Dow posts first close above 26,000 amid Wall Street records
British MPs approve landmark Brexit bill, send it to Lords
US firms optimistic about 2018 but labor shortages constrain growth: Fed
Apple says will pay $38 bn in taxes on repatriated profits
Two Americans, two Canadians kidnapped in Nigeria: police update
UN envoy 'very hopeful' about solving Macedonia name dispute
MEP Viorica Dancila named as new Romanian PM
Syria peace talks to resume in Vienna Jan 25-26: UN
Bank of Canada raises benchmark interest rate to 1.25%
In Chile, pope says violence not answer in fight for indigenous rights
US industrial output in 2017 posts biggest gain since 2010: Fed
Bitcoin slides to below $10,000
Pope dedicates Chile mass to Pinochet regime victims
Bayeux Tapestry loan 'very significant': British PM
Israel judge orders Palestinian teen in 'slap video' held until trial
Goldman Sachs reports 4Q loss on big charge for US tax reform
France ditches plans for divisive west coast airport: PM
Arson attacks ahead of pope's indigenous Chile visit: police
Catalan lawmakers elect separatist as parliamentary speaker
Putin seeks to be 'emperor for life': Kremlin critic Navalny to AFP
Catalan parliament meets for first time since failed secession
France, Britain to announce new migrant treaty: Macron
France says Bayeux Tapestry loan to Britain 'not before 2020'
Saudi Arabia announces $2 bn bailout for Yemen government
UN Palestinian agency sees 'most severe' crisis ever after US freeze
Police raid France's Lactalis after salmonella scandal
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index hits all-time high
7 ethnic Rakhine killed as Myanmar police open fire at riot: official
Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong jailed for protest
US allies back tougher maritime controls on N. Korea
Pope meets priest sex abuse victims in Chile: Vatican
Ford projects lower-than-expected 2017 profits
Trump 'healthy,' no cognitive issues: doctor
US withholds $65 mn from UN agency for Palestinians
Mexico's Volaris orders 80 Airbus planes for $9.3bn: government
At least seven dead in Colombia military helicopter crash
Nestle says sells US candy business to Ferrero for $2.9 bn
Venezuela says rebel pilot killed in police operation
Trump, Xi express 'hope' for change in N.Korea attitude: W.House
Trump tells Xi US trade deficit with China 'not sustainable': W.House
Tycoon-led Czech cabinet loses confidence vote
Turkish President Erdogan to visit pope on February 5
Citigroup reports steep Q4 losses tied to US tax reform
GM takes $7 bn charge on tax reform, seens solid 2018
GE takes one-off hit of $6.2 bn linked to insurance activities
France will never allow another 'Jungle' migrant camp in Calais: Macron
Pope in Chile calls for respect of 'rights' of indigenous people
Danish inventor Peter Madsen charged with Kim Wall murder: prosecutors
EU to remove Panama, seven others from tax haven blacklist: source
EU's 'hearts are still open' to Brexit reversal: Tusk
Prominent Kosovo Serb politician Ivanovic shot dead
UAE to file international complaint over Qatar flight 'interception'
Two bodies found at site of suspected gas blast in Antwerp: Belgian media
Hong Kong stocks post record close
Rohingya deal aims to return refugees 'within two years'
Torture probe launched after 13 siblings held captive in US home
Pope Francis arrives in Chile at start of Latin American trip
Palestinian leaders urge PLO to suspend recognition of Israel
Romania's left-wing PM quits after losing party backing
Several dead in operation to arrest Venezuela pilot: official
The Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan dies aged 46
Seven migrants die trying to reach Canary Islands: police
Palestinian shot dead by Israeli army in West Bank clashes: officials
Spain expected to replace US as second top tourism destination: UNWTO
Erdogan threatens to 'nip in the bud' new US-backed Syria force
Number of global tourists leapt 7% in 2017: UNWTO
Madrid to keep control of Catalonia if Puigdemont tries to govern remotely
Tripoli airport clashes kill nine: Libya ministry
Ritz-Carlton to re-open after holding royals in Saudi purge
Case dismissed against French troops accused of child rape in Central Africa
Qatar denies intercepting UAE passenger plane
Abducted Chibok girls say 'we won't return': Boko Haram video
UAE says Qatari fighter jets 'intercept' passenger plane
Airbus will have to scrap A380 programme if no new orders: sales chief
75 injured in floor collapse at Jakarta exchange building: police
Airbus says booked 1,109 aircraft orders, 718 deliveries in 2017
UK construction firm Carillion liquidates business
Twenty-six killed in Baghdad twin suicide attack: health official
Balcony of Indonesia's stock exchange collapses: reports
GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File / Ralph Freso
Arizona Republican Jeff Flake unleashed a diatribe against President Donald Trump, timed to coincide with the expected announcement of controversial "Fake News Awards" by Trump's administration
A maverick senator from Donald Trump's own Republican party launched a stinging attack on the president on Wednesday, accusing him of employing Stalinist language to attack and undermine the free press.
Arizona lawmaker Jeff Flake levelled the broadside in an address from the Senate floor, timed to coincide with the expected announcement of controversial "Fake News Awards" by Trump's administration.
Flake -- an outspoken critic of the president who is not seeking re-election this year -- hit out at what he called Trump's disregard for the truth, and his repeated designation of the news media as an "enemy."
"The 'enemy of the people' was how the president of the United States called the free press in 2017," Flake told lawmakers.
"Mr. President, it is a testament to the condition of our democracy that our own president uses words infamously spoken by Joseph Stalin to describe his enemies," he said.
"So fraught with malice was the phrase 'enemy of the people,' that even Nikita Khrushchev forbade its use."
Flake accused Trump's White House of a "daily assault" on the constitutionally protected right to free speech, calling it "as unprecedented as it is unwarranted."
