The US and its allies want to make the country a “withering space” like Ukraine, the president has claimed The West intends to do to Russia what it did to Ukraine and many other nations – turn it into a dying, failed state, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed in a keynote speech on Thursday.

Dominican Republic’s minister of environment and natural resources was killed by a close friend Dominican minister of the environment and natural resources Orlando Jorge Mera has been shot and killed in his office by Miguel Cruz, a close friend he had known since childhood, the office of President Luis Abinader reported on Monday.

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