The Daily Populous

Donald Trump signed a letter of intent to begin negotiations over building a Trump Tower in Russia, a leaked document has revealed, despite the president’s lawyer insisting no such signature existed.

On Sunday, Rudy Giuliani, Mr Trump’s lawyer and chief representative, admitted the existence of the letter but insisted “no one signed it”.

The publication of the letter vindicates Mr Cohen, who told congress in 2017 Mr Trump had signed the document. »

Facebook has admitted it allowed other big tech companies to read users' private messages, but denies it did so without consent.

The report on Tuesday also said it permitted Microsoft's Bing search engine to view the names of nearly all of a Facebook user's friends without consent.

Facebook said it enabled partner companies like Spotify to access users' private messages after a user had signed into Facebook through the partner company's app. »

It had been thought defence officials wanted to maintain a US presence to ensure IS did not rebuild.

There are also fears a US withdrawal will cede influence in Syria and the wider region to Russia and Iran.

Russia said on Wednesday it would continue with its own sale of an advanced missile defence system to Turkey. »

Scientists at the University of Waterloo have created a powder that can capture CO 2 from factories and power plants.

The powder, created in the lab of Zhongwei Chen, a chemical engineering professor at Waterloo, can filter and remove CO 2 at facilities powered by fossil fuels before it is released into the atmosphere and is twice as efficient as conventional methods.

CO 2 molecules stick to the surface of carbon when they come in contact with it, a process known as adsorption. »