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The trouble for Mr. Netanyahu is that the polling figures look no better this time around. Should Mr. Gantz emerge as prime minister, Mr. Netanyahu would not be able to use Parliament to try to block a threatened indictment. Attorney General Avichai Mandelbli…

John Bolton resigned as White House national security adviser on Tuesday, which must delight North Koreas Kim Jong Un, Irans Hassan Rouhani, Russias Vladimir Putin and Venezuelas Nicolás Maduro. Americas adversaries lost a rare internal restraint on President…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and adviser John Bolton were always unlikely foreign policy allies, with Bolton skeptical of Trump’s outreach on North Korea and efforts to woo Russian President Vladimir Putin and supportive of an Iraq war h…

Russian liberals are celebrating the relative success of the Communist Party and other Kremlin-friendly quasi-opposition parties in the elections to the Moscow city council on Sunday as an almost revolutionary breakthrough but it takes some unpacking to expla…

Russian liberals are celebrating the relative success of the Communist Party and other Kremlin-friendly quasi-opposition parties in the elections to the Moscow city council on Sunday as an almost revolutionary breakthrough — but it takes some unpacking to exp…

Image copyrightEPAImage caption CNN said President Trump's meeting with Russia's Sergei Lavrov in 2017 had spooked the CIA Moscow has played down reports in American media that the US extracted a high-level spy from Russia in 2017 fearing his cover could b…

(CNN)The chairman of a House Oversight subcommittee is seeking answers after it took the Trump administration nearly nine months to impose legally mandated sanctions on Russia for its use of chemical weapons. Late on August 1, the White House quietly announc…

Image copyrightTimati/InstagramImage caption Timati uploaded this picture with Russian President Vladimir Putin to Instagram in 2017 A rap song released by hip hop artists Timati and Guf has become the most disliked Russian-language video on YouTube. More…

Image copyrightAFPImage caption President Trump jokes with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and ambassador Sergei Kislyak The US extracted a high-level spy from inside Russia in 2017, reports say. Citing "multiple Trump administration officials wit…

The CIA spent decades cultivating an informant who became so close to Russian President Vladimir Putin that the individual could photograph documents on his desk and send them back to U.S. intelligence officials, according to a series of shocking reports publ…