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The Russia investigation has uncovered shady practices in the interlinked worlds of banking, law and lobbying that have long flourished in the dark.

The Russia investigation has uncovered shady practices in the interlinked worlds of banking, law and lobbying that have long flourished in the dark.

Fewer U.S. embassy staff has meant that Russians must wait almost a year for American visas.

The high-level G-7 talks in Canada are the first since the U.S. and its allies carried out airstrikes in Syria about a week ago.

A Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. during his father’s 2016 campaign for the U.S. presidency says special counsel Robert Mueller hasn’t contacted her and she thinks he isn’t interested in finding the truth.

Swiss pumps maker rapidly restructured shareholdings to escape effects of US measures

Canada and Japan signed a military co-operation agreement ahead of today’s G7 foreign ministers meeting where the North Korean nuclear crisis will be front and centre.
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and her Japanese counterpart Taro Kono signed an efficiency agreement Saturday night that will allow each other’s militaries to share equipment during joint exercises in Canada, Japan and elsewhere.
Freeland and Kono met last month in Tokyo where they affirmed their commitment to keep economic and diplomatic pressure on North Korea to end its nuclear program when they meet their G7 counterparts today in Toronto.
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The gathering is part of the regularly scheduled run-up ministerial meetings ahead of the G7 leaders’ June summit in Charlevoix, Que., but its timing is giving

Russia’s communications watchdog agency says it is adding some Google IP addresses to the state register of banned sites, as a dispute over a banned messaging app intensifies.

Russia and the West are transferring their increasingly hostile confrontation to Syria.

What happened in Salisbury has been disputed by Russian journalists.

US has accused Russia and Syria of tampering with site of alleged chemical attack

Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee says nine insurgents in the Caucasus region who allegedly were planning acts of terrorism during public holidays in May have been killed by police.

Western countries blame the Syrian government for the alleged chemical weapons attack on April 7, in which 40 people were killed.

Russian Foreign Ministry says chemical weapons inspectors have left for Syria’s Douma.

International experts have finally gone to the site of the suspected attack in Syria, Russia says.

Democrats filed a lawsuit against Russia and the Trump campaign, but their lawyers didn't properly define 'computer'.

A week after US missile attacks on Syria, the conflict between the US and Russia appears to have calmed, but rebel enclaves continue to fall to the Assad regime as the UN pushes for peace talks.

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The Legion of Honor goes to luminaries in many fields — and also to some less-obvious figures. Noriega and Putin have been among the recipients.

The Legion of Honor goes to luminaries in many fields — and also to some less-obvious figures. Noriega and Putin have been among the recipients.

There’s a strong possibility that the proposed expansion of the Kinder Morgan crude oil pipeline from Alberta’s Athabasca tar sands to the B.C. coast will never be built.
And that setback will do no small damage to Canada.
It’s been two weeks since the sponsor of the Ottawa-approved $7.4-billion megaproject, Kinder Morgan Inc., suspended all but essential operations on the pipeline.
Kinder Morgan gave Ottawa until May 31 to persuade the Houston-based company that there will be an end to B.C.’s relentless obstruction of the project. The company noted that B.C. “has been clear and public in its intention to use ‘every tool in its toolbox’ to stop the project.”
Since Kinder Morgan’s stunning announcement, the Trudeau government and Alberta Premier Rachel Notley have not been able to dissuade B.C. from its threatened court challenges and relentless calls for studies into every aspect of a project thoroughly examined and

OTTAWA—The first phone call came a few days after Jim Bartleman arrived in Havana. Canada’s new ambassador to Cold War Cuba was still too green to know not to answer.
A woman purred through the line. She told him she had seen him that day, and that he was so handsome. Wouldn’t he love to meet her? His wife would never know, she said, in a voice Bartleman recalls years later as “sultry.”
He hung up on her.
The next night, the phone rang again. It was a man this time, and he said he had a lot of gold. Bartleman could get a good chunk of it, too, if he were willing to use his diplomatic privileges to help smuggle it out of the country.
Bartleman slammed down the phone.
It rang a third time the following night. A man’s voice on the line. “Oh, señor, you’re so handsome. Why don’t we meet? Your wife will never know.”
It was a curious introduction to diplomacy in Fidel Castro’s Cuba: a trio of

WASHINGTON—James Comey and President Donald Trump seem to disagree on most everything, but the ex-FBI director’s memos show consensus on at least one thing: the need to hunt down leakers.
The two men bonded over the idea of a proposed leak crackdown, even sharing a chuckle over a crude joke involving jailed journalists, according to memos written by Comey and obtained by The Associated Press.
The jocularity over leakers and journalists is striking given the otherwise tense nature of their conversations, which touched on loyalty pledges, Russian prostitutes and open FBI investigations.
The memos kept by Comey show his unease with Trump’s requests and his concern that the president was blurring the bright line between politics and law enforcement, including with a request that he end an investigation into former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Yet Trump and Comey were clearly on the same page about leaks, even if they weren’t

The messaging app is working around attempts to block it by authorities.

