Europe’s migration crisis – Five years on
Greetings from Tyler, Everybody’s concerned about the drones. You mean our military command can’t figure it out? People who should know claim to be baffled. We can come up with explanations, but none quite satisfy. For now, unbelievably, the government is playing dumb. It must be something we’re not supposed to know. I can’t wait…
Greetings from Tyler, Can you imagine the absolute panic as Trump’s tormentors encounter one setback after another? We’re not going to follow every twist and turn of the legal cases, but none are looking too promising for those that fear what will happen if he should win the next presidential election. Not that he didn’t…
Barranquilla, Colombia — A flamboyant U.S.-backed lawyer who has never held public office narrowly won Colombia’s polarizing presidential runoff Sunday, swinging the country hard right and sparking violent protests. With almost all the ballots counted, Abelardo de la Espriella held 49.66% of the vote versus left-wing Senator Ivan Cepeda’s 48.70%. The 47-year-old’s slender win triggered…
The move is seen as an attempt to avoid a split within his governing Liberal Democratic Party, which lost its upper house majority in an election in July. Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announced his resignation Sunday, plunging the world’s fourth-largest economy and a key U.S. ally into fresh political uncertainty amid rising living costs…
‘The CCP is working around the clock to deploy operatives and researchers to infiltrate American institutions,’ FBI Director Kash Patel said. FBI Director Kash Patel and some Republican lawmakers are sounding the alarm about threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), after two Chinese nationals were charged with smuggling a pathogen into the United…
Publications targeted include those about protest and subjects Beijing deems politically sensitive Books about the Tiananmen Square massacre, Hong Kong protest movements, and other subjects deemed politically sensitive by Beijing have been removed from the former British colony’s public libraries in the lead-up to the 34th anniversary of the killings. Hong Kong media have reported…