Russia

News Hour: The United Nations still has a million questions about a Syria deal struck last week by Russia, Turkey and Iran, with aid convoys almost totally stalled despite a reported reduction in the fighting, a...

News Hour: Chinese internet giant Tencent said on Saturday its messaging app WeChat had been blocked in Russia, adding it was in touch with authorities to resolve the issue. WeChat, known as Weixin in China, is...

News Hour: A Russian naval intelligence ship sank off Turkey’s Black Sea coast on Thursday after colliding with a vessel carrying livestock and all 78 personnel on board the navy ship were evacuated, Turkish officials said....

News Hour: A group called the Imam Shamil Battalion has claimed responsibility for the metro bombing in St. Petersburg, Russia this month that killed 16 people and said the bomber was acting on orders from al...

News Hour: Russian anti-monopoly watchdog FAS and Alphabet Inc’s Google have reached an out-of-court settlement in a case over the Android operating system, FAS said on Monday. The deal was approved by a Russian court earlier...

News Hour: Russia’s Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova shocked world number one Angelique Kerber 6-4, 2-6, 6-2 on Sunday to win the WTA title at Monterrey, Mexico, for a fourth time. “I’m really overwhelmed and don’t think I realized...

News Hour: Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) major industrialised nations met in Italy on Monday, looking to put pressure on Russia to break its ties with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. U.S. missile strikes...

News Hour: The number of Russians living in poverty reached nearly 20 million last year — a decade high — after sanctions over Ukraine and an oil crisis battered the economy, official figures showed on Wednesday....

News Hour: Russia’s deputy U.N. envoy, Vladimir Safronkov, warned on Thursday of “negative consequences” if the United States carries out military strikes on Syria over a deadly toxic gas attack. “We have to think about negative...

News Hour: An explosion has hit an underground station in the city of St Petersburg. At least 10 people are feared dead and dozens wounded in a blast in the metro system of Saint Petersburg, Russia’s...