Obama, Turkish PM call for Syria's Assad to resign

 Obama, Turkish PM call for Syria's Assad to resign.

At a joint news conference after talks in Washington on Thursday, US President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) called on Syria's Bashar al-Assad to end the country's bloody civil war by stepping down.

Russia expels U.S. diplomat accused in spy scandal

Russia expels a U.S. diplomat they say was caught red-handed with disguises, special equipment and wads of cash as he tried to recruit a Russian intelligence agent to work for the CIA.

Russia detains US diplomat suspected of CIA recruitment

A suspected CIA agent has been arrested in Moscow trying to recruit a Russian security officer. The man was reportedly posing as third secretary in the U.S. Embassy's Political Department

US government 'seized AP phone records

US government reportedly secretly seized telephone records of reporters and offices belonging to Associated Press news agency for a two-month period last year.

AP described on Monday the action, which targeted its correspondents, as a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into news-gathering operations.

Gary Pruitt AP Chief Executive said in a letter posted on the agency's website that AP was informed last Friday that the Justice Department gathered records for more than 20 phone lines assigned to the agency and its reporters.