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Robert Mueller said on May 29 his two-year Russia investigation had not exonerated Donald Trump, but that he had lacked the power to charge a sitting president -- passing the baton to Congress where a growing chorus is clamoring for impeachment.

Cyprus' attorney general's office says it has asked police to launch a criminal investigation against officials whose actions contributed to the demise of the island nation's Co-operative Bank.
The Attorney General's Office said Friday its assessment of the findings of an inquiry into how the bank unraveled merits a criminal investigation.

Congressional Democrats moved closer on May 6 to citing Attorney General William Barr for contempt of Congress over his failure to give them an unredacted version of the Mueller report, escalating a showdown with the White House.

Defying the U.S. Congress, Attorney General William Barr announced that he would not attend a U.S. House Judiciary Committee hearing on May 2 on his handling of the Mueller report, said committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, accusing Barr of being afraid to testify.

U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller complained in a letter to Attorney General William Barr that his four-page summary of Mueller's Russia report "did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance" of the investigation's conclusions, the Washington Post reported on April 30.

U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller in May 2017 to investigate links between the Russian government and President Donald Trump's campaign, said on April 29 he was resigning from his post.

Top congressional Democrats left the door open on April 21 to the impeachment of U.S. President Donald Trump, but said they would first need to complete their own investigations into whether he obstructed justice in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.

President Donald Trump has issued an ominous warning about the Justice Department and the FBI, promising further firings to get rid of a "lingering stench" following reports that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein discussed secretly recording the president.

Romania's ambassador to Washington, George Maior, a former director of the Romanian intelligence service, faces an uncertain future after MPs grilled him on Wednesday in parliament over his statements about former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and his lobbying activities.

George Papadopoulos, a Greek-American foreign-policy adviser to Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, was sentenced to 14 days in jail for lying to investigators about his contacts with a UK professor peddling dirt from Russian officials about Hillary Clinton.