Month: January 2020

Paris (AFP) – Piles of skeletal bodies, the doors to a crematorium, emaciated faces — an AFP photographer documents the full horror of the Nazi extermination camps in the spring of 1945, as he searches for his deported mother. One-time fashion photographer and having escaped as a prisoner from a train bound for Germany, later…

Paris (AFP) – Images of what the Allies found when they liberated the first Nazi death camps towards the end of World War II brought the horror of the Holocaust to world attention. Many of the ghastly pictures were at first held back from the broader public, partly out of concern for those with missing…

Key point: Seoul wants an improved power projection capability. South Korea is getting an aircraft carrier. The vessel could help Seoul’s navy to compete with its main rivals, the Chinese and Japanese fleets. The South Korean joint chiefs of staff decided on July 12, 2019 to acquire an assault ship capable of operating fixed-wing aircraft, Defense…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Severe winter weather has struck parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan, with heavy snowfall, rains and flash floods that left at least 54 people dead, officials said Monday as authorities struggled to clear and reopen highways and evacuate people to safer places. In Pakistan, where 30 people were reported killed, much of…

US officials have issued Downing Street a dossier of information raising concerns over Huawei in a bid to stop the Chinese firm’s potential involvement in the UK’s 5G network, it has been reported. Officials from both countries met alongside representatives from the telecoms industry on Monday, ahead of the Government’s decision on whether to deploy…

Getty Boris Johnson tells Donald Trump to step back from outright war with Iran. “Let’s dial this down,” the UK prime minister said, adding that “I don’t want a military conflict between us, the United States and Iran,” in an interview with the BBC. Johnson also appeared to mock Trump’s boastfulness, calling him “a great…

AP/Evan Vucci/Vincent Yu/Business Insider composite The US and Chinese phone giant Huawei are at each other’s throats. America claims Huawei is used as a backdoor for the Chinese government to spy. Huawei denies this. The US has been lobbying allies to reject Huawei’s 5G technology, but not everyone’s listening. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more…

A young boy is missing and his sister dead after a wave swept the children and their father out into the ocean, Oregon state police say. The incident occurred Saturday afternoon when Jeremy Stiles, 47, of Portland was at the Falcon Cove area, near the Clatsop and Tillamook county line, with his two children. State police…

(Bloomberg) — Inside Iran, the admission by authorities that they accidentally shot down a passenger jet packed with Iranian students last week has shattered a brief moment of unity, putting its leadership on the back foot again after only recently quelling nationwide protests. The fact that Iran appears to have spent days giving false justifications…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Authorities say 12 people were shot, five of them fatally, in eight separate weekend shootings in Baltimore. The first of Saturday’s shootings was reported at about 2:30 a.m. and involved three female victims, all found with apparent gunshot wounds in a car in a northeastern section of the city. One victim, a…