US President Donald Trump has abruptly cancelled the planned meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin over tension on Ukraine. He announced his decision on Twitter, barely an hour after he had told reporters that he would meet Putin on the sidelines of G-20 summit in Buenos Aires and ...

Moscow: Russia would never strike first even if threatened with a nuclear attack, the Kremlin spokesman said, following President Vladimir Putin's remarks that Russians would "go to heaven" as martyrs in case of a nuclear war. "We will never attack anyone first," spokesman Dmitry Peskov told ...

MOSCOW: Russia has expressed deep concern after Israeli forces shot dead dozens of Palestinian protesters and urged the countries to avoid action that might inflame tensions in the Middle East. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said today that from the very beginning, Moscow expressed concern that ...

WASHINGTON:US and France have called for a new nuclear deal with Iran. US President Donald Trump, who is skeptical of a nuclear accord that was struck between the world powers and Iran in 2015, discussed the issue with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Washington. President Trump spoke ...

MOSCOW:Russia has warned that any U.S. missiles fired at Syria over a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel enclave would be shot down and the launch sites targeted. The warning came from Russian ambassador to Lebanon, Alexander Zasypkin, who said such a situation should be avoided. The ...

Moscow:The Kremlin said Wednesday that President Vladimir Putin was still ready to hold a summit with US counterpart Donald Trump despite the mass Western expulsions of Russian diplomats in a spy row. "This depends on the American side, but the Russian side remains open," Putin's spokesman Dmitry ...

Russia is working on defensive measures to prepare for possible new sanctions from the United States and other countries, the Kremlin said on Wednesday.On Wednesday, the Kremlin was asked to comment on media reports that Russian state development bank VEB planned to transfer its Globex bank to the ...

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin kicked off an annual press conference Thursday, his first major public appearance since announcing he would seek a new six-year term in March 2018 elections.The marathon event has in the past lasted up to almost five hours and this year more than 1,600 ...

Moscow: North Korea's latest missile test Wednesday is a "provocative action" that will lead to further tensions, the Kremlin said, appealing for calm on all sides."Undoubtedly, another missile launch is a provocative action that provokes a further increase of tensions," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry ...