Riyadh is interested in buying more grain from Russia, including wheat, says the Russian agriculture watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor.

According to the watchdog, the Saudi Arabia Grains Organization showed interest in Russian grain during a meeting in October. A Russian delegation visited Saudi Arabia in June to discuss a possible deal that would make the kingdom's grain imports more diversified.

"The Saudi side has expressed an interest in importing Russian wheat, soybeans, sunflower and fodder grain. This is in addition to the traditional imports of barley," said the watchdog in a statement.

American businesses in China will suffer if US president-elect Donald Trump fulfills his promise to levy huge tariffs on Chinese goods, a state-run newspaper warns.

"A batch of Boeing orders will be replaced by Airbus. US auto and iPhone sales in China will suffer a setback, and US soybean and maize imports will be halted. China can also limit the number of Chinese students studying in the US," said an opinion piece in the Beijing-run Global Times newspaper, quoted by CNBC. During his election campaign, Trump said he would consider imposing a 45 percent tariff on Chinese goods. "They're devaluing their currency, and they're killing our companies. We are letting them get away with it, and we can't let them get away with it," Trump said in January.

The Chinese newspaper added that in 2009 Barack Obama's administration imposed a 35 percent tariff on Chinese tires. In a tit-for-tat response, Beijing hiked tariffs on US car parts and chicken. The paper added that Trump was a "shrewd businessman" and unlikely to start a trade war with China, but said if he does so, it would have consequences.

"The new president will be condemned for his recklessness, ignorance and incompetence and bear all the consequences. We are very suspicious the trade war scenario is a trap set up by some American media to trip up the new president," the Global Times said. On Sunday, Trump talked by phone to Chinese President Xi Jinping. According to Trump's transition team, the leaders established a clear sense of mutual respect for one another, and "will have one of the strongest relationships for both countries moving forward."

In the second setback for Angela Merkel in the last few days, Frank-Walter Steinmeier Set for German Presidency against the chancellor's wishes.

Steinmeier is a Social Democrat, not a member of Merkel's CDU/CSU alliance.

Angela Merkel, German chancellor, has suffered a political setback by accepting that foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, a candidate from the rival Social Democrat party, should be the country's next president.

Mr Steinmeier is likely to be voted into the largely honorary post with reluctant backing from the chancellor's conservative CDU/CSU alliance, which has failed to find a suitable candidate.

The decision will rob Germany of an experienced and respected foreign minister at a time of tension in international politics, with the US set for policy changes after Donald Trump's election; the UK facing an exit from the EU; and Russia asserting its power on the EU's eastern flanks.

The choice of Mr Steinmeier is a rare political victory for Sigmar Gabriel, leader of the social democratic SPD, ahead of next year's parliamentary elections. Both ruling parties in the coalition headed by Ms Merkel will be under pressure in the poll from the rightwing populist Alternative for Germany, which has won support during the refugee crisis.

While Mr Steinmeier's removal from frontline politics will deprive the social democrats of a popular figure in the parliamentary campaign, Mr Gabriel appears to have calculated that it is better to be able to point to a victory before next year's election battle.

If the move is confirmed, Mr Steinmeier, 60, would take over from Joachim Gauck, a 76-year-old former east German pastor who is retiring at the end of his five-year presidential term.

Ms Merkel wanted a conservative but her favourite, Norbert Lammert, the Bundestag speaker, declined.

While the procedure for choosing a president means the CDU/CSU might have been able to block Mr Steinmeier, Ms Merkel seems to have decided that such an outcome would be undesirable for a post meant to unite all Germans and that she did not want to be blamed for such a result.

The Russian military has launched a large-scale operation against terrorists stationed in Homs and Idlib provinces of Syria, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on Tuesday.

"Today at 10:30 and 11:00 we launched a large-scale operation against the positions of Islamic State and Al-Nusra [terrorist groups] in the provinces of Idlib and Homs," Shoigu said at a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the top leadership of the Russian Armed Forces.

The 'Admiral Kuznetsov' aircraft carrier, the flagship of the Russian Navy, is also taking part, Shoigu said. This is the first time the 'Admiral Kuznetsov' has taken part in a military operation. Sukhoi Su-33 fighter jets have been launched from the deck of the carrier, the defense minister said.

The UK government has refused to stop arms sales to Saudi Arabia, rejecting calls by two parliamentary committees and human rights groups to cease its multibillion-dollar military aid, which critics claim is fueling the war in Yemen.

