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Ukraine, Syria, nukes and… Russiagate? What’s all on the table as Lavrov goes to Washington

Ukraine, Syria, nukes and… Russiagate? What’s all on the table as Lavrov goes to Washington While there is little hope that relations between Washington and Moscow will warm up, the fact that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is meeting with his US counterpart Mike Pompeo suggests they haven’t frozen over quite yet. If unnamed diplomatic sources sharing insider information with news agencies are to be believed, Lavrov and Pompeo will discuss Ukraine, Syria, arms control and “other issues” between the US and Russia when they meet on Tuesday. The last time Lavrov visited Washington, in May 2017, Pompeo was head of the CIA and US President Donald Trump had just fired FBI Director James Comey, setting off an avalanche of criticism among the media ...

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FBI surveillance ‘an embarrassment to our country’, Trump says, after Justice Department report released

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FBI surveillance ‘an embarrassment to our country’, Trump says, after Justice Department report released President Donald Trump has slated the FBI’s surveillance operation against him, calling it a “disgrace” and “an embarrassment to our country,” after a Justice Department report found “mistakes” in the agency’s conduct. “This was an attempted overthrow and a lot of people were in on it, and they got caught,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Monday, hours after the Justice Department’s Inspector General released a report on the origins of the FBI’s 2016 counterintelligence probe against the Trump campaign. “It’s a disgrace…it's incredible, far worse than I would have ever thought possible. It’s an embarrassment to our country,” he continu...

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Putin ‘happy’ with results of Paris summit & one-to-one with Ukraine’s Zelensky

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Putin ‘happy’ with results of Paris summit & one-to-one with Ukraine’s Zelensky In a brief comment to media, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was “happy” with how the Normandy Four summit in Paris and his first one-to-one meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky went. Putin made the comment after talking with Zelensky, and that bilateral meeting started after longer roundtable talks with the French and German leaders. The four leaders will now convene over dinner, widely considered to be part of the talks, before making a joint statement to the media. The Paris summit is the first president-level Normandy Four event since 2016, with high hopes raised for it to become a turning point in the resolution of conflict in eastern Ukraine. Putin ‘h...

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‘Confidence-building needed’: Paris summit can revive Ukrainian peace process, former Austrian FM tells RT

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‘Confidence-building needed’: Paris summit can revive Ukrainian peace process, former Austrian FM tells RT The Normandy Four talks in Paris can breathe new life into the stalled Ukrainian peace process but only if the leaders focus on trust and not on quick political gains, former Austrian foreign minister, Karin Kneissl, has said. The talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky kicked off in Paris on Monday. The four leaders sat down to discuss the longstanding conflict in Ukraine for the first time at that highest level in three years. As the world still awaits the summit’s results, Kneissl said she believes that it could be a good oppo...

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WADA’s Russia doping ban ‘part of ‘New Cold War’ & robs clean athletes of glory’

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WADA’s Russia doping ban ‘part of ‘New Cold War’ & robs clean athletes of glory’ Russia’s ban from global sports is a punishment rife with politics, analysts told RT. Worse still, political decisions can punish clean athletes, who will be denied the honor of competing for their country. The World Anti-Doping Agency handed down the ban on Monday, after Russia was alleged to have manipulated data in a Moscow anti-doping laboratory. WADA voted to suspend Russia from all major sporting events for four years in response, meaning the Russian flag will not fly at the next two Olympic Games as well as the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, should Russia qualify. Clean athletes, however, will be able to compete, albeit under a neutral flag and with no national ant...

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Real Madrid star Benzema could face criminal trial over ‘sextape blackmail’ case

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Real Madrid star Benzema could face criminal trial over ‘sextape blackmail’ case The French Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Karim Benzema to bury allegations dating back to 2015 regarding the former France international's alleged involvement in a plot to blackmail then-teammate Matthieu Valbuena. The Real Madrid striker may now face a criminal trial after the dismissal of his appeal aimed at undermining the legality of a blackmail investigation which alleges that Benzema was part of a plot to blackmail Valbuena in relation to a so-called 'sex tape'. The court determined that the methods of investigation used by authorities were within the legal framework of the law, contradicting assertions made by Benzema's legal team. ...

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‘Epstein didn’t kill himself’: Miami gallery scrambles to cover message scrawled in lipstick after banana art devoured

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‘Epstein didn’t kill himself’: Miami gallery scrambles to cover message scrawled in lipstick after banana art devoured A Miami art fair wall once home to a trio of high-priced bananas (and a performance in which one was eaten) was co-opted by a rogue artist who used lipstick to question notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s purported suicide. The blank space left after a hungry performance artist devoured Maurizio Cattelan’s sculpture “Comedian” – a banana affixed to the wall of an Art Basel Miami Beach art fair booth with duct tape – sprouted a lipsticked message on Sunday afternoon, questioning the official narrative surrounding the mysterious death of the jet-setting sex offender. This guy decided to write on the banana wall LOL ???‍...

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‘No signs of life’: NZ PM says foreign tourists among those hit by White Island volcanic eruption

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‘No signs of life’: NZ PM says foreign tourists among those hit by White Island volcanic eruption New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said that tourists from Australia, the US, UK, China and Malaysia are among those affected by Monday’s deadly volcanic eruption, and there have been no more signs of life on the island. At least five people were killed and 31 injured by the huge eruption on White Island. Eight people are missing. My god, White Island volcano in New Zealand erupted today for first time since 2001. My family and I had gotten off it 20 minutes before, were waiting at our boat about to leave when we saw it. Boat ride home tending to people our boat rescued was indescribable. #whiteisland pic.twitter.com/QJwWi12Tvt— Mi...

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Elon Musk whacks traffic cone while driving Tesla Cybertruck after night out (VIDEO)

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Elon Musk whacks traffic cone while driving Tesla Cybertruck after night out (VIDEO) Tech mogul Elon Musk mercilessly mowed down a traffic bollard while driving the new Tesla Cybertruck after a night out at a celebrity hotspot in Malibu, California. The incident took place as the Tesla CEO was pulling out of the parking lot of the high-end Nobu restaurant, where he was dining with his girlfriend Grimes and other friends. Who's driving @ElonMusk or the Auto-Pilot?$TSLA pic.twitter.com/xvmyHPG8Ol— GuruLeaks (@Guruleaks1) December 8, 2019 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js The restaurant’s valets parked the eye-catching electric truck at the front of the venue, causing crowds to gather around and photograph it, TMZ reports. At o...

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Mexico’s envoy to Argentina recalled over alleged theft of Cassanova's bio from bookstore (VIDEO)

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Mexico’s envoy to Argentina recalled over alleged theft of Cassanova's bio from bookstore (VIDEO) Mexico’s foreign ministry has recalled the country’s ambassador over a video allegedly showing the man in an act of shoplifting at one of the most famous bookstores in Buenos Aires. The incident is said to have happened in late October at the El Ateneo bookstore in the Argentinian capital. Oscar Ricardo Valero Recio Becerra, or somebody who looks similar to him, was shown snatching a book from a shelf and hiding it in a newspaper he was carrying. El canciller mexicano Marcelo Ebrard ordenó que el embajador del país azteca en Argentina regresara a México tras divulgarse una grabación en la que supuestamente sustrae un ejemplar de una librerí...

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