WASHINGTON – By President Donald Trump’s eldest son’s retelling, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden would be the best thing to ever happen to China. “Beijing Biden is so weak on China that the intelligence community recently assessed that the Chinese Communist Party favours Biden,” said Mr Donald Trump Jr on Monday (Aug 24), the first […]
LAKE CHARLES (AFP) – Hurricane Laura made landfall in the southern US state of Louisiana on Thursday (Aug 27) and the monster category 4 storm prompted warnings of “unsurvivable” ocean surges and evacuation orders for hundreds of thousands of Gulf Coast residents. The National Hurricane Centre (NHC) said “extremely dangerous” Laura would bring winds of […]
Hurricane Laura likely to cause catastrophic damage with six-metre high walls of water sinking entire communities. Hurricane Laura made landfall on Thursday in the US state of Louisiana as an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm. The hurricane is likely to cause catastrophic damage with an “unsurvivable storm surge” to the Gulf Coast near the Texas-Louisiana […]
A white supremacist who killed 51 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand’s deadliest shooting has been sentenced to life without parole. It’s the longest prison term handed out in New Zealand’s legal history, and a penalty never before used in the country. Justice Cameron Mander delivered Tarrant’s fate after a marathon four-day-hearing that has seen some […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – A woman who was infected with HIV in 1992 may be the first person cured of the virus without a risky bone marrow transplant or even medications, researchers reported Wednesday (Aug 26). In an additional 63 people in their study who controlled the infection without drugs, HIV apparently was sequestered in […]
KENOSHA (AFP) – Their names are angrily chanted at demonstrations across the United States: they are the African Americans whose violent deaths this year at the hands of police or civilians have galvanised protests around the world. BREONNA TAYLOR A 26-year-old emergency medical technician, she was killed in a police shooting in her own apartment. […]
A 17 year-old boy accused of shooting two people dead at a Black Lives Matter protest and one of his victims have been identified. Jacob Rittenhouse, 17, was charged with killing two people – including 25 year-old Anthony Huber – at protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday night. Chilling footage shared online by anti-gun campaigner […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – First Lady Melania Trump urged voters to re-elect her husband during a impassioned speech to the Republican National Convention on Tuesday (Aug 25) that offered sympathy for victims of the coronavirus pandemic and a plea for racial understanding. On the second day of the convention with 70 days to go until the […]
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – US-China tensions over the South China Sea escalated on Wednesday (Aug 26) with Beijing firing two missiles into the disputed waterway and the Trump administration strengthening action against companies that helped set up outposts in the region. China launched two medium-range missiles into the South China Sea on Wednesday amid broader […]
KENOSHA, WISCONSIN (REUTERS) – A third night of street protests over the police shooting of a black man erupted into gun violence late Tuesday (Aug 25) and early Wednesday (Aug 26) in Kenosha, Wisconsin, killing two people and wounding one, police said. Social media videos showed chaotic scenes of people running and screaming amid a […]