Head of Russian security forces joins White House talks

Despite strained US-Russian ties, the head of Russia's FSB security forces was Wednesday leading Moscow's delegation to a White House summit aimed at battling violent extremists, a US official said. Alexander Bortnikov, who heads the powerful intelligence agency, is one of the highest level Russian officials to visit Washington in recent months as tensions have flared over the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Moscow told Washington late Tuesday that it wanted to include Bortnikov in its de