Pentagon: 'We do not support Taiwan independence' Via Just The News: Pentagon press secretary John Kirby on Monday hit back against Chinese accusations that the United States was angling for a change in the Sino-Taiwanese diplomatic status quo in the form of formal Taiwanese independence. "We have repeatedly said that we oppose any unilateral changes to the status quo from either side. We have said that we do not support […]
Sri Lanka opposition hopes to install new government amid turmoil Via CNBC.com: Sri Lanka’s opposition political parties will meet Sunday to agree on a new government a day after the country’s president and prime minister offered to resign in the country’s most chaotic day in months of political turmoil, with protesters storming both officials’ homes and setting fire to one of the buildings in a rage over the nation’s economic […]
Shinzo Abe, former Japanese prime minister, dies after being shot during election campaign Via Reuters: Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest-serving leader, died on Friday hours after he was shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election, shocking a country in which political violence is rare and guns are tightly controlled. A man opened fire on Abe, 67, from behind with an apparently homemade gun as he spoke at a […]
Embattled UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson agrees to resign Via AP News: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson agreed to resign Thursday after days of defections crippled the controversial leader and left him unable to govern. Johnson finally agreed to step down after one of his closest allies, Treasury Chief Nadhim Zahawi, told the prime minister to resign for the good of the country. It was not immediately clear whether Johnson […]
World Health Organization says monkeypox is not a global health emergency right Via CNBC.com: The World Health Organization on Saturday said the rapid spread of monkeypox across dozens of nations does not represent a global health emergency at this time. WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus described monkeypox as an evolving health threat, however, and urged governments around the world to step up surveillance, contact tracing, testing and to make […]
EU leaders agree to ban 90% of Russian oil by year-end Via AP News: European Union leaders agreed Monday to embargo most Russian oil imports into the bloc by year-end as part of new sanctions on Moscow worked out at a summit focused on helping Ukraine with a long-delayed package of new financial support. The embargo covers Russian oil brought in by sea, allowing a temporary exemption for imports delivered […]
McDonald’s exiting Russia after 32 years is the end of an era Via CNBC.com: It was 4 a.m. and a trickle of Russians had already begun lining up outside the building in the freezing winter cold, hours before opening time. When the doors opened, hundreds of hungry, bundled-up Muscovites rushed in for their first-ever taste of this alien creation: the Big Mac. It was January of 1990 and McDonalds was […]
NBA Owners Have More than $10 Billion Invested in Red China Via Breitbart: Not only does the NBA and its various owners have more than $10 billion invested in genocidal Red China, one NBA owner is even deep in bed with a company on the U.S. sanctions list, according to a review of the league’s interests published by ESPN. In its May 19 article, ESPN notes that the NBA has […]
Biden Orders US Troops Back To War-Torn Somalia, Reversing Trump Withdrawal Via ZeroHedge: White House officials have announced that President Biden will reverse Trump's Somalia withdrawal of US forces as the fight with al-Shabaab Islamic militants heats up. This includes talk of a return to a policy of indefinite "boots on the ground" - or as one senior official was quoted as saying - "a persistent US military presence" there. […]
