By Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) -Two lawmakers from the far-right Alternative for Germany travel next week to Russia while under fire from opponents for the party's ties to the Kremlin and accusations - strongly denied - that it could be passing on sensitive military information.

Former CIA operative warns China and Russia deploy 'sex spies' using honeypot tactics to steal U.S. technology and state secrets from American targets.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed fresh sanctions against Russia that are aligned with the European Union's 19th package and imposed new restrictions on Russian companies operating in the Arctic.

Russia's defence ministry said on Thursday that its forces had advanced in the battered Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk and were fighting house-to-house battles in a bid to eject Ukrainian forces from the city.

Jihadists in Mali have choked off fuel supplies to the capital, Bamako, threatening the junta’s grip on power and exposing the limits of Russia’s promised security support.