And he accused Trump of committing "moral vandalism" against the truth, from his longtime questioning of Barack Obama's birth certificate to his dismissal of Russian meddling in the 2016 election as a "hoax" -- and warned he was emboldening authoritarian regimes around the world to persecute the press.
"2017 was a year which saw the truth -- objective, empirical, evidence-based truth more battered and abused than any time in the history of our country, at the hands of the biggest figure in our government," Flake said.
"Without truth and a principled fidelity to truth and to shared facts, Mr President, our democracy will not last," he warned.
Trump tweeted last week that he would be awarding "Fake News Awards" to the "most corrupt & biased of the Mainstream Media" this Wednesday -- but the White House has remained evasive on whether the controversial event, already once delayed, would take place.
GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File / Ralph Freso
Arizona Republican Jeff Flake unleashed a diatribe against President Donald Trump, timed to coincide with the expected announcement of controversial "Fake News Awards" by Trump's administration
A maverick senator from Donald Trump's own Republican party launched a stinging attack on the president on Wednesday, accusing him of employing Stalinist language to attack and undermine the free press.
Arizona lawmaker Jeff Flake levelled the broadside in an address from the Senate floor, timed to coincide with the expected announcement of controversial "Fake News Awards" by Trump's administration.
Dow posts first close above 26,000 amid Wall Street records
British MPs approve landmark Brexit bill, send it to Lords
US firms optimistic about 2018 but labor shortages constrain growth: Fed
Apple says will pay $38 bn in taxes on repatriated profits
Two Americans, two Canadians kidnapped in Nigeria: police update
UN envoy 'very hopeful' about solving Macedonia name dispute
MEP Viorica Dancila named as new Romanian PM
Syria peace talks to resume in Vienna Jan 25-26: UN
Bank of Canada raises benchmark interest rate to 1.25%
In Chile, pope says violence not answer in fight for indigenous rights
US industrial output in 2017 posts biggest gain since 2010: Fed
Bitcoin slides to below $10,000
Pope dedicates Chile mass to Pinochet regime victims
Bayeux Tapestry loan 'very significant': British PM
Israel judge orders Palestinian teen in 'slap video' held until trial
Goldman Sachs reports 4Q loss on big charge for US tax reform
France ditches plans for divisive west coast airport: PM
Arson attacks ahead of pope's indigenous Chile visit: police
Catalan lawmakers elect separatist as parliamentary speaker
Putin seeks to be 'emperor for life': Kremlin critic Navalny to AFP
Catalan parliament meets for first time since failed secession
France, Britain to announce new migrant treaty: Macron
France says Bayeux Tapestry loan to Britain 'not before 2020'
Saudi Arabia announces $2 bn bailout for Yemen government
UN Palestinian agency sees 'most severe' crisis ever after US freeze
Police raid France's Lactalis after salmonella scandal
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index hits all-time high
7 ethnic Rakhine killed as Myanmar police open fire at riot: official
Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong jailed for protest
US allies back tougher maritime controls on N. Korea
Pope meets priest sex abuse victims in Chile: Vatican
Ford projects lower-than-expected 2017 profits
Trump 'healthy,' no cognitive issues: doctor
US withholds $65 mn from UN agency for Palestinians
Mexico's Volaris orders 80 Airbus planes for $9.3bn: government
At least seven dead in Colombia military helicopter crash
Nestle says sells US candy business to Ferrero for $2.9 bn
Venezuela says rebel pilot killed in police operation
Trump, Xi express 'hope' for change in N.Korea attitude: W.House
Trump tells Xi US trade deficit with China 'not sustainable': W.House
Tycoon-led Czech cabinet loses confidence vote
Turkish President Erdogan to visit pope on February 5
Citigroup reports steep Q4 losses tied to US tax reform
GM takes $7 bn charge on tax reform, seens solid 2018
GE takes one-off hit of $6.2 bn linked to insurance activities
France will never allow another 'Jungle' migrant camp in Calais: Macron
Pope in Chile calls for respect of 'rights' of indigenous people
Danish inventor Peter Madsen charged with Kim Wall murder: prosecutors
EU to remove Panama, seven others from tax haven blacklist: source
EU's 'hearts are still open' to Brexit reversal: Tusk
Prominent Kosovo Serb politician Ivanovic shot dead
UAE to file international complaint over Qatar flight 'interception'
Two bodies found at site of suspected gas blast in Antwerp: Belgian media
Hong Kong stocks post record close
Rohingya deal aims to return refugees 'within two years'
Torture probe launched after 13 siblings held captive in US home
Pope Francis arrives in Chile at start of Latin American trip
Palestinian leaders urge PLO to suspend recognition of Israel
Romania's left-wing PM quits after losing party backing
Several dead in operation to arrest Venezuela pilot: official
The Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan dies aged 46
Seven migrants die trying to reach Canary Islands: police
Palestinian shot dead by Israeli army in West Bank clashes: officials
Spain expected to replace US as second top tourism destination: UNWTO
Erdogan threatens to 'nip in the bud' new US-backed Syria force
Number of global tourists leapt 7% in 2017: UNWTO
Madrid to keep control of Catalonia if Puigdemont tries to govern remotely
Tripoli airport clashes kill nine: Libya ministry
Ritz-Carlton to re-open after holding royals in Saudi purge
Case dismissed against French troops accused of child rape in Central Africa
Qatar denies intercepting UAE passenger plane
Abducted Chibok girls say 'we won't return': Boko Haram video
UAE says Qatari fighter jets 'intercept' passenger plane
Airbus will have to scrap A380 programme if no new orders: sales chief
75 injured in floor collapse at Jakarta exchange building: police
Airbus says booked 1,109 aircraft orders, 718 deliveries in 2017
UK construction firm Carillion liquidates business
