RUSSIA

'Brexit confusion' may have helped swing the decision Poland's way

Vladimir Bukovsky, seen here at a Moscow rally in 2007, spent 12 years in Soviet prisons, forced labour camps and psychiatric hospitals

Syrian children stand next to a burned vehicle on October 27, 2019 near where the operation reportedly took place

President Trump said that the U.S. has brought "the world's number one terrorist leader to justice."

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was said to have died in a raid by Joint Special Operations Command's Delta Force operatives Saturday, sources told International Business Times.

The dangers of illegal crossings into Europe were laid bare this week when 31 men and eight women - most believed to be from Vietnam - were found dead in a refrigerated truck in Britain

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, pictured October 23, 2019, has raised the prospect of more ethnic violence

Like others in Nghe An who fear the worst, Pham Thi Tra My's family keep a portrait of her on a prayer altar

Turkish Foreign Affairs Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu (R) and his German counterpart Heiko Maas give a joint press conference after their meeting

Pham Van Thin, father of 26-year-old Pham Thi Tra My, who is believed to be among the dead after her family received a heart-wrenching text message from her on Wednesday before the immigrants were discovered

Maria Butina clutched bouquets of flowers and exclaimed that "Russians don't surrender" as she arrived in Moscow on Saturday after serving nine months in a US jail for acting as a Russian government agent.Butina flew into Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport after being deported from Miami following her release on Friday, AFP journalists said. She had been held in Florida's Tallahassee prison."I didn't give up because I know I simply didn't have the right," Butina told a waiting crowd of journalists. "Russians don't surrender!"

Pham Van Thin, father of 26-year-old Pham Thi Tra My, who is believed to be among the dead after her family received a heart-wrenching text message from her on Wednesday before the immigrants were discovered

Former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan says he was assaulted by prison guards in Russia.

NGOs say of the 500,000 Syrian refugees in Istanbul, more than 25,000 are living illegally

An attorney for Tim Morrison said the National Security Council member would comply with a subpoena to appear next Thursday.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and US Defense Secretary Mark Esper discussed potential threats to 5G telecoms networks

Steppe eagles face rapid decline due to the spread of farming land across their territory and are vulnerable to wind turbines

Upon returning home from Japan, Duterte met with doctors who ruled out any surgical procedures.

A decades-long economic boom pulled millions of people out of poverty but the wealth has yet to reach all corners of China

Elon Musk-led SpaceX is readying for a crucial test of its Crew Dragon capsule that is being made for NASA to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station. SpaceX tweeted some visuals of the Crew Dragon tests.

Wenger says that he misses management -- even in freezing, rainy nights in northern England