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'Good to go': Top Trump aide gave inaugural day ok to nuclear plan - congressman
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As President Donald Trump delivered his inaugural address on Capitol Hill in January, his incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn, sitting a few yards away, texted a former business partner that a nuclear power project that would require lifting sanctions on Russia was "good to go," a senior House Democrat said in a letter released on Wednesday.
Blackwater founder Prince details meeting with Russian in Seychelles
(This version of the December 6 story corrects paragraph 3 and adds new paragraph 4 to clarify the nature of U.S. sanctions)
Putin declares 'complete victory' on both banks of Euphrates in Syria
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday a complete victory had been achieved over Islamic State militants on both banks of the Euphrates river in Syria.
Harith seeks to host World’s Funniest Person contest here
KUALA LUMPUR: Local comedian and 2016’s “World’s Funniest Person” Harith Iskandar is hoping to bring the biannual contest to Malaysia when it takes place next year.
Tillerson takes tough line on Russia, open to peacekeepers
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Wednesday there could be no normal relations with Russia until Moscow ended its support for separatists in Ukraine and returned Crimea, in comments likely to reassure Western allies.
Russia's Olympic ban strengthens Putin's re-election hand
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Opinion polls show Vladimir Putin is already a shoo-in to win a fourth presidential term. But a ban on Russia taking part in the Winter Olympics is likely to make support for him even stronger, by uniting voters around his message: The world is against us.
U.S., France urge Russia to 'deliver' Assad delegation to Syria peace talks
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States and France called on Russia on Wednesday to deliver the delegation of President Bashar al-Assad to Syria peace talks in Geneva after discussions on ending the six-year war resumed with no sign of the government attending.
Russian air strikes kill 21 in eastern Syria - monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Russian air strikes killed 21 people in a village on the eastern side of the Euphrates River in east Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Wednesday.
Russia's Putin, pulling no surprises, says he'll seek re-election
NIZHNY NOVGOROD/MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin confirmed Russia's worst kept political secret on Wednesday, saying he would run for re-election in March 2018 - a contest he seems sure to win comfortably and extend his grip on power into a third decade.
French court demands 40 million euro bail for Russian lawmaker
MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - A French judge has ordered a prominent Russian businessman and lawmaker Suleiman Kerimov pay a 40 million euro (£35 million) bail for his release pending a tax fraud and money laundering investigation, a judicial source said on Wednesday.
