Australia has also joined the US and the UK in blaming Russia for the cyber attacks

Watch: US, Britain blame Russia for global cyber attack

Assad, backed by Russia and Iran, is seeking to wipe out the last few rebel enclaves near Damascus

Syrian rebels withdraw from enclave northeast of Damascus

Trump and Putin spoke by phone on March 20.

Russia says Trump invited Putin to US during phone call

Russia claims that the child was made to pose as a victim of chemical weapons in Syria

Child's interview before UN will prove Douma chemical attack was 'staged': Russia

Rusal is also encountering problems because of the sanctions affecting the overseas operations

Unsold aluminium piling up at sanctions-hit Rusal factory: Sources

Kudlow said of Haley on Tuesday: She's doing a great job, she's a very effective ambassador. There might have been some momentary confusion about that

I don't get confused: Nikki Haley fires back at Kudlow over Russia

Russia’s Roskomnadzor watchdog began blocking Telegram, a messaging service popular in Russia, on Monday after it refused to comply with a court order to grant state security services access to its users’ encrypted messages

Russia blocks Google, Amazon IP addresses in bid to ban Telegram

UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin has expressed concern over the decision to employ the video replay system (VAR) at the 2018 World Cup

UEFA president 'worried' over use of VAR at World Cup

The US added the Russians or Syrians may have tampered with evidence on the ground in Douma

Russia blocking international inspectors from reaching suspected Syria chemical attack site: US

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The bear, named 'Tima', performed gestures and handed the match ball to the referee before the third-tier match between FC Mashuk-KMV and FC Angusht

Watch: Bear 'performs' at soccer match, causes worldwide outrage

The Russian envoy to India, Nikolay Kudashev, said today that Pakistan has taken "serious measures" to curb terror financing and shown the desire to be a part of global and regional efforts to fight the menace

Pakistan has taken 'serious measures' to curb terror funding: Russian envoy to India

Putin made his remarks in a telephone conversation with Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani after the United States, France and Britain launched missile strikes on Syria on Saturday over a suspected poison gas attack

Russia's Putin predicts global 'chaos' if West hits Syria again

Haley said that the sanctions would be announced Monday by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin

US preparing new sanctions on Russia over Syria, says Nikki Haley

A visit by chemical weapons inspectors to the site of a suspected gas attack in Syria was delayed on Monday, British and Russian officials said, as Western powers and Russia traded accusations in the aftermath of retaliatory US-led missile strikes

Inspectors' visit to suspected Syria gas attack site delayed

Macron had said Ankara's support of missile strikes on Syria showed it had "separated" from Russia.

Our ties with Russia too strong to be broken by Macron: Turkey

A head-spinning series of events in the past few weeks have taken us from the United States pulling out of Syria, to analysts predicting the beginning of a third world war

Opinion: Further strikes on Syria unlikely - but Trump is always the wild card

Assad met a group of Russian lawmakers in Damascus on Sunday after the West launched missile strikes against Syria

Assad's children visited Crimean holiday camp: Russian lawmaker

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday the nerve agent used to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Britain could have been the BZ substance - which was never produced in the Soviet Union or Russia

Russia's Lavrov says Skripals may have been poisoned by substance Russia never made

Earlier on Saturday Russia called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council

Western strikes on Syria 'unacceptable and lawless': Sergei Lavrov

Putin said the US action in Syria made the humanitarian catastrophe worse and caused pain for civilians, as well as damaging international relations.

Putin condemns strike on Syria, calls for emergency UN meeting

The prospect of Western military action in Syria that could lead to confrontation with Russia hung over the Middle East on Friday but there was no clear sign that a US-led attack was imminent

Threat of US-Russia clash hangs over Syria

White House spokesperson said Trump held Russia and Syria responsible for the chemical attack and denied that his Twitter comments had created any problem.

After Trump missile threats, White House says no timetable for action on Syria

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