President Donald Trump yesterday reacted to the resignation of three top CNN journalists over the retraction of a story by referring to the network and other major US media outlets as “fake news”.
The network announced on Monday that the employees had resigned after the story on alleged ties between a Russian investment fund and a Trump confidante was retracted.
Trump chided CNN on Twitter for getting caught “falsely pushing their phony Russian stories” and referred to the network as “Fake News CNN.”
The president, who has repeatedly complained that the news media is biased against him, then asked, “What about NBC, CBS & ABC? What about the failing @nytimes & @washingtonpost? They are all Fake News!” 
There was no reaction from CNN to Trump’s tweets. On Friday CNN said it had retracted a story published days earlier linking hedge-fund manager Anthony Scaramucci with a Congress investigation into the Russian Direct Investment Fund.
“That story did not meet CNN’s editorial standards and has been retracted. Links to the story have been disabled. CNN apologises to Mr Scaramucci,” it wrote on Saturday.
CNN wrote that at a staff meeting on Monday, members of the investigative unit were told that the retraction did not necessarily mean the story was wrong, rather it was not yet “solid enough to publish”.
Scaramucci had objected to the report and on Saturday accepted the network’s apology, describing it as a “classy move.”
The three top CNN journalists who resigned after the retraction are: Thomas Frank, who wrote the story in question; Lex Haris, who was in charge of a new investigative unit at the broadcaster; and Eric Lichtblau, an editor in the unit, had all left, it said.
Frank is a veteran journalist who has previously worked for USA Today and Newsday newspapers, while Lichtblau is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who joined CNN from the New York Times in April. Haris was named executive editor of CNN Investigates in January, having previously been executive editor of CNNMoney.
lPresident Donald Trump is growing increasingly frustrated with China over its inaction on North Korea and bilateral trade issues and is now considering possible trade actions against Beijing, three senior administration officials told Reuters.
The officials said Trump was impatient with China and was looking at a range of options, including tariffs on steel imports, which have previously been discussed by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.
Whether he would actually take action remains unclear.
In April, Trump backed off from a threat to withdraw from NAFTA after he said that Canadian and Mexican leaders telephoned him asking him to halt a planned executive order in favour of opening discussions.
lUS President Donald Trump and his policies are broadly unpopular around the world — with the notable exceptions of Russia and Israel, according to a poll released Monday.
The Pew Research Center survey, which surveyed people in 37 nations, showed a sharp decline in the average trust for America’s leader to do the right thing when it comes to international affairs.
Twenty-two per cent reported they had faith in Trump to guide America’s role in the world, compared with a 64 % level of confidence in Barack Obama in the final years of his presidency, Pew Research said.
“In the eyes of most people surveyed around the world, the White House’s new occupant is arrogant, intolerant and even dangerous,” according to a statement released with the poll, which was carried out between February 16 and May 8.
At home, a CBS poll released last week found that Trump’s overall approval rating in America was now down to 36%, the lowest level since he took power.
And under Trump, favourability ratings for the United States have fallen in many countries, according to the Pew poll.
“The share of the public with a positive view of the US has plummeted in a diverse set of countries from Latin America, North America, Europe, Asia and Africa,” Pew said.
The fall in confidence in the US leader was especially pronounced among US allies in Europe and Asia, and in Canada and Mexico, the poll said.
Among the 37 countries polled, Russia and Israel were the only ones in which people said they trust Trump more than they did Obama.
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