The Thursday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Dec. 29
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U.S. SANCTIONS RUSSIA OVER ALLEGED ELECTION INTERFERENCE: The Obama administration announced the new sanctions Thursday in reaction to what it claims was Russian interference in November’s presidential election. The U.S. is expelling 35 Russian diplomats and closing two Russian compounds. The foreign affairs committee chairman of the Russian parliament’s upper chamber says Russia will see what president-elect Donald Trump has to say about U.S. sanctions before stating retaliatory measures of its own. Konstantin Kosachev says Russia “needs to consider the circumstances of the transition period and a possible reaction of the U.S. president-elect.”
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