Month: January 2020

A video uploaded to social media on Thursday and verified by the New York Times appears to show a missile striking an aircraft near the location where a Ukrainian plane lost contact before crashing and killing everyone aboard on Wednesday. Click Here: liverpool mens jersey The footage, first posted on Twitter by user Nariman Gharib,…

Tehran (AFP) – Iran said Saturday it “unintentionally” shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet, killing all 176 people aboard, in an abrupt about-turn after initially denying Western claims it was struck by a missile. Click Here: liverpool mens jersey President Hassan Rouhani said a military probe into the tragedy had found “missiles fired due to…

Rohan Thomson/Saeed Khan/Getty In the last five months, bushfires have razed an estimated 25 million acres in Australia. That’s an area larger than South Korea. Prime minister Scott Morrison has said that he doesn’t think more aggressive cuts to Australia’s carbon emissions would have changed the outcome of this fire season. On Friday, thousands of Australians…

Washington (AFP) – With tensions soaring after he ordered the killing of a top Iranian general, US President Donald Trump publicly urged all other powers to abandon a 2015 nuclear accord with Tehran. Within hours, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, one of Trump’s closest international allies, was on the phone with Iran’s president. His message?…

Former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Thursday that should couldn’t “think of anything dumber” than allowing Congress to authorize war, seemingly unaware that the U.S. Constitution specifically gives the legislative branch that exact power. Ahead of Thursday’s House vote on a war powers resolution aimed at limiting President Donald Trump’s military…

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Canada’s Department of Justice said Friday the allegation against a top Chinese executive arrested at the United States’ request would be a crime in Canada and she should be extradited to the United States on fraud charges. Canada arrested Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of Huawei’s founder,…

Photo courtesy of Planet Labs Inc. Iran has a fake aircraft carrier that it uses for target practice as it trains to take on the US Navy, which routinely puts flattops and other surface vessels in the Persian Gulf and surrounding waterways. Click Here: liverpool mens jersey Iran severely damaged its replica of a US…

(Bloomberg) — Xi Jinping’s goal of bringing Taiwan under his control moved further out of his grasp as the island’s voters re-elected a president who has vowed to defend its sovereignty, raising questions about the success of China’s Taiwan strategy. Click Here: creed perfume sale Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen won a landslide victory over China-friendly…

London (AFP) – The British government announced Friday that it has formally requested the extradition of the wife of a US diplomat who left the country after being involved in a car accident that killed a teenager. “Following the Crown Prosecution Service’s charging decision, the Home Office has sent an extradition request to the United…