Month: October 2019

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Wednesday that the U.S. will implement visa restrictions on Chinese officials believed to participate in the repression of the Uighur, Kazakh and other Muslim minorities. Click Here: liverpool mens jersey “China must end its draconian surveillance and repression, release all those arbitrarily detained, and cease its coercion of…

Even in death there is no respite for the Uighurs, one of the world’s most persecuted minorities, according to a new investigation that has revealed China is destroying burial grounds where generations of families have been interred. Over the past two years, tombs have been smashed and human bones scattered in dozens of desecrated cemeteries in…

North Korea on Thursday slammed a statement by European UN Security Council members urging strict enforcement of sanctions against Pyongyang for its latest missile test, calling the move a “serious provocation”. Pyongyang fired a sea-launched missile on October 2 in the latest — and most provocative — of a series of weapons tests, just days…

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea said on Thursday its patience has limits and it could reverse steps to build trust with the United States, as it criticized a U.N. Security Council call for it to cease its weapons programs and denounced a U.S. missile test. The five European members of the U.N. Security Council met…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea threatened again Thursday to resume nuclear and long-range missile tests, accusing the U.S. of having instigated some members of the U.N. Security Council to condemn its recent weapons tests. The warning by Pyongyang’s Foreign Ministry followed the weekend breakdown of North Korea-U.S. nuclear negotiations in Sweden, the first…

New York (AFP) – As the General Motors strike grinds on, more auto suppliers and contractors are sending workers home, adding to the economic drag on Michigan and other US midwestern car manufacturing hubs. The idling affects companies that supply parts, computer systems and raw materials to GM at the 31 striking plants in the…

We are long-retired public relations directors of the United Automobile Workers. We know something about its institutional code of silence. That ethos is not serving the union now. We cannot, in good conscience, continue to mutter privately while biting our tongues publicly, as many of our former and current UAW colleagues are doing. We know…

By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday will hold his first campaign rally since Democrats launched an impeachment inquiry against him, choosing a large arena in a Democratic stronghold in Minnesota to mount his latest public defense. Supporters of the Republican president will gather inside the 20,000-seat Target Center in Minneapolis…

Explaining the Pelosi-Trump standoff over a full House vote on an impeachment probe originally appeared on abcnews.go.com As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Donald Trump faced off over the Democrats’ impeachment effort — creating a potential constitutional crisis — Pelosi’s next move remained unclear on Wednesday as the White House and congressional Republicans demanded…

Donald Trump “is finished”, says his former press secretary Anthony Scaramucci, as the latest impeachment polling turns against him and news emerges that the president has taken to calling Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell up to three times a day to complain about disloyalty among Republican senators. The GOP has been conspicuous by its absence…