Section: The Borneo Post (Malaysia)
Fake news vs fact in online battle for truth
US President Donald Trump has popularised the term ‘fake news’ and used it to attack the news media. AFP Photo PARIS: Since US President Donald Trump weaponised the term “fake news” during the 2016 presidential election campaign, the phrase has gone viral. Increasingly it is used by politicians around the world to denounce or dismiss news...
Undeniable: contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia
President Donald Trump has repeatedly denied it, but investigators have shown that his campaign had multiple, regular contacts with Russians. AFP Photo On January 11, 2017, Donald Trump was asked in his first press conference after his shock election victory, “Did you or anyone in your campaign have any contact with Russia leading up to or during...
Iran seeks regional front against US ‘economic terrorism’
Hassan Rouhani TEHRAN: Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said US sanctions were ‘economic terrorism’, as he sought to foster a united front from visiting regional officials yesterday. Addressing parliament speakers from Afghanistan, China, Pakistan, Russia and Turkey, Rouhani said they had all suffered economic pressure from the US. “We...
Kremlin hopes for Putin – Trump talks by June
BUENOS AIRES: The Kremlin hopes that US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin can meet and hold talks before a G20 summit in Japan in June next year, a Kremlin aide said on Saturday. Trump cancelled a planned meeting with Putin at the G20 summit in Argentina this weekend citing unease over Russia’s Nov 25 seizure of...
US and China in trade tariffs truce after tense G20 summit
The US and China brokered a truce over a dinner of steaks and Argentine wine in Buenos Aires. – AFP photo The United States and China on Saturday announced a ceasefire in their tariffs war, hours after US President Donald Trump upended another international forum by snubbing G20 action on trade disputes and climate change. Over a dinner of steaks...
Ukraine holds military drills after Russia sea confrontation
An Ukrainain seviceman attends a military drills near Urzuf village not far from the city of Mariupol, eastern Ukraine. — AFP photo URZUF, Ukraine: A Ukrainian general wearing camouflage and a bulletproof vest looks out from his Mi-8 helicopter flying over the Sea of Azov, the flashpoint of rising tensions between Kiev and Moscow. “Our presumed...
Putin defends ‘lawful’ seizure of Ukrainian ships
A crew member (left) of one of Ukrainian naval ships, which were recently seized by Russia’s FSB security service, is escorted after a court hearing in Simferopol, Crimea. — Reuters photo MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin has insisted that Russian forces were in the right to seize three Ukrainian ships last weekend, but President Donald...
Ukraine president asks Nato to send ships to Sea of Azov
Poroshenko visits the 169th training centre ‘Desna’ of the Ukrainian Army ground forces in Chernihiv Region, Ukraine. — Reuters photo BERLIN: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko asked Nato members including Germany yesterday to send naval vessels to the Sea of Azov to back his country in the standoff with Russia. “Germany is one of our...
Russian FM mocks British army chief over IS comparison
Lavrov (right) is welcomed by Portuguese Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva at Necessidades palace in Lisbon. — Reuters photo LISBON: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday mocked the ‘intellectual capacities’ of Britain’s army chief for calling Russia a bigger threat than the Islamic State group. “In regards to the...
Crypto currency stunt on Everest linked to Sherpa death
In this photo taken on May 17, mountaineers make their way to the summit of Mount Everest, as they ascend on the south face from Nepal. — AFP photo KATHMANDU: A promotional stunt by an Irish tech company to bury US$100,000 worth of a new cryptocurrency at Everest’s summit has been linked to the death of a Sherpa guide, the company said...
