Trump accuses Adam Schiff of leaking intelligence about Russia to hurt candidate Bernie Sanders
President Donald Trump on Sunday accused Rep. Adam Schiff of leaking classified information on Russian interference in the 2020 U.S. election to hurt Democratic presidential front-runner Bernie Sanders. Speaking to reporters as he left the White House for a trip to India, Trump said he ...
Bus drivers in Moscow kept their WhatsApp group chat buzzing with questions this week about what to do if they spotted passengers who might be from China riding with them in the Russian capital. "Some Asian-looking (people) have just got on. Probably Chinese. Should I ...
President Donald Trump's national security adviser said Sunday he had seen no intelligence that Russia was again meddling in the U.S. elections in favor of his boss. The assertions by National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien followed this week's ouster of the acting director of national ...
Russia-linked disinformation campaign fueling coronavirus alarm, U.S. says
Thousands of Russian-linked social media accounts have launched a coordinated effort to spread alarm about the new coronavirus, disrupting global efforts to fight the epidemic, U.S. officials say. The disinformation campaign promotes unfounded conspiracy theories that the United States is behind the COVID-19 outbreak, in ...
President Donald Trump's administration insisted Thursday that new U.S. intelligence chief Richard Grenell would serve without a partisan agenda as Democrats voiced outrage at placing the voluble Trump defender in the key post. Grenell, the ambassador to Germany, where his blunt approach irritated the close ...
Defense lawyers say they will seek French asylum for Julian Assange
Julian Assange's European defense team said Thursday it will try to seek asylum in France for the Wikileaks founder, whose full hearings for extradition to the United States on spying charges start next week in London. French team member Eric Dupont-Moretti said Assange's case placed ...
Putin hails U.S. for helping prevent terror attack in Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday hailed the FBI for sharing information that helped thwart a terror attack by adherents of the Islamic State group in St. Petersburg during the New Year holidays. Speaking at a meeting with senior officials of the Federal Security Service ...
Moscow meltdown: Russian capital has warmest January as experts point to global warming
Inured to interminable winters, Muscovites have been stunned this year by spring-like temperatures and virtually snow-free sidewalks after the Russian capital recorded its warmest January in history. It is the first time that Moscow's average temperature in January has hovered around zero degrees Celsius (32 ...
Turkey says two of its soldiers were killed in Assad-allied airstrike in Syria
Two Turkish soldiers were killed Thursday by an airstrike in northwestern Syria, according to Turkey's Defense Ministry, following a large-scale attack by Ankara-backed opposition forces that targeted Syrian government troops. The deaths brought to 15 the number of Turkish soldiers killed in clashes this month ...
Children dying in the cold as thousands of refugees flee Syrian offensive, U.N. says
Hundreds of thousands of people fleeing a Russian-backed Syrian offensive are being squeezed into ever smaller areas near Turkey's border "under horrendous conditions" in below-freezing temperatures that are killing babies and young children, the U.N. humanitarian chief said Wednesday. Mark Lowcock told the U.N. Security ...
Trump offered to pardon Assange if he cleared Russia over leaks, lawyer says
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to claim during an extradition hearing that the Trump administration offered him a pardon if he agreed to say Russia was not involved in leaking Democratic National Committee emails during the 2016 U.S. election campaign, a lawyer for Assange ...
Turkey edges toward direct conflict with Russia-backed Syria as talks fail to halt assault
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday a military operation by his forces to push back a Syrian government offensive against rebels in northwest Syria was now "a matter of time" after talks with Russia failed to halt the assault. Turkish troops have already ...
