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Sunday's landslide election that handed victory to Russian President Vladimir Putin was "overly controlled" and "lacked genuine competition," international election monitors said Monday.

The Middle East today is poised between multiple wars fueling extremism and a burgeoning younger generation looking for a new start.

The UK has reached a joint legal agreement with the European Union on the legal terms of a Brexit transition deal, a milestone development in the tortured negotiations to extricate Britain from the bloc.

Vladimir Putin is set to extend his power in Russia for another six years after winning Sunday's presidential election with the majority of the vote, exit polls show.

In the beginning, there were signs and wonder.

As the final polls closed Sunday in Russia's presidential election, the state-run Russia Public Opinion Research Center released an exit poll that showed Vladimir Putin with a commanding lead of 73.95% of the vote.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday sloughed off the notion that Russia was behind the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter, saying "any sensible person would understand that this is delirium and nonsense, it is unthinkable that we would do such a thing."

After the weekend's election in Russia and the expected coronation of Vladimir Putin as president yet again, some 20% of the world's population and 17% of its entire land mass will could be ruled by two individuals serving, unchallenged, for life.

The US government has accused Russia of remotely targeting the US power grid, as part of its newly unveiled sanctions on the country.

CNN's Melissa Bell looks into the timeline behind the military grade nerve agent attack against former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yuilia in Salisbury on March 4.

A piano player living with memory loss shares how CNN Hero Carol Rosenstein's nonprofit band keeps the 'magic' of music in his life.

Novichok, a highly poisonous chemical, was designed by Russia during the Cold War and made to be undetectable by standard detection equipment.

Kitty Hawk, a startup backed by Google cofounder Larry Page, is testing its self-piloting flying taxi in New Zealand.

CNN's Bill Weir reports on Pope Francis' visit with Syrian refugees. Watch the new CNN Original Series "Pope: The Most Powerful Man in History," Sundays at 10 p.m. ET/PT.