Noting that the UK defense industry is "hugely successful and an important part of our export portfolio," the Foreign Office said that the Gulf is a "crucial market for defense exports, in particular Saudi Arabia, to which over 30 percent of all UK arms export licenses in 2015 were approved."

"As we move towards expanding our military presence and relationships in the Gulf, we would expect defense exports to that region to have a key role to play," four Cabinet ministers stressed in a joint statement.

"The UK government takes its arms export licensing responsibilities very seriously and operates one of the most robust arms export control regimes in the world," the statement read, adding that the government could point to its "robust licensing regime as evidence that its arms export practices are responsible."

"The government is confident in its robust case-by-case assessment and is satisfied that extant licenses for Saudi Arabia are compliant with the UK's export licensing criteria," the Foreign Office stated, repeating the epithet "robust" at least six times to make its point.

The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained five members of a group associated with the Islamic State terrorist group, who are believed to have been preparing to carry out terrorist attacks in Moscow and the southern Russian Republic of Ingushetia.

The group was created by an Islamic State emissary who was eliminated during a special operation in Ingushetia in early October, FSB press service reports, as cited by Russian news agencies.

"Russia's FSB... has suppressed the activity of the group, which was designed to commit crimes of a terrorist and extremist nature on the territory of Ingushetia and Moscow and is connected with the international terrorist Islamic State organization,"the FSB reported.

Five members of the gang were detained in houses where they took refuge. The FSB has found an arsenal that included, among other things, five trunks of firearms, two ready-made improvised explosive devices (each equivalent to about 10 kilograms of TNT), and the components of a sniper rifle.

German police have launched a large-scale operation targeting Islamists across ten German federal states, the country's Interior Ministry (Bundesministeriums des Innern) reported on Tuesday.

Three million votes in the U.S. presidential election were cast by illegal aliens, according to Greg Phillips of the VoteFraud.org organization. If true, this would mean that Donald Trump still won the contest despite widespread vote fraud and almost certainly won the popular vote.

"We have verified more than three million votes cast by non-citizens," tweeted Phillips after reporting that the group had completed an analysis of a database of 180 million voter registrations.

We have verified more than three million votes cast by non-citizens.
We are joining .@TrueTheVote to initiate legal action. #unrigged
— Gregg Phillips (@JumpVote) November 13, 2016

"Number of non-citizen votes exceeds 3 million. Consulting legal team," he added.

Completed analysis of database of 180 million voter registrations.
Number of non-citizen votes exceeds 3 million.
Consulting legal team.
— Gregg Phillips (@JumpVote) November 11, 2016

According to current indications, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by around 630,000 votes, although around 7 million ballots remain uncounted.

Virtually all of the votes cast by 3 million illegal immigrants are likely to have been for Hillary Clinton, meaning Trump might have won the popular vote when this number is taken into account.

Vote fraud using ballots cast in the name of dead people and illegal alien voters was a huge concern before the election. On the morning of the election there were 4 million dead people on U.S. voter rolls.

With the growing tensions between Russia and the West hitting the headlines, Moscow and Athens continue to develop their bilateral relationship in all areas.

On November 1-2, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visited the friendly country - a NATO and EU member. He met with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and his Greek counterpart, Mr. Nikolaos Kotzias. 2016 is a cross-cultural year marked by two important dates: 185 years from the date of tragic demise of Ioannis Kapodistrias, a Greek Foreign Minister of the Russian Empire and one of the most distinguished politicians and diplomats of Europe, and the 1,000-year presence of Russian monks in the northern Greek peninsula (the autonomous Orthodox Christian monastic sanctuary of Mount Athos).

The visit was part of a special program to develop friendship between the two Greek Orthodox nations, including about 170 events in culture, science, education, tourism, sport, economy and trade. The 190th anniversary of the Sea Battle of Navarino, where the Russian fleet aided in the liberation of Greece from the Ottoman Empire, will be marked next year.

President-elect Donald Trump has promised to deport or incarcerate "probably two million," or even three million "criminal" illegal immigrants, once he takes office.

The businessman will appear on CBS's '60 Minutes' on Sunday night in his first television interview since winning the election to discuss the plans of the 45th president of the US.

CBS has released a number of clips from the interview. An excerpt was shown on Face the Nation Sunday in which Trump answered questions from Lesley Stahl about his campaign promises on immigration and that wall.

"What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, where a lot of these people, probably two million, it could be even three million, we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate," he said. "But we're getting them out of our country, they're here illegally."