Month: January 2020

By Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) – Carlos Ghosn’s daring flight from Japan, where he was awaiting trial on charges of financial wrongdoing, has revived global criticism of the nation’s “hostage justice,” but in Japan is prompting talk of reversing more lenient curbs on defendants. The ousted boss of Japan’s Nissan Motor Co and France’s Renault…

(Bloomberg) — The two main contenders in Taiwan’s presidential race curtailed their election campaigns Thursday after the top uniformed military officer died in a helicopter crash. Chief of General Staff Shen Yi-ming and other officials were en route to meet military personnel in the run up to the Lunar New Year holiday when their UH-60M…

Taiwan’s military chief and seven others have died after a helicopter carrying high-level defense officials crash-landed Thursday morning in a mountainous region south of capital Taipei. The Ministry of National Defense (MND) reported the casualties during an afternoon news conference. Taiwan’s chief of general staff, Shen Yi-ming, is among the dead. Five people survived the…

Taiwan’s military chief was killed in a helicopter crash on Thursday, the defence ministry said, just days before the island goes to polls to elect a new president. The chief of the general staff, Shen Yi-ming, was among eight senior officers — including three major-generals — who died when their Black Hawk helicopter smashed into…

In California, 2019 was quite a year. Celebrities were caught in a college admissions scandal, planned power outages thrust hundreds of thousands into darkness during wildfires and two big earthquakes rocked cities in the southern parts of the state. New Gov. Gavin Newsom took action on more than 1,000 bills, pressed pause on executions and halted new fracking permits (after they…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The search for five crew members of a sunken fishing vessel in Alaska has been suspended, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The decision came after the service said it had exhausted all leads and considered the chances for survival. Two other crew members of the Scandies Rose were rescued after the…

(Bloomberg) — Sign up to our Next Africa newsletter and follow Bloomberg Africa on Twitter An Angolan court placed a freeze on assets held by Isabel dos Santos, Africa’s richest woman, including stakes in wireless operator Unitel SA and lenders Banco BIC and Banco de Fomento Angola, Diario de Noticias and Lusa reported, citing a…

President Trump’s reelection campaign raked in $46 million in the fourth quarter of 2019 in support of the president’s bid for a second term, the Trump campaign announced Thursday. The haul for the final months of the year marks the best fundraising quarter of the 2020 election cycle for the president’s reelection campaign, according to…

By Simon Lewis and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Bernie Sanders raised more than $34.5 million in the last quarter of 2019, the largest three-month haul for a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, while Republican President Donald Trump drew $46 million on the heels of his impeachment, their campaigns said on Thursday. The new figures brought…

It suddenly seems that Bernie Sanders—the democratic socialist candidate competing in the Democratic primaries—might actually have a chance of winning a significant number of primaries, thus becoming the Democratic Party’s nominee for president in 2020.  As Holly Otterbein and David Siders write in Politico, the man who was written off by party insiders “as a…