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Mueller says searches yielded evidence of Stone-WikiLeaks communications

Reuters
Posted at Feb 16 06:00 PM

US Special Counsel Robert Mueller disclosed for the first time on Friday that his office has evidence of communications between Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to President Donald Trump, and WikiLeaks related to the release of hacked Democratic Party emails. Read more »

Former Trump campaign chief faces up to 24 years in jail after breaking plea deal

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 16 05:22 PM

US President Donald Trump's former campaign chief Paul Manafort faces up to 24 years in prison after being found to have violated his plea deal with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, a court document filed Friday said.   Read more »

Judge rules that ex-Trump aide Manafort broke plea deal

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Feb 14 11:12 AM

WASHINGTON - Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort could face a much longer prison sentence than expected after a Washington judge ruled Wednesday that he had broken his plea deal with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. Read more »

OPEC squeezes oil output to 4-year low, Russia compliance low

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 13 06:11 PM

The Paris-based organisation said that OPEC crude output dropped by 0.93 million barrels per day (mbd) to 30.83 mbd in January. Read more »

Twitter trolls sow Canada divisions on pipelines, migrants

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 13 02:09 AM

Canada's public broadcaster said Tuesday it found in a trove of Twitter messages evidence of possible foreign actors trying to sow divisions between Canadians on pipelines, migrants and other hot-button issues. Read more »

Russia seeks to vindicate Afghan war, 30 years after pullout

Marina Lapenkova, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 12 11:47 AM

MOSCOW - Soviet authorities themselves condemned the USSR's bloody occupation of Afghanistan, but 30 years later some in Vladimir Putin's Russia are coming to see the operation in a more positive light. Read more »

Russian-Ukrainian political operative was at Trump inauguration -filing

Reuters
Updated as of Feb 08 08:34 AM

A former business partner of Paul Manafort who has been accused by U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller of having ties to Russian intelligence attended the inauguration of President Donald Trump, according to a court transcript released on Thursday. Read more »

Trump vows to outspend Russia without new missile pact

Shaun Tandon, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 06 02:52 PM

President Donald Trump vowed Tuesday that the United States would outspend Russia on missiles without a fresh international accord after he ditched a landmark Cold War treaty.   Read more »

Russia rejects Indonesia election 'propaganda' accusations

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 04 11:52 PM

Moscow on Monday denied any involvement in Indonesia's upcoming elections after President Joko Widodo claimed his opponents have used "Russian propaganda" to distort facts and spread fake news. Read more »

Russia suspends nuclear missile treaty after US move

Theo Merz, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 03 01:58 AM

MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin on Saturday said Russia was suspending its participation in a key Cold War-era missile treaty in a mirror response to a US move the day before.   Read more »

US bolts Cold War missile treaty as Russia warns of arms race

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 02 06:15 AM

WASHINGTON - The United States said Friday it would exit a landmark Cold War nuclear missile treaty due to purported violations by Russia, which has warned of a new arms race in Europe. Read more »

US suspends compliance on weapons treaty with Russia, may withdraw in 6 months

Lesley Wroughton and Arshad Mohammed, Reuters
Posted at Feb 01 10:30 PM

The treaty bans either the US or Russia from stationing short- and intermediate-range, land-based missiles in Europe. Read more »

EU urges internet firms to intensify fake news fight

Lachlan Carmichael, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 29 08:54 PM

The EU on Tuesday urged advertising trade associations and US internet giants to intensify the fight against disinformation campaigns from suspects such as Russia, ahead of European elections in May. Read more »

Mueller's Trump-Russia probe close to completion: official

Chris Lefkow, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 29 08:51 AM

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible collusion between Donald Trump's campaign and Russia in the 2016 presidential election is close to being wrapped up, Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker said Monday Read more »

Trump ally Roger Stone arrested for lying to Congress

Zachary Fagenson, Reuters
Posted at Jan 26 06:14 AM

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A longtime ally of U.S. President Donald Trump was arrested on Friday for lying to Congress about the 2016 campaign's efforts to use stolen emails to undercut his Democratic rival in one of the highest-level arrests of the Special Counsel probe into possible election manipulation. Read more »

Russia says oil price war with US would be too costly

Reuters
Posted at Jan 23 09:58 PM

Russia should not unleash an oil price war against the US but rather stick with output cuts, one of the main Russian architects of a production pact with OPEC said. Read more »

Giuliani backtracks on comments Trump sought Moscow deal throughout 2016

Reuters
Posted at Jan 22 09:57 AM

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani backtracked on Monday from earlier comments that Trump pursued a business deal to erect a tower bearing his name in Moscow throughout 2016, saying his statements "were hypothetical and not based on conversations I had with the President." Read more »

Russians protest Kuril islands handover to Japan

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 21 08:40 AM

Hundreds of Russians protested against a feared giveaway of strategic islands to Japan on Sunday, two days before a key summit between the countries' leaders in Moscow. Read more »

'Without precedent:' Donald Trump drama enters Act Two

Sebastian Smith, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 18 12:36 PM

The uniqueness of the 45th US president extends to his pride in his brazenly unconventional persona. Donald Trump doesn't just admit to a litany of flaws and actions that would sink an ordinary politician. He delights in them. Read more »

Facebook removes pages, accounts with Russia links

Reuters
Posted at Jan 17 07:37 PM

Facebook Inc said Thursday it has removed a number of pages, accounts and groups that were involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook and Instagram. Read more »