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U.S. steps to avert attack by NATO ally Turkey on America’s key partner in Syria show just how much the war and the U.S. focus on fighting Islamic State have upended the region’s alliances.
Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, will retire from his royal duties later this year, Buckingham Palace said Thursday, marking the end of a public life spanning nearly seven decades.
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Iraqi military spokesman says the aim of the troop redeployment is to trap Islamic State fighters hunkered down in Mosul’s Old City.
President Donald Trump plans to visit Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Vatican later this month as part of his first trip outside the U.S. since taking office.
Russia, Turkey and Iran signed an agreement for the creation of “de-escalation zones” in Syria as a step toward greater stability in the war-torn country, according to Turkish and Russian officials.
French prosecutors opened a probe into a suspected attempt to tar presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron after anonymous files suggested he had created a shell company in a Caribbean island, where officials said they have no record of any such entity.
Algerians headed to the polls in parliamentary elections the government hopes will help its struggle with low oil prices, poor job prospects and Islamic extremism.
Five Russian aircraft, including two bombers, flew across international airspace near Alaska on Wednesday, the latest in a series of such incidents in the area amid heightened tensions between Moscow and Washington.
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Clashes between soldiers and alleged fuel thieves left 10 people dead and nearly a dozen more injured in central Mexico, the military and state officials said Thursday.
President Donald Trump said Thursday he has “worked out” his disagreements with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, as the two men met in New York in a public effort to bury the hatchet after a contentious phone call earlier this year.
The war of words that escalated this week between London and Brussels is a sign that nobody should take a deal over Brexit for granted, Stephen Fidler writes.
The U.K. prime minister’s Conservative Party made significant gains in local elections, making inroads into territory long held by the Labour Party.
The Pentagon has deployed its newest combat plane, the stealthy F-35A fighter, to Europe for a first overseas training mission in a show of allied strength intended in part to deter Russia.
The top leaders of the European Union will meet with President Donald Trump during his visit to Brussels this month, officials from the bloc announced.
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Pyongyang issues unusually detailed accounting of an alleged attempt to kill leader Kim Jong Un in an attack using biochemical substances.
President Vladimir Putin’s envoy for Syria says aircraft from the U.S.-led international coalition fighting the extremist group Islamic State are also banned from the safe zones announced by Moscow, Tehran and Ankara this week.
India’s highest court upheld the death sentence for four men convicted of the 2012 rape and murder of a college student that exposed the country to searing global scrutiny and drove changes in the law meant to better protect women.
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A Moscow envoy said operations by the American-led coalition were “absolutely not envisaged” in the four areas established in a pact with Iran and Turkey.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director James Comey and National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers were quizzed for more than two hours behind closed doors on Thursday by members of the House intelligence committee investigating Russian meddling in the presidential election.
The committee’s work had been stalled when the panel’s chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., recused himself from the probe. The committee is now sending invitations for future witnesses to testify and making requests for relevant documents.
The next steps of the investigation include interviewing witnesses and scheduling an open hearing with former CIA Director John Brennan, former National Intelligence Director James Clapper and former acting Attorney General Sally Yates.
When he testified in an open session of the committee on March 20, Comey publicly confirmed for the first time that the FBI is investigating Russia’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
Comey said the investigation includes the nature of any links between individuals associated with President Donald Trump’s campaign and the Russian government, and whether there was any coordination between Russia’s efforts and the Trump campaign.
Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas, is now leading the committee’s investigation with Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the ranking Democrat on the panel. The two spoke briefly to reporters after the closed session, but would not disclose details about what committee members discussed with Comey and Rogers in a secured location in the Capitol.
“Today’s hearing provided our committee members with a valuable opportunity to ask follow-up questions from the open hearing,” they said in a brief statement. “We remain committed to working with the FBI as they continue their investigation to ensure that no stone is unturned.”
Nunes, who still leads the committee on all other matters, recused himself after he reported meeting with a secret source at the White House to review classified material. He said the material indicated that communications of Trump associates were captured in “incidental” surveillance of foreigners. Critics claimed that Nunes, who had been on Trump’s transition team, was too close to the White House to lead an impartial congressional investigation into the matter.
Separately Thursday, Congress approved an intelligence policy measure that requires the president to set up an interagency committee to counter Russian activities, such as meddling in last year’s presidential election.
The measure reauthorizes intelligence programs for 2017 and ensures congressional oversight. It was part of a $1.1 trillion bill to fund the government through the end of September that was sent to President Donald Trump.
The intelligence measure also promotes the hiring, further education and retention of employees with science, technology, engineering or math expertise. And it encourages greater use of research and development within U.S. intelligence agencies.