Twenty-six killed in Baghdad twin suicide attack: health official
Balcony of Indonesia's stock exchange collapses: reports
Dow posts first close above 26,000 amid Wall Street records
British MPs approve landmark Brexit bill, send it to Lords
US firms optimistic about 2018 but labor shortages constrain growth: Fed
Apple says will pay $38 bn in taxes on repatriated profits
Two Americans, two Canadians kidnapped in Nigeria: police update
UN envoy 'very hopeful' about solving Macedonia name dispute
MEP Viorica Dancila named as new Romanian PM
Syria peace talks to resume in Vienna Jan 25-26: UN
Bank of Canada raises benchmark interest rate to 1.25%
In Chile, pope says violence not answer in fight for indigenous rights
US industrial output in 2017 posts biggest gain since 2010: Fed
Bitcoin slides to below $10,000
Pope dedicates Chile mass to Pinochet regime victims
Bayeux Tapestry loan 'very significant': British PM
Israel judge orders Palestinian teen in 'slap video' held until trial
Goldman Sachs reports 4Q loss on big charge for US tax reform
France ditches plans for divisive west coast airport: PM
Arson attacks ahead of pope's indigenous Chile visit: police
Catalan lawmakers elect separatist as parliamentary speaker
Putin seeks to be 'emperor for life': Kremlin critic Navalny to AFP
Catalan parliament meets for first time since failed secession
France, Britain to announce new migrant treaty: Macron
France says Bayeux Tapestry loan to Britain 'not before 2020'
Saudi Arabia announces $2 bn bailout for Yemen government
UN Palestinian agency sees 'most severe' crisis ever after US freeze
Police raid France's Lactalis after salmonella scandal
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index hits all-time high
7 ethnic Rakhine killed as Myanmar police open fire at riot: official
Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong jailed for protest
US allies back tougher maritime controls on N. Korea
Pope meets priest sex abuse victims in Chile: Vatican
Ford projects lower-than-expected 2017 profits
Trump 'healthy,' no cognitive issues: doctor
US withholds $65 mn from UN agency for Palestinians
Mexico's Volaris orders 80 Airbus planes for $9.3bn: government
At least seven dead in Colombia military helicopter crash
Nestle says sells US candy business to Ferrero for $2.9 bn
Venezuela says rebel pilot killed in police operation
Trump, Xi express 'hope' for change in N.Korea attitude: W.House
Trump tells Xi US trade deficit with China 'not sustainable': W.House
Tycoon-led Czech cabinet loses confidence vote
Turkish President Erdogan to visit pope on February 5
Citigroup reports steep Q4 losses tied to US tax reform
GM takes $7 bn charge on tax reform, seens solid 2018
GE takes one-off hit of $6.2 bn linked to insurance activities
France will never allow another 'Jungle' migrant camp in Calais: Macron
Pope in Chile calls for respect of 'rights' of indigenous people
Danish inventor Peter Madsen charged with Kim Wall murder: prosecutors
EU to remove Panama, seven others from tax haven blacklist: source
EU's 'hearts are still open' to Brexit reversal: Tusk
Prominent Kosovo Serb politician Ivanovic shot dead
UAE to file international complaint over Qatar flight 'interception'
Two bodies found at site of suspected gas blast in Antwerp: Belgian media
Hong Kong stocks post record close
Rohingya deal aims to return refugees 'within two years'
Torture probe launched after 13 siblings held captive in US home
Pope Francis arrives in Chile at start of Latin American trip
Palestinian leaders urge PLO to suspend recognition of Israel
Romania's left-wing PM quits after losing party backing
Several dead in operation to arrest Venezuela pilot: official
The Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan dies aged 46
Seven migrants die trying to reach Canary Islands: police
Palestinian shot dead by Israeli army in West Bank clashes: officials
Spain expected to replace US as second top tourism destination: UNWTO
Erdogan threatens to 'nip in the bud' new US-backed Syria force
Number of global tourists leapt 7% in 2017: UNWTO
Madrid to keep control of Catalonia if Puigdemont tries to govern remotely
Tripoli airport clashes kill nine: Libya ministry
Ritz-Carlton to re-open after holding royals in Saudi purge
Case dismissed against French troops accused of child rape in Central Africa
Qatar denies intercepting UAE passenger plane
Abducted Chibok girls say 'we won't return': Boko Haram video
UAE says Qatari fighter jets 'intercept' passenger plane
Airbus will have to scrap A380 programme if no new orders: sales chief
75 injured in floor collapse at Jakarta exchange building: police
Airbus says booked 1,109 aircraft orders, 718 deliveries in 2017
UK construction firm Carillion liquidates business
Twenty-six killed in Baghdad twin suicide attack: health official
Balcony of Indonesia's stock exchange collapses: reports
GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File / Ralph Freso
Arizona Republican Jeff Flake unleashed a diatribe against President Donald Trump, timed to coincide with the expected announcement of controversial "Fake News Awards" by Trump's administration
A maverick senator from Donald Trump's own Republican party launched a stinging attack on the president on Wednesday, accusing him of employing Stalinist language to attack and undermine the free press.
Arizona lawmaker Jeff Flake levelled the broadside in an address from the Senate floor, timed to coincide with the expected announcement of controversial "Fake News Awards" by Trump's administration.
Flake -- an outspoken critic of the president who is not seeking re-election this year -- hit out at what he called Trump's disregard for the truth, and his repeated designation of the news media as an "enemy."
"The 'enemy of the people' was how the president of the United States called the free press in 2017," Flake told lawmakers.
"Mr. President, it is a testament to the condition of our democracy that our own president uses words infamously spoken by Joseph Stalin to describe his enemies," he said.
"So fraught with malice was the phrase 'enemy of the people,' that even Nikita Khrushchev forbade its use."
