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South Africa says that it maintains a neutral and non-aligned stance in regards to the Russo-Ukrainian War after U.S. ambassador Reuben Brigety accused South Africa of loading a sanctioned Russian ship with weapons in December 2022, causing a diplomatic crisis between the United States and South Africa.
2023-05-13

Russia surpasses six million cases of COVID-19, becoming the fourth country to do so after the United States, India, and Brazil.
2021-07-20

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says India will launch its first manned space mission by 2022, which would make it the fourth nation to do so after Russia, the United States, and China.
2018-08-15

The documents include names of individuals and companies such as that of United States businessman and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, United Kingdom monarch Elizabeth II, Liberian president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder, Russian-Uzbek business magnate Alisher Usmanov, the social media companies Twitter and Facebook, and pop stars Bono and Madonna.
2017-11-5

The United States Senate passed by an overwhelming majority a bill ramping-up sanctions against Russia and against Iran. Language in the measure also reaffirms United States' commitment to NATO.
2017-06-16

Russia expels American journalist David Satter from the country in the first such case since 1982.
2014-01-14

LGBT sportspeople, such as tennis player Billie Jean King and ice hockey player Caitlin Cahow, are to represent the United States in Sochi as a protest against the treatment of LGBT people in Russia.
2013-12-18

President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai reprimands Russia after its forces enter the country without permission and "violate Afghan sovereignty" in a joint mission with United States agents. Karzai orders an investigation.
2010-10-30

10 Russian agents of influence deported from the United States face three weeks of testing to eradicate potential double agents.
2010-07-15

One of the ten people arrested in the United States for involvement in an alleged Russian spy ring is said to have used a false Irish passport, the second time this has happened recently and following the expulsion of an Israeli Dublin embassy official in protest over a similar misuse.
2010-06-29