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Russia and the U.S. have both been trying to win over African nations. A warrant for the Russian president's arrest may have given the U.S. an edge.

The White House has also said the report is false.

The Russian foreign minister said Thursday the U.S. was directly involved in the attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea.

"There was France and now there is no France," a Russian propagandist said on state TV. "Would anyone be upset about that?"

Volodymyr Zelensky put forward a 10-step "peace formula" during a virtual address to world leaders at the Group of 20 summit in Bali, Indonesia last month.

Most members of the G20 took the opportunity on Tuesday to condemn Russia's war against Ukraine.

"This, of course, is the height of fakery," Maria Zakharova, a spokesperson for Russia's Foreign Ministry, said in a statement.

Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan serves to divert attention from the "disaster" the U.S. "created with their own hands around Ukraine," a Russian official said.

The G20 meetings in Bali are expected to be dominated by tensions sparked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova called countries near Serbia closing airspace to Lavrov's plane "another closed channel of communication."

Russia's Foreign Ministry responded to Israeli statements condemning Lavrov for comparing Ukrainian President Zelensky, who is Jewish, to Adolf Hitler.

"It is an unforgivable, scandalous statement, a terrible historical mistake, and we expect an apology," Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the allegations could be a ruse to cover up aggressive intentions from Ukrainian leadership.

Bolton suggested that the Trump administration was ready to embrace a modern version of the Monroe Doctrine.

The threat of proxy conflict involving Washington and Moscow increases.

Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the U.S. is "illegally trying to create a quasi-state" for Kurds in eastern Syria.

Senior Russian officials made the comments in a national newspaper.

The foreign ministers of both countries took aim at each other.

Ethiopia was awkward for the secretary of state.

Moscow's top diplomat has told Europeans to be wary of siding with "the only state" to use nuclear arms in wartime.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said his country is willing to help with arrangements.

Russia once again billed itself as a potential peace broker, but insider reports suggested that North Korea had been rebuffing U.S. diplomacy, not the other way around.

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs promised to hand over evidence of the alleged attempts to U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

Russia said the U.S. has not gone far enough to condemn "terrorists and extremists" among the Syrian opposition.

Pyongyang is violating U.N. resolutions with its nuclear program, Russia's foreign minister says, though Moscow disagrees with the U.S. on how to stop it.

Russia's foreign minister said the U.S. only attacked Iraq after being "100 percent" sure it had no weapons of mass destruction and therefore wouldn't attack North Korea.

Russia's foreign minister said the two presidents could have met "much more" than we know.

By Trump Jr.'s own admission, he expected Azerbaijani businessman Aras Agalarov to supply him with incriminating evidence against Clinton, via a middleman.

The invasion of Crimea vies with interference in the US election as the number one topic.

The daily reports that enthusiastically followed Trump's every step are long gone.