Month: February 2020

By Karen Lema and Martin Petty MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippine military on Wednesday stood by the president’s decision to scrap a security agreement with the United States, saying the country could now develop its own defense capabilities and alliances, and would do fine without it. The military chief backed President Rodrigo Duterte’s termination of…

China’s Communist Party on Thursday fired several senior officials in Hubei province, the center of the new coronavirus outbreak. Click Here: liverpool mens jersey The Central Committee said Jiang Chaoliang, Hubei’s party secretary since 2016, has been removed from his post, and will be replaced by Shanghai Mayor Ying Yong. Ying is an ally of…

By Stanley White TOKYO (Reuters) – The yen rose from a three-week low against the dollar on Thursday as investors sought safe havens after China’s Hubei province, the epicentre of a coronavirus outbreak, reported a sharp jump in the number of new cases. The Chinese yuan slipped against the dollar as the latest update on…

Business Insider Feature China/Barcroft Media via Getty Images China has sacked and demoted several senior officials leading the fight against the Wuhan coronavirus in Hubei, the province where the virus broke out. It removed two top officials from their roles on Thursday, The Guardian reported, adding to dozens more in recent weeks. Many were blamed…

WASHINGTON — As far as President Donald Trump is concerned, banishing Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman from the White House and exiling him back to the Pentagon was not enough. If he had his way, the commander in chief made clear Tuesday, the Defense Department would now take action against the colonel, too. “That’s going…

Andrew Harnik/AP President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested the US military might explore disciplinary action against Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman. Vindman is the National Security Council staffer who lost his role there after testifying in Trump’s impeachment trial. “That’s going to be up to the military — we’ll have to see,” Trump told reporters of…

WASHINGTON — National security adviser Robert O’Brien said Tuesday evening there had been “absolutely” no retaliation involved in Friday’s departure of Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman from the National Security Council, even as President Trump seemed to indicate that the military would “look into” whether to take disciplinary action against the Army officer. Vindman, who…

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Jill Biden made an impromptu visit on Monday morning to Joe Biden’s main field office. She thanked a group of 15 volunteers for working to get out the vote, in rain and snow. Judi Lanza, a volunteer from New Hampshire, waited to take a photo with Jill. She started to cry as…

Red-lettered signs warning of “BLASTING” began appearing over the past week at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, a remote desert region in southwestern Arizona bordered by Mexico to the south and a Native American reservation to the east. Crews have been blasting the hillside while excavators and backhoes clear a path for the towering sections…

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — On Christmas Eve, Victor Skaar mailed a stack of letters to Air Force veterans he had served with in Palomares, Spain, scrawling a simple headline at the top of each one: “Great News!” Skaar, a retired chief master sergeant, was one of 1,600 troops scrambled by the U.S. Air Force in 1966…