MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Friday that Vadim Krasikov, a hitman returned by Germany in the biggest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War, was an employee of Russia’s FSB security service and had served in Alpha Group, the FSB’s special forces unit. Krasikov was convicted by a …

ABUJA (Reuters) – Police in Nigeria have been put on red alert and may seek the help of the military after protests turned violent in some cities, leaving at least three people dead, the inspector general of police said. Some major cities, including the capital Abuja and Kano in the …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Thursday recognized Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s opponent and opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez as the winner of Venezuela’s disputed presidential election, rejecting Maduro’s claim of victory. “Given the overwhelming evidence, it is clear to the United States and, most importantly, to the Venezuelan people …

SPIRITS were high as 111 participants completed the final circuit of the Junior Walking Championship at the City Stadium in George Town, Penang. It came on the heels of two previous circuits held on May 15 in MBSP Sports Complex, Bukit Mertajam, and on June 12 at SMK Seri Balik …

BURBANK, California (Reuters) – Striking video game voice actors and motion-capture performers held their first picket on Thursday in front of Warner Bros. Games and said artificial intelligence was a threat to their professions. “The models that they’re using have been trained on our voices without our consent at all, …

ALL these tennis greats want to feel that surge one more time. That unmatchable adrenaline rush of battling alone in the cauldron, their best against an opponent’s best, preferably someone at the top of the game and with something big on the line. It was all there for Rafael Nadal …

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – The number of fires in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest region surged to a record high for the month of July in almost two decades, government data showed on Thursday, amid a drought in the region fanned by climate change. The Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, plays a …

Hong Kong: Options traders are positioning for gains in South-East Asian currencies as the US Federal Reserve’s (Fed) anticipated rate cuts along with strength in the yen and yuan boost optimism in the region. A Bloomberg gauge of South-East Asia’s average one-month risk reversals has risen to the highest in …

BERLIN (Reuters) – Vadim Krasikov, a Russian freed from jail in Germany on Friday in a prisoner swap between Moscow and the West, was convicted of the murder in 2019 of a former Chechen militant as he walked in broad daylight in a park in central Berlin. The brazenness of …