Veteran CIA officer Gina Haspel is sworn in as the agency's first female director, hailing the "heroines" who went before her and expressing hope she and her team would be "role models."

CIA Director Mike Pompeo says Russia will target US mid-term elections later this year as part of the Kremlin's attempt to influence domestic politics across the West, and warns the world has to do more to push back against Chinese meddling.

The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been criticised online for live-tweeting the killing of Osama Bin Laden as it happened five years ago.