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Study: Mainstream Media Coverage of Trump 92% Negative in Last 4 Months
Over the past four months, President Donald Trump has received overwhelmingly negative coverage from the mainstream media, according to a new Media Research Center study. For the report, analysts with the conservative media watchdog evaluated 1,007 evening news broadcasts spanning a total of 1,960 minutes from ABC, CBS and NBC from June 1 to September 30. The…
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White House says it has invited Vladimir Putin to Washington
White House reveals it has invited Vladimir Putin to Washington after Bolton warned Russia’s interference in the elections created ‘distrust and animosity’ National Security Advisor John Bolton said Friday the Russian president has been invited to visit President Trump invited Putin to visit following their summit in Helsinki, where Trump accepted Putin’s denial of election…
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South Korea says sanctions shrank North Korean economy at sharpest rate in 20 years
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea’s economy contracted at the sharpest rate in two decades in 2017, South Korea’s central bank estimated on Friday, as international sanctions and drought hit growth hard, with signs living conditions were beginning to deteriorate. Gross domestic product (GDP) in North Korea last year shrank 3.5 percent from the previous year,…
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Putin: Russia’s new weapons will be unrivaled everywhere
Russian President Vladimir Putin, foreground right, toasts with top military officers and law enforcement officials in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018. Putin said that Russia has adhered to its obligations in the arms control sphere, but noted that Russian arsenals will be modernized to ensure protection from any potential threats. (Alexei…
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China says its army will act ‘at any cost’ to prevent Taiwan split
BEIJING – China’s army will take action”at any cost” to foil attempts to separate the self-ruled island of Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own, the country’s defense minister said on Thursday. Beijing has been infuriated by recent U.S. sanctions on its military, one of a growing number of flashpoints in ties with Washington that include…
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Saudi Relations at a Crossroads
ROBBINS: Hi. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today’s Council on Foreign Relations conference call on U.S.-Saudi relations at the crossroads. We’re very lucky to have with us Steven A. Cook, who is Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council and the author of False Dawn: Protests, Democracy, and Violence…
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As others condemn Saudi Arabia, Germany takes action
As the Trudeau government faces increasing pressure to cancel a $15 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia — a move that the prime minister warns would leave Canadians “holding a billion-dollar bill” — most other Western countries, with the exception of Germany, have done little more than condemn the slaying of dissident Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi. In…
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Spanish-language network reporter reveals who is ‘infiltrating’ migrant caravan heading to US
A reporter for the Spanish-language network Univision revealed that he had met people from a Muslim-majority country were infiltrating the migrant caravan from Honduras headed towards the U.S. border. “They infiltrated themselves in this caravan” Univision correspondent Francisco Santa Anna was reporting from a bridge in Guatemala where the migrant caravan was attempting to cross…
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Trump: US to begin cutting foreign aid over migrant caravan
President Donald Trump has said the US will “begin cutting off” foreign aid to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador over the unfolding migrant crisis. Mr Trump criticised the countries on Monday for allowing people to leave the region and come “illegally” to the US. The comments mark the latest attempt by Mr Trump to revive…
