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US Vice-President Mike Pence has hired a lawyer known for defending government officials in high-profile investigations to help him with probes into whether there were ties between the election campaign of President Donald Trump and Russia.
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UPDATED | US President Donald Trump asked then-FBI Director James Comey to end the agency's investigation into ties between former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn and Russia, according to a source who has seen a memo written by Comey.
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FBI Director James Comey, days before President Donald Trump fired him, sought to expand his agency's probe into possible collusion between Trump's presidential campaign and Russia to sway the 2016 US election, a congressional source says.
A blast in a St Petersburg train carriage that killed 11 people and injured 45 was carried out by a suspected suicide bomber with ties to radical Islamists, Russia's Interfax news agency has cited a law enforcement source as saying.
Giving one's spouse a slap is nothing extraordinary for many people in Russia, and this week the country's parliament is expected to take a step closer toward decriminalising it altogether.
Outgoing CIA Director John Brennan has issued a stern parting rebuke to Donald Trump days before he assumes the US presidency, advising him not to absolve Russia for its recent actions.
US president-elect Donald Trump has angrily denounced unsubstantiated claims he had been caught in a compromising position in Russia and attacked US intelligence agencies over the leak of the information.
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