RUSSIA

With 93 percent of the votes counted, Vladimir Putin’s United Russia Party is on course to win 76 percent of the seats in the country’s parliament.

The news comes as the United States halted its coalition airstrike against the militant group in the area after learning it mistakenly struck the Syrian military.

Militants attacked an Indian army brigade headquarters near the de factor border with Pakistan on Sunday.

Washington and Moscow have agreed to share targeting information against jihadist fighters that are their common enemies, if the truce holds.

Oliver Stone's new movie dramatized parts of the Edward Snowden story.

The House intelligence committee says Edward Snowden was nothing more than a disgruntled employee who frequently clashed with his bosses.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science's EurekAlert! website was attacked during the weekend, compromising usernames and passwords.

But an RNC spokesman says that's not true.

The former presidential hopeful joined a number of figures asking for leniency for NSA leaker Edward Snowden.

"There’s one person who stands to benefit from these criminal acts, and that’s Donald Trump," DNC interim chairwoman Donna Brazile wrote in a statement posted online Tuesday.

The deal agreed to a seven-day period of reduced violence and increased humanitarian aid deliveries.

About a dozen bears had trapped scientists on a weather research station on an island in the southern Kara Sea since Saturday.

Hackers compromised the World Anti-Doping Agency’s database to release sensitive information on Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles, tennis stars Serena and Venus Williams and others.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that it had received not a single report of combatants or civilians killed by fighting in any areas covered by the truce.

Apple's iOS 10 upgrade for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch rolled out on Sept. 13 as a free software update.

The Pentagon’s confirmation contradicts Moscow’s claim last month that a Russian Su-34 bomber in the Syrian city of Aleppo killed Abu Mohammad al-Adnani.

Russia's military might is showing no signs of slowing after its global expo promoting the country's brand-new weapons of war concluded Sunday.

The naval exercise marks the largest operation held by the two countries' navies and comes as the U.S., Japan, Vietnam and other nations are challenging China's territorial claims in the region. 

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said the initial 48-hour ceasefire could be extended by a week and then again for a further period if it held, and the aim was to establish “first class peace.”

But a letter voiced worry the ceasefire was devoid of guarantees, monitoring mechanisms or sanctions against violations.

The flight — the first in almost a year since a Russian passenger plane was brought down in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula — landed in Sharm el-Sheikh early Sunday.