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Setting the stage on Labor Day for a critical month in their testy presidential campaign, Donald Trump softened his stance on immigration while Hillary Clinton blasted Russia for its suspected tampering in the U.S. electoral process. In a rare news conference aboard her new campaign plane, Clinton said she is concerned about "credible reports about Russian government interference in our elections."
5, 2016. . Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with U.S. President Barack Obama in Hangzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province, Monday, Sept.
Near-simultaneous bombings claimed by the Islamic State group struck in and around strongholds of the Syrian government and Kurdish troops Monday, killing at least 48 people in a wave of attacks that came a day after the militants lost a vital link to the outside world along the Syrian-Turkish border. The IS-run Aamaq news agency said the attacks included six suicide bombings and one remotely detonated blast.
Negotiations to reach a peace deal in Syria are being hampered by "gaps of trust" between the United States and Russia, President Obama said Monday. Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, speaks with U.S. President Barack Obama in Hangzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province, Monday, Sept.
US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin met Monday as talks between their governments on ending violence in Syria ended without an agreement. The two leaders conversed on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit here for ninety minutes, a senior US official said, and worked to clarify gaps in negotiations over on the Syrian crisis.
Vladimir Putin was hoping to have a meeting at the G20 with Western leaders about Ukraine that excluded Ukraine. As I discuss with RFE/RL senior editor Steve Gutterman on The Power Vertical Briefing , Putin was hoping to decide Ukraine's future with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande over Kyiv's head and behind Kyiv's back.
'The strongest woman I know': Former U.S. soccer star Lauren Holiday, 28, is diagnosed with a brain tumor while she's eight-months pregnant as her husband leaves the NBA to care for her The brains behind Clinton's email 'cover-up': How top aide decided which messages were deleted, sat in on her FBI interview and is set to follow her to the White House Village where one in 10 residents live to be 100 says the recipe for success is 'only eating fresh stuff' ISIS isolated: Terror group is cut off after being beaten by security forces and rebels and losing ALL its territory along the Turkey-Syria border Taking the moral HIGH ground? Malia Obama, 18, wears 'Smoking kills' tee-shirt at Philadelphia festival - just weeks after puffing on a suspicious cigarette at Lollapalooza Man 'breaks into Martha's Vineyard home, paints family dog purple, steals prescription pills and kicks a police officer ... (more)
'The strongest woman I know': Former U.S. soccer star Lauren Holiday, 28, is diagnosed with a brain tumor while she's eight-months pregnant as her husband leaves the NBA to care for her The brains behind Clinton's email 'cover-up': How top aide decided which messages were deleted, sat in on her FBI interview and is set to follow her to the White House Village where one in 10 residents live to be 100 says the recipe for success is 'only eating fresh stuff' ISIS isolated: Terror group is cut off after being beaten by security forces and rebels and losing ALL its territory along the Turkey-Syria border Taking the moral HIGH ground? Malia Obama, 18, wears 'Smoking kills' tee-shirt at Philadelphia festival - just weeks after puffing on a suspicious cigarette at Lollapalooza Man 'breaks into Martha's Vineyard home, paints family dog purple, steals prescription pills and kicks a police officer ... (more)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she's hopeful after meeting the Turkish president that Turkey will soon lift a ban on German lawmakers visiting their country's military personnel at a Turkish air base. Merkel met President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Sunday at the Group of 20 summit in China.
Vladimir Putin blasted both Donald Trump's and Hillary Clinton's tactics on the campaign trail but refused to publicly take sides in a U.S. presidential race in which he's been accused of secretly favoring the New York real estate billionaire. "They're both using shock tactics, just each in their own way," the Russian president said in an interview.
Global oil market stability is impossible without the cooperation of Russia and Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest crude producers, the kingdom's influential deputy crown prince said after speaking with Vladimir Putin ahead of an OPEC meeting later this month. Saudi Arabia hopes to work with Russia for oil market stability, Mohammed bin Salman said after meeting with the Russian president in Hangzhou, China, Sunday.
The U.S. and Russia are nearing agreement to coordinate strikes against Islamic extremists in Syria and impose a cease-fire that would halt President Bashar al-Assad's attacks on the moderate opposition and civilians in his war-shattered country. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in Hangzhou, China for a meeting of the G-20, could announce a deal as early as Sunday, said a senior State Department official who asked not to be identified because the negotiations are private.
U.S. President Barack Obama is continuing his diplomatic slog in China on Sunday, meeting with counterparts from the United Kingdom and Turkey -- two essential U.S. allies -- as each leader confronts widespread internal strife back home. It's the second day of high-stakes diplomacy for Obama, who arrived here Saturday to an inauspicious welcome: no red-carpeted stairs for Air Force One and open quarreling on the tarmac between Chinese and U.S. officials over press access.
Vladimir Putin said the hacking of thousands of Democratic National Committee emails and documents was a service to the public, but denied U.S. accusations that Russia's government had anything to do with it. "Listen, does it even matter who hacked this data?'' Putin said in an interview at the Pacific port city of Vladivostok on Thursday.
Behind the forced smiles and obligatory handshakes that mark what could be President Barack Obama's final encounters with Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin this Sunday at the G20 lurks one undeniably inconvenient reality: These days, more divides Russia and Turkey from the United States than unites them. Where you stand in life and politics has everything to do with where you sit.
Russian President Vladimir Putin publicly denied that Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee's data and questioned if it even matters who is responsible. "Listen, does it even matter who hacked this data?" Putin asked during an interview with Bloomberg on Thursday.
President Barack Obama is embarking on a final bout of delicate overseas diplomacy before his successor is elected in November, arriving in Asia on Saturday for meetings with some of his most nettlesome counterparts. Obama used his first appearance in China to herald newly ratified climate agreements, an area of cooperation with China amid persistent differences.
Top House Democrats on Tuesday asked the FBI to investigate a possible connection between Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and suspected computer hacks by the Russian government. In a letter to FBI Director James Comey, the lawmakers cited Mr. Trump's praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin and policy positions they said could benefit Russia as warranting an investigation.
A Ukrainian journalist who reportedly considered himself a "personal enemy" of Russian President Vladimir Putin was found dead in his apartment on Sunday, the day after he had celebrated his 54th birthday. The Kyiv Operatyvny reported Alexander Shchetinin was found dead on his Kiev apartment balcony by friends who had come to congratulate him.