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Dutch police seize MH17 crash debris from reporter
AMSTERDAM: Dutch police have taken items from a journalist here, including possible human remains, which he found at the crash site of flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine, prosecutors said Sunday. …read more Source: The...
Trump blasts anti-Russian ‘fools’
WASHINGTON: President-elect Donald Trump condemned Russia critics today, calling those who oppose better relations with Moscow “stupid” people and “fools” in his latest Twitter tirade. His attack comes a day after he met the country’s leading intelligence agency chiefs – including the director of national...
Dutch police seize MH17 crash debris from reporter
THE HAGUE: Dutch police have taken from a journalist items, including possible human remains, which he found at the crash site of flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine, prosecutors said Sunday. Freelancer Michel Spekkers was met by police as he returned to Schiphol airport late Saturday after visiting the region and writing an article about his...
Trumps lambasts ‘fools’ who oppose better Russia ties
WASHINGTON: President-elect Donald Trump condemned Russia critics on Saturday, calling those who oppose better relations with Moscow “stupid” people and “fools” in his latest Twitter tirade. His attack comes a day after the Republican president-elect met the country’s leading intelligence agency chiefs — including the director of national...
Trump picks Dan Coats for intelligence director
WASHINGTON: President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday formally announced former Indiana Senator Dan Coats as his pick for US director of national intelligence. A mild-mannered former ambassador to Germany who also served on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Coats was widely tipped for the job coordinating 16 intelligence and security agencies — a...
Trump picks Dan Coats for intelligence director
Dan Coats was one of six US legislators and three White House aides blacklisted by Moscow in 2014 in reprisal for US sanctions placed on the country. – AFP file photo WASHINGTON: President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday formally announced former Indiana Senator Dan Coats as his pick for US director of national intelligence. A mild-mannered former...
Le Pen to push for ‘Frexit’ if EU refuses to cede powers
PARIS: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen pledged Friday she would campaign for France to leave the EU unless Brussels agreed to return full powers to control immigration and economic policy to member states. The presidential candidate has promised if elected in May to dump the euro and organise a Brexit-style referendum on France’s...
Ex-senator Dan Coats is Trump pick for intel chief
WASHINGTON: Donald Trump has chosen for his director of national intelligence someone who could provide a counterweight to the president-elect’s alleged soft spot for Moscow: a former senator banned by Russia. Dan Coats, 73, will be nominated by Trump to serve as the powerful coordinator of 16 intelligence and security agencies, according...
McCain: Russia cyber-attacks on US an ‘act of war’
WASHINGTON: Russia’s alleged cyber-attacks on US political organizations – hacking which the intelligence community concluded amounted to meddling in the US election – were an “act of war,” senior US Senator John McCain said Wednesday. “It’s an act of war,” McCain, a hawkish Republican and critic of the...
Trump again dismisses intel on ‘so-called’ Russian hacking
WASHINGTON: President-elect Donald Trump sparked a fresh furor Wednesday by again casting doubt over the government’s conclusion that Russia meddled in the US election via cyber-attacks, citing the claims of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The comments come on the eve of the first public hearing in Congress on the alleged hacking, led by...
