| Republican senator on Trump soliciting foreign interference: 'Things happen' Posted: 19 Jan 2020 12:42 PM PST  Republican Senator Richard Shelby defended an argument from President Trump's legal team that soliciting foreign interference in an election is not an impeachable offense, saying, "things happen."
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| Bloomberg pledges $70 billion to bolster black America in new plan Posted: 19 Jan 2020 09:00 AM PST  Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced his presidential campaign's plan for bolstering economic opportunity for black Americans.
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| Mothers who occupied vacant Oakland house will be allowed to buy it Posted: 20 Jan 2020 04:07 PM PST  Intervention of California governor helps Moms 4 Housing group score victory in fight against state's homeless crisisThe homeless mothers who took over a vacant house in Oakland, California and occupied it for almost two months will be allowed to purchase the property – a major victory in a movement working to keep such homes out of the possession of speculators.The group Moms 4 Housing entered the house on Magnolia Street on 18 November with the intent to stay. The house had sat vacant for more than two years before it was purchased in July at a foreclosure auction for $501,078 by Wedgewood Properties, a real estate investment company with a history of buying up foreclosed-upon houses cheaply, evicting the tenants, renovating the homes and then putting them back on the market at much higher prices.Housing advocates say companies such as Wedgewood fueled the housing crisis that now grips the state, which needs anywhere between 1.8m and 3.5m new housing units by 2025. More than 15,500 units remain vacant in Oakland alone, according to the latest US census bureau data, while 4,071 people are homeless. House-flipping has led to rapid gentrification, which then in turn led to the widespread displacement of black residents.In Oakland, 78% of the homeless population reported that their last place of residence before becoming homeless was within county limits. Seventy percent were black.Moms 4 Housing chose the Magnolia Street house in part to try to force Wedgewood to negotiate the sale of the home back to the community."This is what happens when we organize, when people come together to build the beloved community," Dominique Walker, one of the mothers who lived in the house with her two children, said in a statement, on the day that America marked Martin Luther King Day. "Today we honor Dr King's radical legacy by taking Oakland back from banks and corporations."With the housing and homelessness crisis worsening each day, the mothers received widespread support for their cause, from local lawmakers to California governor Gavin Newsom, who praised the activists.Moms 4 Housing had brought the issue to court, but a judge ruled in favor of Wedgewood. Sheriff deputies arrived in the early hours of 15 January to evict them, arresting two of the mothers and two of their supporters.Wedgewood has maintained that the mothers had committed a criminal act in breaking into the house, and the house legally belonged to the company."Wedgewood has always been and continues to be open to thoughtful and purposeful discussions," spokesman Sam Singer said in a statement."After regaining possession of Magnolia Street, we engaged in discussions with governor Gavin Newsom, mayor Libby Schaaf and councilman Larry Reid. These led to progress that everyone should agree is a step in the right direction in helping to address Oakland's homelessness and housing crisis."
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| Schumer Criticizes McConnell’s Impeachment Trial Rules Proposal Posted: 20 Jan 2020 04:05 PM PST  A copy of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R., Ky.) proposal for Senate impeachment trial procedures, obtained by reporters on Thursday, was criticized by Democrats who charge the proposal prevents them from bringing evidence and witnesses to trial.The resolution contains a proposal to vote on a motion, "whether it shall be in order to consider and debate under the impeachment rules any motion to subpoena witnesses or documents." A GOP Senate aide told CNN that the language indicated that if the Senate votes down such a motion, neither the impeachment managers nor the President's legal team, not even Senators, would be able to bring witnesses or documents to the trial."We are gratified that the draft resolution protects the President's rights to a fair trial," commented White House legislative aide Eric Ueland. "We look forward to presenting a vigorous defense of the President on the facts and the process as quickly as possible and seeking an acquittal as swiftly as possible.""It's clear Sen. McConnell is hell-bent on making it much more difficult to get witnesses and documents and intent on rushing the trial through," said Schumer in response to the proposal. "On something as important as impeachment, Senator McConnell's resolution is nothing short of a national disgrace."The change would be a departure from the parameters of the Clinton impeachment trial, in which evidence obtained by the House was automatically admitted to the Senate.President Trump on Thursday left the White House for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he will be during the start of the Senate trial on Tuesday.
