New York Daily News/Jefferson Siegal via Getty Images Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, has asked to be moved from a private jail to home confinement for the remainder of his 2-year prison sentence, according to a […]
Key point: China stole and spied its way to improved military prowess. As the People’s Republic of China (PRC) emerged from war and revolution in 1949, it became apparent that the Chinese economy lacked the capacity to compete with the […]
Japan’s environment minister said Wednesday he would take two weeks of paternity leave, the first time a cabinet minister has publicly committed to such a move in the country. Shinjiro Koizumi, a media-savvy 38-year-old married to a former television anchorwoman, […]
(Bloomberg) — Japanese Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, a public favorite to succeed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, is set to be the country’s first sitting cabinet member to take paternity leave, a decision hailed by the government as being progressive. Koizumi, […]
Iran has rejected as “strange” a proposal from Boris Johnson that it should strike a new nuclear deal with the US, suggesting that president Donald Trump’s administration was not trustworthy enough. Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s president, said the solution to the […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s president Wednesday slammed the disqualification of thousands of people, including 90 current lawmakers, from running in upcoming parliamentary elections. Although hard-liners were among those disqualified by the powerful Guardian Council, most of those rejected were […]
When the House votes Wednesday to send two articles of impeachment to the Senate, the rules of the upper chamber will suddenly change. All the procedural hallmarks normally associated with the Senate — filibusters, cloture votes, and so on — […]
AP Photo/Seth Wenig The House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday released a previously unseen letter that President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani sent to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in May. In the letter, Giuliani requested a meeting with Zelensky and […]
An Australian student arrested for spying and expelled from North Korea last year said he was forced to write a false confession while held incommunicado. Alek Sigley was studying modern Korean literature at Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang when […]
By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – An Australian student who was briefly detained in North Korea last year over spy charges said he had been kidnapped by secret police and forced to make a false confession, according to an article […]