Trump claims he 'saved Pre-Existing Conditions in your Healthcare.' How?
President Trump misrepresented his administration’s health care record while disputing the premise of a campaign ad by Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg. “Mini Mike Bloomberg is spending a lot of money on False Advertising,” wrote Trump in a series of tweets Monday morning. “I was the person who saved Pre-Existing Conditions in your Healthcare, you…
Death row inmate requests execution by firing squad instead of lethal injection
A man on death row has filed a lawsuit in an effort to have himself executed by firing squad, rather than lethal injection. Michael Wade Nance, who shot and killed a man during a botched bank robbery in 1993, is due to be killed shortly. Georgia, the US state where he is incarcerated, uses lethal…
The last survivors: growing old with memories of Auschwitz
Jerusalem (AFP) – As he looks at pictures of his parents and sisters who perished in Auschwitz, Szmul Icek begins to tremble, tears clouding his eyes. It may have been 75 years ago, but for this survivor of the Holocaust the memories of life and death in the Nazi extermination camp remain painfully fresh. More…
A photographer's search for his mother in Nazi concentration camps
Paris (AFP) – Piles of skeletal bodies, the doors to a crematorium, emaciated faces — an AFP photographer documents the full horror of the Nazi extermination camps in the spring of 1945, as he searches for his deported mother. One-time fashion photographer and having escaped as a prisoner from a train bound for Germany, later…
How the world discovered the Nazi death camps
Paris (AFP) – Images of what the Allies found when they liberated the first Nazi death camps towards the end of World War II brought the horror of the Holocaust to world attention. Many of the ghastly pictures were at first held back from the broader public, partly out of concern for those with missing…
South Korea Wants Its Helicopter Carriers to Carry the F-35
Key point: Seoul wants an improved power projection capability. South Korea is getting an aircraft carrier. The vessel could help Seoul’s navy to compete with its main rivals, the Chinese and Japanese fleets. The South Korean joint chiefs of staff decided on July 12, 2019 to acquire an assault ship capable of operating fixed-wing aircraft, Defense…
Severe weather in Afghanistan, Pakistan leaves 54 dead
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Severe winter weather has struck parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan, with heavy snowfall, rains and flash floods that left at least 54 people dead, officials said Monday as authorities struggled to clear and reopen highways and evacuate people to safer places. In Pakistan, where 30 people were reported killed, much of…
US officials 'issue dossier on Huawei to Downing Street highlighting concerns over 5G network involvement'
US officials have issued Downing Street a dossier of information raising concerns over Huawei in a bid to stop the Chinese firm’s potential involvement in the UK’s 5G network, it has been reported. Officials from both countries met alongside representatives from the telecoms industry on Monday, ahead of the Government’s decision on whether to deploy…
Boris Johnson mocked Trump's boastfulness as he told him to 'dial down' his conflict with Iran
Getty Boris Johnson tells Donald Trump to step back from outright war with Iran. “Let’s dial this down,” the UK prime minister said, adding that “I don’t want a military conflict between us, the United States and Iran,” in an interview with the BBC. Johnson also appeared to mock Trump’s boastfulness, calling him “a great…
The Trump administration is warning allies to stay away from Huawei — but not everyone's listening
AP/Evan Vucci/Vincent Yu/Business Insider composite The US and Chinese phone giant Huawei are at each other’s throats. America claims Huawei is used as a backdoor for the Chinese government to spy. Huawei denies this. The US has been lobbying allies to reject Huawei’s 5G technology, but not everyone’s listening. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more…