The head of Britain's foreign intelligence agency has thanked Russian state television for encouraging Russians to spy for the U.K. after it broadcast part of a speech he gave calling on Russians to join hands with British intelligence.

Ghislaine Maxwell is off to Florida to serve a 20-year prison sentence for helping financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls.

Some Russian prisons might be mistaken for vacation destinations based on their nicknames, which include animal appellations such as the Black Dolphin and the Polar Owl.

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has lost a substantial amount of weight in custody, his organization says.

It has not been verified by the agencies, and spokespeople for the Justice Department and FBI declined to comment. A US official told CNN on Thursday that Byrne met earlier this year with Justice Department officials and shared with them similar information about a romantic relationship with Butina encouraged by the FBI. 'We are the good guys, we don't work like the bad guys, but we need to ask you to rekindle a romantic relationship with Maria Butina.' But she said she was skeptical about his claim that the bureau later encouraged him to have a "romantic relationship" with Butina. But if the FBI had asked him to have a romantic relationship, "that to me seems incredibly suspect only because there is a lot of legal liability that's involved with that.