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A court review is underway for pretrial detention warrants for four people suspected of involvement in election nomination meddling involving first lady Kim Keon-hee, as well as illegal polling. The Changwon District Court started the warrant hearings Thursday afternoon for power broker Myung Tae-kyun, ...

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[GroundUp] The Supreme Court of Appeal has found that the former judge's inappropriate interventions resulted in a flawed judgment

Italian President Sergio Mattarella told Elon Musk on Wednesday not to interfere in Italian affairs after the US billionaire said Rome judges blocking a government anti-immigration initiative should be sent packing. The highly unusual statement from the Italian head of state came against a backdrop of growing tension between the ruling coalition and the judiciary […]

Sculptor had disassembled statue only to introduce minor alignment corrections as suggested by NITK, the MLA claims

The CIA on Thursday was forced to walk back an assertion by Director Mike Pompeo, who incorrectly said U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Russian efforts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election were unsuccessful. Asked at a security conference in Washington, D.C., on Thursday whether he could say with absolute certainty that the November vote was not skewed by Russia, Pompeo replied: "Yes. Intelligence community's assessment is that the Russian meddling that took place did not affect the outcome of the election." In a later clarification, the head of the CIA's office of public affairs, Dean Boyd, said: "The intelligence assessment with regard to Russian election meddling has not changed, and the Director did not intend to suggest that it had." U.S. intelligence concluded in a January assessment that "the senior-most officials" in Russia had authorized hacks into the Democratic National Committee and officials connected with the Clinton campaign. And then

The Foreign Ministry summoned the ambassador of Russia, but also the chargé d'affaires of Georgia, for comments by country's prime minister it said called into question the integrity of Moldova's polls.

One of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way almost got away with theft....

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No secret that this country has been experiencing rainfall of biblical proportions and that this has caused very widespread flooding of roads and towns, with consequent misery for everyone affected, many of whom are not even insured.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said she was unaware of intelligence assessments concluding that Russia favored President Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.

President Donald Trump has launched a stinging attack on former President Barack Obama, criticising his predecessor's lack of action over 'so-called Russian meddling'.

The U.S. president says he also plans to talk to Putin about the civil war in Syria and Russia's incursion into Crimea when they meet on July 16 Helsinki, Finland.

President Trump seemed to claim last week that Russia was not involved in a conspiracy to disrupt the election, but the White House says he 'feels' that Putin's government did and 'didn't question that.'

President Donald Trump said he would once again raise the sensitive issue of election meddling with Russian President Vladimir Putin – then predicted his counterpart 'may deny it.'

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats is countering his boss, President Donald Trump, and doubling down on the assertion that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

President Vladimir Putin has offered to have 12 Russians spies accused of interfering in the presidential election interrogated but in Russia and by Russians.

President Donald Trump is taking a much tougher line on Russian President Vladimir Putin in a new television interview than he did just days ago in Helsinki at Putin's side.

Weeks before President Donald Trump took office, the nation's top spy chiefs, pictured., warned him they information that Russian President Vladimir Putin had directed his nation's election hacking effort.

Anastasia Vashukevich, who also uses the name Nastya Rybka, was arrested in Pattaya, Thailand, in February and held on prostitution charges after hosting a 'sex training course'.

John Bolton met with Russian counterpart Nikolai Patrushev in Geneva on Thursday, when the pair discussed election meddling, Syria, Iran, North Korea and nuclear weapons.

Theresa May greeted Vladimir Putin with the frostiest of handshakes as they met in Japan in a meeting which had been soured before it began by the Russian President's attack on Western views.

Prince William is certainly a man of his word. In the TV documentary marking Prince Charles’s 70th birthday, Wills said he admired his father’s work but insisted that he wanted to do things his own way.

JONATHAN McEVOY: Jean Todt, usually reluctant to tell you the time, was quite right to upbraid drivers for moaning that they are not consulted over technical changes.

By and large, poorer and badly-run states like Bihar and Orissa have seen higher inflation resulting from the NREGA windfall, while in the better-off states with less money flowing in through the scheme, inflation is much lower. Clearly, meddling in markets will show up in ways that are not necessarily all good, writes Sunil Jain.

'He took a lot of crap from a person who feels she knows how to direct a film.'