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| Climate crisis could justify asylum claims: UN committee Posted: 20 Jan 2020 11:20 AM PST  Governments that send refugees back to countries severely affected by climate change could be in breach of their human rights obligations, a UN committee said on Monday. The independent experts on the Human Rights Committee issued a non-binding but closely watched ruling in a case brought by Ioane Teitiota from the Pacific island nation of Kiribati. Several Pacific island nations including Kiribati are seen as among the most vulnerable in the world to climate change as they are just a few metres above sea level.
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| Police fire tear gas to disperse thousands in central Hong Kong Posted: 19 Jan 2020 12:08 AM PST ![Police fire tear gas to disperse thousands in central Hong Kong]( "Police fire tear gas to disperse thousands in central Hong Kong") Police fired tear gas on Sunday to disperse thousands of anti-government protesters who gathered in a central Hong Kong park but later spilled onto the streets, briefly barricading roads and spray-painting buildings. Out in numbers before the demonstration began, police intervened promptly when the rally turned into an impromptu march. Several units of police in riot gear were seen chasing protesters and several arrests were made.
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| Virginia on edge as pro-gun activists seethe over governor’s state of emergency Posted: 19 Jan 2020 12:05 PM PST  Moments after Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam approached the podium at the state capitol building on Wednesday to announce that he was issuing a temporary state of emergency ahead of a gun rights rally on Monday in Richmond, the angry comments started pouring in. What started in November as a fight between rural Virginia gun owners and newly elected Democratic lawmakers seeking to propose gun control legislation has since been warped and amplified by extremist groups which, for different reasons, have sought to exploit real tensions around Virginia's gun debate to advance their own agendas.
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| China's Navy Warships Are Now Armed With Land-Attack Missiles Posted: 20 Jan 2020 08:20 AM PST  China says its newest destroyer is capable of launching land-attack missiles.
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| You Should Get an Electric Fireplace Posted: 20 Jan 2020 09:00 AM PST |
| Leopard runs into house before being captured in south India Posted: 20 Jan 2020 06:15 AM PST  A leopard that ran into a house and sparked a frantic search and a frenzy of attention in southern India on Monday has been caught and tranquilized. The big cat emerged from the Kamdanam forest and ran into a house in Shadnagar town in Telangana state, said Dr. Mohammad Abdul Hakeem, a wildlife official. Deadly conflict between humans and animals has increased in recent years in India largely due to shrinking forest habitats and urban expansion.
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| US navy to name aircraft carrier in honour of black Pearl Harbor veteran Posted: 19 Jan 2020 03:12 AM PST  Doris Miller was working as a mess attendant on the battleship West Virginia the morning of 7 December 1941, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. An alarm sounded, and as the ship drew heavy fire, Miller raced to assist the West Virginia's fatally wounded commanding officer. He also fired a machine gun against enemy planes.For his bravery and "distinguished devotion to duty" that day, Miller in 1942 was awarded the prestigious Navy Cross, the second-highest military decoration, making him the first African American to receive the medal.
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| Report Warned of Threat to U.S. Troops in Germany: Newsweek Posted: 19 Jan 2020 01:00 PM PST ![Report Warned of Threat to U.S. Troops in Germany: Newsweek]( "Report Warned of Threat to U.S. Troops in Germany: Newsweek") (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. received intelligence about a potentially imminent attack being planned against military personnel stationed in Germany, Newsweek reported, citing a memo it saw.The 66th Military Intelligence Brigade received third party information stating that a possible attack could occur against soldiers at either Tower Barracks in Grafenwohr or Tower Barracks, Dulmen; the exact location, date and time of possible attack was unknown Information was marked unclassified and from a senior U.S. intelligence official "The source of information stated the attack would be carried out by an unknown Jordanian extremist currently located in Germany near an unknown military base," the report saidU.S. Army Europe confirmed to Newsweek that a potential threat was identified and investigated last night "German and US officials were consulted and no imminent threat was found to exit"To view the source of this information click hereTo contact the reporter on this story: Nathan Crooks in Miami at ncrooks@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: Sebastian Tong at stong41@bloomberg.netFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
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| Iran considers dual nationals on downed Ukrainian plane to be Iranians: TV Posted: 19 Jan 2020 11:58 PM PST  Iran considers the passengers with dual nationality, who were on a Ukrainian plane that was shot down accidentally earlier this month, killing all on board, to be Iranian citizens, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday. Many of the 176 who perished in the disaster were Iranians with dual citizenship, which is not recognized by Iran. "We have informed Canada that Tehran considers dual nationals who were killed in the plane crash as Iranian citizens ... Iran is mourning their deaths," Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi told a televised weekly news conference.
