Internet giant Google on Saturday yielded to the pressure from the Russian government and decided to remove videos featuring the country's main opposition leader from its popular video-sharing platform YouTube after the Kremlin accused the corporation of attempting to interfere in its electoral process.

As countries over the world including India face elections amid the spread of fake news and political interference on social media platforms, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has asked for some more time to fix his network that has over two billion users.

Former Donald Trump adviser whose remarks in a London pub sparked the US inquiry into possible collusion with Russia has been sentenced to 14 days in jail.

British Security Minister Ben Wallace on Thursday said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is "ultimately responsible" for the deadly Salisbury nerve agent attack as a result of his firm grip on the Russian state.

British Prime Minister Theresa May's statement over the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia was "absolutely unacceptable," the Russian Foreign Ministry has said. "It contains a number of peremptory accusations against Russia and two of our citizens. We strongly reject these insinuations," the ministry said on Wednesday in a statement, Xinhua news agency reported. Traces of the deadly nerve agent Novichok used in the attack have been found in a London hotel, May told MPs on Wednesday in the House of Commons. She said in an official statement that the British police and intelligence agencies have identified two Russian nationals they believe were responsible for the attack in March in the British city of Salisbury which left Sergei and Yulia fighting for their lives. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Rossiya-1 TV channel that Britain should provide fingerprints of the suspects to Interpol as these people allegedly from Russia must have received British visas. The poisoning case triggered a diplomatic crisis with Russia and Western countries mutually expelling a large number of diplomats.

India-based Space Era Materials and Processes and Russias KRET, a part of Russian state corporation Rostec, have signed an agreement to set up a service centre for military aviation in Hyderabad.

Four Russian jets have bombed positions of Nusra Front in Syria's Idlib province, Russian Defence Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

Two Russian nationals have been named on Wednesday as suspects in the poisoning of a former spy and his daughter, police said.

The Islamic State is seeking alternative sources of finance after its revenues from the sale of oil and collection of taxes from the population in Syria and Iraq shrunk drastically, a senior Russian security official said Monday.

Maintaining the membership of the Russian Biathlon Union (RBU) with the International Biathlon Union (IBU) is the most important task on the present-day agenda, Russian biathlete and coach Alexander Privalov said on Monday.