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Joe Biden's point person on Russian sanctions to visit India today

The Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics Daleep Singh, an Indian American, will be in New Delhi on 30 and 31 March

Explained: Why American basketball star Brittney Griner was arrested in Russia

US basketball star Brittney Griner was arrested in Moscow last month. Her crime? She allegedly carried vape cartridges, which invite a 10-year prison sentence. Now with America and Russia at loggerheads over sanctions, the arrest has become a bigger concern

Ukraine's Pervomaysk, once a symbol of peace, is now bracing for war

In 1996, the US Secretary of Defense, William J Perry, joined his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts in ceremonies marking the completion of Ukraine’s nuclear disarmament near Pervomaysk

US raises alarm over potentially imminent Russian attack against Ukraine 'at any point'

US officials upped the threat level, saying that the slow-brewing crisis was reaching a dangerous new stage.

US poised to announce sanctions on Russia following federal agencies’ hack, election interference

In the SolarWinds breach, Russian hackers were believed to have infected software with malicious code, to access the networks of at least nine US agencies

‘Don’t meddle in the election’: Donald Trump jokes about Mueller report during meeting with Vladimir Putin in Osaka

Much of Donald Trump's time in office has been overshadowed by allegations Moscow helped get him elected, but when it came to confronting Vladimir Putin on the issue, the US president did it in a joke

US Attorney General William Barr to make Robert Mueller’s redacted report public by mid-April

The US attorney general plans to make public a redacted copy of Robert Mueller's nearly 400-page investigative report into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Probably won't meet Vladimir Putin in Paris, says Donald Trump, but will meet during G20 summit in Argentina

US President Donald Trump on Monday said that he is "not sure" of having a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Paris, where the two leaders are scheduled to attend World War I commemorations later this week.

Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump set to meet in Paris on 11 November on sidelines of WW-1 centenary

Both presidents plan to be in Paris for events to commemorate the centenary of the end of World War One, and they are planning to hold a bilateral meeting on the sidelines, according to Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov.

US rejects invitation to Russia-led talks on Afghanistan, says discussion 'unlikely to yield progress'

Russia said that the Taliban will be joining the 4 talks in Moscow, along with representatives of several neighbouring countries. It will be one of the insurgent group's biggest diplomatic forays since the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan.