Vanished chief operating officer of fraud-hit payments group hinted at secret service links

Donald Trump has called for the extradition of a former MI6 agent Christopher Steele who was behind a controversial dossier about his alleged links to Russia.

Federal prosecutors urged a judge to reject a home confinement request by Ghislaine Maxwell, the confidant of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, saying she is skilled at hiding and had wrapped a cell phone in foil to attempt to evade detection by authorities.

If U.S. press reports are right, it would seem you could buy anything here, even killers. But the bazaaris—and the Kremlin—have a different version.

A prominent state-backed Russian hacking group was blamed by U.S., U.K. and Canadian government officials for ongoing cyber espionage against organizations involved in the development of coronavirus vaccines and other health-care-related work.

As we begin our coverage of the case against Ghislaine Maxwell, this story, by Paul Serran, will help readers get a good background on Maxwell, including her curious relationships with her father a…

Scores of Russia’s business and political elite have been given early access to an experimental vaccine against Covid-19, according to people familiar with the effort, as the country races to be among the first to develop an inoculation.

Russian efforts to interfere in the British political system were widely ignored by successive governments, according to a long-awaited report by Parliament.

The long-awaited report into the extent to which Russia has tried to influence UK democracy has been released - here are the key points

WASHINGTON (AP) — Russian intelligence services are using a trio of English-language websites to spread disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, seeking to exploit a crisis that America is struggling to contain ahead of the presidential election in…

The revelation is laid out in a new bipartisan congressional report that was released on Wednesday following a two-year investigation.

The report outlines the five pillars of Russia's disinformation and propaganda ecosystem and how these pillars work together to create a media multiplier effect. Russia’s disinformation presents a threat, but it does not stand unopposed. The U.S. government…

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The violence appeared aimed at scaring off protesters who have taken to the streets since Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, an authoritarian, claimed victory in last weekend’s election.

Christopher Steele, the author of the (in)famous Trump dossier, is right to say Britain has been ‘behind the curve’ when it comes to combating the threat posed by Russia. The UK’s political parties are being targeted by the Kremlin, he told Tory MP Damian…

He’s been called the “poster boy for the American Dream” — and for good reason. An immigrant kid from Brooklyn, he became general manager of a Nobody Beats the Wiz electronics store at 17. The business journal Inc. crowned his credit card processing business…

Russia used Republican political operative Paul Manafort and the WikiLeaks website to try to help now-U.S. President Donald Trump win the 2016 election, a Republican-led Senate committee said in its final review of the matter on Tuesday.

The president and his allies fell for—and amplified—a Kremlin disinformation plot.