Russia

Russian police arrested an executive with the firm that owns a shopping mall where a fire last weekend killed 64 people, most of them children.

Russia is set to expel British diplomats in retaliation for Prime Minister Theresa May's decision to kick out 23 Russians as relations with London crashed to a post-Cold War low over an attack involving a nerve agent on English soil.

The United States is still unsure who directed a Feb. 7 attack on U.S. and U.S.-backed forces in Syria, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Saturday, even as he acknowledged accounts that Russian civilian contractors were involved.

The U.S. Treasury Department has named a slew of major Russian businessmen, bankers, and political figures on a list of oligarchs close to the Kremlin.

A blast ripped through a supermarket in Russia's St Petersburg, injuring at least 10 shoppers, investigators said.

A passenger bus swerved off course and drove into a busy pedestrian underpass in Moscow, killing at least four people, Russian news agencies reported.

A series of tweets by US President Donald Trump about the investigation into contacts between his 2016 campaign and Russia prompted concerns among both Democratic and Republican lawmakers.

Two former top US intelligence officials said they fear President Donald Trump is being manipulated by Russian President Vladimir Putin, after Trump said he believed Putin was sincere in denying Russian meddling.

An Trump campaign adviser pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about contacts with people who claimed to have ties to top Russian officials, in the first criminal charges alleging links between the campaign and Moscow,

Russian TV personality Ksenia Sobchak said she planned to run in next year's presidential election, offering liberal voters unhappy with President Vladimir Putin's rule someone to back.

Some 10 million people in the United States saw politically divisive ads on Facebook that the company said were purchased in Russia in the months before and after last year's US presidential election, Facebook said.

Attackers set fire to a building used by a Russian director whose film about the last czar's romance with a ballerina has been condemned by religious conservatives.

The United Nations Security Council has unanimously imposed new sanctions on North Korea over Pyongyang's two July intercontinental ballistic missile tests.

President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner told Senate investigators he had no part in any Kremlin attempt to meddle in the US election despite having met Russians four times last year.

The president's oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., has added a lawyer with congressional experience to his legal team, the lawyer told Reuters on Sunday.

The Netherlands unveiled a national monument in memory of the 298 people killed in the downing of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner in 2014 above territory controlled by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.