Month: January 2020

Carlos De la Torre, senior director, and Midori Honda, market development director, both of AM Best América Latina, will attend the 2020 Guatemala Insurance Week, which will take place Jan. 13-18, 2020, in Guatemala City. The insurance week in Guatemala is the largest (re)insurance-related event for the Guatemalan industry. The event program includes seminars, meetings…

Key Point: Global shipping is vulnerable to Iranian deterrence. The recent mining of two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, attributed to Iran by the United States, offers an important window into the strategic thinking of Iran and similarly situated regional powers. The incident is notable because the act of mining a limited number…

Mehdi Bolourian/Fars News Agency/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS A stampede at the funeral procession for Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian general killed in a US airstrike last week, is said to have killed 40 people and wounded at least 200 others, the Associated Press reported, citing Iranian media. The incident occurred Tuesday in Kerman,…

Democrats have slammed Donald Trump’s decision to launch an airstrike to kill Iran’s top general, arguing the vote by Iraq’s parliament to expel American troops shows damage has already been done to US interests. The claim was made by senator Chris Murphy on Sunday, just after the Iraqi vote in Baghdad, where Iranian Revolutionary Guard…

By Ahmed Aboulenein and Parisa Hafezi BAGHDAD/DUBAI (Reuters) – The United States has no plans to pull American troops out of Iraq, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Monday, following reports by Reuters and other media of a U.S. military letter informing Iraq officials about the repositioning of troops in preparation to leave the country.…

A Texas appeals court has delayed a judge’s prior ruling to allow Cook Children’s Medical Center to remove an 11-month-old baby from life support. According to NBC News, The Second Court of Appeals in Fort Worth ordered the hospital to keep Tinslee Lewis on life support until it makes a final ruling in the case.…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A woman awaiting a court decision in her battle against a Texas hospital’s plan to end life-sustaining treatment for her 11-month-old daughter spoke out Monday after revoking the medical center’s permission to talk about her child’s treatment. “This situation takes away my job as a mother and lets other people…

Rie Hachiyanagi, a 48-year-old art professor and performance artist, was arraigned on Friday for an alleged attack on Christmas Eve morning on a female professor in her 60s she had fallen in love with but who apparently did not share the sentiment. The Mount Holyoke College prof, who has worked at the prestigious college since…

Jeffrey Epstein left a note complaining about his prison conditions and fashioned multiple nooses out of bed sheets, new images have revealed. The 66-year-old convicted sex offender was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell in August while awaiting trial on new sex trafficking charges. Pictures of the scene taken by the New York medical…

A new investigation of the circumstances surrounding the death of Jeffrey Epstein has made public several new pieces of evidence, including photos of his jail cell showing a number of bed sheets, prescription medicine and an apparent note written by the convicted sex offender complaining about jail conditions before his death. The paedophile financier was awaiting trial…