Some prisoners freed from Russia and Belarus in a major swap had feared for their lives, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Friday, after meeting a group of the detainees on their arrival in Germany.

He described a "moving" encounter with the prisoners, many of whom "did not expect this to happen now," adding: "Many feared for their health and even their

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Updated with death toll.

At least seven people were killed in a gas explosion at an apartment block in the Ural Mountains region of Sverdlovsk on Thursday, Russian emergency officials said.

A large part of the five-story panel building in the industrial city of Nizhny Taigil was completely torn to pieces, videos showed. Officials told state media

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The historical prisoner swap with Russia that freed U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich and 15 other Westerners was the fruit of painstaking, secret talks-- and one essential telephone call from President Joe Biden an hour before he dropped his reelection bid.Biden welcomed the families of the three U.S. residents and one U.S. homeowner to the White House
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U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich, ex-U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, Russian-British opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza and U.S.-Russian reporter Alsu Kurmasheva were freed from Russian prison on Thursday, in the biggest and most complicated prisoner exchange in between Russia and the West because the end of the Cold War.The 4 were launched in a swap
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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris called Russian opposition token Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, to discuss Thursday's enormous Russia-West detainee exchange, Navalnaya's spokesperson said.Harris called her to go over the exchange and reveal her support, noting Alexei and Yulia's contribution to the fight
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A historical prisoner swap is underway in between Russia and the West, leading Western media reported Thursday, pointing out confidential sources acquainted with the scenario. U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich, ex-U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, Russian-U.K. opposition figure and reporter Vladimir Kara-Murza and Russian-U.S. reporter Alsu Kurmasheva were freed in
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