Putin treats China’s leader to pancakes, vodka at forum
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has treated Chinese President Xi Jinping to Russian pancakes in a show of warm personal ties between the two leaders. The two leaders ate pancakes with caviar and had shots of vodka at an exhibition at the sidelines of an economic forum in ...
Defining a genocide and story of live organ harvesting
Prestigious international journal publishes article characterizing Chinese regime's long-running Falun Gong persecution as a ‘cold genocide’. What’s the difference between a cold genocide and a hot genocide? That’s one of the weighty issues discussed in a peer-reviewed article headed by a Canadian researcher published recently in the world’s top journal on ...
Man arrested in extraordinary airport car chase
PARIS (AP) — Pursued by police vehicles, a man smashed a stolen car Monday into security barriers at two airports in Lyon, southeast France, and then crashed through two glass doors of a terminal and sped onto the runway, before being arrested. The dramatic car chase was captured on amateur video. ...
Photos: Million told to evacuate as typhoon Jebi smashes Japan
Typhoon Jebi smashes Japan: Giant waves and 135mph winds rock the country as train station roof COLLAPSES during the worst storm in 25 years and a MILLION are told to evacuate. A powerful typhoon slammed into western Japan on Tuesday, killing at least nine people and injuring scores of people as ...
Pope tells bishops to fight abuse, culture behind it
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis told newly ordained bishops Saturday that they must reject all forms of abuse and work in communion to fight the clerical culture that has fueled the sex abuse and cover-up scandal rocking his papacy. Francis cited his recent letter about combating abuse during an audience ...
President Trump expecting to receive letter from North Korea’s Kim
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — President Donald Trump says he's expecting get a letter in the coming days that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is sending him through Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Trump tells reporters traveling with him on Air Force One that Kim's recent overtures amount to "a very ...
Live: North Korea repeats call for end-of-war declaration
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The Latest on an upcoming inter-Korean summit (all times local): 4 p.m. North Korea has reiterated its calls for the United States to agree to a declaration to formally end the Korean War, which it says President Donald Trump promised during his June summit with Kim Jong ...
The fire destroyed 20 million artifacts at Rio museum also eliminated records of languages
A huge fire destroyed roughly 20 million items at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday. Many audio recordings of indigenous languages which can be no more spoken were lost as well. The museum is among the largest natural history museums in Latin America. It held collections of indigenous objects that anthropologists ...
Now is the time for President Trump to make great trade deal
Thom Dammrich - President, National Marine Manufacturers Association, delivered this opinion. From candidate to commander-in-chief, President Trump has consistently decried America’s trade deficit and China’s relentless unfair trade practices. And since the very beginning, his devotion to fixing the nation’s “failed” trade policies has been unwavering. Since his inauguration, the president has ...
We Need Journalism, Not Grandstanding
Journalism is dead. It wasn’t killed by anything President Donald Trump tweeted. It committed suicide because President Trump exists. On Aug. 16, more than 200 newspapers and many local television stations showed solidarity with one another by editorializing against the president’s criticism of the press—his calling many of them “fake news.” ...
Trump Takes on the Media Goliath
After 20 months of one-sided attacks, smears, and caricatures of President Donald Trump and his administration, more than 300 newspapers across the United States joined together on Aug. 16 to do one thing. Apologize to their readers for their bias? Not a chance. Declare a truce? Not until hell freezes over. ...
Chinese Authorities Shot Citizens Point-Blank to Stop Protest of Forced Demolition
Recent media reports on the Chinese authorities’ tactics to quell protests have revealed a new level of brutality. In a June 23 report, Taiwanese newspaper The Liberty Times revealed that last April, “anti-terror” SWAT police in the Jing’an district of Shanghai were dispatched to stop a family who was protesting the ...
UN Says It Has Credible Reports That Chinese Regime Holds Million Uighurs in Secret Camps
GENEVA—A U.N. human rights panel said on Friday that it had received many credible reports that 1 million ethnic Uighurs in China are held in what resembles a “massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy.” Gay McDougall, a member of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, cited ...
Former Head of Chinese Hospital Arrested on Graft Charge
The former president of a Chinese hospital has been charged with bribery. Fang Yibing, who served as president of Hunan Provincial People’s Hospital from 2005 to 2010 and most recently served as deputy director of Hunan Province’s Health and Family Planning Commission, was charged by prosecutors in Zhuzhou City, according to ...
The First Ever Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom Inspires Hope
WASHINGTON—The first ever U.S. Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom officially launched at the State Department in Washington on July 24, with more than 40 foreign ministers and representatives from 80 countries attending. In his opening remarks, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback said, “We must commit to using all ...
Chinese Reporters Released After Being Detained for Interviewing Outspoken Chinese Professor
A reporter and a freelancer for Voice of America (VOA), a U.S. government-funded international radio broadcaster, were released unharmed after about six hours of detention by Chinese police, VOA said. VOA reporter Feng Yibing and freelance reporter Allen Ai had been taken into custody on Aug. 13 while interviewing Sun Wenguang—a ...
Radioactive Material Reported Missing in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR—Malaysia is hunting for an industrial device containing radioactive material that is reported to have gone missing from a pickup truck on Aug 10, police and media said on Aug. 20. Authorities fear the device, which contains an unknown amount of radioactive iridium, could cause radiation exposure or be used as ...
800,000 Displaced in Flooding in Southern Indian State
CHENGANNUR, India—Some 800,000 people have been displaced and over 350 have died in the worst flooding in a century in southern India’s Kerala state, officials said Sunday, as rescuers searched for people stranded in the worst-affected areas. The downpours that started Aug. 8 have triggered floods and landslides and caused homes ...
Quake Swarm Jolts Indonesian Islands, Killing at Least 12
SEMBALUN, Indonesia—Multiple strong earthquakes killed at least a dozen people on the Indonesian islands of Lombok and Sumbawa as the region was trying to recover from a temblor earlier this month that killed hundreds of people. A shallow magnitude 6.9 quake that hit about 10 p.m. was one of several powerful ...
Thailand’s Queen Mother Admitted to Hospital
BANGKOK—Thailand’s 86-year-old Queen Mother Sirikit is being treated for influenza at a Bangkok hospital, the Royal Household Bureau said in a statement on Aug. 20 in a rare statement on her health. Sirikit, who was queen consort to the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died in 2016 after seven decades on ...