Flake accused Trump's White House of a "daily assault" on the constitutionally protected right to free speech, calling it "as unprecedented as it is unwarranted."
And he accused Trump of committing "moral vandalism" against the truth, from his longtime questioning of Barack Obama's birth certificate to his dismissal of Russian meddling in the 2016 election as a "hoax" -- and warned he was emboldening authoritarian regimes around the world to persecute the press.
"2017 was a year which saw the truth -- objective, empirical, evidence-based truth more battered and abused than any time in the history of our country, at the hands of the biggest figure in our government," Flake said.
"Without truth and a principled fidelity to truth and to shared facts, Mr President, our democracy will not last," he warned.
Trump tweeted last week that he would be awarding "Fake News Awards" to the "most corrupt & biased of the Mainstream Media" this Wednesday -- but the White House has remained evasive on whether the controversial event, already once delayed, would take place.
GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File / Ralph Freso
Arizona Republican Jeff Flake unleashed a diatribe against President Donald Trump, timed to coincide with the expected announcement of controversial "Fake News Awards" by Trump's administration
A maverick senator from Donald Trump's own Republican party launched a stinging attack on the president on Wednesday, accusing him of employing Stalinist language to attack and undermine the free press.
Arizona lawmaker Jeff Flake levelled the broadside in an address from the Senate floor, timed to coincide with the expected announcement of controversial "Fake News Awards" by Trump's administration.
Flake -- an outspoken critic of the president who is not seeking re-election this year -- hit out at what he called Trump's disregard for the truth, and his repeated designation of the news media as an "enemy."
"The 'enemy of the people' was how the president of the United States called the free press in 2017," Flake told lawmakers.
"Mr. President, it is a testament to the condition of our democracy that our own president uses words infamously spoken by Joseph Stalin to describe his enemies," he said.
"So fraught with malice was the phrase 'enemy of the people,' that even Nikita Khrushchev forbade its use."
Flake accused Trump's White House of a "daily assault" on the constitutionally protected right to free speech, calling it "as unprecedented as it is unwarranted."
And he accused Trump of committing "moral vandalism" against the truth, from his longtime questioning of Barack Obama's birth certificate to his dismissal of Russian meddling in the 2016 election as a "hoax" -- and warned he was emboldening authoritarian regimes around the world to persecute the press.
"2017 was a year which saw the truth -- objective, empirical, evidence-based truth more battered and abused than any time in the history of our country, at the hands of the biggest figure in our government," Flake said.
"Without truth and a principled fidelity to truth and to shared facts, Mr President, our democracy will not last," he warned.
Trump tweeted last week that he would be awarding "Fake News Awards" to the "most corrupt & biased of the Mainstream Media" this Wednesday -- but the White House has remained evasive on whether the controversial event, already once delayed, would take place.
GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File / Ralph Freso
Arizona Republican Jeff Flake unleashed a diatribe against President Donald Trump, timed to coincide with the expected announcement of controversial "Fake News Awards" by Trump's administration
A maverick senator from Donald Trump's own Republican party launched a stinging attack on the president on Wednesday, accusing him of employing Stalinist language to attack and undermine the free press.
Arizona lawmaker Jeff Flake levelled the broadside in an address from the Senate floor, timed to coincide with the expected announcement of controversial "Fake News Awards" by Trump's administration.
17 Jan 2018
Dow posts first close above 26,000 amid Wall Street records
British MPs approve landmark Brexit bill, send it to Lords
US firms optimistic about 2018 but labor shortages constrain growth: Fed
Apple says will pay $38 bn in taxes on repatriated profits
Two Americans, two Canadians kidnapped in Nigeria: police update
UN envoy 'very hopeful' about solving Macedonia name dispute
MEP Viorica Dancila named as new Romanian PM
Syria peace talks to resume in Vienna Jan 25-26: UN
Bank of Canada raises benchmark interest rate to 1.25%
In Chile, pope says violence not answer in fight for indigenous rights
US industrial output in 2017 posts biggest gain since 2010: Fed
Bitcoin slides to below $10,000
Pope dedicates Chile mass to Pinochet regime victims
Bayeux Tapestry loan 'very significant': British PM
Israel judge orders Palestinian teen in 'slap video' held until trial
Goldman Sachs reports 4Q loss on big charge for US tax reform
France ditches plans for divisive west coast airport: PM
Arson attacks ahead of pope's indigenous Chile visit: police
Catalan lawmakers elect separatist as parliamentary speaker
Putin seeks to be 'emperor for life': Kremlin critic Navalny to AFP
Catalan parliament meets for first time since failed secession
France, Britain to announce new migrant treaty: Macron
France says Bayeux Tapestry loan to Britain 'not before 2020'
Saudi Arabia announces $2 bn bailout for Yemen government
UN Palestinian agency sees 'most severe' crisis ever after US freeze
Police raid France's Lactalis after salmonella scandal
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index hits all-time high
7 ethnic Rakhine killed as Myanmar police open fire at riot: official
Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong jailed for protest
US allies back tougher maritime controls on N. Korea
Pope meets priest sex abuse victims in Chile: Vatican
