Putin in rare apology over foreign minister Sergei Lavrov’s claim Hitler had ‘Jewish blood’

 Russia’s president has issued a rare apology after backtracking on his foreign minister’s claim that Adolf Hitler had “Jewish blood”. In a phonecall to Israel’s prime minister Naftali Bennett, the Kremlin’s leader said sorry after fury was sparked earlier in the week.  Bennett had condemned the “lies” by Russia’s Sergey Lavrov, while foreign minister Yair [...]