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| Could Taiwan Stop an Invasion By China? Posted: 19 Jan 2020 11:25 PM PST  Expert: "Over the next four years, it may be more important to acquire less glamorous but nimbler weapons to prevent Beijing from considering an invasion."
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| S. Korea confirms first case of SARS-like virus from China Posted: 19 Jan 2020 10:15 PM PST  South Korea on Monday confirmed its first case of the SARS-like virus that is spreading in China, as concerns mount about a wider outbreak. A 35-year-old Chinese woman who flew in from Wuhan, the apparent epicentre of the outbreak, was confirmed to have the new coronavirus strain, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said. "She was visiting Seoul on a tour for the Lunar New Year holidays," said KCDC director Jung Eun-kyeong, adding Korean authorities were investigating her movement on the plane and those who might have come in contact with her, including flight attendants.
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| The US Air Force recently acquired a new $64 million Gulfstream private jet for VIP government officials — see inside Posted: 20 Jan 2020 05:53 AM PST  The US president isn't the only government official that flies in a VIP plane operated by the US Air Force.
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| 'I stayed alive to tell': Auschwitz's dwindling survivors recount the horror Posted: 20 Jan 2020 10:27 AM PST 
(SOUNDBITE) (English) VERA KRIEGEL GROSSMAN, AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU SURVIVOR, SAYING: "The hate of the past is forever spreading, like wildfire in the field. No lesson has been learned and hate is on its stampede." Tattooed on her arm, Vera Kriegel Grossman still has the number to show for it. She's one of a dwindling number of people who survived the Nazi concentration camp at Aushwitz. Aged six, Vera and her twin sister were subjected to the pseudo-medical experiments of doctor Josef Mengele. His terrifying and grotesque practices, earning him the name "Angel of Death". (SOUNDBITE) (English) VERA KRIEGEL GROSSMAN, AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU SURVIVOR, SAYING: "I won against all odds. I am here. Look at me. I am here". We filmed her as she told her stories to a group of guides from a Holocaust memorial museum. Stories of how she was kept naked in a cage, given painful injections into her spine, and stories of how she was beaten if she cried as she saw other children suffer and die. Many did. Six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust - six million Jews who never lived to provide first-hand testimony to the atrocities of the Nazis. Ninety-five-year-old Avraham Harshalom is another of the lucky few who did survive. And as the 75th anniversary of the camp's liberation approaches, he's keen that stories like his aren't forgotten. (SOUNDBITE) (English) AVRAHAM HARSHALOM, AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU SURVIVOR, SAYING: "In the first, let's say, 20 years after the war, all Holocaust survivors and especially prisoners of Auschwitz were not talking at all, you know. We were not talking because people didn't believe us that what we are telling is true and second, they start to ask questions: 'Listen, if everything (was) so bad, how you survived?' And the story of surviving is really a very complicated story which every one of us has his own story how he survived." On his arm, a scar where his prisoner number was tattooed before he had it removed. He now keeps it in a frame on a shelf in his living room. (SOUNDBITE) (English) AVRAHAM HARSHALOM, AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU SURVIVOR, SAYING: "My number, everyone was asking what is it, they didn't know what it is, you know, a man with a number. And then I decided by the first possibility to take out the number."
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| A Drexel University professor has been charged with stealing $185,000 in government grant money to spend on Philadelphia strip clubs and iTunes Posted: 20 Jan 2020 02:30 AM PST  The Philadelphia district attorney's office charged Chikaodinaka Nwankpa with theft by unlawful taking and theft by deception last week.
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| Trump urges Senate to reject impeachment as affront to U.S. Constitution Posted: 20 Jan 2020 08:36 AM PST  President Donald Trump's lawyers argued on Monday that the impeachment case against him is a product of a rigged process by Democrats and "must be rejected" in the Senate trial that gets under way in earnest on Tuesday. An executive summary of Trump's pre-trial brief for the Senate proceedings urges the Republican-led Senate to quickly acquit the president on two articles of impeachment approved against him by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives. "The Senate should speedily reject these deficient articles of impeachment and acquit the president," said the summary, released on Monday.
