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US and Russian officials had conflicting accounts of the collision between the MQ-9 Reaper drone and the Ru...

The Biden administration is confident that if Russia is able to recover the U.S. drone that was taken down after being hit by a Russian fighter jet, there will be no intelligence opportunities to exploit.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed as "complete nonsense" allegations that pro-Ukrainian activists with no ties to the state could be behind the explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines.

The United States has called the intercept by Russian war planes of a U.S. spy drone over the Black Sea that resulted in the crash of the aircraft "a brazen violation of International law" caused by "unsafe and unprofessional" behavior. 

Although no lives were lost, it was a reminder of the risk of direct confrontation between the United States and Russia over Ukraine

Russia is disputing the Pentagon’s account of how a large U.S. military drone was downed over the Black Sea on Tuesday, denying the U.S. assertion that a Russian fighter jet being flown in a “reckless and unprofessional” manner clipped the unmanned aerial vehicle.

The British Supreme Court has ruled that Ukraine can go to trial to try to avoid repaying $3 billion in loans it said it took under pressure from Russia in 2013 to prevent it from trying to join the EU.

A spokesman for the Department of Defense reiterated the U.S. military's standing policy to end the Kim regime if North Korea uses a nuclear weapon.

State of the Union: Tuesday's collision between an unmanned U.S. drone and a Russian fighter jet has real escalatory potential. The hawks haven’t let a second go to waste. 

The former director of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s intelligence and security agency has been designated for U.S. sanctions along with two other individuals associated with the Balkan country in connection with alleged corruption.