Month: January 2020

The information supporting the Trump administration’s rationale for assassinating Iran’s top commander is simply too sensitive to share with Congress, Vice President Mike Pence flatly insisted in an NBC interview Thursday. Gen. Qassem Soleimani had to be killed last week because he was orchestrating an “imminent” attack on Americans, the Trump administration has claimed. But…

A majority of Americans don’t seem to be buying the Trump administration’s rationale for killing Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleiman, according to a new poll. In a USA TODAY/Ipsos poll released Thursday, 55 percent of U.S. adults said the United States’ recent drone strike that killed Soleimani and its immediate aftermath made the country less safe.…

A former British consulate employee who was detained in China last year said he has cut ties with his family and relatives in Hong Kong and the mainland to avoid them being harassed. Simon Cheng’s case triggered a diplomatic row between London and Beijing at a time when relations were already strained by the massive…

A Mexican asylum seeker has taken his own life on a bridge across the Rio Grande after being refused entry to the US, in an incident highlighting the often desperate plights of those being turned away by Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration. The man, who was reportedly in his 30s and has not been identified,…

Shane Warne’s baggy green cap sold for a record 1,007,500 Australian dollars in a fundraiser for bushfire aid in Australia. Legendary spin bowler Warne auctioned off his iconic baggy green cap – exclusively awarded to Australia’s Test cricketers – to raise money for bushfire victims. Click Here: Cheap Golf Drivers Bushfires continue to ravage Australia,…

Comedian Celeste Barber joins the growing list of celebrities who have pledged to help combat the devastating Australian bushfires that have ravaged the country since September. Last week, Barber, 37, launched a wildly successful Facebook fundraiser benefitting The Trustee for NSW Rural Fire Service & Brigades Donations Fund. The fundraiser, which launched on Friday, has since raised…

Hot, windy weather swept back into southeastern Australia on Thursday, whipping historic bushfires and prompting authorities to urge evacuation of several coastal towns. The evacuation order came hours after Prime Minister Scott Morrison urged foreign tourists, normally now flocking to the beaches in Australia’s summer, not to be put off by the historic fires. “Australia is open, Australia…

AP Photo/Ng Han Guan Republican Sen. Tom Cotton introduced a bill on Wednesday that would ban the US from sharing intelligence with countries that use Huawei 5G equipment. The US is in a long-running fight with Huawei, claiming the company acts as a conduit for Chinese government espionage. Huawei denies this. The US has been…

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Thousands of people protested in Serbia’s capital Wednesday against the alleged suppression of religious and other rights of Serb minorities in neighboring countries, answering a call to action by the Serbian Orthodox Church. Orthodox priests led a procession through downtown Belgrade to the landmark St. Sava Temple, one of the world’s…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday watched a naval exercise involving multiple missile launches in the Black Sea. The Kremlin said that Putin watched the maneuvers from the Marshal Ustinov missile cruiser. The navy said the drills involved warships from Russia’s Black Sea Fleet along with several ships from its Northern Fleet.…