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A tourist wearing a mask takes a selfie in front of Rome's ancient Colosseum, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020. Italy banned all flights coming from and going to China as European countries have stepped up their response to the new virus that has sickened thousands of people in China and reached 19 other countries. Italy has reported two cases. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Quarantines await Europeans flown home amid virus outbreak

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, prepares to greet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife Sara prior to talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. Netanyahu visited Moscow to discuss the U.S. Mideast peace plan with Putin and take an Israeli woman who had been jailed in Russia back home. (Maxim Shemetov/Pool Photo via AP)

Indictment, a plan and a pardon: Israeli PM has a wild week

By ARON HELLER - Associated Press

The new U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan speaks to the media after visiting Paul Whelan, a former U.S. marine who was arrested for alleged spying in Moscow on Dec. 28, 2018, in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. Sullivan told reporters after the visit that Paul Whelan has been in detention for more than 13 months, with the authorities not presenting any evidence of his crimes. "It's time for this nightmare to end, and for Paul to go home," he said. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr)

Paul Whelan, American jailed in Moscow, visited by Trump’s newly confirmed ambassador to Russia

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

EU slaps sanctions on 7 over elections in east Ukraine

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In this image from video, Eric Herschmann, an attorney for President Donald Trump, speaks during the impeachment trial against Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 27, 2020. (Senate Television via AP)

Hunter Biden put on trial in Senate by Team Trump

By Dave Boyer, S.A. Miller and Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

Israeli Naama Issachar gestures during an appeal hearings in a courtroom in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019. An Israeli backpacker serving prison time in Russia on a drug conviction is appealing her case and says she was wasn't provided a translator or lawyer after being detained at a Moscow airport. She was arrested in April in Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, where she was transferring flights en route from India to Israel. More than nine grams of hashish were found in her luggage. She was later sentenced to 7 1/2 years. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr.)

Israeli woman jailed in Russia yet to ask for pardon

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Despite President Trump's efforts to pull American forces from a "forever war" in Syria, Pentagon leaders said the mission to protect vital oil fields from ISIS has expanded and now includes a directive to keep anyone — including the Russian military and Syrian dictator Bashar Assad's forces — away from the energy reserves. (Associated Press file photo)

U.S.-Russia ‘engagements’ show risk of oil mission in Syria

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Fire at sawmill in Siberian village kills 11

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Acting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks during his annual roundup news conference summing up his ministry's work in 2019, in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russia’s foreign minister slams ‘aggressive’ US policies

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine, center, waits for a hearing in a court in Moscow, Russia, Friday, May 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Paul Whelan case: Relatives slam ongoing ‘silence’ from Trump admin over American jailed in Russia

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the State Council in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020.Putin proposed changing the Russian Constitution to increase the powers of parliament and the Cabinet. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Vladimir Putin shakes up Russia with Constitution amendment referendum

By Marc Bennetts - Special to The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev attend a cabinet meeting in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020. The Tass news agency reports Wednesday that Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev submitted his resignation to President Vladimir Putin. Russian news agencies said Putin thanked Medvedev for his service but noted that the prime minister's Cabinet failed to fulfil all the objectives set for it. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Vladimir Putin sets stage to stay in power in Russia long after his presidency ends

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, left, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attend a joint news conference following their talks in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Jan. 13, 2020. Foreign and defense ministers of Russia and Turkey met as part of an effort by Moscow and Ankara to sponsor Monday's talks between rival parties in Libya in the Russian capital. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, Pool)

Russia downplays failed Libya talks before Berlin summit

By DARIA LITVINOVA and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, third left, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, second left, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, fourth right, and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, third right, attend the talks in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Jan. 13, 2020. Foreign and defense ministers of Russia and Turkey met as part of an effort by Moscow and Ankara to sponsor Monday's talks between rival parties in Libya in the Russian capital. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, Pool)

Libya ceasefire talks in Moscow adjourned for the night

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

In this photo taken from undated footage distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, an intercontinental ballistic missile lifts off from a truck-mounted launcher somewhere in Russia. The Russian military said the Avangard hypersonic weapon entered combat duty on Friday. The Kremlin has made modernization of Russia's strategic nuclear forces one of its top priorities. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Russian Avangard hypersonic missiles more hype than threat

By Emanuele Scimia - Special to The Washington Times

FILE - In this file photo taken on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2006, Oil-refining plant located in Belarus's town of Mozyr, some 300 km south-east of Minsk, Belarus. Russia has halted oil supplies to Belarus Friday Jan. 3, 2020, after the two countries failed to renegotiate a contract amid talks of further improving their economic ties. (AP Photo /Sergei Grits, File)

Russia halts oil supplies to Belarus in push for closer ties

By by YURAS KARMANAU - Associated Press

Shuvalova-Afonasieva after 28...Ne7-g8.

Chess: The player of the decade, the combination of the year

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine, who was arrested in Moscow at the end of last year looks through a cage's glass in a court room in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019. The lawyer for Paul Whelan who is being held in Moscow on suspicion of spying, said Tuesday that classified Russian materials were found on him when he was arrested. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Paul Whelan, American jailed in Moscow, marks one year spent in Russian detention

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Several FBI headquarters officials, including Director James B. Comey, Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and senior counterintelligence official Peter Strzok, were fired for improprieties related to the probe. (Associated Press photographs)

Trump conspiracy theories by Christopher Steele exceeded dossier

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

2 protesters convicted of assault charges from Moscow rally

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