Russia has placed Ireland on a new 'adoption blacklist' after diplomats said more than 50 families failed to provide post-placement reports on the welfare of the child they adopted.

RUSSIA’S foreign minister has urged that child adoptions to the US be frozen after an American woman put an eight-year-old Russian boy she had adopted on a one-way flight back to Moscow unaccompanied.

Russia’s foreign minister today urged that child adoptions to the US are frozen after an American woman put an eight-year-old Russian boy she had adopted on a one-way flight back to Moscow unaccompanied.