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Criminal Court agrees to consider extradition of Bahraini footballer
The Bangkok court set an April 22 date for a next hearing. Al-Araibi was arrested in December as he was transiting to Australia via Suvarnabhumi Airport with his wife. In 2012 he was arrested and detained for three months accused of vandalizing a police station during a protest. It was reported that Bahrain, after learning of his stop in Bangkok , had asked Thailand to arrest him. [Full Article...]
The Queen could be evacuated if Brexit leads to civil unrest
The Sunday Times reported that it "agreed not to disclose" the secret location that the queen and her family would be moved to. The plan would see the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh ferried out of London to a top secret location elsewhere in the country. [Full Article...]
Trump leans toward declaring state of emergency on border
White House speechwriters and policy staffers have been working for weeks on the address, with the president offering considerable input, scribbling notes in his trademark black Sharpie scrawl on drafts of sections prepared by Stephen Miller and other top speechwriters, according to one White House official who, like some others, was not authorized to publicly discuss the speech and spoke on condi... [Full Article...]
Percent Of Trump's Private Schedule Is 'Executive Time,' According To Leaked Docs
By comparison, Trump had 77 hours of scheduled meeting time in place and 51 hours of total travel time. Axios spoke to Chris Whipple, author of The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency , who said "there's nearly no [historical] parallel" for Trump's less-than-busy schedule. [Full Article...]
Trump steps up attacks on Pelosi for opposing border wall funds
The Republican president also said there is a "good chance" he will follow through on his previous threats to bypass the US Congress and declare a national emergency to obtain funding for a wall. "I think Nancy Pelosi is hurting our country very badly by doing what she's doing and, ultimately, I think I've set the table very nicely", Trump said Thursday in a wide ranging interview with The New ... [Full Article...]
UK's May says to seek 'pragmatic' Brexit solution in Brussels
Writing in the Sunday Times, Mr Coveney added: "The EU will not renegotiate the withdrawal agreement and there will be no withdrawal agreement without the backstop". "MPs said that, with changes to the Northern Ireland backstop, they would support the deal that I agreed with Brussels to take us out of the EU", May wrote in The Sunday Telegraph newspaper . [Full Article...]
German WWI hand grenade found in French potato shipment
Tseung Kwan O assistant district commander (Operations), Mr Wong Ho Hon, told reporters the grenade weighed 1kg and measured 80mm in width. Bomb disposal officers and firefighters cordoned off the area before detonating the grenade on Saturday morning. [Full Article...]
USA top court faces test case on abortion rights
She wrote on the group's website: "We expect that Justice Alito will ask all of the justices to weigh in and that the court's final decision regarding the emergency request will come out before February 4th". After the Supreme Court's 2016 ruling that struck down required hospital admitting privileges, similar policies have been struck down or unenforced in Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennes... [Full Article...]