| India sends 'hotline' message to Chinese over alleged kidnapping Posted: 07 Sep 2020 06:48 AM PDT  Reports say Chinese troops abducted five Indian civilians in a disputed border area.
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| Majority of Young Adults in the U.S. Now Live With Their Parents: Report Posted: 06 Sep 2020 02:01 PM PDT  The number of 18 to 29 year olds living at home hit a low of 29% in 1960 and it has risen over the decades
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| Tahlequah, 'Tour of Grief' killer whale, gives birth Posted: 06 Sep 2020 02:54 PM PDT |
| ‘Reckless & selfish.’ Huge Burning Man bash leads mayor to close San Francisco beach Posted: 06 Sep 2020 01:53 PM PDT  "You are not celebrating. You are putting people's lives at risk," Mayor London Breed wrote on Twitter.
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| Trump says he's taking 'high road' by not meeting with Democrats on coronavirus relief Posted: 07 Sep 2020 01:21 PM PDT  Talks between the Trump administration and Congress on a new round of aid for those hit hard by the pandemic have been stalled since late July.
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| Wary Hong Kongers shun China-backed mass virus testing Posted: 06 Sep 2020 11:26 PM PDT  Hong Kong's plan to test every resident for the coronavirus is being hobbled by limited take-up as a wary public steer clear of the China-backed health scheme.
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| Philippine leader pardons US Marine in transgender killing Posted: 07 Sep 2020 04:18 AM PDT  The Philippine president pardoned a U.S. Marine on Monday in a surprise move that will free him from imprisonment in the 2014 killing of a transgender Filipino woman that sparked anger in the former American colony. President Rodrigo Duterte said he decided to pardon Lance Cpl. Joseph Scott Pemberton because the Marine was not treated fairly after opponents blocked his early release for good conduct in detention.
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| How we're developing a COVID-19 vaccine at 'Warp Speed': Alex Azar Posted: 07 Sep 2020 10:54 AM PDT  COVID-19 vaccines are in development and trials with Operation Warp Speed. Hopefully, in the months to come, there will be success.
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| Search Underway After Sailor Goes Missing from Carrier Nimitz Posted: 06 Sep 2020 01:27 PM PDT  Search-and-rescue efforts are underway in the North Arabian Sea,
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| Nigerian men arrested over German PPE 'scam' Posted: 07 Sep 2020 02:04 PM PDT  The men are accused of cloning the website of a Dutch company to obtain an order from a German state.
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| Lithuania fears Lukashenko will sign away Belarus independence to Russia Posted: 07 Sep 2020 12:02 PM PDT  Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko could be about to give away his country's independence by signing an agreement on deeper integration with Russia, Lithuania's foreign minister said on Monday. Russian President Vladimir Putin has for many years pushed for closer ties with Belarus under the auspices of a unified state, and raised the idea again last month. Lukashenko has in the past rejected such moves, accusing Russia of wanting to swallow up his country, but now faces protests and the threat of Western sanctions over an Aug. 9 presidential election which opponents say was rigged.
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| Evicted state Senate hopeful charged with breaking into her old home, Georgia cops say Posted: 07 Sep 2020 10:20 AM PDT  Linda Pritchett told police her eviction was "improper."
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| Exclusive: More Americans predict Trump will win the presidential debates than Biden, USA TODAY/Suffolk Poll shows Posted: 07 Sep 2020 09:55 AM PDT  Respondents to a USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll were more likely to give President Donald Trump the advantage in upcoming debates with Joe Biden.
