The moves come amid concerns over campaigns by governments aimed at influencing elections and public sentiment in other countries through media outlets that disguise their true origins. Facebook, Twitter aim at thwarting efforts to deceive or divide voters San Francisco: Twitter and Facebook on Thursday announced moves to thwart […]
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The bill will now go to President Donald Trump to be signed into a law, which will prohibit federal employees from downloading or using TikTok on any device issued by the federal government. Washington: The United States Senate on Thursday unanimously passed a bill banning the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok […]
Globalisation has made the elites who donate to politicians wealthy and has left nothing for our workers expect for poverty and heartache,” he added. Washington: China’s entry into the World Trade Organisation is the “worst of all deals” said US President Donald Trump on Thursday. “China’s entry into the World […]
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been accused of sending a hit-squad to Canada in order to kill a former Saudi intelligence official. The failed plan to kill Saad al-Jabri was soon after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey, court documents filed in the US allege. […]
SHANGHAI: Washington’s plan to ban certain technologies of Chinese origin is a sign of “madness” in US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, China’s state-backed tabloid Global Times wrote in an editorial on Thursday (Aug 6). “Pompeo has uttered anti-China remarks almost every day, and constantly played tricks to intensify conflicts […]
President Ashraf Ghani’s government has released all but 400, saying their crimes were too grave. KABUL: Afghanistan will convene a grand assembly of elders, known as the loya jirga, in Kabul on Friday to decide the fate of hundreds of prisoners the Taliban insist should be released before entering […]
The White House said in a statement the order will “create a policy where Federal agencies will focus on United States labor in lucrative Federal contracts” as it will be :unfair” for federal government agencies to “ replace perfectly qualified Americans with workers from other countries”. President Donald Trump signed […]
Donald Trump has said the US should get a cut from the sale of TikTok’s US unit if it is bought by an American firm. The US president said he made a demand for a “substantial portion” of the purchase price in a phone call at the weekend with Microsoft’s […]
“In light of the latest developments, France will not proceed as it stands with the ratification of the extradition agreement signed on May 4, 2017 between France and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region,” the French foreign ministry said in a statement. France on Monday said it was halting ratification […]
The two countries have already exchanged several tit-for-tat actions involving journalists in recent months, with the US designating multiple Chinese state or Communist Party-backed media as foreign embassies. SHANGHAI: China will take retaliatory measures if all Chinese journalists based in the United States are forced to leave the country, […]