WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Donald Trump brushed aside concerns over his wooing of Russia on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) and laid on a White House welcome for Moscow’s top diplomat to seek help to end the war in Syria.

As Washington reeled at the dismissal of FBI chief James Comey, who had been probing Russia’s alleged interference in the US election, a beaming Trump met Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

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