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Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Thursday that Moscow has tested a new intermediate-range missile in a strike on Ukraine, and he warned that it could use the weapon against countries that have allowed Kyiv to use their missiles to strike Russia.

On the 1000th day of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, President Vladimir Putin signed a revised nuclear doctrine declaring that a conventional attack on Russia by any nation that is supported by a nuclear power will be considered a joint attack on his country.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country has fired a “new” intermediate-range ballistic missile at Ukraine, where officials are claiming that it was an intercontinental ballistic missile. Jackson Proskow looks at what message the use of these missiles sends to Ukraine and the West.

While it’s not a direct response to the U.S. giving Ukraine permission to use American-supplied ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile System) missiles, Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree which lowers the threshold for his country’s use of nuclear weapons. Jackson Proskow explains why there’s not much international concern about Russia’s revised nuclear doctrine.

The Kremlin on Monday denied reports that U.S. president-elect Donald Trump had spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin in recent days, and said Putin had no concrete plans yet to speak to Trump. Meanwhile, a Russian air attack injured five children between the ages of four and 17 in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, regional governors said on...

The politics behind Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s temporary GST tax break, and the items it will apply to. How Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reacting to an arrest warrant filed against him by the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the crisis in Gaza. The message Russian President Vladimir Putin is sending to Ukraine and...

What rising inflation means for Canadians trying to make ends meet, and how it could affect the Bank of Canada’s next interest rate decision. Why there’s not much international concern about Russian President Vladimir Putin lowering the threshold for his country’s use of nuclear weapons. The carrot products you should throw away after a deadly...

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Monday he could confirm that North Korean troops have been sent to Russia. “The deployment of North Korean troops to Kursk is also a sign of (Russian President Vladimir) Putin’s growing desperation,” Rutte said.

Until dying in an Arctic penal colony, Alexei Navalny was Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most vocal critic. But even death cannot silence Navalny. Mike Armstrong explains how the late opposition leader’s prison diaries now comprise his new memoir, and how his widow Yulia Navalnaya is as undeterred as ever in her fight against Putin.

The people swept away after southern British Columbia’s record-breaking rain, and one community’s state of emergency. The New Brunswick Liberal Party, led by Susan Holt, claims a decisive and historic victory in New Brunswick’s provincial election. How Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is about to face what could be the most serious challenge to his leadership....

Former U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he has “a very good relationship” with Russian President Vladimir Putin while meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is in Washington for high-level talks with U.S. President Joe Biden. Topping the agenda is Ukraine’s plea for permission to use western-supplied weapons deep inside Russia. The U.K. has already signalled it’s willing to allow Ukraine use of its long-range missiles, but the U.S. has hesitated to loosen restrictions over...

Hundreds of thousands of Air Canada passengers across the country are bracing for a looming pilot’s strike, and economists warn a shutdown could cost the Canadian economy more than $90 million each day. Plus, after the messy divorce between the federal Liberals and the NDP, there’s been more fallout — this time, over the carbon...

With just two months to go until the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are ramping up their campaigns ahead of their first public debate. Jackson Proskow looks at where the race to the White House stands, and how Russian President Vladimir Putin is weighing in on who he wants to win.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was welcomed in Mongolia, marking the first time a member nation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has hosted Putin since the court issued an arrest warrant for him over the war in Ukraine. Eric Sorensen reports on the message Putin’s visit sent; the deadly Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian...

As Ukrainian troops actively seizes territory in the Kursk region, Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed retaliation. “The same way we achieved our goals in the fight against terrorism, we will achieve our goals in the fight against Neo-Nazism,” Putin said during a meeting in Beslan on Tuesday. “And we will certainly punish the criminals [Ukraine],”...

Weeks into Ukraine’s advances in Russia’s Kursk region, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed the goal was to create a “buffer zone” to prevent cross-border attacks. Zelenskyy further claimed the incursion shows Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “red lines” are a bluff. But as Nathaniel Dove explains, experts say Kyiv may not have achieved all of its goals—and...

While a major prisoner swap has been completed between Russia and the West, there are lingering questions about why Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to the deal. Dawna Friesen speaks with Bill Browder, a vocal critic of the Kremlin, about Putin’s possible motives, and whether the exchange changes anything for how Moscow deals with its...

In Ukraine, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with President Volodymr Zelenskyy in what is the first visit by an Indian leader to the country since it left the Soviet Union. Just last month, Zelenskyy criticized Modi for hugging Russian President Vladmir Putin in Moscow on the day Russia bombed a Ukrainian children’s hospital. As...

Speaking at a press conference in Bonn, Germany on Friday, freed Russian prisoner and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza said he was “certain” he was going to die in “Putin’s prison” when he was detained in Russia. He that he was in solitary confinement for so long, he thought he lost the ability to speak in any...