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The United States has new information that Russia is actively seeking to acquire additional weapons from North Korea in exchange for food aid, the White House said on Thursday.

Over the past few weeks there have been a growing number of reports that Russia is recruiting workers and – according to some sources, using forced labour – to dig trenches and build fortifications in Crimea across areas they would be forced to defend were Ukraine to make the peninsula…

The last time an American reporter was arrested in Russia was 1986

The White House says it has new evidence that Russia is looking again to North Korea for weapons to fuel the war in Ukraine, this time in a deal that would provide Pyongyang with needed food and other commodities in return

Russia detained a U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich for alleged espionage, triggering a new confrontation between Moscow and Washington.

US secretary of state Antony Blinken issues strongly worded statement after arrest of Evan Gershkovich

King Charles III called Russia's war in Ukraine a threat to Europe's democratic values in the first speech made by a monarch at the German parliament, but said allies like Germany and Britain can draw courage from their unity.

A Moscow court was due to hear an appeal by U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich on Tuesday against his arrest and detention on espionage charges.

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