscow and Pyongyang have grown closer.

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President Vladimir Putin warned the West that Russia was technically ready for nuclear war and that if the US sent troops to Ukraine it would be considered a significant escalation of the war.

Assault left Leonid Volkov, a close ally of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, with a broken arm: ‘They literally wanted to make a schnitzel out of me’.

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Ukrainian long-range drones smashed into two oil facilities deep inside Russia, while an armed incursion claimed by anti-Kremlin fighters unnerved a border region just days before Russia’s presidential election.