Russian captain could so easily have lined out in a green jersey after his time in Ireland

Questions remain about WikiLeaks, Russian social media and what role did the White House have in Cohen’s false testimony?

Talks about a Trump hotel in Moscow continued into 2016 campaign, says Cohen

Two leaders hold two hours of one-on-one talks in Helsinki

Government gives ‘undeclared intelligence officers’ seven days to leave country

US treasury outlines variety of ‘nefarious attacks’, including interference in 2016 election

Coveney says attack on Skripals ‘cowardly’ but his statement does not mention Russia

Martin Wolf: autocracy versus democracy is the defining clash of our times

Russia’s top election body rules to formally bar anti-corruption crusader

Ireland and UK exempt from allowing Ukrainian nationals to visit without visa

‘It started as a joke. The world underestimated him’ - El Universal, Mexico

David Cameron says Andrea Leadsom made right decision to pull out of leadership race

Russia is unlikely to compensate the families of 298 people who died in crash over Ukraine

EU agricultural commissioner says 2016 will be ‘year of action’

Police investigation concludes it was Lugovoi and Kovtun who poisoned the Russian spy

US president warns of ‘wrong-headed desire to recreate glories of Soviet empire’

Russian billionaire with instinct for survival increasingly looking to invest outside country

Claim and counterclaim: Kiev accuses Russian-backed rebels of lethal rocket strike

Sergey Lavrov attacks US ‘obsession’ with global dominance and EU’s ‘connivance’ in region

Thousands put at risk from radioactive material after spy was poisoned

Moscow dismisses as ‘fantasy’ claims that its armoured vehicles had entered Ukraine

US president says it is hard to imagine how London could benefit from leaving

Putin says ‘there are no Russian agents in Ukraine’

At the behest of colleagues, I reluctantly joined up

France, Britain, US say UN findings point to Syrian government, and not opposition, behind attack

Secretary of state John Kerry says ‘threat of force is real’ if Syria does not comply with plan to hand over weapons

If verdict is upheld, charismatic leader Alexei Navalny will not stand for election