Month: January 2020

Key Point: Sometimes events don’t go the way you want. In the summer of 1949, Chiang Kai-shek and his Republic of China (ROC) government appeared doomed. Shanghai and Nanjing, then China’s capital city, had fallen to Mao Zedong’s communist forces, and Chiang’s units all over China were collapsing under the weight of mass attack and defections.…

MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) – His jacket sparkling with war medals, 96-year old David Dushman holds back the tears as he remembers the eyes of emaciated prisoners at the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz which he helped liberate 75 years ago this month. A Russian Jew, Dushman is one of the last surviving soldiers to have…

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s deputy prime minister described the country as the only one in the world with a single race, language and 2,000-year-old monarchy, sparking criticism that he was ignoring an indigenous ethnic group and Japanese racial diversity. Taro Aso, who is also finance minister and one of most influential lawmakers in Prime Minister…

The US House of Representatives is set to vote on Wednesday to send articles of impeachment it previously approved against Donald Trump to the Senate, where a contentious trial is expected to begin shortly after. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made the announcement during a closed-door huddle with Democrats on Capitol Hill, while declining to name…

Donald Trump has retweeted what appears to be an image of a dead body and a meme of senior Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer dressed as Muslims as he continues to lash out over the Iran crisis and his upcoming Senate impeachment trial. The president reportedly first approved the assassination of Quds commander Qassem…

By Sangmi Cha Click Here: nrl league jerseys SEOUL (Reuters) – Inter-Korean cooperation doesn’t necessarily have to wait for the United States’ denuclearization talks with North Korea to progress, South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha said on Tuesday after meeting her U.S. and Japanese counterparts in California. “Our basic stance is that North Korea-U.S. talks…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Tuesday that he could seek exemptions of U.N. sanctions placed on North Korea to bring about improved inter-Korean relations that he believes would help restart nuclear negotiations between Pyongyang and Washington. Moon has previously made similar comments, despite outside worries that any lifting of…

(Bloomberg) — A state-of-the-art $130 million presidential Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliner is becoming a headache for the government of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Mexico is flying back the luxurious aircraft from California after failing to sell it for over a year, Lopez Obrador said Tuesday in his daily press conference, adding that they are rethinking…

Click here to read the full article. Trevor Noah brought back his “Votegasm 2020” live coverage tonight for a recap of the seventh Democratic presidential debate. While the political face-off in Des Moines, Iowa may have started out slowly, there were some serious fireworks worthy of comedic analysis. The Daily Show host began by noting…

With just three weeks until the Iowa caucus, the six qualifying Democratic candidates will take the stage tonight at Drake University in Des Moines, IA, for the last debate before the primaries begin. The qualifying candidates are Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, and Tom…