Ford projects lower-than-expected 2017 profits
Trump 'healthy,' no cognitive issues: doctor
US withholds $65 mn from UN agency for Palestinians
Mexico's Volaris orders 80 Airbus planes for $9.3bn: government
At least seven dead in Colombia military helicopter crash
Nestle says sells US candy business to Ferrero for $2.9 bn
Venezuela says rebel pilot killed in police operation
Trump, Xi express 'hope' for change in N.Korea attitude: W.House
Trump tells Xi US trade deficit with China 'not sustainable': W.House
Tycoon-led Czech cabinet loses confidence vote
Turkish President Erdogan to visit pope on February 5
Citigroup reports steep Q4 losses tied to US tax reform
GM takes $7 bn charge on tax reform, seens solid 2018
GE takes one-off hit of $6.2 bn linked to insurance activities
France will never allow another 'Jungle' migrant camp in Calais: Macron
Pope in Chile calls for respect of 'rights' of indigenous people
Danish inventor Peter Madsen charged with Kim Wall murder: prosecutors
EU to remove Panama, seven others from tax haven blacklist: source
EU's 'hearts are still open' to Brexit reversal: Tusk
Prominent Kosovo Serb politician Ivanovic shot dead
UAE to file international complaint over Qatar flight 'interception'
Two bodies found at site of suspected gas blast in Antwerp: Belgian media
Hong Kong stocks post record close
Rohingya deal aims to return refugees 'within two years'
Torture probe launched after 13 siblings held captive in US home
Pope Francis arrives in Chile at start of Latin American trip
Palestinian leaders urge PLO to suspend recognition of Israel
Romania's left-wing PM quits after losing party backing
Several dead in operation to arrest Venezuela pilot: official
The Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan dies aged 46
Seven migrants die trying to reach Canary Islands: police
Palestinian shot dead by Israeli army in West Bank clashes: officials
Spain expected to replace US as second top tourism destination: UNWTO
Erdogan threatens to 'nip in the bud' new US-backed Syria force
Number of global tourists leapt 7% in 2017: UNWTO
Madrid to keep control of Catalonia if Puigdemont tries to govern remotely
Tripoli airport clashes kill nine: Libya ministry
Ritz-Carlton to re-open after holding royals in Saudi purge
Case dismissed against French troops accused of child rape in Central Africa
Qatar denies intercepting UAE passenger plane
Abducted Chibok girls say 'we won't return': Boko Haram video
UAE says Qatari fighter jets 'intercept' passenger plane
Airbus will have to scrap A380 programme if no new orders: sales chief
75 injured in floor collapse at Jakarta exchange building: police
Airbus says booked 1,109 aircraft orders, 718 deliveries in 2017
UK construction firm Carillion liquidates business
Twenty-six killed in Baghdad twin suicide attack: health official
Balcony of Indonesia's stock exchange collapses: reports
GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File / Ralph Freso
Arizona Republican Jeff Flake unleashed a diatribe against President Donald Trump, timed to coincide with the expected announcement of controversial "Fake News Awards" by Trump's administration
A maverick senator from Donald Trump's own Republican party launched a stinging attack on the president on Wednesday, accusing him of employing Stalinist language to attack and undermine the free press.
Arizona lawmaker Jeff Flake levelled the broadside in an address from the Senate floor, timed to coincide with the expected announcement of controversial "Fake News Awards" by Trump's administration.
Flake -- an outspoken critic of the president who is not seeking re-election this year -- hit out at what he called Trump's disregard for the truth, and his repeated designation of the news media as an "enemy."
"The 'enemy of the people' was how the president of the United States called the free press in 2017," Flake told lawmakers.
"Mr. President, it is a testament to the condition of our democracy that our own president uses words infamously spoken by Joseph Stalin to describe his enemies," he said.
"So fraught with malice was the phrase 'enemy of the people,' that even Nikita Khrushchev forbade its use."
Flake accused Trump's White House of a "daily assault" on the constitutionally protected right to free speech, calling it "as unprecedented as it is unwarranted."
And he accused Trump of committing "moral vandalism" against the truth, from his longtime questioning of Barack Obama's birth certificate to his dismissal of Russian meddling in the 2016 election as a "hoax" -- and warned he was emboldening authoritarian regimes around the world to persecute the press.
"2017 was a year which saw the truth -- objective, empirical, evidence-based truth more battered and abused than any time in the history of our country, at the hands of the biggest figure in our government," Flake said.
"Without truth and a principled fidelity to truth and to shared facts, Mr President, our democracy will not last," he warned.
Trump tweeted last week that he would be awarding "Fake News Awards" to the "most corrupt & biased of the Mainstream Media" this Wednesday -- but the White House has remained evasive on whether the controversial event, already once delayed, would take place.
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GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File / Ralph Freso
Arizona Republican Jeff Flake unleashed a diatribe against President Donald Trump, timed to coincide with the expected announcement of controversial "Fake News Awards" by Trump's administration
A maverick senator from Donald Trump's own Republican party launched a stinging attack on the president on Wednesday, accusing him of employing Stalinist language to attack and undermine the free press.
Arizona lawmaker Jeff Flake levelled the broadside in an address from the Senate floor, timed to coincide with the expected announcement of controversial "Fake News Awards" by Trump's administration.
