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ASIO director-general Mike Burgess, speaking alongside Kershaw, said the arrests came after a "lengthy and complex investigation" by law enforcement agencies.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that the world must not wait for November's presidential election in the United States to take action to repel Russia's invasion of his country.

The Russian president squired Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi about during the latter's visit.

Navalny, the fiercest political foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin, died in February in an Arctic prison while serving a 19-year sentence.

Russia's southernmost province has announced a temporary ban on the wearing of niqabs as a security measure following deadly attacks by gunmen last month.

West, who now goes by Ye, arrived in Moscow on a private visit, according to the brand team for Russian designer Gosha Rubchinskiy, state media TASS reported.

The pair are among 37 prominent Australians singled out by the Kremlin over what's described as an 'anti-Russia agenda'.

Evan Gershkovich is the first Western journalist charged with espionage in post-Soviet Russia.

Former Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and the Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov are accused of international crimes, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

They are allegedly responsible for two war crimes: directing attacks at civilian objects and causing excessive incidental harm to civilians or damage to civilian objects

A church and two synagogues have been targeted by "militants" who killed at least seven people.

A nuclear-powered US aircraft carrier arrived in South Korea for a three-way exercise involving Japan as they step up military training to cope with North Korean threats, which have escalated following a security pact with Russia.

The opening of talks sends another strong signal of solidarity with Ukraine on top of the huge financial support provided by the EU.

Russia and North Korea have signed into a new alliance agreement.

Nuclear-armed countries are strengthening their arsenals and several have made ready new nuclear-armed or nuclear-capable weapons systems amid rising geopolitical tensions, a new report has found.

Putin, making his first trip to North Korea in 24 years, said the countries would continue to "resolutely oppose" the West.

Putin is expected to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for talks as they deepen their alignment in the face of separate, intensifying confrontations with Washington.

Russia is pressing on with its offensive in the conflict as Ukraine awaits much-needed resupplies of Western munitions.

India, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates all did not agree to sign the joint statement signed by 80 others.

Such a deal appears a nonstarter for Kyiv, which wants to join the military alliance and has demanded that Russia withdraw its troops from all of its territory.

The annual Global Peace Index list has been released, with a rank of the peacefulness of 163 independent states and territories.

Zelenskyy joined world leaders in France to commemorate the D-Day invasion and seek more Western help.

France's domestic spy agency has taken charge of the case, just weeks before the Paris Olympics begin.

Germany joined the US recently in authorising Ukraine to hit some targets on Russian soil with the long-range weapons they are supplying to Kyiv.

Donald Trump attacked the US criminal justice system, making unfounded claims of a “rigged” trial that echoed remarks from the Kremlin.

An Individual Neutral Athlete is the name used to refer to athletes with either a Russian or Belarusian passport who will be competing at this year's Games in July and August.

A 12-year-old girl is among 18 people killed in a Russian strike that hit a shopping centre, making it the deadliest attack Ukraine has endured in several weeks.

Ukrainian forces have secured "combat control" of areas where Russian troops entered the northeastern Kharkiv region earlier this month, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin concluded a two-day visit to China emphasising the countries’ burgeoning strategic ties as well as his own personal relationship with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged to deepen their strategic partnership in Beijing on Thursday, in a stark show of their growing alignment as Moscow's troops advance in Ukraine.

Georgian lawmakers have approved a "foreign influence" bill that sparked weeks of mass protests, with critics seeing it as a Russian-style threat to free speech.

Russian President Vladimir Putin made the move, citing the country's rising military spending and the need for "innovation."

Thousands more civilians have fled Russia's renewed ground offensive in Ukraine’s northeast that has targeted towns and villages with a barrage of artillery and mortar fire, officials said on Sunday.

Ukraine rushed reinforcements to its northeastern Kharkiv region to hold off a Russian attempt to breach local defences, signaling a tactical switch in the war by Moscow that Ukrainian officials had been expecting for weeks.

The Federal Government said today Dmitry Khoroshev held a "senior leadership role" in the ransomware group.

Ukraine's top spy said the plot foresaw an attack ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin's inauguration for a fifth term today.

Silvio Berlusconi had never been hunting in his life. What Putin did in the Russian woods made him throw up behind a tree.

China's President Xi Jinping arrived at the French presidential palace on Monday for a two-day state visit

The United States has formally accused Russia of using chemical weapons "as a method of warfare" against Ukraine and imposed sweeping new sanctions on Russian firms and government bodies.

US intelligence officials have determined Russian President Vladimir Putin likely didn't order the death of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny, an official says.

The arrest of Timur Ivanov marks the highest-profile corruption scandal since President Vladimir Putin launched the Ukraine war two years ago.

A respected global body says the Russian economy has been bolstered by oil exports and government spending.

In the weeks leading up to the invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin flew out from Moscow for important visits with two longtime allies.

A draft peace agreement that Russia and Ukraine negotiated in the early days of the conflict could serve as a starting point for talks to end the fighting.

The emails included login information such as user names and passwords, US authorities said.

Ukrainian President said he'd listen to former US President's ideas to end the war in Ukraine with "pleasure" but trod carefully around the issue during an interview at the Delphi Economic Forum.

The ban will mean that many songs in musical styles such as pop and techno will be banned.

Russia’s government declared the situation in flood-hit areas in the Orenburg region a federal emergency, with preparations for possible flooding underway in three other regions.

The head of Russia's national security council contended that the United States shares blame for the attack by gunmen on a Moscow concert hall that killed 145 people, even though a branch of the Islamic State group has claimed responsibility.

Ukrainian drones attacked one of Russia's biggest oil refineries and a drone factory in the Russian province of Tatarstan, officials said.