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In this image provided by Riccardo Dalla Francesca shows smoke rises from a fire on a plane at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport on Sunday, May 5, 2019. (Riccardo Dalla Francesca via AP)

The Latest: Dozens killed on Russian burning jet

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Official: Serbia could ditch EU bid, turn to Russia

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, toasts with North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un after their talks in Vladivostok, Russia, Thursday, April 25, 2019. Putin and Kim are set to have one-on-one meeting at the Far Eastern State University on the Russky Island across a bridge from Vladivostok. The meeting will be followed by broader talks involving officials from both sides. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Kim Jong-un leaves Russia after summit with Vladimir Putin

By Iuliia Stashevska and Eric Talmadge - Associated Press

In this April 21, 2013, file photo, Maria Butina, leader of a pro-gun organization in Russia, speaks to a crowd during a rally in support of legalizing the possession of handguns in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/File)

Maria Butina loses bid to strike spy claims raised by former FBI official ahead of sentencing

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un (center) surrounded by Russian and North Korean officials walk after arriving in Vladivostok, Russia, on Wednesday. Mr. Kim arrived for his much-anticipated summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Kim Jong-un, Vladimir Putin summit to discuss North Korea’s workforce

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un shake hands after the talks in Vladivostok, Russia, Thursday, April 25, 2019. Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Thursday they had good talks about their joint efforts to resolve a standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear program, amid stalled negotiations with the United States. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Vladimir Putin: North Korea ready to denuclearize — if it gets guarantees

By Vladimir Isachenkov and Eric Talmadge - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2002 file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, gestures as he talks to North Korean then leader Kim Jong Il during their meeting in Vladivostok. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin gives an intriguing twist to the global diplomatic push to resolve the nuclear standoff with North Korea, which appeared to hit a wall after a summit between Kim and President Donald Trump collapsed in February. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Russian-North Korean relations since the Korean War

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

This March 19, 2019, file photo shows the view of the construction site of the receiving station of the Baltic Sea pipeline "Nord Stream 2" near Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lubmin. The 1,200-kilometer-long gas pipeline will transport around 55 billion cubic meters of Russian natural gas from Russia to Germany every year. The first Russian natural gas is expected to flow through the Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea pipeline at the end of the year. So far, a third of the cables have been laid. Work in Germany is concentrated on the landing site near Lubmin. (Photo by: Stefan Sauer/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)

Russia German Nord Stream 2 pipeline to open despite U.S. pressure

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A Ukrainian serviceman scrambles into a military truck near the front line as the conflict continues in Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, April 21, 2019. Top issues in the election have been corruption, the economy and how to end the conflict with Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Russia offers passports to residents of occupied eastern Ukraine; UN asked to intervene

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

FILE - This combination file photo, shows Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, in St. Petersburg, Russia, April 9, 2019, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Feb. 28, 2019. When Kim meets with Putin for their first one-on-one meeting, he will have a long wish list and a strong desire to notch a win after the failure of his second summit with U.S. President Donald Trump in February 2019. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, Evan Vucci, File)

North Korea’s Kim will go into Putin summit needing a win

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

Flags of Russia and North Korea, right, are seen along the road on Russky Island, in Vladivostok, Russia, Tuesday, April 23, 2019. Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for a much-anticipated summit on upcoming Thursday, a Kremlin adviser said, putting an end to weeks of speculation about when and where it would take place. (AP Photo/Mari Borodina)

Kim, Putin have high hopes for their 1st one-on-one meeting

By IULIIA STASHEVSKA and HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

Not one of Christopher Steele's conspiracy charges was proved true and most were outright rejected by the special counsel investigation. (Associated Press/File)

Robert Mueller’s report debunks Russia dossier

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

In this photo taken on Monday, April 15, 2019, Ihor Levonchik, a resident of Kryvyi Rih, in eastern Ukraine, tells The Associated Press why he supports comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy over President Petro Poroshenko in a runoff presidential election scheduled for Sunday, April 21. “We can’t live like that anymore, we need changes,” said Levonchik. “They told us that we would become part of Europe, but our living standards have remained Ukrainian while prices have indeed matched their level in Europe.” (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

In Ukrainian candidate’s hometown, a cry for change

By YURAS KARMANAU - Associated Press

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and children burn leavened items in final preparation for the Passover holiday in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish town of Bnei Brak, Israel, Friday, April 19, 2019. Jews are forbidden to eat leavened foodstuffs during the Passover holiday that celebrates the biblical story of the Israelites' escape from slavery and exodus from Egypt. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Arson reported at Russia’s largest yeshiva during Passover

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Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan recently called for a review of the 2017 attack in Niger that killed four U.S. Green Berets and sparked a political backlash among lawmakers.
appears before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 11, 2019, on the proposed Space Force. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

U.S. boosting cyber defenses in face of Russian threat: Shanahan

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 16, 2017, file photo, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Army Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti arrives for a meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania. The deep chill in U.S.-Russian relations is stirring concern in some quarters that Washington and Moscow are in danger of stumbling into an armed confrontation that, by mistake or miscalculation, could lead to nuclear war. “During the Cold War, we understood each other’s signals. We talked,” says Scaparrotti, who is about to retire. “I’m concerned that we don’t know them as well today.” (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis, File)

US-Russia chill stirs worry about stumbling into conflict

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton talks with U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. during a meeting last month of the President's Interagency Task Force on human trafficking. "Human trafficking has become big business," says Mr. Holder. (Associated Press)

Hillary Clinton allies fed FBI Donald Trump-Russia stories

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

In this Dec. 15, 2000 file photo, Mirjana Markovic, the leader of the Yugoslav Left Alliance and the wife of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, gestures at a press conference, in Belgrade, Serbia. Serbia's state television says that Mirjana Markovic, the widow of former strongman Slobodan Milosevic, has died in Russia. She was 76, it was reported on Sunday, April 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

Widow of Serbian strongman Milosevic dies in Russia

By JOVANA GEC and DUSAN STOJANOVIC - Associated Press

In this May 18, 2018, file photo, Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir speaks during the extraordinary summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), in Istanbul, Turkey. Sudan's armed forces were to deliver an "important statement" and asked the nation to "wait for it" on Thursday, April 11, 2019, state TV reported, as two senior officials said the military had forced longtime President Omar al-Bashir to step down.(Presidential Press Service/Pool via AP, File) **FILE**

Russia may face blowback from Sudan misadventure

By L. Todd Wood

People look on as floodwaters from the South Fork of the Palouse River flow into a pedestrian bridge in downtown Pullman, Wash., on Tuesday, April 9, 2019. Heavy rains on the Palouse caused some rivers and streams in Southeast Washington and North Idaho to flood. (Pete Caster/Lewiston Tribune via AP)

Heavy rains create flooding in Washington, Oregon and Idaho

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