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Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un discussed the possibility of sending a North Korean into space, Russian news agencies quoted Putin's spokesman as saying. President Putin and the North Korean leader held talks on Wednesday at a spaceport in Russia's far east. "We talked about the fact that if the North Korean side wishes, a North Korean cosmonaut can be trained and sent into space," the TASS and

New video shows Vladimir Putin looking bloated and awkwardly gripping a table for support — heightening suspicions that the warmongering president is serious ill.

The footage released by the Kremlin Thursday shows Putin, 69, tightly gripping the table with his right hand as soon as he sits down — then keeping it there throughout the nearly 12-minute clip.

Putin sits with hunched

For every nuanced policy argument over isolationism versus interventionism, the unavoidable truth - however unpleasant it may be - is this: If the United States is not the world's foremost power, someone else will be.

Russian president Vladimir Putin is keeping the world guessing as western intelligence says the invasion he ordered of Ukraine has not been as successful or as swift as he had hoped.

Nearly a week into the largest military campaign in Europe since World War Two, Russian forces have encountered fierce resistance from Ukraine while global condemnation has spurred sanctions that have