Month: December 2019

Key point: It is good Taiwan is getting into the hypersonics game, but it is far behind China. Taiwan has begun production of a new land-attack cruise missile. But the island country still is badly outgunned by China’s own, much larger missile arsenal. Taiwanese media on Aug. 4, 2019 reported that the country’s National Chung-Shan Institute…

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s administration proposed Monday slapping stiff tariffs on $2.4 billion in French products including cheese and champagne in retaliation for France’s new digital services tax. In a report released just hours before Trump is scheduled to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron in London, the U.S. Trade Representatives’ Office said tariffs…

By Sudip Kar-Gupta and Leigh Thomas PARIS (Reuters) – France and the European Union said on Tuesday they are ready to retaliate if U.S. President Donald Trump acts on a threat to impose duties of up to 100% on imports of champagne, handbags and other French products worth $2.4 billion. The threat of punitive tariffs…

Click:low temperature ball valves A bubonic plague which was thought to have wiped out half of the world’s population and helped topple the Roman Empire was far exaggerated by scholars, a new study claims. The Justinianic Plague which preceded the Black Death by more than 800 years plague was thought to have killed around 50…

There is growing anger in India over the gang rape and murder of a 27-year-old woman on the outskirts of Hyderabad. Police have arrested four men over the death of the woman, a veterinarian, whose charred body was found some 30km away from the toll booth where she last spoke on the phone to her…

Click:全国楼凤论坛 By Devjyot Ghoshal NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Protests over the alleged rape and murder of a 27-year-old veterinary doctor spread to cities across India on Monday as people demanded tough and swift punishments, including public lynchings, to stop crimes against women. The woman was raped, asphyxiated and her dead body then set alight on…

NEW DELHI (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered in New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Mumbai and other Indian cities on Monday to demand justice in the case of a veterinarian who was gang-raped and killed last week. The protesters demanded a fast-track investigation of the case and stringent laws for the safety of women in India. “We…

Police are investigating what they call a “critical incident” after gunshots were reported at a high school in Waukesha, Wisc. Monday. Authorities were called to Waukesha South High School about 10:15 a.m. Monday, Assistant Fire Chief Joseph Hoffman says. The Waukesha mayor’s office said that one suspect is in police custody, and it is believed…

WAUKESHA, Wis. — A city police officer inside Waukesha South High School in Wisconsin shot a 17-year-old student who pulled a gun in a classroom and refused to drop it, according to officials.  The suspect — taken into custody — was the only person injured in the incident, police said. It was a terrifying morning for students…

(Adds details from interview, background) Dec 2 (Reuters) – Huawei Technologies Co Ltd plans to shift its research center to Canada from the United States, Ren Zhengfei, the founder of the Chinese telecoms equipment maker, said in an interview with Canada’s Globe and Mail. Ren’s remarks came as Reuters reported on Friday that the United…