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FB closes hundreds of Russia-linked pages
WASHINGTON: Facebook announced on Thursday that it has removed more than 500 pages, groups and accounts originating in Russia for engaging in what the social network called “coordinated inauthentic behaviour”.The California-based social media giant said they were part of two separate but similar Russian-based influence operations, one...
Serena Williams comfortably beats Bouchard to move into third round
MELBOURNE: Serena Williams soundly beat Eugenie Bouchard 6-2 6-2 on Thursday night, racing through the last five games to advance to the third round of the Australian Open. Easily beaten in the first set, the Canadian Bouchard, a former Wimbledon finalist who has been trying to retrieve her stellar form of five years ago, pressed early in the...
Trump faces fresh scrutiny over relationship with Putin
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump faced uncomfortable new questions Sunday about his relationship with Vladimir Putin despite his angry dismissal of a report that he has kept top aides in the dark about his private conversations with the Russian leader. Republican lawmakers generally defended the president, saying he had been tougher on...
FBI opened probe into whether Trump working for Russians
WASHINGTON DC: 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 Comey in May 2017, the Times said,...
Gatwick Airport: Flying of drones was ‘deliberate act’
LONDON (CNN): The United Kingdom’s second-biggest airport has been closed for over 16 hours after drones were flown near the airfield in what police described as a “deliberate act.” Police were on Thursday hunting for the drone operators who have brought London’s Gatwick Airport to a standstill, causing travel chaos for hundreds of...
EU probes hacking of diplomatic cables
BRUSSELS: The EU announced an urgent investigation on Wednesday after hackers with possible links to China accessed thousands of sensitive diplomatic cables.In the latest embarrassing data breach to hit a major international organisation, the New York Times reported that hackers using similar techniques to the Chinese military gained entry to EU...
As Facebook raised a privacy wall, it carved an opening for tech giants
WASHINGTON(NYTimes): For years, Facebook gave some of the world’s largest technology companies more intrusive access to users’ personal data than it has disclosed,effectively exempting those business partners from its usual privacy rules,according to internal records and interviews. The special arrangements are detailed in hundreds of...
Lyon reach Champions League last 16, Bayern top group
MUNICH: Lyon clinched the final Champions League last-16 place as Nabil Fekir’s second-half strike grabbed a 1-1 draw against Shakhtar Donetsk in a snowy Kiev on Wednesday, while Bayern Munich pipped Ajax to top spot in Group E. Bruno Genesio’s Lyon needed to avoid defeat against Shakhtar to progress from Group F with Manchester City,...
Arms race to start if deals like INF abandoned: Milos
BLAGOVESHCHENSK (Sputnik): Czech President Milos Zeman believes that there is a solution for the Russian-US standoff around the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. “If there are technical characteristics of these missiles that violate this agreement either from the Russian or from the US side, it’s very simple to show these...
Russia ready to discuss fate of detained Ukrainian sailors after their trial
MILAN (Reuters): Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that Moscow would only be ready to discuss the fate of a group of Ukrainian sailors it captured last month after their trial was finished. The United States and the European Union have called on Russia to free the 24 Ukrainian sailors who were detained by Russia on Nov. 25...
