Month: January 2020

More than a thousand people attended a rally in Hong Kong on Sunday to urge people and governments abroad to support the city’s pro-democracy movement and oppose China’s ruling Communist Party. Representatives of allied activist groups from Canada, Europe and Taiwan made remarks and led the attendees in chants of “Fight for freedom! Stand with…

(Bloomberg) — An investigation by Hong Kong’s police watchdog into the conduct of the city’s officers throughout recent unrest has revealed “many shortcomings,” the Hong Kong Economic Journal reported. The 300-page report from the Independent Police Complaints Council found a failure to separate peaceful demonstrators from violent protesters, the newspaper reported Monday, citing unidentified people.…

Key point: For the time being, the MLRS still provides an effective rocket system for U.S. armored units. On February 24, 1991, the ground phase of Operation Desert Storm began. Over the next four days, the soldiers of an international coalition, formed to eject the Iraqi army of Saddam Hussein from the neighboring nation of Kuwait,…

LONDON (AP) — British police say it was an “error of judgment” to include environmental protest group Extinction Rebellion in an official document that listed extremist organizations. The counterterrorism police unit for southeast England included the climate change protesters alongside Islamic extremists and banned neo-Nazi group National Action in a guide to “safeguarding young people…

Swiss cloud storage provider pCloud donates to the Australian Red Cross Disaster Relief and Recovery Fund ZUG, Switzerland, Jan. 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — pCloud, leading cloud storage service is pledging 100% of its profits from 13-14 January to support Australian bushfire relief efforts. Australia has suffered devastating bushfire crisis. The blazes continue to burn across several…

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Sunday conceded he’s made some mistakes since the worst season of bushfires ever recorded in Australia broke out, The New York Times reports. He said he wouldn’t have taken a heavily criticized family vacation to Hawaii in December while firefighters battled the blazes if he knew what he knows…

By Victoria Waldersee LISBON (Reuters) – Angolan courts have refrained from action to seize billionaire ex-first daughter Isabel Dos Santos’ assets abroad but will not hesitate to do so if necessary, a prosecution spokesman said. The comments appear to de-escalate Angolan authorities’ row with dos Santos by indicating her foreign business interests are not in…

At least 11 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands of homes hit by power cuts as storms sweep across parts of the US south and east, bringing snow, hail and hurricane-force winds. More than 1,000 flights have been cancelled as unrelenting rain and gales lash seven states along the east of the country…

Berlin (AFP) – Two World War II-era bombs were made safe in the western German city of Dortmund after around 14,000 people were evacuated, the city said Sunday. Officials there warning on Saturday that unexploded bombs dropped by Allied forces during the war might be buried in four sites in a heavily populated part of…

Business Insider Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images President Donald Trump and top administration officials are offering different — sometimes contradictory — reasons for the US decision to assassinate the top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani earlier this month. Trump in an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on Friday said he thought Soleimani was…