Month: January 2020

(Bloomberg) — Xi Jinping’s goal of bringing Taiwan under his control moved further out of his grasp as the island’s voters re-elected a president who has vowed to defend its sovereignty, raising questions about the success of China’s Taiwan strategy. Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen won a landslide victory over China-friendly opposition challenger Han Kuo-yu to…

London (AFP) – The British government announced Friday that it has formally requested the extradition of the wife of a US diplomat who left the country after being involved in a car accident that killed a teenager. “Following the Crown Prosecution Service’s charging decision, the Home Office has sent an extradition request to the United…

The US state department has labelled an extradition request for the American woman charged with causing the death of a teenage motorcyclist in Northamptonshire as “highly inappropriate”. The Home Office sent an official demand on Friday that Anne Sacoolas be returned to the UK. The 42-year-old – the wife of an American intelligence officer –…

Click:POCO Vape WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) – The United States on Friday rejected a formal request from Britain for the extradition of a U.S. diplomat’s wife who left the country last year after a road collision that killed 19-year-old Briton Harry Dunn. British prosecutors are seeking the extradition of Anne Sacoolas over the crash last August in…

A Mexican man seeking asylum died by suicide near the U.S.-Mexico border after he was refused entry into the United States. The man, who has not been identified, drew a knife and slit his own throat on a bridge across the Rio Grande, Reuters reported, citing two Mexican security officials. The officials said the man was in his 30s. A short…

A Mexican man has died after slitting his own throat when he was denied entry to the US, according to Mexican officials. The incident occurred on the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge across the Rio Grande on Wednesday, as the unidentified man in his 30s attempted to enter the US from the Mexican border city of Reynosa.…

US, Russian Navy ships avoid collision after US destroyer ‘aggressively approached’: Fifth Fleet originally appeared on abcnews.go.com American and Russian Navy ships narrowly avoided collision after the U.S. destroyer was “aggressively approached” by a Russian spy ship in the Northern Arabian Sea, according to the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet. In video released by Fifth Fleet…

Neil Peart, the legendary drummer of Rush, has died, according to an announcement from the band. He was 67. The cause of death, according to a spokesperson, was brain cancer. Peart passed on Tuesday, January 7th, in Santa Monica. One of the most innovative drummers in rock history, Peart was famous for his state-of-the-art drum…

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump suggested Thursday in a tweet that he and his administration were a factor in the U.S. cancer death rate hitting a record low in 2017, but the American Cancer Society (ACS) refuted that assertion. Researchers from the ACS released a report Wednesday that showed the cancer death rate fell steadily from 1991 through 2017,…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s Revolutionary Guard on Saturday acknowledged that it accidentally shot down the Ukrainian jetliner that crashed earlier this week, killing all 176 people aboard, after the government had repeatedly denied Western accusations and mounting evidence that it was responsible. The plane was shot down early Wednesday, hours after Iran launched a…