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Meanwhile, two US drone strikes killed at least four people, suspected to be al-Qaeda members, in the Yashbum Valley in Yemen's southern province of Shabwah.
A separate drone strike also hit an area in the eastern parts of the Shaqra town in the southern province of Abyan. However, there were no immediate reports of possible casualties from the latter strike.
On the question of the pressure Russia has been under, during his meeting with the FSB President Putin made this quite extraordinary comment:Counterintelligence services also face greater demands today. Operational data show that foreign intelligence services' activity in Russia has not decreased. Last year, our counterintelligence services put a stop to the work of 53 foreign intelligence officers and 386 agents. ...It bears saying that over the course of the whole hysterical scandal in the US about the DNC and Podesta leaks, the fake "Trump Dossier", and the telephone conversation between the Russian ambassador and General Flynn, not a single person has so far been arrested or charged with anything. Yet here we have President Putin blandly saying that over the same period that this wave of hysteria and scandal has been underway in the US, the FSB in Russia has "stopped the work of 53 foreign intelligence officers and 386 agents".
"[I]t's used to avoid confronting the fact that Trump is a by-product of the extraordinary and systemic failure of the Democratic Party. As long as the Russia story enables pervasive avoidance of self-critique - one of the things humans least like to do - it will continue to resonate no matter its actual substance and value."
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