Moscow is said to have pitched sweeping business opportunities to figures close to US President Donald Trump as part of efforts to secure relief from American sanctions.

MOSCOW, Feb 20 (Reuters) - American financier Gentry Beach, who has ties to U.S. President Donald Trump's family, signed an agreement with Russia’s energy giant Novatek last autumn to develop natural gas in Alaska amid Western sanctions against Russia,

The President had a decade-long bromance with his Russian counterpart and is thankfully changing tack, writes Michael McFaul.

Zelenskyy says Ukraine will "take corresponding steps" as Trump says Putin agreed to stop bombing Ukrainian cities for a week.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the BBC in an interview this week that she doesn't give President Trump "credit" for getting European countries to increase defense spending to NATO levels.

The major German cities along the river Rhine - Cologne, Dusseldorf and Mainz - were holding their annual irreverent and deeply satirical Carnival parades on Monday, poking fun at political figures

From Donald Trump to Vladimir Putin, no-one is safe when Germans celebrate carnival with floats that satirise politicians.

Hillary Clinton fumed President Trump is "modeling" himself after Vladimir Putin and has "betrayed the West" since returning to the White House while in Munich