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Barclays Plc says its underlying profits fall 8 percent in the second quarter as the British bank's attempts to crack down on high-risk trading and subdued market activity take a toll on investment banking revenue.

STEPHEN HOLMES is Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law at New York University School of Law.

Thelma and Louise, the two-headed fresh-water river turtle that lived at the San Antonio Zoo, died Tuesday morning, zoo officials confirmed.

July 29, 2014 - Moscow, Russia - Australia's super hedge fund billionaire CIO, Earl Reginald Stevenson, today increased his attack on Russian President Putin.

The United States on Tuesday said Russia has ''not shown a shred of evidence'' that it is willing to help end the violence between the Ukraine separatists backed by Moscow and the government that is trying to maintain its sovereignty.

The first full-scale meeting of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his U.S. counterpart Hillary Clinton took part in Geneva's Intercontinental.

Yevgeny Fyodorov, a member of Russia's State Duma, says the far-reaching proposals would allow the Russian government to restrict auditing and consulting companies registered in "aggressor countries" in their operations in Russia.

It is the most serious allegation of an arms control treaty violation that the Obama administration has leveled against Russia and adds another dispute to a relationship already burdened by tensions over the Kremlin's support for separatists in Ukraine and its decision to grant asylum to Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency ... (more)

The United States accused Russia on Monday of violating the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, citing cruise missile tests that date to 2008, senior State Department and White House officials said.

In this file photo taken on Tuesday, July 2, 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and CEO of state-controlled Russian oil company Rosneft Igor Sechin speak during a signing ceremony of cooperation agreements with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia.

Energy company BP warned Tuesday that further international sanctions on Russia could hurt its profits because of its stake in the country's oil giant, Rosneft.

Observers from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe were set to begin arriving on Tuesday in southern Russia on their mission to monitor two border crossings with rebel-held Ukraine, the OSCE said on Tuesday.

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With the party united, the odds are now at least even that the GOP will not only hold the House but also capture the Senate in November.

Accused government whistleblower Edward Snowden is seen on a screen as he speaks via video conference with members of the Committee on legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe during an hearing on "mass surveillance" at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, April 8, 2014.

Charter anglers throughout Alaska are experiencing strong halibut fishing, with large fish landed in several of the state's derbies, although commercial reports have been more mixed.

In my long diplomatic career I have been appointed as a special envoy on three occasions: once by the United Nations secretary-general, Dr Boutros Boutros-Ghali, and twice by the second prime minister of Singapore, Mr Goh Chok Tong.

Shareholders in defunct oil giant Yukos won a court battle against Russia in one of the largest-ever commercial legal cases, in which Moscow must pay $50 billion for expropriating the assets, Kommersant daily said, citing unnamed sources.

Russia relations are at a low point not seen for more than a decade, but chilled ties between the two are unlikely to plunge the world headlong into another Cold War, experts here said.

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