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Police in the troubled southern Russian region were targeted in three almost simultaneous incidents.

Donald Trump's lawyer made the startling claim during a TV interview about the Russia inquiry.

Militants in the Russian region of Chechnya staged a series of attacks on police targets on Monday, the leader of the region and law enforcement officials said, and Islamic State claimed responsibility, without providing evidence.

At least two armed men reported killed and several police wounded in a string of attacks claimed by ISIL.

Militants in the Russian region of Chechnya staged a series of attacks against police targets on Monday, the leader of the region and law enforcement officials said, amid one unconfirmed report that Islamic State had claimed responsibility.

Elvira Nabiullina has earned an unusual degree of freedom to clean up Russia’s messy banking system and stabilize its economy against volatile markets and looming sanctions. Her skills have won her praise from Vladimir Putin—as well as from abroad.

Russia does not plan to put weapons in space first and considers this to be an important signal that Washington should not ignore, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency on Monday.

Russia will help Lebanon return refugees to neighboring Syria, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday, accusing the United States of impeding the general repatriation process by declining to assist in Syria's reconstruction.

Russia accused the United States of trying to break the spirit in jail of Maria Butina, a woman U.S. authorities say is a Russian government agent, and complained she was being subjected to "borderline torture."

What did we learn from the meeting of two of the most experienced leaders in world politics?

WATCH: Putin spent just over an hour at the wedding, before flying to Germany to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkle.

Russian President Vladimir Putin still hopes to pull Moscow's ties with Washington out of a deep crisis, but nobody will go into mourning if this ambition is not reciprocated by the United States, the Kremlin said on Monday.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday a U.S. refusal to take part in the reconstruction of Syria was designed to impede the return of Syrian refugees to the country.

Donald Trump's lawyer makes a startling claim during a TV interview about the Russia inquiry.

President in fresh attack on inquiry over Russian interference in 2016 election

Austria's foreign minister invited Putin to her wedding during his visit to Vienna in early June, surprising many at a time when the European Union is increasingly at odds with Moscow.

U.S. President Donald Trump declared Sunday he had "nothing to hide" from the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, and denied that his top lawyer had turned on him by cooperating with the probe.

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The New York Times says Don McGahn "co-operated extensively" with the Russia inquiry.

The co-owner of the salon chain Warren Tricomi cooks in and hikes around his second home, a 60-acre former Russian Orthodox convent in Accord, N.Y.

The co-owner of the salon chain Warren Tricomi cooks in and hikes around his second home, a 60-acre former Russian Orthodox convent in Accord, N.Y.

With Russia and Iran's backing, Assad has won back much of Syria. Humanitarian groups fear a 'bloodbath' as he looks to press the advantage and wipe out the last pockets of resistance.

The White House's top lawyer has cooperated extensively with the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, sharing detailed accounts about the episodes at the heart of the inquiry into whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice, the New York Times reported on Saturday.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, as well as Iran and a gas pipeline project that has drawn U.S. ire during tough talks outside Berlin that ended with no clearcut progress.

The White House's top lawyer has cooperated extensively with the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, sharing detailed accounts about the episodes at the heart of the inquiry into whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice, the New York Times reported on Saturday.

Talks at chancellor’s retreat billed as a turning point in Russo-German relations.

The Russian and German leaders meet for bilateral talks outside of Berlin.

The German chancellor and the Russian president are met on Saturday. Their discussions will be influenced by a long history of alienation and rapprochements.

The German chancellor and the Russian president are met on Saturday. Their discussions will be influenced by a long history of alienation and rapprochements.

Vladimir Putin stopped by the Austrian foreign minister’s wedding to wish her well amid criticism from the opposition and abroad.

Vladimir Putin stopped by the Austrian foreign minister’s wedding to wish her well amid criticism from the opposition and abroad.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she would discuss the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, as well as Iran and the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project with Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting on Saturday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that everything must be done for Syrian refugees to return to their conflict-torn country.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel met outside Berlin on Saturday for talks ranging from the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, to Iran and a gas pipeline project that has drawn U.S. ire.

Russian President Vladimir Putin danced with Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl at her wedding as opposition parties criticised her choice of guest

A massive carcass has washed up on the shores of eastern Russia and locals are trying to work out what it is.

We assessed President Trump’s claims about Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and the ensuing federal investigation of his campaign.

We assessed President Trump’s claims about Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and the ensuing federal investigation of his campaign.

Russian leader visits Germany for first time since Moscow annexed the Crimean peninsula in 2014.

In a memo filed Friday evening, Robert Mueller said that George Papadopoulos’s attempts to mislead the F.B.I. had a significant effect on the investigation into Russian election interference.

In a memo filed Friday evening, Robert Mueller said that George Papadopoulos’s attempts to mislead the F.B.I. had a significant effect on the investigation into Russian election interference.

