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That could put President Joe Biden in the center of a messy Middle East conflict in the midst of a bruising re-election campaign.

KYIV, Ukraine — The saboteurs managed to place four explosives on a Russian freight train carrying diesel and jet fuel, roughly 3,000 miles from the Ukrainian border. But more important than the destruction of the train, Ukrainian intelligence officials said, was the timing of the blast. They needed it to blow up as the 50 rail cars were traveling through the 9-mile-long tunnel through the Severomuysky mountains, the longest train tunnel in Russia. The Ukrainians were hoping to compromise a vita

Randall Hill/ReutersThe Chinese spy balloon that flew across the U.S. earlier this year used a commercially available American internet provider, according to a report. U.S. intelligence officials concluded that the balloon had used the American company’s services to send and receive messages from China mainly related to the balloon’s navigation, officials familiar with the assessment told NBC News. The company in question—which was not disclosed by NBC—denied that the balloon had used its netwo

The Kremlin accused the Wall Street Journal of publishing "pulp fiction" on Friday after it reported that the death of mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash had been orchestrated by Russian security official Nikolai Patrushev. The WSJ reported that Prigozhin's private jet was downed by a small bomb placed under a wing. Its report cited unnamed Western intelligence officials and a former Russian intelligence officer.

The assassination of the Wagner group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin in Moscow was prepared for two months; it was approved by Nikolai Patrushev, the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, writes The Wall Street Journal.