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| Evacuation crackdown ordered as Philippine volcano 'recharges' Posted: 20 Jan 2020 01:42 AM PST  Philippine authorities ordered a crackdown Monday on evacuees' daily visits to their homes in the danger zone around Taal volcano as scientists warned it could be "recharging" for a more powerful explosion. More than 110,000 people have taken refuge in evacuation centres since Taal burst to life a week ago, but many hard-hit towns have let residents back for hours each day to fetch items, feed livestock and clean up their houses. "We are directing DRRMCs (civil defence officers)... not to allow anyone to enter the danger zone," said Epimaco Densing, undersecretary for the Department of Interior.
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| Mysterious Sars-like virus spreading across China amid sharp rise in new cases and a third death Posted: 19 Jan 2020 11:21 PM PST  China says a mysterious Sars-like virus has spread across the country, including to Beijing, raising concerns as millions begin trips for the Lunar New Year. A day after state authorities said the virus was "controllable", officials said a third person was confirmed to have died and there were nearly 140 new cases. The new coronavirus strain has caused alarm because of its connection to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, which killed nearly 650 people across mainland China and Hong Kong in 2002-2003. In Wuhan, the central city where the coronavirus was first discovered, 136 new cases were found over the weekend, the local health commission said, without giving details about the person who died. Health authorities in Beijing's Daxing district said two people who had travelled to Wuhan were treated for pneumonia linked to the virus and are in stable condition. In Guangdong, a 66-year-old Shenzhen man was quarantined on January 11 after contracting a fever and showing other symptoms following a trip to visit relatives in Wuhan, the provincial health commission said in a statement. A total of 201 people have now been diagnosed with the virus in China. In Wuhan, 170 people are still being treated at hospital, including nine in critical condition, the city health commission said. Read more: Just how worried should we be about this virus - and what do we know? Wuhan is a city of 11 million inhabitants that serves as a major transport hub, including during the annual Lunar New Year holiday when hundreds of millions of Chinese people travel across the country to visit family. In its first statement since the virus was detected, China's National Health Commission said on Sunday the disease's source was unknown but vowed to "step up monitoring" of any mutations during Chinese New Year period. Chinese authorities said they had begun "optimised" testing of cases across the city to identify those infected, and said they would begin "detection work ... towards suspected cases in the city" as a next step, as well as carrying out "sampling tests". How the coronavirus spreads Scientists from the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College in London have warned that the number of cases in Wuhan is likely to be closer to 1,700, much higher than the number officially identified. China is yet to confirm whether the virus can be spread from one person to another, but Wuhan's health commission has previously said the possibility "cannot be excluded". China's centre for disease control sought to quash speculation about the coronavirus at the weekend, publishing a flyer that dismissed "five big rumours". One of them included claims about the coronavirus spreading, which China's disease control authority had dismissed at the time by saying all cases were being treated in Wuhan. Global outbreaks of coronaviruses Although there has been no official announcement of screening measures on the mainland, Chen Xiexin, Wuhan deputy mayor, said infrared thermometers had been installed at airports, railway stations and coach stations across the city. Mr Chen said passengers with fevers were being registered, given masks and taken to medical institutions. Nearly 300,000 body temperature tests had been carried out, according to state broadcasters. Authorities in Hong Kong have also stepped up detection measures, including temperature checkpoints for travellers arriving from the Chinese mainland. The United States has said it will begin screening direct flights arriving from Wuhan at San Francisco airport and New York's JFK, as well as Los Angeles, where many flights connect.
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| Panama begins exhumation of victims from 1989 US invasion Posted: 20 Jan 2020 02:53 PM PST  Forensic workers took preliminary steps Monday for digging up the remains of some victims of the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama, an effort that has lifted the hopes of Panamanians who had relatives die or disappear and have lived with unanswered questions about their fate for 30 years. Authorities gave the approval for exhumation of the 19 bodies buried in a Panama City cemetery after a truth commission set up three years ago documented about 20 disappearances from the U.S. military action to topple strongman Manuel Noriega. Prosecutor Maribel Caballero told reporters the remains will be compared to a database of DNA from relatives in 14 cases.
