Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender and financier who rubbed shoulders with some of the world’s most powerful people, was a Mossad asset who was utilized by Israeli intelligence to blackmail U.S. politicians, a former Israeli spy has alleged. Ari Ben-Menashe, a former Israeli spy and alleged “handler” of Robert Maxwell, has told the authors of the new book “Epstein: Dead Men Tell No... 

The Russian Foreign Ministry said 23 UK diplomats must leave Russia in response to Britain’s “provocative actions and groundless accusations” over ex-double agent Sergei Skripal’s poisoning. The British Council will also be shut. Britain’s ambassador to Russia, Laurie Bristow, was summoned to the Foreign Ministry on Saturday morning, where he was informed of Moscow’s response to London’s...