GOP Sen. Rick Scott of Florida said Sunday he wants to hear from the Bidens "and find out - get to the bottom of that". In response, the president mocked the speaker for her ineptitude as a leader of the House. "As I have said in terms of this president, all roads lead to Putin", she said. "I will be consulting with you at our Tuesday House Democratic Caucus meeting on how we proceed further". [Full Article...]
Families of victims of the White Island eruption embrace after arriving back to the Whakatane wharf following a blessing at sea. A man who died in an Australian hospital became the 20th casualty of a New Zealand volcano eruption more than a month ago, officials said on Monday. [Full Article...]
All the 179 passengers and crew members on board the Boeing 737 Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed near Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKA) on Wednesday morning were confirmed dead, Iran's Press TV reported. The accident was reported shortly after Iran said it fired missiles at Iraqi bases in revenge for the killing of one of the top military commanders - Qasem Soleimani - in a U.... [Full Article...]
These came after the United States had killed IRGC Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani in a January 3 airstrike in Baghdad. On Saturday, a group of protesters were hit with tear gas by the police after saying "death to the dictator", referring to the Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. [Full Article...]
Officials say a police officer and a firefighter in Lubbock, Texas , have been killed Saturday and another is critically injured after being hit by a vehicle while working the scene of a traffic accident. On Alabama's Gulf Coast, Baldwin County canceled school activities including sporting events for Saturday. Many streams already are at or near flood levels because of earlier storms, and h... [Full Article...]
Instagram is one of the few social media platforms available to Iranian citizens, with Twitter and Facebook blocked by the government. "These massive Big Tech corporations are Thought Police for the USA government: Facebook and Instagram are removing posts expressing support for Iran's top general Soleimani", tweeted journalist Ben Norton. [Full Article...]
American visitors are entitled to 90-day visa-free access to Hong Kong. Human Rights Watch, based in NY, had been scheduled to release its 652-page World Report 2020 at the Foreign Correspondent Club in Hong Kong on January 15. He added that Hong Kong immigration officials had cited only "immigration reasons". Under the terms of the handover, Hong Kong enjoys unique freedoms unseen on the ma... [Full Article...]
Workers had detected anomalies during construction work, they announced on the city's official Twitter. Searches for another two suspected bombs turned up nothing. The city's train station had also been shut down and trains were rerouted. The unearthing of World War II era bombs is a common occurrence in Germany, but local media claimed this case could be the largest such evacuation ever seen ... [Full Article...]
GOP Sen. Rick Scott of Florida said Sunday he wants to hear from the Bidens "and find out - get to the bottom of that". In response, the president mocked the speaker for her ineptitude as a leader of the House. "As I have said in terms of this president, all roads lead to Putin", she said. "I will be consulting with you at our Tuesday House Democratic Caucus meeting on how we proceed further". [Full Article...]
Families of victims of the White Island eruption embrace after arriving back to the Whakatane wharf following a blessing at sea. A man who died in an Australian hospital became the 20th casualty of a New Zealand volcano eruption more than a month ago, officials said on Monday. [Full Article...]
All the 179 passengers and crew members on board the Boeing 737 Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed near Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKA) on Wednesday morning were confirmed dead, Iran's Press TV reported. The accident was reported shortly after Iran said it fired missiles at Iraqi bases in revenge for the killing of one of the top military commanders - Qasem Soleimani - in a U.... [Full Article...]
These came after the United States had killed IRGC Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani in a January 3 airstrike in Baghdad. On Saturday, a group of protesters were hit with tear gas by the police after saying "death to the dictator", referring to the Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. [Full Article...]
Officials say a police officer and a firefighter in Lubbock, Texas , have been killed Saturday and another is critically injured after being hit by a vehicle while working the scene of a traffic accident. On Alabama's Gulf Coast, Baldwin County canceled school activities including sporting events for Saturday. Many streams already are at or near flood levels because of earlier storms, and h... [Full Article...]
Instagram is one of the few social media platforms available to Iranian citizens, with Twitter and Facebook blocked by the government. "These massive Big Tech corporations are Thought Police for the USA government: Facebook and Instagram are removing posts expressing support for Iran's top general Soleimani", tweeted journalist Ben Norton. [Full Article...]
American visitors are entitled to 90-day visa-free access to Hong Kong. Human Rights Watch, based in NY, had been scheduled to release its 652-page World Report 2020 at the Foreign Correspondent Club in Hong Kong on January 15. He added that Hong Kong immigration officials had cited only "immigration reasons". Under the terms of the handover, Hong Kong enjoys unique freedoms unseen on the ma... [Full Article...]
Workers had detected anomalies during construction work, they announced on the city's official Twitter. Searches for another two suspected bombs turned up nothing. The city's train station had also been shut down and trains were rerouted. The unearthing of World War II era bombs is a common occurrence in Germany, but local media claimed this case could be the largest such evacuation ever seen ... [Full Article...]