Dow posts first close above 26,000 amid Wall Street records
British MPs approve landmark Brexit bill, send it to Lords
US firms optimistic about 2018 but labor shortages constrain growth: Fed
Apple says will pay $38 bn in taxes on repatriated profits
Two Americans, two Canadians kidnapped in Nigeria: police update
UN envoy 'very hopeful' about solving Macedonia name dispute
MEP Viorica Dancila named as new Romanian PM
Syria peace talks to resume in Vienna Jan 25-26: UN
Bank of Canada raises benchmark interest rate to 1.25%
In Chile, pope says violence not answer in fight for indigenous rights
US industrial output in 2017 posts biggest gain since 2010: Fed
Bitcoin slides to below $10,000
Pope dedicates Chile mass to Pinochet regime victims
Bayeux Tapestry loan 'very significant': British PM
Israel judge orders Palestinian teen in 'slap video' held until trial
Goldman Sachs reports 4Q loss on big charge for US tax reform
France ditches plans for divisive west coast airport: PM
Arson attacks ahead of pope's indigenous Chile visit: police
Catalan lawmakers elect separatist as parliamentary speaker
Putin seeks to be 'emperor for life': Kremlin critic Navalny to AFP
Catalan parliament meets for first time since failed secession
France, Britain to announce new migrant treaty: Macron
France says Bayeux Tapestry loan to Britain 'not before 2020'
Saudi Arabia announces $2 bn bailout for Yemen government
UN Palestinian agency sees 'most severe' crisis ever after US freeze
Police raid France's Lactalis after salmonella scandal
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index hits all-time high
7 ethnic Rakhine killed as Myanmar police open fire at riot: official
Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong jailed for protest
US allies back tougher maritime controls on N. Korea
Pope meets priest sex abuse victims in Chile: Vatican
Ford projects lower-than-expected 2017 profits
Trump 'healthy,' no cognitive issues: doctor
US withholds $65 mn from UN agency for Palestinians
Mexico's Volaris orders 80 Airbus planes for $9.3bn: government
At least seven dead in Colombia military helicopter crash
Nestle says sells US candy business to Ferrero for $2.9 bn
Venezuela says rebel pilot killed in police operation
Trump, Xi express 'hope' for change in N.Korea attitude: W.House
Trump tells Xi US trade deficit with China 'not sustainable': W.House
Tycoon-led Czech cabinet loses confidence vote
Turkish President Erdogan to visit pope on February 5
Citigroup reports steep Q4 losses tied to US tax reform
GM takes $7 bn charge on tax reform, seens solid 2018
GE takes one-off hit of $6.2 bn linked to insurance activities
France will never allow another 'Jungle' migrant camp in Calais: Macron
Pope in Chile calls for respect of 'rights' of indigenous people
Danish inventor Peter Madsen charged with Kim Wall murder: prosecutors
EU to remove Panama, seven others from tax haven blacklist: source
EU's 'hearts are still open' to Brexit reversal: Tusk
Prominent Kosovo Serb politician Ivanovic shot dead
UAE to file international complaint over Qatar flight 'interception'
Two bodies found at site of suspected gas blast in Antwerp: Belgian media
Hong Kong stocks post record close
Rohingya deal aims to return refugees 'within two years'
Torture probe launched after 13 siblings held captive in US home
Pope Francis arrives in Chile at start of Latin American trip
Palestinian leaders urge PLO to suspend recognition of Israel
Romania's left-wing PM quits after losing party backing
Several dead in operation to arrest Venezuela pilot: official
The Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan dies aged 46
Seven migrants die trying to reach Canary Islands: police
Palestinian shot dead by Israeli army in West Bank clashes: officials
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GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File / Ralph Freso
Arizona Republican Jeff Flake unleashed a diatribe against President Donald Trump, timed to coincide with the expected announcement of controversial "Fake News Awards" by Trump's administration
A maverick senator from Donald Trump's own Republican party launched a stinging attack on the president on Wednesday, accusing him of employing Stalinist language to attack and undermine the free press.
Arizona lawmaker Jeff Flake levelled the broadside in an address from the Senate floor, timed to coincide with the expected announcement of controversial "Fake News Awards" by Trump's administration.
Flake -- an outspoken critic of the president who is not seeking re-election this year -- hit out at what he called Trump's disregard for the truth, and his repeated designation of the news media as an "enemy."
"The 'enemy of the people' was how the president of the United States called the free press in 2017," Flake told lawmakers.
"Mr. President, it is a testament to the condition of our democracy that our own president uses words infamously spoken by Joseph Stalin to describe his enemies," he said.
"So fraught with malice was the phrase 'enemy of the people,' that even Nikita Khrushchev forbade its use."
Flake accused Trump's White House of a "daily assault" on the constitutionally protected right to free speech, calling it "as unprecedented as it is unwarranted."
And he accused Trump of committing "moral vandalism" against the truth, from his longtime questioning of Barack Obama's birth certificate to his dismissal of Russian meddling in the 2016 election as a "hoax" -- and warned he was emboldening authoritarian regimes around the world to persecute the press.
"2017 was a year which saw the truth -- objective, empirical, evidence-based truth more battered and abused than any time in the history of our country, at the hands of the biggest figure in our government," Flake said.
"Without truth and a principled fidelity to truth and to shared facts, Mr President, our democracy will not last," he warned.
Trump tweeted last week that he would be awarding "Fake News Awards" to the "most corrupt & biased of the Mainstream Media" this Wednesday -- but the White House has remained evasive on whether the controversial event, already once delayed, would take place.
GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File / Ralph Freso
Arizona Republican Jeff Flake unleashed a diatribe against President Donald Trump, timed to coincide with the expected announcement of controversial "Fake News Awards" by Trump's administration
A maverick senator from Donald Trump's own Republican party launched a stinging attack on the president on Wednesday, accusing him of employing Stalinist language to attack and undermine the free press.
Arizona lawmaker Jeff Flake levelled the broadside in an address from the Senate floor, timed to coincide with the expected announcement of controversial "Fake News Awards" by Trump's administration.
Flake -- an outspoken critic of the president who is not seeking re-election this year -- hit out at what he called Trump's disregard for the truth, and his repeated designation of the news media as an "enemy."
"The 'enemy of the people' was how the president of the United States called the free press in 2017," Flake told lawmakers.
"Mr. President, it is a testament to the condition of our democracy that our own president uses words infamously spoken by Joseph Stalin to describe his enemies," he said.
"So fraught with malice was the phrase 'enemy of the people,' that even Nikita Khrushchev forbade its use."
Flake accused Trump's White House of a "daily assault" on the constitutionally protected right to free speech, calling it "as unprecedented as it is unwarranted."
And he accused Trump of committing "moral vandalism" against the truth, from his longtime questioning of Barack Obama's birth certificate to his dismissal of Russian meddling in the 2016 election as a "hoax" -- and warned he was emboldening authoritarian regimes around the world to persecute the press.
