An international team of investigators piecing together a criminal case over the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine say evidence suggests links between Russia and separatists in the region were closer than previously believed.
Security minister Brandon Lewis has said wealthy Russian businessmen have “the absolute right” to donate to the Conservative Party if they are British citizens.
Turkish officials are performing a post-mortem examination and other procedures as they try to establish how a former British Army officer who helped found the White Helmets volunteer aid group in Syria died.
Amnesty International has called for an “exhaustive” investigation into the death of a British civil defence worker who fell from a balcony in Istanbul just days after Russia accused him of being a spy.
Former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has criticised the delay in the release of a report examining Russian influence in British politics.
A British diplomat has said the UK will look “very closely” at an investigation into how a former British soldier died in Turkey days after Russia accused him of being a spy.
A court in Russia has rejected a defence lawyer’s request for a prominent Russian history professor, who is suspected of murdering and dismembering a female student, to be released under house arrest pending trial.
Iran has started construction on a second nuclear reactor at its Bushehr power plant, a facility Tehran cites as its reason for breaking the enrichment limit set by the unravelling 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
Dominic Raab denied 10 Downing Street is in the grip of a “Kremlin mole”, as MPs demanded a report into alleged Russian interference of the UK democratic process be published.
The former head of MI5 has backed calls for a parliamentary report into alleged Russian interference in the UK democratic process to be published before the General Election.
The woman convicted of being a covert Russian agent has returned to her homeland, deported by the United States after serving a prison sentence.