Former Trump aide who pleaded guilty to perjury over his contacts with Russians in the run up to the presidential election may have become a liability for the White House, but is now a ticking time bomb for those he encountered both within Greece, and abroad.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed the ongoing civil war in Syria over the phone on Oct. 28, according to a Turkish presidential source.

A government source on Thursday denied claims made in a recently published book on French President Francois Hollande, according to which Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras may have asked Russian President Vladimir Putin for assistance in order to print a Greek currency.