Putin’s spy chief holds phone call with CIA director

Putin’s spy chief holds phone call with CIA director

ByFarhan Hameed Qaiser

The heads of US and Russian spy agencies have spoken by phone and agreed to keep up regular contacts to lower the temperature in US-Russia relations, news reports said on Wednesday. In the first such contact in several years, CIA chief John Ratcliffe and the head of Russia’s external intelligence agency SVR Sergei Naryshkin spoke…

Putin issues nuclear warning to the West over strikes on Russia from Ukraine

Putin issues nuclear warning to the West over strikes on Russia from Ukraine

ByFarhan Hameed Qaiser

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday announced plans to broaden Russia’s rules on the use of its nuclear weaponry, allowing it to unleash a nuclear response in the event of a “massive” air attack. Under the proposed rules, Russia would also consider any attack by a non-nuclear country supported by a nuclear power as a…