International

SINGAPORE/PARIS—Global airlines began inspecting some Boeing 737 engines on Wednesday as an investigation gathered pace into an explosion which killed a passenger on a Southwest Airlines flight in the first fatal U.S. airline accident in almost a decade. European regulators earlier this month ordered checks following lengthy analysis of a similar non-fatal incident at Southwest […]

The United States and Britain on Monday accused Russia of launching cyber attacks on computer routers, firewalls and other networking equipment used by government agencies, businesses and critical infrastructure operators around the globe. Washington and London issued a joint alert saying the campaign by Russian government-backed hackers was intended to advance spying, intellectual property theft […]

BERLIN—The Group of Seven industrialized nations condemned the alleged chemical attack in eastern Ghouta in Syria on April 7 and backed “proportionate” efforts by the United States, Britain and France to stop the future use of such weapons. “We fully support efforts made by the United States, the U.K. and France to decrease the capacity […]

THE HAGUE—Russia may have tampered with the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria’s Douma, the U.S. envoy to the global watchdog said on Monday, urging the body to condemn the continuing use of banned chemical weapons. The comments came during a closed-door meeting at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, […]

LONDON–Russia’s intelligence agencies spied on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia for at least five years before they were attacked with a nerve agent in March, the national security adviser to Britain’s prime minister said. Mark Sedwill said in a letter to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday that email accounts […]

U.S., British, and French forces launched air strikes against targets in Syria in the first coordinated Western military action against the Damascus regime. Over 100 missiles were fired on the morning of Saturday, April 14, targeting what representatives of coalition forces called chemical weapons sites in retaliation for an earlier poison gas attack. Speaking from […]

MOSCOW—A Russian court on Friday, April 13, ordered that access to the Telegram messenger service should be blocked in Russia, Russian news agencies reported, heralding communication disruption for scores of people—including government officials. The decision came a week after Russia’s state communication watchdog filed a lawsuit to limit access to Telegram messaging app following the […]

Over the past couple of years, disinformation has gone from being an obscure concept of propaganda to becoming a common household term. It refers to a form of deception meant to make false claims appear real and to alter conclusions on events and information. As social media platforms have begun looking for ways to fight […]

LONDON—Yulia Skripal, who was poisoned in Britain last month along with her father, a former Russian spy, has said she did not wish to take up the offer of assistance from the Russian embassy in London. In a statement issued on her behalf by British police late on Wednesday, April 11, Skripal said her father, […]

As the United States prepared on April 11 to respond to a suspected chemical attack by the Russia-backed regime in Syria, President Donald Trump lamented the decline in relations with Moscow to below Cold War levels and blamed the predicament on the Russia-collusion investigation. “Much of the bad blood with Russia is caused by the […]

LONDON—The United States on Tuesday welcomed a push by some EU states to impose new sanctions on Iran and warned firms considering doing business with the Islamic Republic that they could be funding militant groups and regional instability. U.S. President Donald Trump has set European allies a May 12 deadline to revamp an international deal […]

UNITED NATIONS/BEIRUT—Russia and the United States tangled on Tuesday at the United Nations over the use of chemical weapons in Syria as Washington and its allies considered whether to strike at President Bashar al-Assad’s forces over a suspected poison gas attack last weekend. Moscow and Washington could not come to an agreement at the U.N. […]

Establishment media claims “Russian bots” pushing conservative causes are littered with factual errors Two groups at the heart of the Russian bot stories debunked media claims about their work Multiple media outlets falsely claimed hordes of Russian bots were rallying around Fox News host Laura Ingraham Media outlets are spreading “inherently inaccurate” stories about “Russian […]

A former NHL player’s son died in a bus crash last week, and he told Canadian news outlets that he was “so proud” of his son before his passing. Chris Joseph, who played for the Edmonton Oilers, confirmed to CTV News that his son, Jaxon, died in a bus crash that killed 14 other people. […]

WASHINGTON/UNITED NATIONS—U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday promised quick, forceful action in response to a deadly suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria, appearing to suggest a potential military response. Trump told a meeting with military leaders and national security advisers he would make a decision by Monday night “or very shortly thereafter” on a response, […]

A Russian woman has died after doctors allegedly placed her on a formalin drip – a solution containing formaldehyde – instead of saline. Ekaterina Fedyaeva, 27, was undergoing an unspecified but routine surgery at a hospital in Ulyanovsk, in the Volga Federal District of Russia, when medics allegedly filled her IV bag with formalin solution. Formalin […]

AMMAN—The Russian and Syrian military on Monday said Israeli war planes carried out missile strikes on a Syrian air base, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump warned of a “big price to pay” following reports of a poison gas attack on a rebel-held town. Syrian state TV initially said the United States was suspected of […]

WASHINGTON—North Korea has told the United States for the first time that it is prepared for their meeting to discuss its promise of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula when North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets President Donald Trump, a U.S. official said on Sunday. U.S. and North Korean officials have held secret contacts recently […]

RIYADH–Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in Paris on Sunday at the start of a European tour that also includes Spain, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya TV said. Prince Mohammed, Saudi defense minister and one of the kingdom’s most powerful policymakers, is due to meet President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday. On the agenda for his […]

MOSCOW—A Russian historian whose exposure of Soviet leader Josef Stalin’s crimes angered state officials was cleared of child pornography charges on Thursday, April 6, after a long campaign by human rights activists to free him. State prosecutors had accused Yuri Dmitriev of involving his adopted daughter, then 11, in child pornography, of illegally possessing components […]