Putin’s Victory Day parade only featured a handful of leaders, and most seemed reluctant to be there, report claims

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Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) President of Kazakhstan Kasim Comert Tokayev (R), President of Tajikistan Imamali Rahman (2nd R), President of Uzbekistan Sevket Mirziyoyev (3rd R) in Moscow, Russia on May 9, 2023.

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Russia's version of NATO is crumbling, with even some of its closest allies frustrated by Putin's failing war in Ukraine

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yrgyz President Sadyr Japarov, CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas, Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev enter the hall during the Summit of Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) at the Grand Kremlin Palace, May, 16, 2022, in Moscow, Russia.
Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov, CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas, Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, Russia

Ukraine says it offered to return 3,000 dead Russian soldiers for burial, but Russia refused because it wouldn't admit the death toll

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Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov in Ukrainian documentary "The Year: Off-screen" by Dmytro Komarov.

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Putin accuses the West of creating Nazis while comparing the war in Ukraine to WW2, in what experts are calling a perversion of history

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Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a speech during the Victory Day military parade at Red Square in central Moscow on May 9, 2023.

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That Access Hollywood tape is grabbing Trump by the credibility as the E. Jean Carroll rape trial nears its end

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The infamous "Access Hollywood" recording of Trump's lewd remarks was played for a Manhattan jury.

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This debt-ceiling fight is different — and it means we could actually default this time

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President Joe Biden walking past House Speaker Kevin McCarthy at a luncheon in March.

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Ron DeSantis is banning Chinese citizens from buying land in Florida, accusing China of taking up swathes of farmland: 'We don't want the CCP in the Sunshine State'

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Ron DeSantis speaks during an election night watch party at the Convention Center in Tampa, Florida, on November 8, 2022.

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A fleet of aging tankers is transporting sanctioned oil around the globe — and it's becoming an insurance nightmare because nobody knows who owns them

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A secretive fleet of aging tankers is transporting sanctioned oil globally — and nobody knows who to chase for insurance should they get into accidents.

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One of the 'most violent and aggressive' January 6 rioters got the longest sentence of any insurrectionist yet after using stolen pepper spray to attack cops

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In this image from a Washington Metropolitan Police Department officer's body-worn video camera, released and annotated by the Justice Department in the Government's Sentencing Memorandum, Peter Schwartz circled in red is shown using a canister of pepper spray against officers on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington.

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Read the new gag order muzzling Trump in his hush-money case

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