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Mueller ponders Trump adviser's ties with Wikileaks: Report

Mueller is currently investigating any potential ties between Russians and Trump campaign associates

Apr 3, 2018

By IANS

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Cold War Again? Russia expels 60 US diplomats in tit-for-tat move

Russia has been on the defensive since the UK government openly blamed Moscow for the poisoning of former Russian double agent, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter, Yulia Skripal

Mar 30, 2018

By IANS

Don't limit how peacekeepers are deployed, Guterres tells troop-contributors

The caveats or the limitations placed by countries on how their peacekeepers are used by the UN centre around the defensive posture that Guterres mentioned.

Mar 29, 2018

By IANS

Kim Jong Un meets Xi Jinping, China role in shaping world's future evident

As an aftermath of the meeting, North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un has reportedly agreed to denuclearize the Korean peninsula

Mar 28, 2018

By Nirmal Narayanan

NaMo Leak: BJP humiliates Rahul Gandhi, refuses to explain tech 'illiterates'

Indian PM Modi misusing his position to build personal database on millions of Indians via NaMo App promoted by the government, alleged Rahul Gandhi

Mar 27, 2018

By IANS

Malaysia PM: Malaysia to get more maids from Cambodia

Amnesty International assails Malaysia's new bill on 'Fake news'

The harsh side of the Bill is that it seeks to prosecute even nationals from other countries irrespective of their nationality, citizenship or location as long as the fake news concerns Malaysia.

Mar 27, 2018

By Soorya Kiran NN

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Trump moves to ban most transgenders in military

LGBT advocates quickly denounced the move, The Trump-Pence Administration is going all in on its discriminatory, unconstitutional and despicable ban on transgender troops, saod Human Rights Campaign president Chad Griffin.

Mar 25, 2018

By IANS

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N.Korea agrees to hold high-level talks: Seoul

The talks were first proposed by South Korea to be held in the Panmunjom truce village in the Korean Demilitarized Zone.

Mar 24, 2018

By IANS

European Union confident of exemption from US tariffs

US trade representative Robert Lighthizer said on Thursday that several American allies would initially be exempt from the controversial steel and aluminium tariffs that are to take effect shortly.

Mar 23, 2018

By IANS

Trump slaps China with $60bn tariffs, Beijing vows retaliation

The White House said on Thursday it was taking action in retaliation for China's use of pressure and intimidation to obtain American technology and trade secrets.

Mar 23, 2018

By IANS

Singapore starts new facility to detect biological, nuclear substances at ports

Shanmugam doubts social media control on fake news, defends new law

Shanmugam told Facebook representative, "You will not decide whether something is true or false, you will not take down something simply because it is false."

Mar 23, 2018

By Soorya Kiran NN

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Trump names ex-envoy John Bolton as new National Security Adviser

Bolton's hard edged, hawkish views on issues like North Korea, Iraq and Syria make him a controversial pick especially ahead of a proposed meeting between Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong-un.

Mar 23, 2018

By IANS

Court orders arrest of former S.Korean President on corruption charges

Lee's arrest came about a year after former President Park Geun-hye, Lee's successor, was detained last March after her impeachment over an influence-peddling scandal involving her longtime friend Choi Soon-sil.

Mar 23, 2018

By IANS

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Linking Congress to CA data scam by BJP is to divert issue on Iraq killings, says Rahul Gandhi

Information and Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad accused the Congress of compromising national security by roping in political data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica to run its 2019 election campaign, when its Bihar poll strategy in 2010 was done by the same firm

Mar 22, 2018

By IANS

CA data breach: Congress denies link, reminds BJP of using firm in 2010

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its ally Janata Dal-United which used the services of Cambridge Analytica in 2010, said Congress spokesperson

Mar 22, 2018

By IANS

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