Month: December 2019

By Farah Master and Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong protesters lit a fire outside court buildings, threw petrol bombs and spray-painted graffiti on government buildings, following a “generally peaceful” march at the weekend, police said on Monday. Protesters called for strikes across the city on Monday, but most railway and transport links…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s top diplomat said Tuesday that his government stands with Hong Kong citizens pushing for “freedom and democracy,” and would help those displaced from the semi-autonomous Chinese city if Beijing intervenes with greater force to quell the protests. Speaking to The Associated Press in the capital, Taipei, Foreign Minister Joseph Wu…

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s leader on Tuesday again ruled out further concessions to protesters who marched peacefully in their hundreds of thousands this past weekend, days before she is to travel to Beijing for regularly scheduled meetings with Communist Party leaders. The six-month protest movement has five demands, including that the leader of…

Paris (AFP) – Turkey has sent 11 French relatives of suspected “terrorist fighters” back home, the Turkish interior ministry said Monday, the latest in Ankara’s renewed push to deport foreign jihadist insurgents. “Eleven French citizens have been deported to their home country,” a ministry statement said. A French judicial source confirmed that four women and…

(Adds details on the identity of two women) ISTANBUL, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Turkey said on Monday it had deported 11 French nationals back to France as part of a programme to extradite what it says are foreign terrorist fighters. Turkey’s Interior Ministry, which made the announcement, gave no details. France’s Foreign Ministry declined to…

Click: Turkey has deported to France the “Islamic State matchmaker” who lured a British teen bride to Syria as part of a drive to send foreign fighters back to their countries of origin. Tooba Gondal, 25, is among 11 French nationals that Turkey repatriated early on Monday, according to France’s Centre for Analysis of Terrorism, CAT,…

Aung San Suu Kyi has appeared at the highest UN court to defend Myanmar against genocide charges, following her country’s brutal crackdown on the Rohingya minority. In hearings at the International Court of Justice in the Netherlands, government head Ms Suu Kyi is expected to argue killings by her nation’s military were a legitimate response…

By Anthony Deutsch and Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Mass rapes, the burning alive of Muslim Rohingya families in their homes and the killing with knives of dozens of children were described by Gambia’s legal team as it set out its genocide case against Myanmar at the U.N.’s highest court on Tuesday.…

Blake MontgomeryDecember 10, 2019 Harvard biologist George Church already had to apologize for palling around with Jeffrey Epstein even after the financier pleaded to guilty to preying on minors a decade ago. Now he’s raising eyebrows again—with plans for a genetics-based dating app. In an interview with 60 Minutes, Church said his technology would pair…

NEW YORK — At a police station tucked into an end-of-the-line subway terminal in South Brooklyn, the new commander instructed officers to think of white and Asian people as “soft targets” and urged them to instead go after blacks and Latinos for minor offenses like jumping the turnstile, a half-dozen officers said in sworn statements.…