"2017 was a year which saw the truth -- objective, empirical, evidence-based truth more battered and abused than any time in the history of our country, at the hands of the biggest figure in our government," Flake said.
"Without truth and a principled fidelity to truth and to shared facts, Mr President, our democracy will not last," he warned.
Trump tweeted last week that he would be awarding "Fake News Awards" to the "most corrupt & biased of the Mainstream Media" this Wednesday -- but the White House has remained evasive on whether the controversial event, already once delayed, would take place.
GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File / Ralph Freso
Arizona Republican Jeff Flake unleashed a diatribe against President Donald Trump, timed to coincide with the expected announcement of controversial "Fake News Awards" by Trump's administration
A maverick senator from Donald Trump's own Republican party launched a stinging attack on the president on Wednesday, accusing him of employing Stalinist language to attack and undermine the free press.
Arizona lawmaker Jeff Flake levelled the broadside in an address from the Senate floor, timed to coincide with the expected announcement of controversial "Fake News Awards" by Trump's administration.
Dow posts first close above 26,000 amid Wall Street records
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US firms optimistic about 2018 but labor shortages constrain growth: Fed
Apple says will pay $38 bn in taxes on repatriated profits
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UN envoy 'very hopeful' about solving Macedonia name dispute
MEP Viorica Dancila named as new Romanian PM
Syria peace talks to resume in Vienna Jan 25-26: UN
Bank of Canada raises benchmark interest rate to 1.25%
In Chile, pope says violence not answer in fight for indigenous rights
US industrial output in 2017 posts biggest gain since 2010: Fed
Bitcoin slides to below $10,000
Pope dedicates Chile mass to Pinochet regime victims
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Israel judge orders Palestinian teen in 'slap video' held until trial
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Romania's left-wing PM quits after losing party backing
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Airbus says booked 1,109 aircraft orders, 718 deliveries in 2017
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Syria peace talks to resume in Vienna Jan 25-26: UN
Bank of Canada raises benchmark interest rate to 1.25%
In Chile, pope says violence not answer in fight for indigenous rights
US industrial output in 2017 posts biggest gain since 2010: Fed
Bitcoin slides to below $10,000
Pope dedicates Chile mass to Pinochet regime victims
Bayeux Tapestry loan 'very significant': British PM
Israel judge orders Palestinian teen in 'slap video' held until trial
Goldman Sachs reports 4Q loss on big charge for US tax reform
France ditches plans for divisive west coast airport: PM
Arson attacks ahead of pope's indigenous Chile visit: police
Catalan lawmakers elect separatist as parliamentary speaker
Putin seeks to be 'emperor for life': Kremlin critic Navalny to AFP
Catalan parliament meets for first time since failed secession
France, Britain to announce new migrant treaty: Macron
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Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index hits all-time high
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GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File / Ralph Freso
Arizona Republican Jeff Flake unleashed a diatribe against President Donald Trump, timed to coincide with the expected announcement of controversial "Fake News Awards" by Trump's administration
A maverick senator from Donald Trump's own Republican party launched a stinging attack on the president on Wednesday, accusing him of employing Stalinist language to attack and undermine the free press.
Arizona lawmaker Jeff Flake levelled the broadside in an address from the Senate floor, timed to coincide with the expected announcement of controversial "Fake News Awards" by Trump's administration.
Flake -- an outspoken critic of the president who is not seeking re-election this year -- hit out at what he called Trump's disregard for the truth, and his repeated designation of the news media as an "enemy."
"The 'enemy of the people' was how the president of the United States called the free press in 2017," Flake told lawmakers.
"Mr. President, it is a testament to the condition of our democracy that our own president uses words infamously spoken by Joseph Stalin to describe his enemies," he said.
"So fraught with malice was the phrase 'enemy of the people,' that even Nikita Khrushchev forbade its use."
Flake accused Trump's White House of a "daily assault" on the constitutionally protected right to free speech, calling it "as unprecedented as it is unwarranted."
And he accused Trump of committing "moral vandalism" against the truth, from his longtime questioning of Barack Obama's birth certificate to his dismissal of Russian meddling in the 2016 election as a "hoax" -- and warned he was emboldening authoritarian regimes around the world to persecute the press.
"2017 was a year which saw the truth -- objective, empirical, evidence-based truth more battered and abused than any time in the history of our country, at the hands of the biggest figure in our government," Flake said.
"Without truth and a principled fidelity to truth and to shared facts, Mr President, our democracy will not last," he warned.
Trump tweeted last week that he would be awarding "Fake News Awards" to the "most corrupt & biased of the Mainstream Media" this Wednesday -- but the White House has remained evasive on whether the controversial event, already once delayed, would take place.
GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File / Ralph Freso
Arizona Republican Jeff Flake unleashed a diatribe against President Donald Trump, timed to coincide with the expected announcement of controversial "Fake News Awards" by Trump's administration
A maverick senator from Donald Trump's own Republican party launched a stinging attack on the president on Wednesday, accusing him of employing Stalinist language to attack and undermine the free press.
Arizona lawmaker Jeff Flake levelled the broadside in an address from the Senate floor, timed to coincide with the expected announcement of controversial "Fake News Awards" by Trump's administration.
Flake -- an outspoken critic of the president who is not seeking re-election this year -- hit out at what he called Trump's disregard for the truth, and his repeated designation of the news media as an "enemy."
"The 'enemy of the people' was how the president of the United States called the free press in 2017," Flake told lawmakers.
"Mr. President, it is a testament to the condition of our democracy that our own president uses words infamously spoken by Joseph Stalin to describe his enemies," he said.
"So fraught with malice was the phrase 'enemy of the people,' that even Nikita Khrushchev forbade its use."
Flake accused Trump's White House of a "daily assault" on the constitutionally protected right to free speech, calling it "as unprecedented as it is unwarranted."
