Section: Free Malaysia Today (Malaysia)
US threatens sanctions over Russia-Germany gas pipeline
Gazprom chief Alexei Miller, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Engie chief Isabelle Kocher in Paris on April 24, 2017, after western partners of Russian giant Gazprom agreed on financing the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. (Reuters pic)FRANKFURT AM MAIN: The US ambassador to Germany has warned of sanctions against firms linked to the...
Trump rejects report that he hid details of Putin meetings
US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands on July 16, 2018 ahead of a meeting in Helsinki. (AFP pic)WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has rejected a Washington Post report that he has refused to share details of his conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin with top US government officials. Trump, in a...
FBI opened probe into whether Trump working for Russians
US President Donald Trump. (AFP pic)WASHINGTON: The Federal Bureau of Investigation opened an inquiry in 2017 into whether US President Donald Trump was working on behalf of Russia, The New York Times reported on Friday. The investigation — a dual counterintelligence and criminal probe — was launched after the president fired FBI director James...
Dutch to give free legal aid for MH17 claims
Malaysia Airlines MH17 was shot down over war-torn eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014, killing all 298 on board. (Reuters pic)THE HAGUE: Dutch officials will provide free legal advice to relatives of those killed in the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine for damages claims, the country’s justice minister said Monday. Justice Minister Ferd...
Russia detains American suspected of espionage
The headquarters of Russia’s FSB security service, which has opened a criminal case against a US citizen accused of spying. (AFP pic)MOSCOW: Russia said Monday its security services had detained a US citizen in Moscow accused of spying, the latest in a series of espionage cases between Russia and the West. The FSB domestic security service...
Poroshenko announces end to martial law in Ukraine
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko speaks during a press conference in Kiev on December 16, 2018 (AFP pic)KIEV: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday announced the end of martial law in the country’s border regions, which was introduced last month after Russia’s seizure of three of Kiev’s navy vessels in the Sea of...
Under pressure at home and abroad, Putin faces media
More than 1,700 journalists are expected during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual press conference in Moscow. (Bloomberg pic)MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin will face hundreds of journalists Thursday during his annual press conference, a bookend event to a year of tensions with the West and crisis with Ukraine. It also...
‘Thousands’ of EU diplomatic cables hacked
The NYT said that according to Area 1, the techniques used by the hackers over the course of three years were similar to those used by an elite Chinese military unit (AFP pic)BRUSSELS: Hackers apparently connected to China accessed thousands of sensitive EU diplomatic cables, the New York Times reported Wednesday, in the latest embarrassing data...
Kremlin rejects charges Russia targeted black US voters
Russian President Vladimir Putin (AFP pic)MOSCOW: The Kremlin on Tuesday rejected Washington’s accusations that Russia tried to disrupt the 2016 presidential vote and sought to demoralise African-Americans, calling the charges incomprehensible. According to a new report for the US Senate, the primary goal of Russia’s Internet Research...
Mueller and other probes posing risk for Trump
S President Donald Trump and former FBI Director Robert Mueller. (AFP pic)WASHINGTON: A special counsel investigation into possible collusion between Russia and the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump has already secured more than 30 indictments and guilty pleas and has spawned at least four federal probes. But that is not all that Trump...
