MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday some countries would like Russia to be dismantled like Yugoslavia was but Moscow would not let it happen.
In a state of the union speech, he criticized U.S. plans to build a missile defense shield in Europe and said there was no point in trying to talk to Russia from a position of strength.
(Reporting by Moscow Newsroom, Editing by Timothy Heritage)
BERLIN A Syrian man arrested in Berlin is suspected of belonging to Islamic State and having received IS instructions from Syria to carry out an attack in Germany, the Federal Prosecutor's Office said on Thursday.
CARACAS/SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela Venezuela's opposition exhorted President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday to set an election and start releasing jailed activists within days, while students opposed to Vatican-led talks protested in the streets.
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan Dozens of Afghan civilians were killed on Thursday in air strikes called in when U.S. and local troops came under heavy fire during an operation in the north of the country in which two American service members also died.