And he accused Trump of committing "moral vandalism" against the truth, from his longtime questioning of Barack Obama's birth certificate to his dismissal of Russian meddling in the 2016 election as a "hoax" -- and warned he was emboldening authoritarian regimes around the world to persecute the press.
"2017 was a year which saw the truth -- objective, empirical, evidence-based truth more battered and abused than any time in the history of our country, at the hands of the biggest figure in our government," Flake said.
"Without truth and a principled fidelity to truth and to shared facts, Mr President, our democracy will not last," he warned.
Trump tweeted last week that he would be awarding "Fake News Awards" to the "most corrupt & biased of the Mainstream Media" this Wednesday -- but the White House has remained evasive on whether the controversial event, already once delayed, would take place.
GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File / Ralph Freso
Arizona Republican Jeff Flake unleashed a diatribe against President Donald Trump, timed to coincide with the expected announcement of controversial "Fake News Awards" by Trump's administration
A maverick senator from Donald Trump's own Republican party launched a stinging attack on the president on Wednesday, accusing him of employing Stalinist language to attack and undermine the free press.
Arizona lawmaker Jeff Flake levelled the broadside in an address from the Senate floor, timed to coincide with the expected announcement of controversial "Fake News Awards" by Trump's administration.
17 Jan 2018
Dow posts first close above 26,000 amid Wall Street records
British MPs approve landmark Brexit bill, send it to Lords
US firms optimistic about 2018 but labor shortages constrain growth: Fed
Apple says will pay $38 bn in taxes on repatriated profits
Two Americans, two Canadians kidnapped in Nigeria: police update
UN envoy 'very hopeful' about solving Macedonia name dispute
MEP Viorica Dancila named as new Romanian PM
Syria peace talks to resume in Vienna Jan 25-26: UN
Bank of Canada raises benchmark interest rate to 1.25%
In Chile, pope says violence not answer in fight for indigenous rights
US industrial output in 2017 posts biggest gain since 2010: Fed
Bitcoin slides to below $10,000
Pope dedicates Chile mass to Pinochet regime victims
Bayeux Tapestry loan 'very significant': British PM
Israel judge orders Palestinian teen in 'slap video' held until trial
Goldman Sachs reports 4Q loss on big charge for US tax reform
France ditches plans for divisive west coast airport: PM
Arson attacks ahead of pope's indigenous Chile visit: police
Catalan lawmakers elect separatist as parliamentary speaker
Putin seeks to be 'emperor for life': Kremlin critic Navalny to AFP
Catalan parliament meets for first time since failed secession
France, Britain to announce new migrant treaty: Macron
France says Bayeux Tapestry loan to Britain 'not before 2020'
Saudi Arabia announces $2 bn bailout for Yemen government
UN Palestinian agency sees 'most severe' crisis ever after US freeze
Police raid France's Lactalis after salmonella scandal
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index hits all-time high
7 ethnic Rakhine killed as Myanmar police open fire at riot: official
Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong jailed for protest
US allies back tougher maritime controls on N. Korea
Pope meets priest sex abuse victims in Chile: Vatican
Ford projects lower-than-expected 2017 profits
Trump 'healthy,' no cognitive issues: doctor
US withholds $65 mn from UN agency for Palestinians
Mexico's Volaris orders 80 Airbus planes for $9.3bn: government
At least seven dead in Colombia military helicopter crash
Nestle says sells US candy business to Ferrero for $2.9 bn
Venezuela says rebel pilot killed in police operation
Trump, Xi express 'hope' for change in N.Korea attitude: W.House
Trump tells Xi US trade deficit with China 'not sustainable': W.House
Tycoon-led Czech cabinet loses confidence vote
Turkish President Erdogan to visit pope on February 5
Citigroup reports steep Q4 losses tied to US tax reform
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Spain expected to replace US as second top tourism destination: UNWTO
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GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File / Ralph Freso
Arizona Republican Jeff Flake unleashed a diatribe against President Donald Trump, timed to coincide with the expected announcement of controversial "Fake News Awards" by Trump's administration
A maverick senator from Donald Trump's own Republican party launched a stinging attack on the president on Wednesday, accusing him of employing Stalinist language to attack and undermine the free press.
Arizona lawmaker Jeff Flake levelled the broadside in an address from the Senate floor, timed to coincide with the expected announcement of controversial "Fake News Awards" by Trump's administration.
Flake -- an outspoken critic of the president who is not seeking re-election this year -- hit out at what he called Trump's disregard for the truth, and his repeated designation of the news media as an "enemy."
"The 'enemy of the people' was how the president of the United States called the free press in 2017," Flake told lawmakers.
"Mr. President, it is a testament to the condition of our democracy that our own president uses words infamously spoken by Joseph Stalin to describe his enemies," he said.
"So fraught with malice was the phrase 'enemy of the people,' that even Nikita Khrushchev forbade its use."
Flake accused Trump's White House of a "daily assault" on the constitutionally protected right to free speech, calling it "as unprecedented as it is unwarranted."
And he accused Trump of committing "moral vandalism" against the truth, from his longtime questioning of Barack Obama's birth certificate to his dismissal of Russian meddling in the 2016 election as a "hoax" -- and warned he was emboldening authoritarian regimes around the world to persecute the press.
"2017 was a year which saw the truth -- objective, empirical, evidence-based truth more battered and abused than any time in the history of our country, at the hands of the biggest figure in our government," Flake said.
"Without truth and a principled fidelity to truth and to shared facts, Mr President, our democracy will not last," he warned.
Trump tweeted last week that he would be awarding "Fake News Awards" to the "most corrupt & biased of the Mainstream Media" this Wednesday -- but the White House has remained evasive on whether the controversial event, already once delayed, would take place.
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