George Papadopoulos has admitted lying about contacts with Russians while with the Trump campaign.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller recommended in a court filing on Friday that a judge sentence former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos to up to six months in prison for lying to agents investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

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Russian president will "drop by" for a controversial appearance on the way to Germany for talks.

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Is Maxime Bernier trying to become the Sarah Palin of the Conservative Party? He did two cowardly things this week, one major, one minor, while trying to dismember leader Andrew Scheer and split the party ahead of an upcoming convention.
First, the Quebec MP tried to draw his fellow Conservatives into an ugly fight involving race that both sides will lose, as the Canadian electorate would make clear in a federal election.
And second, he did it on Twitter, that mire of blood, soil, bullies, Russian hackers, anonymous venomists and other dubious matter. If Bernier is intent on making a fool of himself, he should stand up and say aloud, “I dislike people who don’t look and talk like me.”
Palin did this in 2008, saying foul things that Republicans had never before dared to say out loud, and she split the party. As Obama aide Ben Rhodes writes in his new book, The World As It Is, “As

The decision is the United States’ latest step back from a seven-year war that has been largely won by a brutal government and its Russian and Iranian backers.

The decision is the United States’ latest step back from a seven-year war that has been largely won by a brutal government and its Russian and Iranian backers.

President Trump threatened to revoke “very soon” the security clearance of the little-known Justice Department official, who has been accused of having helped start the Russia investigation.

President Trump threatened to revoke “very soon” the security clearance of the little-known Justice Department official, who has been accused of having helped start the Russia investigation.

President Donald Trump on Friday said he will likely strip Justice Department official Bruce Ohr of his security clearance and said Special Counsel Robert Mueller, leading the investigation into possible Russian meddling in the presidential election that Trump won, faces conflicts that undermine the credibility of his probe.

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu discussed the return of Syrian refugees to Syria with his Turkish counterpart Hulusi Akar during talks in Moscow on Friday, the TASS news agency cited the Russian ministry as saying.

Stiff new U.S. sanctions against Russia would only have a limited impact on its oil industry because it has drastically reduced its reliance on Western funding and foreign partnerships and is lessening its dependence on imported technology.

Omarosa Manigault Newman released a secret recording Thursday that she said backed her claim that President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law had offered her a $15,000-a-month contract in exchange for her silence about her time as a White House adviser.
The audio, released during an interview on MSNBC, is the latest in the trickle of recordings that Manigault Newman has made public to bolster the credibility — and sales — of her tell-some book, “Unhinged,” about her tenure at the White House.
In the book, she claimed that the Trump 2020 campaign, which is partly overseen by Lara Trump, who is married to Donald Trump’s son Eric, offered her a salary equal to what she had earned before being fired from the White House in December.
Trump noted on the tape, which Manigault Newman said was recorded days after she was fired, that the money would come from campaign donors.
“All the

The move to revoke John Brennan’s security clearance may be the latest sign that the president is determined to punish anyone connected to the Russia investigation.

The move to revoke John Brennan’s security clearance may be the latest sign that the president is determined to punish anyone connected to the Russia investigation.

U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser John Bolton will discuss arms control treaties and Iran's role in Syria in talks with Russian counterpart Nikolai Patrushev in Geneva next week, an administration official said on Thursday.

Rangers must beat Russian side FC Ufa to reach the Europa League group stage after easing past Maribor 3-1.

Syria's civil war isn't over, but Russia is keen to show that life is gradually returning to normal.

US military analysts are concerned by Russian military satellites exhibiting strange behavior. CNN's Brian Todd reports.

Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that fresh sanctions, imposed by the United States against a Russian firm and an individual over North Korea, may undermine peace process in the Korean peninsula.

We’ve come a long way, the Canadian people. Women can vote, gays can get married, Ontarians can buy beer at select supermarkets and marijuana will soon be legal and, God willing, available at a store near you. However, some of us are still eons behind schedule in one significant area. We cannot abide a man who cries. And certainly not a prime minister who wells up at the drop of a hat or, say, at the funeral of his father.
This week, Toronto Sun columnist Lorrie Goldstein caused a stir on — where else — social media when he tweeted the following about our leader’s tears, echoing a popular complaint on the right that the PM is a tad too emotional: “#TrudeauCried: At dad’s funeral (before entering politics). At Auschwitz. At mosque shooting victims’ funeral. At meeting Syrian refugees. Over death of Gord Downie. During apology for residential schools and to LGBTQ2S Cdns.”
I may be

Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Thursday he would not be silenced by Donald Trump, a day after the president revoked the Obama-era official's security clearance and said the move was directly tied to the Russia investigation.

The number of drone attacks on Russia's Khmeimim airbase in Syria are on the rise, with the Russian military repelling 45 attacks last month. CNN's Fred Pleitgen takes a look at the drones the Russian military says have become increasingly used in the fight in Syria.

