Month: December 2019

Tesla’s Cybertruck continues to get parodied. Ever since the $40,000 electric truck’s unveiling went awry, leaving its “bulletproof windows” shattered, people on the internet have poked fun at the polarizing angular vehicle. Click Here: liverpool mens jersey The latest to take a jab was Greg Milano, 30, who sculpted a replica out of carbs on Thanksgiving. Milano’s…

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — The wealth of Zimbabwe’s former longtime president Robert Mugabe was long a mystery. Now the first official list of assets to be made public says he left behind $10 million and several houses when he died in September. Some in Zimbabwe view that estate as far too modest for Mugabe, who…

Harare (AFP) – Zimbabwe’s late former president Robert Mugabe left US$10 million, 10 cars, a farm and two houses, details of his estate released on Tuesday revealed. The state-owned Herald newspaper said his daughter, Bona Nyepudzai Mutsahuni-Chikore, disclosed these assets to the High Court after the family had been unable to locate his will. The…

HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s former leader Robert Mugabe, who died in September, left $10 million and some properties in the capital, but no will naming his beneficiaries, details of his estate published by state-owned newspaper the Herald showed on Tuesday. Zimbabweans have speculated for years about the extent of Mugabe’s wealth, with many assuming that…

Donald Trump is attending a two-day summit with Nato leaders in London and has wasted little time in attacking Emmanuel Macron over his dismissal of the alliance as “brain-dead” ahead of a tense meeting at which the French president chastised the American for joking about Isis prisoners. Back in Washington, leading Democrat Adam Schiff has…

California Democrat Katie Porter fought with her over committee procedures. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other members of the Squad of progressive female lawmakers withheld their support from her over the Export-Import Bank. Their staffs have pressed her team to give them more time to weigh in on bills. The target of these progressive freshmen: not some…

China is testing two hypersonic surface-to-surface missiles and not one as previously reported, state media claimed. If true, the development of a second munition capable of traveling at least five times the speed of sound while maneuvering could weigh on the balance of power in the Pacific region. The second missile, the Xingkong-2, differs in…

Key point: Hypersonic missiles are all the rage these days among the great powers as they are very hard to stop. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s March 1, 2018 annual annual state-of-the-nation address became his most-cited since his 2007 Munich speech. “Listen to us now,” he warned NATO after unveiling several hypersonic, nuclear-capable weapons: the Kinzhal missile…

Key point: It is good Taiwan is getting into the hypersonics game, but it is far behind China. Taiwan has begun production of a new land-attack cruise missile. But the island country still is badly outgunned by China’s own, much larger missile arsenal. Taiwanese media on Aug. 4, 2019 reported that the country’s National Chung-Shan Institute…

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s administration proposed Monday slapping stiff tariffs on $2.4 billion in French products including cheese and champagne in retaliation for France’s new digital services tax. In a report released just hours before Trump is scheduled to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron in London, the U.S. Trade Representatives’ Office said tariffs…