Speaking during a joint news conference following talks at his Black Sea residence, Putin said accusations of meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election were “simply rumors” that are being used as part of the political fight in Washington.
U.S. intelligence agencies say they have definitive evidence that Russia was behind the hacking of Democratic email accounts, with the aim of benefiting Donald Trump’s campaign and harming his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
The peace deal brokered by Germany and France in 2015 has helped reduce the scale of the fighting between Russia-backed rebels and Ukrainian forces, but violence has continued and attempts …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
