Wearing a Hawaiian shirt and sipping an iced tea, Ongerung Kambes Kesolei sits at a veranda bar overlooking a hotel pool, under fans that slowly push humid air around on a quiet Sunday afternoon ... “They want to weaken Tsai Ing-wen and that’s where Palau comes into play,” said Kesolei, the editor of one of Palau’s two newspapers ... Map of Palau ... ‘The governments are having a fight’ ... Twitter ... The impact of the ban on Palau has been stark....
Mac Miller, the troubled rapper who won fans with his retro hip-hop but generated uncomfortable attention with songs on ex-girlfriend Ariana Grande and Donald Trump, died Friday at age 26, reports said. Celebrity news site TMZ said that Miller was found dead from an apparent overdose in his Los Angeles-area home and US Weekly said it also confirmed his death ... He told Rolling Stone at the time. “Have I done drugs? Yeah ... AFP. Loading ... ....
The Pentagon’s DARP agency has started to develop a hard-kill interceptor capable of hitting incoming hypersonic projectiles. The move follows news of Russia’s success in building top-class high-speed weapons ... ....
Olympic and world sprint cycling champion Kristina Vogel has revealed she has been left paralysed from the waist down after a crash ... "It's s***, there's no other way to put it ... ....
Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas DarlingIf and when journalist and historian Thomas Frank ever writes a sequel to “What’s the Matter With Kansas?,” in addition to explaining how and why working-class and poor Americans in the heartland voted for a party that advanced policies benefiting wealthy individuals and corporations, he’ll have to include the dire consequences ... all that funny ... (Dallas Darling is the author of Politics 501....
Protesters set the Iranian consulate on fire in the fifth day of violent protests in the southern city of Basra in Iraq on Friday, according to Al Jazeera. The protesters decried local corruption and a lack of basic services as hundreds gathered in the streets of the Shia Muslim-majority city, decrying the influence of Iran on Iraqi politics... ... 3 ... Reuters said the crowd chanted ... ... "Nobody [here] is a vandal ... ... ... -WN.com, Maureen Foody....
TOKYO. The death toll from a powerful quake that triggered landslides in northern Japan rose to 30 on Saturday, as tens of thousands of rescue workers raked through the mud for survivors. The majority of the dead are from the small rural town of Atsuma, where a cluster of dwellings were wrecked when a hillside collapsed from the force of the 6.6-magnitude quake, causing deep brown scars in the landscape ... ....
George Papadopoulos, the former Trump campaign adviser who attempted to set up a meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin during the 2016 campaign, was sentencing to 14 days in prison, 12 months of supervised release, 200 hours of community service, and a fine of $9,500 for lying to the FBI about his contacts with foreign nationals during the campaign on Friday, according to CBSNews... ... ... "I see Papadopoulos today ... ....
Sahra Wagenknecht, the leader of Germany's far-left Die Linke party, has launched a new movement, CNN reports. It is called Aufstehen (literally translated, "stand up"). This in itself is not exceptional. Many other countries in Western Europe have left-wing parties of varying extremes, such as the Dutch LinksGroen, the DanishEnhedslisten and Jeremy Corbyn's Labor Party in the United Kingdom... Germany is unlikely to go the same way....
New York, Sep 8 (IANS) In a surprising move, China's richest man, Jack Ma, has revealed plans to step down as the Executive Chairman of e-commerce giant Alibaba on Monday to pursue philanthropy in education, paving the way for a change of guard for the $420 billion Internet company that he co-founded. Ma will turn 54 on Monday, which is also a holiday in China and known as Teacher's Day... -IANS. ksk-gb/vm. ....
The intense air raids come a day after Iran and Russia backed a military campaign in the rebel-held area despite Turkey's pleas for a cease-fire ... ....
Hurricane Florence’s wrath forced a cruise line to switch its destination from Bermuda to various northern locations in Canada, drawing the ire of passengers who paid for a tropical vacation, Newsweek reports.Norwegian Cruise Line announced on Twitter that the ship, Norwegian Dawn, which departed on schedule on Friday from Boston would no longer sail to its original destination of Bermuda because of Hurricane Florence....
PresidentDonald Trump clearly had the recent anonymous op-ed published in The New York Times on his mind during his Montana rally to support Senate candidate MattRosendale, who's challenging Democratic Sen. Jon Tester, as warned supporters if he was impeached, "it's your fault, 'cause you didn't go out to vote," according to CNN. Trump also took time to rail against those Democrats, such as Rep ... "Very important thing ... ... We won by a lot....
General NewsCoinbase is looking to create a crypto ETF with the help of BlackRock. Business Insider reports that Coinbase has reportedly “held conversations” with the $6 trillion asset manager.ConsenSys has partnered with online education platform Coursera to offer a blockchain technology course, titled “Blockchain ...Post Oak Motor Cars is owned by Houston Rockets billionaire, Tilman Fertitta....