Month: January 2020

Ukraine plane struck by two missiles: NYT

Washington (AFP) – Two Iranian missiles struck down a Ukrainian passenger jet, the New York Times reported Tuesday, posting verified security camera footage showing double projectiles gliding through the sky before hitting their target. Click Here: liverpool mens jersey The missiles were fired 30 seconds apart and help explain a mystery as to why the…

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The Navy’s Smallest Warship Gets a Big Laser Weapon

From Popular Mechanics USS Little Rock will receive a laser weapon during an upcoming deployment. The new laser is five times more powerful than the first laser, deployed five years ago. The laser is probably strong enough to seriously damage small vehicles but is dependent on atmospheric conditions. One of the U.S. Navy’s newest and…

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Tekashi 6ix9ine asked to serve the rest of his 2-year sentence in home confinement because his prison has a lot of Blood gang members

New York Daily News/Jefferson Siegal via Getty Images Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, has asked to be moved from a private jail to home confinement for the remainder of his 2-year prison sentence, according to a court filing reviewed by Insider. Hernandez was sentenced to 24 months in prison in December…

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Japan minister becomes first to announce paternity leave

Japan’s environment minister said Wednesday he would take two weeks of paternity leave, the first time a cabinet minister has publicly committed to such a move in the country. Shinjiro Koizumi, a media-savvy 38-year-old married to a former television anchorwoman, told a ministry meeting it had been a difficult decision to balance his duties as…

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Japan Cabinet Star Set to Make History With Paternity Leave

Click:hair service (Bloomberg) — Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, a public favorite to succeed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, is set to be the country’s first sitting cabinet member to take paternity leave, a decision hailed by the government as being progressive. Koizumi, 38, told a news conference Wednesday he will take a total of two…

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Iran rejects Boris Johnson’s ‘strange’ proposal to strike new Trump deal to replace nuclear pact

Iran has rejected as “strange” a proposal from Boris Johnson that it should strike a new nuclear deal with the US, suggesting that president Donald Trump’s administration was not trustworthy enough. Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s president, said the solution to the current sky-high tensions between Iran and the US was to return to a deal with…

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Iran president slams removal of candidates from elections

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s president Wednesday slammed the disqualification of thousands of people, including 90 current lawmakers, from running in upcoming parliamentary elections. Although hard-liners were among those disqualified by the powerful Guardian Council, most of those rejected were reformist and moderate candidates, according to Tehran’s reformist newspaper Etemad. President Hassan Rouhani appeared to…

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Trump impeachment: Giuliani ‘acted with president’s consent’ while pushing for Ukraine meeting, new evidence suggests

Rudy Giuliani claimed he was working with Donald Trump’s consent when he and a now-indicted associate were pushing for Ukraine’s president to announce an investigation of former vice president Joe Biden, newly-released evidence suggests. The documents, which the House Foreign Affairs, Intelligence and Oversight committees released approximately a day after receiving them from Mr Giuliani’s…

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