Month: November 2019

Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images ByteDance, the company which owns short-form video app TikTok, has come under some fire in the US because it is headquartered in China. The US is increasingly worried about Chinese tech firms passing on information about American citizens back to the Chinese government, and has blacklisted Chinese mobile firm…

Two leading Muslim groups said Sunday they will file petitions in India’s top court challenging its decision to award Hindus control of a bitterly disputed holy site that has sparked deadly inter-religious violence. The Supreme Court ruled on November 9 that the holy site in Ayodhya, where Hindu mobs destroyed a 460-year-old mosque in 1992,…

One local newspaper described the sales listing, with calculated understatement, as a “mid-century fixer-upper”: an underground bunker built to withstand a nuclear attack, and to house the fire power to retaliate. The decommissioned nuclear silo in southern Arizona was once home to the Titan II, the largest intercontinental ballistic missile deployed by the US Air…

Riot police have fired tear gas and deployed a water cannon in Paris as violence marred demonstrations to mark a year of anti-government “yellow vest” protests. Groups of youths, many clad in black and hiding their faces, torched bins and cars and hurled projectiles at officers as clashes broke out on the streets of France’s…

PARIS (AP) — Yellow vest activists staged peaceful demonstrations across France on Sunday, a day after scuffles between Paris police and protesters marred the anniversary of their movement for economic justice. Local yellow vest groups gathered at traffic circles across France where the movement emerged one year ago. In Paris, dozens of protesters briefly rallied…

By Dominique Vidalon PARIS (Reuters) – French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner blamed “thugs” and “bullies” on Sunday for the violence that hit demonstrations the previous day marking marked the first anniversary of the anti-government “yellow vest” protests. “Yesterday, what we saw were few (legitimate) demonstrators but thugs, bullies and morons,” Castaner told Europe 1 radio…

Don’t get too excited about hypersonic weapons, one prominent U.S. defense journalist advised. According to him, we still don’t know for sure whether the Mach-5-plus munitions actually work. Sure, Russia and China are moving quickly to deploy hypersonic anti-ship and land-attack missiles. The U.S. armed forces meanwhile are collaborating on a family of Mach-5 weapons…

The trial of Patrick Frazee, who is accused of murdering his fiancée Kelsey Berreth, took another shocking turn on Friday when an inmate testified that Frazee asked him for help in killing witnesses connected to the case, multiple outlets reports. The inmate — who did not want to be named for safety — was housed next to Frazee…

The trial of Patrick Frazee, who is charged with murder in the disappearance of his fiancée, Kelsey Berreth, is expected to go to the jury today following evidence that one observer called a “bombshell.” Testimony wrapped up on Friday in the rural Colorado town of Cripple Creek, with claims that Frazee tried to have the…

A gunman opened fire at a backyard party in Fresno, California, on Sunday night, shooting 10 men and killing four of them, police confirmed to PEOPLE. Between 35 and 40 family, friends, and children were at the event at the time, all of them gathered together to watch a football game. The suspect — who…