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Lavrov Jokes About FBI Boss's Firing Before Trump Talks

The State Department did post photos of Lavrov's meeting with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson , but that was open to the press. The diplomats met a day af...

Kremlin says feels 'cautious optimism' after Trump meeting with Lavrov

When Trump abruptly fired Federal Bureau of Investigation director James B. Comey on Tuesday, he made the optics of his meeting with Lavrov even more delicate. ...

White House furious after being trolled with Russia Oval Office photos

If confirmed, it would be the two men's first meeting since Trump took power in January. "In development of this dialogue at the highest level" US Secretary o...

Trump "essentially declared war" on the Federal Bureau of Investigation with James Comey's firing

Spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the president did not make the "final decision" to remove Comey until Tuesday - though he considered firing him since he...

Why Kellyanne Conway Thinks Anderson Cooper Is Sexist

On the other hand, you're saying you don't know if it was in the intelligence briefing, and you can't say even if you did know. The verbal fencing match also ...

Tunnel collapse latest safety issue at nuclear site

Non-essential employees in the vacinity of the collapse were released early, while non-essential swing shift employees were asked not to come to work. "It is a ...

Trump, Putin discuss ending Syria war amid ongoing tensions

The U.S. reportedly plans to send a representative to cease-fire talks between Syria's government and rebel forces in Astana, Kazakhstan on May 3-4. Russia'...

Removal of 2nd Confederate statue in New Orleans to begin

Landrieu aired his plan to remove the four Confederate monuments a week after the Charleston church massacre of 2015, when nine black worshippers were killed ...

French Socialist ex-premier wants to join Macron's movement

He has said that half of his candidates for the 577 seats in the National Assembly will be new to politics. Mr Macron has said the defectors can keep their ex...

Government asked to outline national protocols on gorse fires

Under wildlife conservation legislation it is illegal to set fires to growing vegetation between March 1 and August 31. Recently-installed air monitoring devi...

Corbyn misses campaign appearance amid fallout from leak of draft manifesto

The Labour leader was driven to the meeting, the subject of intense media interest after a draft of the manifesto was leaked, by officers from the Metropolitan ...

DeVos booed speaking at historically black university

DeVos was met with a chorus of boos from students and faculty when she took the stage to give the keynote address. DeVos, who favors allowing parents to use ...

John McDonnell says leaked draft of Labour manifesto is 'fantastic, exciting document'

The Ukip leader tried to mock Jeremy Corbyn following the leak of Labour's manifesto, saying he said would have "surrendered... the Falkland Islands to Austra...

'We have nothing to do with that,' Putin says of Comey firing

CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer asked the Russian leader the question shortly before he took to the ice for an amateur hockey game in the Russian Oly...

UK's Labour Party stung by early leak of election platform

Jeremy Corbyn was accused of presiding over a "total shambles" as a full draft of the party's manifesto was leaked to multiple media outlets. But Labour's joi...

Observers: Large explosion rocks Syrian capital

Hezbollah-linked Al-Manar TV channel said the dawn raid struck fuel tanks and a warehouse near Damascus International Airport and that it was probably the resul...

FBI's James Comey: concealing Clinton emails would have been 'catastrophic'

It's easy to criticize Comey, not only for the October 28 letter but for his criticism of Clinton for her "extremely careless" handling of classified informatio...

Can Nigeria's Chibok girls ever be truly free?

He said a Borno State indigene sabotaged efforts to release the girls. "Islam bars its followers from causing any harm to women and children", the statement...

Tillerson arrives in Alaska for Arctic meeting

Concern over Russian interference in foreign politics. And he flew into the most northerly USA state as concerns were again rising that Trump may abandon or s...

After SKorean leader eyes North trip, Trump offers US invite

Although Ostpolitik could not change the East German regime's nature, it did make East Germany heavily dependent on West Germany, and gave Kohl significant poli...

Senate blocks moves to overturn Obama-era rule on drilling

Donald Trump has supported ditching the methane rule, which requires operators to use the latest technology to prevent leaks, and the House passed a bill to...

Xi congratulates new South Korea president Moon Jae

In their first phone conversation, Moon and Xi "agreed that denuclearising the Korean peninsula is the two countries' common goal", the South Korean president's...

Turkey leader calls on USA to reverse decision to arm Kurds

The defense secretary, speaking to reporters aboard a US military airplane after the meeting in London, characterized the discussions as "honest, transparent an...

PM Modi wooed by Akshay's Toilet idea

Although the self-proclaimed critic then received some flak from fans of Akshay and PM Modi's supporters, it is well apparent that KRK hardly bothers about such...

Things to know about Trump's firing of FBI Director Comey

The New York Times said Mr Comey approached Deputy Attorney-General Rod Rosenstein for extra funds last week and later briefed lawmakers on the request - a ...

Russian Media Invited Into Trump's Closed-Door Meeting With Kremlin Officials

Trump's firing of Comey throws into question the future of a counterintelligence investigation into Trump's campaign's possible connections to Russian Federatio...

Senate Intelligence Committee Subpoenas Michael Flynn in Russia Probe

The subpoena came after Flynn declined to cooperate with the committee's request for papers on April 28, according to chairman Sen. Mr Stone, Mr Page, Mr Flyn...

China's 'Silk Road' stirs unease over its strategic goals

Signing of the framework agreement will pave the way for Nepal's link to India and Europe, said Minister for Information and Communications Surendra Karki after...

Nazarbayev invites Korea's new president Moon Jae-in to Kazakhstan

Nevertheless, Moon has been critical of the bilateral agreement on the comfort women matter and demanded that Japan renegotiate the issue with South Korea. Both...

Nigerian Authorities Secure Release of Additional 82 Girls Abducted by Boko Haram

We hope these girls will be soon reunited with their loved ones" said the UN Special Rapporteurs on sale of children, Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, on slavery, Urmil...

Stoltenberg: NATO may send many more troops to Afghanistan

We should respond to one question, government should respond to this question. "Intelligence community assesses that the political and security situation in A...

Huckabee Sanders: Trump's investigation claim 'far above my pay grade'

To top it off, according to the Wall Street Journal , Comey recently asked for more funds to conduct that investigation. Many Democrats insisted Comey was ...

Bank of England poised to readjust growth outlook

Bank governor Mark Carney will also likely be quizzed over the outlook for consumer spending as retail sales have plunged amid the squeeze on household income f...

USA expected to announce no charges in Louisiana black man's shooting

My heart goes out to the family". The acting U.S. Attorney in Baton Rouge will formally announce the decision in the Alton Sterling case. The deaths s...

France's Macron to unveil list of candidates for new party

PARIS (AP) - French ex-Premier Manuel Valls suggested Tuesday that he wants to abandon France's Socialist party and run in June parliamentary elections under th...