Month: November 2019

Key Point: The J-20 stealth fighter is a design success and is a large boost to China’s already growing military power. China’s J-20 stealth fighter was a disappointment at the 2018 edition of the country’s annual air show in Zhuhai in southern China. Three of the twin-engine warplanes put on what one reporter called a “conservative”…

DURRES, Albania (AP) — Hopes were fading Thursday of finding anyone else alive beneath the rubble of collapsed buildings in Albania, two days after a deadly quake struck the country’s Adriatic coast killing at least 46 people and injuring more than 2,000. By Thursday afternoon, search operations were winding down, and focused on one collapsed…

Tirana (AFP) – Albania’s prime minister said the country had been “wounded” by the violent earthquake this week that killed whole families and pulverised buildings, as he gave a new toll on Friday of 49 dead and 5,000 displaced. The 6.4 magnitude quake that jolted Albania before dawn on Tuesday was the most deadly and…

WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern apologized on Thursday for the then-government’s handling of a plane crash in Antarctica 40 years ago that took the lives of 257 people in the country’s worst peacetime disaster. On 28 November 1979, Air New Zealand flight 901 was on a sightseeing tour from Auckland when…

Since January, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested about 250 foreign students at a fake university in Michigan. It’s part of a sting operation by federal agents. The University of Farmington was opened in 2015 as a guise by ICE officials. It was created to entice foreign-born students, mostly from India, who had arrived…

After the reported arrests of hundreds of foreign students at a fake university set up by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, prominent Democratic lawmakers including Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lambasted what they described as a cruel and corrupt scheme to entrap immigrants.  The Detroit Free-Press reported Wednesday that an additional 90 students at the sham University of…

Wikimedia/Duffman Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested 90 more students who enrolled in a fake university set up by federal authorities in an immigration sting, the Detroit Free Press reported on Wednesday. As first reported in January, hundreds of foreign nationals were arrested after enrolling in the University of Farmington, a fake college the Department…

Scotland Yard has confirmed it has “liaised with” its US counterparts over allegations that a teenage girl was trafficked to London for sex by the billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein. In a statement, the Metropolitan Police said it had been in touch with “other law enforcement organisations” over the claims that the 17-year-old was brought to the…

Prince Andrew’s accuser, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, says the period during which she was at the hands of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein “was a really scary time.” Giuffre, 35, who spoke to the BBC for an upcoming hour-long special, has said she was forced by Epstein to have sex with his friend, Andrew, when she was just…

LONDON (AP) — London police are defending the decision not to pursue a full investigation of allegations made against Prince Andrew by a woman who says she was trafficked by the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Police acknowledged Thursday that they received a complaint in 2015 from a woman alleging she was the victim…