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| House of Lords Could Move to North of England Under Proposal Posted: 19 Jan 2020 02:32 AM PST ![House of Lords Could Move to North of England Under Proposal]( "House of Lords Could Move to North of England Under Proposal") (Bloomberg) -- Sign up to our Brexit Bulletin, follow us @Brexit and subscribe to our podcast.Moving the House of Lords out of London is one of a number of ideas under consideration to make sure every part of the U.K. "feels properly connected to politics," Conservative Party Chairman James Cleverly said.The Sunday Times reported that Prime Minister Boris Johnson is planning to locate Parliament's upper chamber permanently in York in northern England and has ordered work to begin on the practicalities of a move. Birmingham in the Midlands is also in the running, it said.When asked about the report on Sky TV's "Sophy Ridge on Sunday" show, Cleverly said: "We might. It's one of range of things we are looking into. It's about demonstrating to people we are going to do things differently. The Labour Party lost millions of voters because they failed to listen."Johnson has spoken repeatedly of "leveling up" across the U.K. after traditional Labour strongholds in the north backed the Conservatives for the first time in the Dec. 12 general election.The Palace of Westminster, home of the House of Lords and the House of Commons, is due to be vacated for several years from the mid-2020s to allow billions of pounds of restoration work to the Victorian-era buildings to take place.Speaking on BBC TV's Andrew Marr Show, International Development Secretary Alok Sharma backed moving the 795-member Lords, saying the Conservatives should use their strong parliamentary majority to bring the government "closer to the country as a whole."But Labour lawmaker Nadia Whittome dismissed the idea. "Working-class people don't care about the unelected House of Lords," she told Marr. "We want jobs, proper investment and meaningful decentralization of power. This is superficial. It's tinkering around the edges."(Adds comment from government minister in sixth paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Andrew Atkinson in London at a.atkinson@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Fergal O'Brien at fobrien@bloomberg.net, Sara Marley, James AmottFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
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| SpaceX rocket explodes after liftoff as planned; Crew Dragon capsule escapes fireball Posted: 20 Jan 2020 09:10 AM PST  A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on Sunday, ultimately sacrificing itself for a test.
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| The 11 most expensive cities to live in around the world in 2020 Posted: 20 Jan 2020 05:27 AM PST  The 16th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey reveals cities bordering the Pacific Ocean are the most expensive.
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| Prosecutors seek prison terms for accused in gold coin heist Posted: 20 Jan 2020 06:56 AM PST  German prosecutors are seeking lengthy prison terms for four men accused of staging the brazen theft of a 100-kilogram (221-pound) Canadian gold coin that disappeared from a Berlin museum almost three years ago. The dpa news agency reported Monday that prosecutors have asked Berlin's region court to sentence two of the men to seven years in prison and the two others to six and five years each. Prosecutors claim the men, aged 21 to 25, stole the "Big Maple Leaf" coin worth about 3.75 million euros ($4.33 million) from Berlin's Bode Museum in March 2017.
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| Democratic presidential candidates enjoy moment of harmony to mark King birthday Posted: 20 Jan 2020 03:17 AM PST  Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren marched arm-in-arm on Monday, as a group of often feuding U.S. presidential candidates set aside their differences long enough to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Other Democratic White House hopefuls, including Pete Buttigieg, shook up multi-state campaign schedules to seek the support of black voters in Columbia, South Carolina, who will be crucial to victory in a tight race for their party's nomination. "Our job is not just to remember the history of Dr. King, it is to absorb his revolutionary spirit and apply it today," Sanders said at a rally after the march.
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| John Roberts Has More Power Than Mitch McConnell Would Like You to Think. But Will He Use It? Posted: 20 Jan 2020 01:50 PM PST  If John Roberts deems it relevant to call witnesses during the impeachment trial, he, as presiding officer, has the power and the duty to do so, whatever Mitch McConnell thinks.
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| Photos surface showing convicted Nazi guard Demjanjuk at Sobibor Posted: 20 Jan 2020 03:36 AM PST  New photos have emerged which for the first time show convicted Nazi guard John Demjanjuk at the Sobibor death camp, a Berlin archive confirmed Monday, although he always denied ever being there. Ukrainian-American Demjanjuk was convicted of being an accessory to the murder of nearly 30,000 Jews at Sobibor by a German court in 2011. According to the Berlin-based Topography of Terror archive, photos of Demjanjuk are among a newly discovered collection of more than 350 snaps which give "detailed insight" into the camp in German-occupied Poland.
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| Turkey Alone Cannot Save Its Allies in Libya's Civil War Posted: 19 Jan 2020 10:00 AM PST  Too little aid, too late.
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| 'I stayed alive to tell' - Auschwitz's dwindling survivors recount horrors of Nazi death camp Posted: 20 Jan 2020 05:14 AM PST  A strip of skin tattooed with the Auschwitz death camp number 99288 sits in a silver frame on a shelf in Avraham Harshalom's living room. As the 75th anniversary of the camp's liberation on Jan 27, 1945, nears, Harshalom, 95, is very clear about why he kept it. Harshalom is one of some 200,000 Holocaust survivors living in Israel today.
