Angered by expanded U.S. sanctions, Russia on Wednesday cancelled a high-level meeting between Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov and U.S. With two weeks to go, a senior White House official said no plans for a bilateral meeting had been finalized. Trump's first five months in office have been dogged by a controversy over whether his campaign team colluded with Russia. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in the Oval Office of the White House, June 20. Reinforcing existing sanctionsThe new sanctions only reinforced existing sanctions, which have been updated twice a year since they were first imposed, the department said.

Source: CBC News June 21, 2017 22:07 UTC