Section: Free Malaysia Today (Malaysia)
Trump and Putin not due to meet before Trump’s inauguration – Kremlin
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump are not due to meet before Trump assumes office on Jan. 20, 2017, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. The two men spoke by phone on Monday night and agreed to work together towards “constructive cooperation”, including on fighting terrorism. Trump had previously spoken of...
Poroshenko ‘sure’ Trump supports Ukraine against Russia
STOCKHOLM: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Monday said he has “no doubt” that president-elect Donald Trump will refuse to recognise Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and will cooperate with his country. “Not one state in the world, except it seems to me North Korea and Venezuela, recognises Crimea,” Poroshenko told a joint news...
Billionaire moguls elected to power
PARIS: Donald Trump, the real estate mogul, reality TV star and US president-elect whose worth Forbes estimates at $3.7 billion, joins an ultra-elite group of billionaire business tycoons who have come to power through the ballot box. Other political leaders who first made fortunes in businesses from chocolates to telecoms include: ITALY: Media...
World leaders take stock of Trump win
PARIS: Politicians worldwide took stock Wednesday of Donald Trump’s shock US election victory, with the president-elect winning praise from far-right figures and cautious welcome from key US allies. European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini : “EU-US ties are deeper than any change in politics. We’ll continue to work...
Dutch royals lay tributes for MH17 victims, war dead in Australia
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands place sunflowers at the MH17 Memorial at Parliament House in Canberra. CANBERRA: King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands laid sunflowers at a memorial in the Australian capital on Wednesday for victims of the Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 shot down over Ukraine two years...
Russia has given MH17 radar data to Netherlands
MOSCOW: Russia has handed over to the Netherlands raw radar data from the area where Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was downed over rebel-held eastern Ukraine in 2014, Moscow confirmed Thursday. “We gave the Dutch side raw radar data which we discovered a month ago,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told AFP. She spoke after Dutch...
Clinton accuses Trump of being Putin’s ‘puppet’
LAS VEGAS: Democrat Hillary Clinton accused Republican presidential rival Donald Trump on Wednesday of being a “puppet” for Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose country has been accused by U.S. intelligence officials of meddling in the U.S. election. Putin has been repeatedly thrust into the campaign for the Nov. 8 U.S. election. Trump has...
Two Russians, one American blast off to ISS
BAIKONUR: Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut soared into orbit in a Soyuz spacecraft Wednesday at the start of a two-day journey to the International Space Station. NASA’s Shane Kimbrough and Andrei Borisenko and Sergei Ryzhikov of Roscosmos blasted off at 0805 GMT from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan after their launch had...
Obama: Trump’s ‘unpredecented’ flattery of Putin ‘out-of-step’
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama on Tuesday slammed Donald Trump’s “flattery” of Russia’s Vladimir Putin as “unprecedented” and “out of step” with both Democrats and rank-and-file Republicans. The Republican presidential nominee has repeatedly voiced admiration for the Russian president — notably calling him a better leader than...
Putin cancels visit to Paris in Syria row
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday cancelled a visit to France in a furious row over Moscow’s role in the Syrian conflict. The announcement from the Kremlin came a day after French President Francois Hollande said Syrian forces had committed a “war crime” in the battered city of Aleppo with the support of Russian air strikes. Putin...
