Russia

The remarks by US special envoy Steve Witkoff sparked a backlash by some members of Donald Trump’s own party.

Elon Musk has denied throttling internet services in Ukraine, blaming the US government for the slowdown.

The Ukraine president said it was “easier to breathe” on social media after major Russian data centres were taken out.

“I suggest they get a new leader who can make a deal,” the president said.

Volodymyr Zelensky said the arrangement was a sign of weakness.

The ongoing incident at a Siberian research institute has parallels in a new book by a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist.

The mother of the 28-year-old dead Russian scientist has dismissed reports her daughter became infected with plague after cracking a test tube.

A top World Health Organisation official says the UN body doesn’t understand how a plague lab researcher became infected before dying.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has urged Russia to provide more details about the death of a laboratory worker at a research institute.

Russian authorities have quarantined a hospital and are monitoring contacts of an employee at a plague research laboratory who died from pneumonia.