Trump warns North Korea's Kim Jong Un not to put their 'special relationship' at risk with 'hostile' acts
President Donald Trump warned North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that he could be putting their “special relationship” at risk if his regime begins to behave aggressively or abandon its commitment to denuclearization. “Kim Jong Un is too smart and has far too much to lose, everything actually, if he acts in a hostile way,”…
Fire and petrol bombs after 'generally peaceful' Hong Kong march, police say
By Farah Master and Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong protesters lit a fire outside court buildings, threw petrol bombs and spray-painted graffiti on government buildings, following a “generally peaceful” march at the weekend, police said on Monday. Protesters called for strikes across the city on Monday, but most railway and transport links…
AP Interview: Taiwan may help if Hong Kong violence expands
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s top diplomat said Tuesday that his government stands with Hong Kong citizens pushing for “freedom and democracy,” and would help those displaced from the semi-autonomous Chinese city if Beijing intervenes with greater force to quell the protests. Speaking to The Associated Press in the capital, Taipei, Foreign Minister Joseph Wu…
Hong Kong's leader unbowed after massive weekend protest
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s leader on Tuesday again ruled out further concessions to protesters who marched peacefully in their hundreds of thousands this past weekend, days before she is to travel to Beijing for regularly scheduled meetings with Communist Party leaders. The six-month protest movement has five demands, including that the leader of…
Turkey deports 11 French relatives of 'terrorist' suspects
Paris (AFP) – Turkey has sent 11 French relatives of suspected “terrorist fighters” back home, the Turkish interior ministry said Monday, the latest in Ankara’s renewed push to deport foreign jihadist insurgents. “Eleven French citizens have been deported to their home country,” a ministry statement said. A French judicial source confirmed that four women and…
UPDATE 1-Turkey says it has deported 11 French terrorist suspects
(Adds details on the identity of two women) ISTANBUL, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Turkey said on Monday it had deported 11 French nationals back to France as part of a programme to extradite what it says are foreign terrorist fighters. Turkey’s Interior Ministry, which made the announcement, gave no details. France’s Foreign Ministry declined to…
Isil 'matchmaker' who lured British teen bride to Syria is deported to France
Turkey has deported to France the “Islamic State matchmaker” who lured a British teen bride to Syria as part of a drive to send foreign fighters back to their countries of origin. Tooba Gondal, 25, is among 11 French nationals that Turkey repatriated early on Monday, according to France’s Centre for Analysis of Terrorism, CAT, citing…
Aung San Suu Kyi appears in court over Myanmar genocide charges on 28th anniversary of Nobel Peace Prize
Aung San Suu Kyi has appeared at the highest UN court to defend Myanmar against genocide charges, following her country’s brutal crackdown on the Rohingya minority. In hearings at the International Court of Justice in the Netherlands, government head Ms Suu Kyi is expected to argue killings by her nation’s military were a legitimate response…
Suu Kyi in court as genocide case set out against Myanmar
By Anthony Deutsch and Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Mass rapes, the burning alive of Muslim Rohingya families in their homes and the killing with knives of dozens of children were described by Gambia’s legal team as it set out its genocide case against Myanmar at the U.N.’s highest court on Tuesday.…
Epstein-Funded Scientist George Church Is Creating a Genetics-Based Dating App
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