The U.S., Canada and more than a dozen European Union states expelled scores of Russian diplomats, intelligence officers and other officials Monday, as a deepening rift between Moscow and the West raises tensions to levels not seen since the Cold War. The ejections are a response to the poisoning in the U.K. of a former Russian spy and his daughter, an act that Western countries say was likely carried out by Moscow. The loss of the personnel could seriously hamper Russia’s ability to gather intelligence on the U.S. and its...

Source: Wall Street Journal March 26, 2018 13:34 UTC