Month: January 2020

Back in the fall of 2017, during the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, President Xi Jinping took the podium at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People to claim that one-party autocracy offered an option for “countries that want to speed up their development while preserving their independence.” In the years since, China’s…

Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar on Thursday called for the U.S. government to cease detaining illegal immigrants. Omar tweeted an ABC News story about a tiny Georgia town having more detained illegal immigrants than residents. Her takeaway: America shouldn’t be detaining those who cross the border illegally. Click Here: liverpool mens jersey “This should never be the…

ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that Somalia had invited Turkey to explore for oil in its seas, after Ankara signed a maritime agreement with Libya last year, broadcaster NTV reported. Turkey has been a major source of aid to Somalia following a famine in 2011 as Ankara seeks to increase…

Australia’s already fire-ravaged state, Victoria, could now face severe flooding as experts forecast its wettest two-day period in “many, many months”. Heavy rain has dampened many of the country’s bushfires, which began in September and have killed at least 28 people as well as destroying thousands of homes and scorching acres of land. But the…

“Apocalyptic” dust storms swept across drought-stricken areas of Australia over the weekend, with thunder and giant hail battering the east coast, as extreme weather patterns collided in the bushfire-fatigued country. The southern city of Melbourne was lashed by huge hailstones late Sunday and fire-ravaged parts of Victoria state overnight received heavy rainfall, prompting new extreme…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Dust storms, hail and flash floods have battered beleaguered Australian cities in recent days, extreme weather that has diminished the threat from scores of wildfires that continue to blaze across the country’s southeast. A hail storm in the national capital Canberra on Monday damaged public buildings, businesses, homes and cars, cut…

Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images Six former cruise-ship workers described to Business Insider the things they couldn’t live without while on the job. Their answers included clothing, technology, and cosmetics. The workers’ former employers were Carnival Cruise Line, Norwegian Cruise Line, Princess Cruises, and American Cruise Lines. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. A cruise ship…

Ahead of Tuesday’s Senate trial on impeachment, Joe Biden’s campaign is cautioning media outlets against “spreading a malicious and conclusively debunked conspiracy theory” regarding a conflict of interest between the former vice president’s policy work in Ukraine and his son Hunter’s role on the board of Burisma. “It is not sufficient to say the allegations…

Les confidences de Michel Drucker sur l’état de santé de Michel Delpech ont ému, mais aussi beaucoup énervé. Il a été reproché à l’animateur de se servir de la maladie du chanteur pour faire sa promo. Aujourd’hui, il s’en explique. «Je regrette parce que ça a été mal compris». Dans un entretien accordé à nos…

Politics makes strange bedfellows, but perhaps none have ever been stranger than the two celebrity lawyers just announced as part of Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team: Kenneth Starr and Alan Dershowitz. Starr played a central role in the events that led to America’s last impeachment trial. In 1994, Congress empowered Starr to probe the legality…