Новости за 22.01.2019

Wendell Minnick

Security, Asia

If Taipei fell to Beijing control tomorrow, then Xi Jinping could use the country's bases to launch new wars.

TAIPEI — Those focusing on whether China can sink a U.S. aircraft carrier or lob missiles at Guam are missing the larger problem. And it is not about the tragic loss of a democratic friend in Asia.

The nightmare is how the strategic landscape will radically change if China controls Taiwan, either by political or brutal force. Читать дальше...

Yun Tang

Politics, Asia

Political reform paved the way for the collapse of the Qing dynasty, and it is coming for Beijing once again.

Right after New Year’s Day, Peking University Professor Zheng Yefu made a daring call for the ruling Communist Party to “step down gracefully from the historical stage.” His appeal echoed an earlier petition for political reform by one hundred influential Chinese intellectuals, who demanded democracy and the rule of law. Both online manifestoes... Читать дальше...

JOCKEY QUOTES FLAVIEN PRAT, VASILIKA, WINNER:  “When Drysdale’s filly (La Sardane) made that early move, it put pressure on Smith’s filly (Ms Bad Behavior) and it helped me.  I didn’t want to be in a hurry, but she really picked it up and she finished well.  I think a mile and one eighth might be her […]

Ever since then-US President Obama took office with his misconceived pro-Iran foreign policy, the Iranian regime has run rings around

If two new albums in less than six months seems intense, well, Ariana Grande just finished one extremely intense year. On Sunday, the singer teased the impending release of a follow-up to 2018’s Sweetener on Twitter. “two albums in six months huh,” she tweeted. “that’s deep. love u. talk sooon.” ... More »

Hollywood actress Jamie Lee Curtis apologized on Twitter for rushing to judge the viral video showing high school student Nick Sandmann wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat and appearing to smirk while a crowd of other teens laughed derisively behind him as a 64-year-old Native American, Nathan Phillips, played a traditional chant on a drum.

Cinderella, Snow White and the “Frozen” leading ladies could be dethroned...

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On January 18, the gas pipeline exploded near the town of Tlahuelilpan in Mexico

Professional soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo is due in court on January 22, 2019, to plead guilty to tax fraud and pay $21 million in fines.

MANILA, Philippines – The House committee on justice overwhelmingly approved the bill that would lower the minimum age of criminal responsibility from 15 years old to 9 years old. 

NBC News spoke with some of those workers in the Washington area about the toll of the ongoing shutdown at several church food pantries set up for workers.

THIS is the shocking moment a motorist tries to attack another driver’s car with a Henry Hoover before he is eventually mowed down in a hit and run. In the disturbing footage the driver of a Vauxhall Vectra starts hurling the vacuum cleaner at the Mercedes during an argument in Middlesbrough earlier today. From the […]

A survey of industry professionals suggests cuts to graduate recruitment and apprenticeships are to blame.

The city-owned heritage building in the heart of the ByWard Market requires more than $1 million in short-term fixes, but the chairman of Ottawa Markets is confident the money is available to make the necessary repairs on a key asset now under the organization’s oversight. A consultant’s December 2016 audit obtained under access-to-information law reveals […]

A section of Hamilton’s Tristram St will be under traffic control this Wednesday (23 January) while Hamilton City Council’s arborist crew prunes large trees in Hinemoa Park.

Kellyanne Conway was named as well

VICKY PATTISON’s lips are truly sealed on her new romance with Towie star Ercan Ramadan. The Geordie Shore star, 31, appeared on the reality hunk’s Instagram feed last week with his arm round her but the photo was swiftly deleted. Newly single Vicky and reality star Ercan enjoyed a break to members club Soho Farmhouse in […]

The scheme would see fuel retailers required to declare their prices by 6am every morning and lock them in for 24 hours.

HEAVILY FAVORED VASILIKA UNLEASHES FURIOUS STRETCH RALLY TO WIN GRADE III, $100,000 MEGAHERTZ STAKES BY 1 ½ LENGTHS; RIDDEN BY PRAT AND TRAINED BY HOLLENDORFER, SHE GETS MILE ON ‘GOOD’ TURF IN 1:34.82 ARCADIA, Calif. (Jan. 21, 2019)–Aided by some unexpected early pace pressure to the eventual runner-up, heavily favored Vasilika came rolling from off […]

The state is months away from wildfire season, but Public Lands Commissioner Hilary Franz has proposed a plan to strengthen the ways that Washington can prevent and respond to wildfires. … Click to Continue »

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