US president's campaign team, Moscow and WikiLeaks accused of conspiring to influence the 2016 presidential election.

Special envoy issues appeal during visit to Moscow as inspectors wait for access to suspected gas attack site in Syria.

Why this Russian investment vehicle might eke out a 25% gain before the year is out.

Party alleges Trump associates conspired with Moscow and WikiLeaks in 2016 election

Since the Skripal poisoning, their adopted home is less welcoming.

(Reuters) - Twitter Inc said on Friday that it has banned ads from Russia's Kaspersky Lab, charging that the company's business model conflicts with the social media platform's advertising rules and citing U.S. claims that the firm has ties to Russian intelligence agencies.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic Party sued the Russian government, U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign and WikiLeaks on Friday, charging that they carried out a wide-ranging conspiracy to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Paris-led effort to convince Trump comes after US measures send metals prices soaring

An Estonian entrepreneur wants to use a Russian-developed sea-skimming vessel to transport people between Tallinn and Helsinki.

Sooner rather than later Israel and Iran must have a region-wide reckoning. The allied bombing of Syria changed nothing strategically. Both attackers and attacked got off lightly. Was it part of a wider deal between Putin and Trump?

A spat between Trump and his UN ambassador highlights US-Russia policy inconsistencies

Trump complained to Comey that Flynn had been slow to arrange call with Russia’s leader.

WASHINGTON—The Democratic National Committee opened a new legal assault on President Donald Trump on Friday by filing a lawsuit in federal court alleging that the organization was the victim of a conspiracy by Russian officials, the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks to damage Hillary Clinton’s presidential run.
The 66-page lawsuit, filed in federal court in New York, assembles the publicly known facts of the investigation into Russia’s election meddling to accuse Trump’s associates of illegally working with Russian intelligence agents to interfere with the outcome of the election.
“The conspiracy constituted an act of previously unimaginable treachery: the campaign of the presidential nominee of a major party in league with a hostile foreign power to bolster its own chance to win the presidency,” the DNC wrote in its lawsuit, which was first reported by The Washington Post.
The Democrats accused Trump’s campaign of being “a

Even when enormous issues are at stake, the sounds and smells of a mud-wrestling match can be easily distracting. The roar of the peanut gallery is often overpowering.
That’s how it has been this week between Donald Trump and James Comey in their inelegant shouting match over the fired FBI director’s new tell-all memoir, titled A Higher Loyalty.
Part of the problem, of course, is that neither wrestler is a paragon of virtue.
Trump, of course, we already know. A serial liar and narcissist, the only thing that may keep him out of jail in the years ahead will be a presidential pardon.
But Comey is more complicated. In the fullness of his career, he has been a respected prosecutor and justice official engaged in many high-profile cases.
But in the pages of his own memoir, Comey emerges as a flawed hero whose soaring rhetoric about high principles is often undermined by the intrusion of an inflated ego and unwise decision-making.
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Documents filed in a lawsuit allege that Mr Trump's 2016 campaign "gleefully accepted" Russian help.

The lawsuit accuses Mr. Trump’s associates of illegally working with Russian intelligence agents to interfere with the outcome of the 2016 election.

The lawsuit accuses Mr. Trump’s associates of illegally working with Russian intelligence agents to interfere with the outcome of the 2016 election.

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin discussed the possibility of visiting each other’s country when the U.S. president rang his Russian counterpart last month to congratulate him on his re-election, Russia’s foreign minister said Friday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic Party filed suit against Russia, President Donald Trump's campaign and WikiLeaks on Friday, charging that they conspired to disrupt the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign, a court filing showed.

British lawmakers have set up a special group to focus on Russian meddling, saying more must be done to understand the extent of Moscow’s “malign influence.”

The I.O.C. wants Russia back. The World Anti-Doping Agency and track and field’s governing body want the country to admit to state-sponsored doping.

The I.O.C. wants Russia back. The World Anti-Doping Agency and track and field’s governing body want the country to admit to state-sponsored doping.

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Russian leader said country has ‘most beautiful hookers’, according to document

Britain’s U.N. ambassador says the Russians and Syrians must uphold their promises to let chemical weapons inspectors visit the site of a suspected poison gas attack in the Damascus suburb of Douma — and “it should happen expeditiously.”

From poison to cyberattacks, Moscow has violated countless norms of warfare and sovereignty.

From poison to cyberattacks, Moscow has violated countless norms of warfare and sovereignty.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House national security adviser John Bolton told Russia's ambassador on Thursday that better relations between the two countries require addressing U.S. concerns on election meddling, chemical attack in Britain, and the situations in Ukraine and Syria, the White House said.

Former New York mayor says he hopes to ‘negotiate an end’ to Mueller investigation

(Reuters) - U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told President Donald Trump last week that he is not a target of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, according to a source familiar with the probe.

Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and longtime Trump loyalist, will be part of a legal stable as the president faces the Russia investigation.

Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and longtime Trump loyalist, will be part of a legal stable as the president faces the Russia investigation.

Russia’s top military officer has met with his NATO counterpart, the first such encounter since relations between Moscow and the alliance have sunk to post-Cold War lows over the Ukrainian crisis.

The decision by Michael Cohen to abandon the suits came as federal prosecutors are investigating his efforts to protect Mr. Trump from brewing scandals.

The decision by Michael Cohen to abandon the suits came as federal prosecutors are investigating his efforts to protect Mr. Trump from brewing scandals.

Policy aims to boost defence sales and counter competition from Russia and China

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The leader of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee said on Thursday the committee would vote on a bill to protect Robert Mueller, the special counsel appointed to investigate Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, despite objections by the chamber's Republican leadership.

Iran’s defense minister has visited a joint intelligence center in the Iraqi capital operated by Iran, Iraq, Syria and Russia.

Scientist Vladimir Uglev has no doubt the agent that poisoned the Skripals was made in southern Russia.

SEVASTOPOL, Crimea (Reuters) - News that Russia hosted the teenage children of Bashar al-Assad at a lavishly-rebuilt Black Sea summer camp in Crimea last year has given a rare glimpse into the personal lives of the Syrian president's family and his close relationship to Moscow.

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The Kremlin says a temporary nationalization of aluminum producer Rusal is being discussed after the company was hit by United States sanctions.

Telegram CEO thanks four U.S. companies for still allowing his messaging app to be used by millions banned from it in Russia.

The European Union foreign policy chief has praised Montenegro’s role in the volatile Balkans region, where Russia is also vying for influence.

LONDON (Reuters) - Last October, at the height of a political crisis in Iraq's Kurdistan region, a letter arrived at the Iraqi oil ministry in Baghdad from Igor Sechin, head of Kremlin oil major Rosneft .

LONDON (Reuters) - Talk that Saudi Arabia has its sights on $80-$100 a barrel oil again and of more U.S. sanctions on Russia ignited a rally in commodities and resource stocks on Thursday, though the potential boost to inflation hit fixed-income assets.

Energy stocks and crude-linked currencies rally as investors eye $100 a barrel mark

Move against Telegram app wreaks wider havoc — perhaps on purpose

Russian investigators say they have traced back the steps of a poisoned Russian spy’s daughter from her Moscow home to the airport before she flew to London, and found no traces of poison.

Many analysts say the military alliance is as crucial as ever.

Britain's media regulator has opened seven investigations into whether Russian news channel RT broke impartiality rules in broadcasts made since a Russian double-agent was poisoned in the English city of Salisbury last month

Replays of incidents reviewed by video assistant referees will be shown on big screens at this summer's World Cup.

The BBC's Steve Rosenberg speaks to a retired Russian scientist who says he made nerve agents.

Russia’s Federal Service for the Supervision of Telecommunications, known as Roskomnadzor, orders the immediate blocking of instant messaging application Telegram and sets the Russian internet in chaos, and effectively turns the founder of the company, Pavel Durov, into Hollywood material...

Russia's ambassador to the UN cited Lewis Carroll at the UN Security Council and says Russia's western partners are not interested in the truth.

One Republican senator says the administration seems determined to give Syria to Assad, Russia and Iran.

The head of the global chemical watchdog agency on Wednesday rejected Russian claims that traces of a second nerve agent were discovered in the English city where former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned.
Britain blames Russia for the attack, which it says was carried out...

The death of Russian investigative reporter Maxim Borodin has raised alarms about a worrying pattern of tragic and often deadly incidents involving people who go public on sensitive issues. CNN's Brian Todd reports.

Representatives from both countries traded accusations on the March 4th chemical attack in Salisbury

Russian authorities are freezing up vast swathes of the country’s online world in what critics call a heavy-handed — and so far unsuccessful — attempt to block a popular messaging app, Telegram.

Attempts by the country’s internet watchdog to impose a ban on the popular messaging app were opposed by, among others, Edward J. Snowden and a member of Pussy Riot.

Attempts by the country’s internet watchdog to impose a ban on the popular messaging app were opposed by, among others, Edward J. Snowden and a member of Pussy Riot.

The youth wing of Russia’s dominant party says it will begin training groups of activists to mobilize quickly to conduct counterdemonstrations to opposition protests.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has been thrust once again into the international limelight by a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy in Britain and allegations of a chemical bombardment on the Syrian city of Douma.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's media regulator opened seven investigations into Russian news channel RT, saying it had found an increase in programs which may have breached impartiality rules since a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy last month.

Sanctions are increasingly isolating Russia and damaging its economy, but President Vladimir V. Putin and his supporters are confident things are going well.

Sanctions are increasingly isolating Russia and damaging its economy, but President Vladimir V. Putin and his supporters are confident things are going well.

Austria may want to play diplomat in an escalating cold war.

The latest ticket sales phase for this summer's World Cup in Russia open on Wednesday and figures so far show the appetite among England fans is not what it was in 2014.