MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was released on Sunday after 20 days in jail where he was held on charges of staging an illegal protest last month. Navalny had been detained since Sept. 24 when he finished a previous incarceration - a 30-day stint for planning an unauthorized demonstration in January. Reporting…
Yet the government’s social media manipulation tracks with crackdowns in recent years in other authoritarian states, said Alexei Abrahams, a research fellow at Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. Even for conversations involving millions of tweets, a few hundred or a few thousand influential accounts drive the discussion, he said, citing new research. The…
JUST a year ago the world was enjoying a synchronised economic acceleration. In 2017 growth rose in every big advanced economy except Britain, and in most emerging ones. Global trade was surging and America booming; China’s slide into deflation had been quelled; even the euro zone was thriving. In 2018 the story is very different.…
Image copyright AFP Image caption Relations between US President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have occasionally been fraught The US and Canada have reached a new trade deal, along with Mexico, to replace the current North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta).The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) gives the US greater access to Canada's…
WASHINGTON — A top Trump campaign official requested proposals in 2016 from an Israeli company to create fake online identities, to use social media manipulation and to gather intelligence to help defeat Republican primary race opponents and Hillary Clinton, according to interviews and copies of the proposals. The Trump campaign’s interest in the work began…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Jamal Khashoggi and how Saudi critics keep going missing A senior US official has held talks with Saudi Arabia's crown prince in Riyadh, despite growing concern over the Saudis' role in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin met Mohammed bin Salman on…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionAerial footage shows the destruction in Mexico Beach, Florida Hurricane Michael has landed on a Florida beach town like the "mother of all bombs", almost wiping it off the map, officials say.The storm smashed into the state's north-west coast near Mexico Beach on Wednesday with 155mph (250km/h)…
Image copyright AFP Image caption Turkish forensic investigators have already searched the Saudi consulate and consul's residence Police in Turkey investigating the alleged killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi have expanded their search, reports say.Unnamed Turkish officials say his body may have been disposed of in a nearby forest or on farmland.Mr Khashoggi disappeared after…
ELKO, Nev./ISTANBUL (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump joined European leaders on Saturday in pushing Saudi Arabia for more answers about Jamal Khashoggi after Riyadh changed its story and acknowledged that the journalist died more than two weeks ago at its consulate in Istanbul. Saudi Arabia said early on Saturday that Khashoggi, a critic of…
BEIJING/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The CEO of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com Inc (JD.O), Richard Liu, was arrested by U.S. police on suspicion of criminal sexual conduct and later released in what police said was an ongoing investigation. JD.com said in a statement that the accusation against Liu, 45, was unsubstantiated and “local police quickly determined…