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French Dislike Donald Trump Even More Than Putin, Xi and Merkel, Poll Finds
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Putin Has a New Secret Weapon in Syria: Chechens
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Trump says Obamacare 'dead' after GOP health bill passes House
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President Donald Trump plans to visit Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Vatican later this month as part of his first trip outside the U.S. since taking office.
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Russia, Turkey and Iran signed an agreement for the creation of “de-escalation zones” in Syria as a step toward greater stability in the war-torn country, according to Turkish and Russian officials.
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French prosecutors opened a probe into a suspected attempt to tar presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron after anonymous files suggested he had created a shell company in a Caribbean island, where officials said they have no record of any such entity.
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Emmanuel Macron in Albi, France, on Thursday. Marine Le Pen, his presidential opponent, described him in a debate on Wednesday as “the privileged child of the system and the elites.”
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Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, noted that the House vote came without an assessment from the Congressional Budget Office on the latest version’s price and impact.
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Trump to celebrate health vote win with jubilant Republicans
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“Everybody who disagrees with me has to come back to Oct. 28 with me and stare at this and tell me what you would do,” he said. “Would you speak or would you conceal? And I could be wrong, but we honestly made a decision between those two choices.”
Mr. Comey acknowledged the toll that decision had taken.
“Even in hindsight — and this has been one of the world’s most painful experiences — I would make the same decision,” he said.
2. Trump’s Twitter Complaint
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“Everybody who disagrees with me has to come back to Oct. 28 with me and stare at this and tell me what you would do,” he said. “Would you speak or would you conceal? And I could be wrong, but we honestly made a decision between those two choices.”
Mr. Comey acknowledged the toll that decision had taken.
“Even in hindsight — and this has been one of the world’s most painful experiences — I would make the same decision,” he said.
2. Trump’s Twitter Complaint
Mr. Comey pushed back against President Trump’s contention on Twitter that he “was the best thing that ever happened to Hillary Clinton in that he gave her a free pass for many bad deeds!”
Mr. Comey said that was not his intention.
“I believe what I said: There was not a prosecutable case there,” he said.
Mr. Trump made the assertion late Tuesday. Hours earlier, Mrs. Clinton said at a Women for Women International event in New York that if the election had been held before Mr. Comey sent his letter to Congress, “I would be your president.”
3. Silence on Russia Investigation
Mr. Comey repeatedly refused to answer questions about the F.B.I.’s investigation into possible links between Mr. Trump’s associates and the Russian government.
But he said that the Russian government was still trying to influence American politics. Russia is “the greatest threat of any nation on Earth given their intention and capability,” he said.
4. Rudolph Giuliani and F.B.I. Leaks
Lawmakers also asked Mr. Comey about leaks to journalists and others about the investigation of Mrs. Clinton. As part of that back-and-forth, he tacitly acknowledged that the F.B.I. was looking into what former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York, who was a close adviser to Mr. Trump’s campaign, knew in the days before the election.
In October, Mr. Giuliani said on Fox News that the Trump campaign had “a couple of surprises left” about Mrs. Clinton. Three days later, Mr. Comey revealed the reopened investigation. Mr. Giuliani later acknowledged that he had known about the new materials the F.B.I. had seized that prompted Mr. Comey to notify Congress.
On Wednesday, Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, asked Mr. Comey whether anyone at the F.B.I. had been in contact with Mr. Giuliani during the campaign and discussed the investigation with him.
“I don’t know yet,” Mr. Comey said. “But if I find out that people were leaking information about our investigations, whether to reporters or private parties, there will be severe consequences.”
Investigating Mr. Giuliani — who was sharply critical of Mr. Comey’s decision to recommend that Mrs. Clinton not be charged with a crime for how she handled classified materials — puts Mr. Comey in an awkward position. When he was a young prosecutor in New York, Mr. Giuliani was his boss.
5. A Push to Renew a Surveillance Law
In both his prepared testimony and his answers to questions, Mr. Comey repeatedly returned to another hotly debated topic, but one separate from the election: the government’s warrantless surveillance program.
Its authorizing law, Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act, is set to expire at the end of 2017 unless Congress extends it, and Mr. Comey urged lawmakers to act.
Section 702 permits the government to collect, without a warrant, phone calls and emails of noncitizens abroad from American telecommunications and internet companies. Congress enacted it in 2008 to legalize the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program, created after the Sept. 11 attacks, and the F.B.I. has played a growing role in using and administering it.
“We can’t lose 702,” Mr. Comey said.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Thursday that authorities in Russia were stopping him going abroad to seek urgent medical treatment after an attack that left him mostly blind in one eye.
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