Sen. Tim Scott: ‘President Trump built the most inclusive economy ever’
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Over 7,000 fires burn 1.5 mln acres of land in California
Photo taken on Aug. 19, 2020 at the Windy Hill Open Space Preserve of San Mateo County shows a helicopter flying over the dense smoke of wildfires in San Francisco Bay Area, California, the United States. (Photo by Dong Xudong/Xinhua) California Governor Gavin Newsom said Monday that more than 14,000 firefighters and more than 2,400…
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A 6.9 quake hits Banda Sea region
The quake did not trigger a tsunami. No damages or casualties have been reported so far. On Wednesday, two other major quakes hit Sumatra. In 2004, a tsunami triggered by a 9.1 magnitude earthquake killed 220,000 people in the Indian Ocean region. Jakarta (AsiaNews/Agencies) – A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck the Banda Sea today between…
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Why Russia is unlikely to invade Belarus?
Lukashenko said that he would receive from Moscow comprehensive assistance to ensure the security of Belarus. naviny.by Lukashenko said that he would receive from Moscow “at our very first request, comprehensive assistance to ensure the security of the Republic of Belarus,” and mentioned Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in this regard. I would like to give you my arguments…
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Germany: Five years after the refugee crisis, what’s been achieved?
Five years ago, as hundreds of thousands of refugees came to Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel maintained: “We can do it.” How has Germany — and those who sought asylum — managed since then? DW explains. Perhaps no other phrase uttered during Angela Merkel’s long chancellorship has made such an impact. The words “Wir schaffen das” (“We can do…
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Spain will build highest border wall in the world to stop migrants from Africa
The project has been unveiled after a crowd of about 300 migrants attacked the Melilla enclave on Thursday. The Spanish government plans to build 10-meter-high (32-feet) cylindrical walls around its North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla to stop raids by migrants and individual attempts to enter the country, the Italian daily Il Giornale reported. These are…
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Will We See a ‘Biden Effect’ at the Border?
Migrants being floated over the Rio Suchiate border from Guatemala to Mexico, January 2020, where they were required to apply for Mexican asylum if they want to stay. Photo by Todd Bensman. A few months after President Donald Trump’s 2016 election, official Texas State business brought me to two ICE immigration detention centers in South…
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Kim Jong Un in coma, sister set to take control, South Korean ex-diplomat alleges
It is not the first time that the leader’s absence has prompted rumors of health problems. A South Korean diplomat is speculating that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has fallen into a coma and that his sister, Kim Yo Jong, is poised to take the rogue nation’s reins. Chang Song-min, a former aide to South Korea’s late president Kim…
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Germany’s Scholz sees ‘no way back’ from EU joint debt
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) and German Minister of Finance Olaf Scholz (L) attend a cabinet meeting at the German chancellery in Berlin, Germany, 19 August 2020. [EPA-EFE/CLEMENS BILAN] German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said Sunday (23 August) that the European Union’s recovery package financed by joint borrowing was a long-term measure rather than a…
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Iran, Hamas and Islamic Jihad call for ‘uprising’ after UAE-Israel deal
A PIJ rep said that the “Zionist regime… will remain an enemy” and that its destiny “is destruction and decay, and whoever has a relationship with it will be transferred to the dustbin of history.” Abu Ubaida, the spokesman of the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, walks during an anti-Israel military show by Hamas militants in…