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| The images of Australia's storms are downright apocalyptic Posted: 20 Jan 2020 07:21 AM PST  Australia just can't catch a break. As wildfires continued to devastate parts of the country, a miles-long dust storm rolled across New South Wales Sunday, blotting out the sun. As CNN reports, the area has been experiencing drought since 2017, so dirt is loose and easily kicked up by high winds.> In Australia, people have been filming rolling clouds of dust sweeping across New South Wales. > > The massive dust storms blanketed entire towns and blacked out the sun over the weekend. https://t.co/59EwemGKFX pic.twitter.com/RA7nMgMsjN> > -- CNN (@CNN) January 20, 2020In other parts of the southeast, thunderstorms over the past two days brought hail stones the size of baseballs, bringing down trees, battering cars and buildings, and leaving thousands of people without electricity, according to The New York Times. There's also been flash flooding. And the Bureau of Meteorology says the storms could continue for another few days.> Parts of eastern Australia has been pelted by golf-ball sized hail - the storms have helped to fight some bushfires, but many continue to burnhttps://t.co/aaGqbxlEIa pic.twitter.com/VVuWXINivH> > -- BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) January 20, 2020More stories from theweek.com The strongest case for Joe Biden Boeing goes from bad to worse Trump's legal team calls on Senate to dismiss impeachment charges
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| A photo of petrified wood in Arizona went viral and it only took 225 million years Posted: 20 Jan 2020 11:30 AM PST  A photo of a piece of petrified wood has been shared across the Internet, but no one knows who took it or why it's such a rock star.
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| #MeToo prosecutors deploy experts early to thwart defense Posted: 20 Jan 2020 03:17 AM PST  When his trial opens in the coming days, Harvey Weinstein's defense team is expected to go on the offensive against the women who have accused him of rape and sexual assault, in part by questioning if they acted like victims afterward. New York City prosecutors intend to counter with a strategy that's taken hold since the 2018 retrial of comedian Bill Cosby: calling a sex crimes expert as a witness to dispel assumptions about how rape and sexual assault victims behave after an attack. In fact, Weinstein's prosecutors are using the very same expert, Dr. Barbara Ziv.
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| Trump likens himself to Martin Luther King Jr while boasting about low black unemployment Posted: 20 Jan 2020 07:09 AM PST  Donald Trump appeared to compare the anniversary of his swearing-in ceremony with Martin Luther King Jr's birthday as the president boasted claims of low unemployment among black Americans.On Twitter, the president wrote: "It was exactly three years ago today, January 20, 2017, that I was sworn into office. So appropriate that today is also MLK jr DAY. African-American Unemployment is the LOWEST in the history of our Country, by far. Also, best Poverty, Youth, and Employment numbers, ever. Great!"
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| Palestinian family pledge appeal over Jerusalem eviction ruling Posted: 20 Jan 2020 10:08 AM PST  A Palestinian family pledged on Monday to appeal an Israeli court order to evict them from their home in a mainly-Palestinian east Jerusalem neighbourhood in a case lodged by a settler organisation. The Israeli anti-settlement NGO Peace Now said a Jerusalem magistrates court ruled Sunday in favour of evicting the Rajabi family from their home in the Silwan neighbourhood following a lawsuit filed by members of the pro-settlement Ateret Cohanim organisation. The three-storey building houses 17 Palestinians, the family said.
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| Taiwan Is Not Worth A War With China (For 1 Key U.S. Ally, That Is) Posted: 19 Jan 2020 01:14 AM PST  Especially for Australia.
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| Philippine military says 5 Indonesians kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf militants Posted: 19 Jan 2020 03:16 AM PST  Eight Indonesians were abducted in Sabah on Thursday. Three were released, while the remaining five were probably brought by their captors to the southern Philippine province of Sulu, said Lieutenant General Cirilito Sobejana, chief of the military's Western Mindanao Command.
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| UK's Johnson, France's Macron reiterate commitment to Iran nuclear deal Posted: 19 Jan 2020 06:07 AM PST  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated their commitment on Sunday to the Iran nuclear deal and agreed a long-term framework was needed, Downing Street said on Sunday. "On Iran, the leaders reiterated their commitment to the JCPoA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) and also acknowledged the need to define a long-term framework to prevent Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon," a Downing Street spokeswoman said in a statement after the two met on the sidelines of a Libya summit in Berlin.
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