Snowden has been living in Russia since 2013 to escape prosecution in the US after leaking classified documents detailing government surveillance programmes Photo: Brendan McDermid / ReutersRussia has granted citizenship to former U.S. security contractor Edward Snowden. He is one of 75 foreign nationals granted Russian citizenship by the decree published on an official government website on Monday.

A truck at the Simon Bolivar international bridge. September 26, 2022 On Monday, Colombia and Venezuela officially reopened their common land border with a ceremony that included Colombian President Gustavo Petro and the governor of the Venezuelan state of Táchira Freddy Bernal. 

Colonel Abdoulaye Maïga, the new acting prime minister of MaliMali has censured France over its deteriorating security situation, accusing Paris of having stabbed the impoverished, thought minerals-rich, Sahel country in the back with the withdrawal of French troops.

Syria, Russia to reaffirm strategic and historical relationsSyrian Foreign Minister Faisal al-Mekdad and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on Saturday reaffirmed the strategic and historical relations between the two countries, and also expressed the willingness to carry them out in much more fields.