The growing number of political and religious prisoners in Russia is concerning human rights organisations and NGOs in Russia and abroad.

Screaming, chanting, and torrents of religious-style vocals are the backdrop to Pussy Riot's Edinburgh Fringe show, which centers on the real-life trial and imprisonment of Russian frontwoman Maria Alyokhina.

WATCH: The street artist learnt his skills when travelling the world, learning kung fu at the Shaolin temple in China and acrobatics at a circus performance school in Denmark and Russia.

Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Thursday he would not be silenced by Donald Trump, a day after the U.S. president revoked the Obama-era official's security clearance and said the move was directly tied to the ongoing Russia investigation.

The United States imposed sanctions on a Russian port service agency and Chinese firms for aiding North Korean ships and selling alcohol and tobacco to Pyongyang in breach of U.S. sanctions.

The United States will more than double the number of Marines stationed in Norway, in line with plans first outlined in June, the Norwegian defense ministry said on Wednesday.

Russia is working on retaliatory measures against the United States after it imposed sanctions on a Russian company for aiding North Korea, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency on Thursday.

The two girls were arrested under Russia's far-reaching extremism laws, but their lawyer argues that they were set up.

The United States on imposed sanctions on a Russian port service agency and Chinese firms on Wednesday for aiding North Korean ships and selling alcohol and tobacco to Pyongyang in breach of U.S. sanctions aimed at pressuring North Korea to end its nuclear programs.

Three Russian journalists paid with their lives as they tried to investigate the presence of Russian mercenaries in the Central African Republic. CNN's Clarissa Ward reports.

The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on a Russian port service agency and Chinese firms for aiding North Korean ships and selling alcohol and tobacco to Pyongyang in breach of U.S. sanctions aimed at pressuring North Korea to end its nuclear programs.

ALEXANDRIA, VA.—Paul Manafort lied to keep himself flush with cash and to maintain his luxurious lifestyle when his income dropped off, prosecutors told jurors Wednesday in closing arguments in the former Trump campaign chairman’s financial fraud trial.
The government’s case boils down to “Mr. Manafort and his lies,” prosecutor Greg Andres said.
“When you follow the trail of Mr. Manafort’s money, it is littered with lies,” Andres said as he made his final pitch that the jury should weigh a trove of evidence presented over the past few weeks and find Manafort guilty of 18 felony counts.
Attorneys for Manafort, who is accused of tax evasion and bank fraud, will have their chance in front of jurors later in the day.
Manafort chose not to testify or call any witnesses in his defence. The case doesn’t address allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Special

The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on one individual and three entities, including firms based in Russia and China, under a North Korea-related sanctions program.

Official says "there is no way to verify" what object is and whether or not it may pose a danger.

Jimmy Fallon joked that after President Trump called Ms. Manigault Newman a “dog” on Twitter, “he rolled over for Putin, barked at his staff and ate a bunch of paper.”

Jimmy Fallon joked that after President Trump called Ms. Manigault Newman a “dog” on Twitter, “he rolled over for Putin, barked at his staff and ate a bunch of paper.”

Russian writer Eduard Uspensky has died aged 80 in Moscow.

The Kremlin said on Wednesday preparations were underway for a meeting in Geneva next week between Russian officials and White House national security adviser John Bolton, the first top-level meeting since the Russian and U.S. presidents met in Helsinki.

The Kremlin said on Wednesday preparations were underway for a meeting in Geneva next week between Russian officials and White House national security adviser John Bolton.

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In the latest example of his broad vision of executive power, President Trump used a signing statement to challenge dozens of provisions, including limits on Russia and North Korea.

In the latest example of his broad vision of executive power, President Trump used a signing statement to challenge dozens of provisions, including limits on Russia and North Korea.

Russia backs using national currencies, not the U.S. dollar, in its trade with Turkey, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday, but he made no firm commitments that would immediately help Ankara to weather its currency crisis.

The United States voiced deep suspicion on Tuesday over Russia's pursuit of new space weapons, including a mobile laser system to destroy satellites in space, and the launch of a new inspector satellite which was acting in an "abnormal" way.

Turkey's foreign minister said on Tuesday he hoped his country and Russia could find a solution over the northern Syrian region of Idlib, a rebel-held enclave which the Syrian government says it aims to recapture.

As the lira plunges, President Erdogan says Turkey needs to look for 'new friends' because of long-standing differences with the US.

Russia has been discussing for some time the possibility of using national currencies to settle bilateral trade deals with Turkey, China and Iran, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on a visit to the Turkish capital.

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that a new U.S. bill on sanctions against Moscow does not bode well for Russia's relations with the United States.

One of Russia's top generals speaks to CNN's Fred Pleitgen about the final battle for Syria's Idlib and Russia's hope that the US and other nations will assist in rehabilitation.