Section: Geo TV (Pakistan)
Trump directly scolds NATO allies, says they owe ‘massive’ sums
US President Donald Trump (R) speaks beside NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the start of the NATO summit at their new headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, May 25, 2017. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann BRUSSELS: US President Donald Trump on Thursday intensified his accusations that NATO allies were not spending enough on defence and warned of...
Russians discussed how to influence Trump via his aides: NYT
Retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, then-incoming White House national security adviser, speaks at the U.S. Institute of Peace ”2017 Passing the Baton” conference in Washington on January 10, 2017. Photo: Reuters/fileSenior Russian intelligence and political officials discussed how to influence Donald Trump through his advisers...
Trump administration expected to reduce military aid to Pakistan
US President Donald Trump – Reuters file photo WASHINGTON: The Trump administration’s budget proposal would convert some of the United States’ foreign military grants to loans, part of a larger effort to slash spending on diplomacy, aid and programmes abroad by more than 29 per cent, the White House said on Monday.Mick Mulvaney,...
Trump campaign had at least 18 undisclosed contacts with Russians: sources
President Donald Trump (L-R), joined by Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, Vice President Mike Pence, senior advisor Steve Bannon, Communications Director Sean Spicer and the then-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, speaks by phone with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in the Oval Office. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst WASHINGTON: Michael Flynn...
Exclusive: Trump campaign had at least 18 undisclosed contacts with Russians: sources
President Donald Trump (L-R), joined by Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, Vice President Mike Pence, senior advisor Steve Bannon, Communications Director Sean Spicer and the then-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, speaks by phone with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in the Oval Office. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst WASHINGTON: Michael Flynn...
English hospitals say hit by suspected national cyber attack
An international cyber attack on Friday struck countries including the UK and Spain, British Prime Minister Theresa May said, as security experts warned it could affect many other countries. The UK’s state-run National Health Service declared a “major incident” after the attack, which forced some hospitals to divert ambulances...
Russia’s Lavrov meets Secretary Tillerson ahead of Trump talks
WASHINGTON: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met Wednesday with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson ahead of rare Oval Office talks with Donald Trump, whose firing of his FBI chief again put the spotlight on Moscow’s alleged meddling in last year’s US election. On Tuesday, Trump dismissed FBI Director James Comey, who was...
US increasingly convinced that Russia hacked French election: sources
Hackers with connections to the Russian government played a role in an effort to damage centrist French politician Emmanuel Macron’s presidential campaign by hacking and leaking emails and documents ahead of the election, according to two US intelligence officials. Separately, Admiral Mike Rogers, the director of the US National Security...
Putin urges world to fight terror as Russia marks WWII victory
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday warned Russia could defeat any aggressors but insisted that the world come together to fight “terrorism” as Moscow marked 72 years since victory in World War II. Soldiers and military hardware paraded across Red Square in Moscow as the country held its annual pomp-filled celebration of the...
French candidate Macron claims massive hack as emails leaked
Leading French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron’s campaign said on Friday it had been the target of a “massive” computer hack that dumped its campaign emails online 1-1/2 days before voters choose between the centrist and his far-right rival, Marine Le Pen. Macron, who is seen as the frontrunner in an election billed as...