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| North Korea's Kim inspects region hit by Typhoon Maysak Posted: 07 Sep 2020 03:49 AM PDT  SHOTLIST SOUTH HAMGYONG, NORTH KOREASEPTEMBER 5, 2020SOURCE: KCTVRESTRICTIONS: NO RESALE 1. Tracking shot North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visiting damaged area2. Wide shot official talking to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un3. Mid shot North Korean leader Kim Jong Un talking to officials at damaged area4. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un talking to officials at damaged area5. Wide shot damaged houses in flood6. Mid shot damaged houses7. Tracking shot North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walking at damaged area8. Wide shot North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walking at damaged area9. Wide shot North Korean leader Kim Jong Un looking at damaged area10. Extreme wide shot North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and officials in front of damaged houses11. Mid shot North Korean leader Kim Jong Un talking to officials while pointing at damaged area12. Tracking shot North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visiting damaged area13. Wide shot North Korean leader Kim Jong Un looking at damaged area14. Extreme wide shot North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visiting damaged area ///-----------------------------------------------------------AFP TEXT STORY: N. Korea's Kim orders thousands to help typhoon recoverySeoul, Sept 6, 2020 (AFP) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered 12,000 elite members of his ruling party based in Pyongyang to help with recovery efforts in two rural provinces lashed by a powerful typhoon, state media reported Sunday.Typhoon Maysak brought days of heavy downpours to the country's east coast earlier this week even as the North was still reeling from earlier flooding and typhoon damage, and another storm is forecast to barrel through the peninsula by Tuesday.Natural disasters tend to have a greater impact in the North due to its creaking infrastructure, and the country is vulnerable to flooding as many mountains and hills have long been deforested.More than 1,000 homes were destroyed by Maysak and public buildings and farmland were inundated with floodwater across North and South Hamgyong provinces, the official KCNA news agency reported.Kim inspected the damage on Saturday and held a policy meeting on disaster relief efforts, KCNA said.He also dismissed the chairman of the South Hamgyong provincial party committee, the report added.Photos carried by Sunday's official Rodong Sinmun newspaper showed Kim standing in front of destroyed homes and toppled trees as he discussed the situation with officials.In a two-page handwritten open letter to members of the ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, Kim said around 12,000 members from the capital will be sent to the two provinces to help with the recovery ahead of a key holiday next month.North Korea will mark the 75th anniversary of the foundation of the party on October 10."We cannot let a lot of people in South Hamgyong Province and North Hamgyong Province who newly suffered damage spend the holiday homeless," Kim was quoted as saying in the letter, which was carried by the Rodong Sinmun.The damage was an "urgent situation which needs to be tackled without even a moment's delay", he added.The report did not say how many were injured, missing or dead.In 2016 at least 138 North Koreans died after torrential rain triggered major floods, the United Nations said at the time.In the summer of 2012 more than 160 people were killed by a massive rainstorm.sh/axn
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| Almost 300 Rohingya found on beach in Indonesia’s Aceh Posted: 06 Sep 2020 09:39 PM PDT  Almost 300 Rohingya Muslims were found on a beach in Indonesia's Aceh province on Monday after months at sea, officials said. Officials arrived and found that the Rohingya had dispersed into three groups after landing, Banda Sakti Subdistrict Military Commander Roni Mahendra said. Indrika Ratwatte, the director for Asia and the Pacific for UNHCR, the U.N. refugee agency, said the Rohingya had survived about seven months at sea in desperate conditions, with some needing medical treatment.
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| West Virginia University suspending in-person undergrad classes amid COVID-19 spike Posted: 07 Sep 2020 02:52 PM PDT  "This pause in face-to-face undergraduate instruction will give us time to monitor the steadily climbing cases of COVID-19," a university official said.
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| Living Vehicle unveiled its luxury new travel trailer RV with a convertible home office starting at almost $229,300 — take a look inside Posted: 06 Sep 2020 05:12 AM PDT  The trailer comes in three models ranging from $229,995 to $369,995, but the only difference is its power system.
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| Three Somali special forces killed, U.S. officer wounded in car bomb, Somali official says Posted: 07 Sep 2020 03:56 AM PDT |
| Cyclist flashed his butt and assaulted pedestrians on Virginia trails, police say Posted: 07 Sep 2020 12:12 PM PDT  David Marlowe, 55, faces multiple charges.
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| Bernie Sanders is convinced Trump won’t concede if he loses November election Posted: 06 Sep 2020 09:54 AM PDT  Former presidential hopeful and Sen. Bernie Sanders is convinced, however, that President Donald Trump is set to dishonor that tradition, should he lose his bid for re-election in November. In an interview with Politico, the Vermont independent stated that he believes there is a good chance that Trump will refuse to concede defeat if his opponent, Democratic nominee Joe Biden, is elected this fall. Sanders said this isn't "just idle speculation," being that Trump said it himself.
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| German foreign minister raises spectre of Nord Stream 2 sanctions over Navalny poisoning Posted: 05 Sep 2020 09:55 PM PDT  Germany could drop the Nord Stream 2 pipeline as punishment for the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Berlin said for the first time on Sunday as it threatened the Kremlin with sanctions. German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said that "I hope... that the Russians do not force us to change our position on Nord Stream," in comments made to Bild newspaper. Mr Maas said that Berlin "would be compelled" to raise the issue of sanctions with its allies if Russia did not take steps towards investigating Mr Navalny's poisoning in the coming days. " If the Russians don't take part in solving the case then it is a further indication that they were involved," Mr Maas said. "If they don't go beyond smoke and mirrors we'll have to assume that Russia has something to hide." British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said that "The use of chemical weapons in this kind of context is pure gangsterism and Russia does have responsibility never to use it as a government, and second of all to make sure no-one else can use it within its territory." Nord Stream 2 is a new pipeline that would allow more Russian gas to flow to Europe via Germany, and is of strategic importance to Russia. But cancelling the project would be an ultima ratio for Germany, given its own financial interest in seeing the project through. There is little over 100 kilometres of the multi-billion euro pipeline still to be laid, but nothing has happened on the project since the US - which is opposed to it - threatened the companies involved with severe sanctions last December. And since a German army laboratory confirmed on Wednesday that Mr Navalny had been the victim of an assassination attempt with the nerve gas Novichok, domestic pressure has grown on the German government to cancel the gas line. Even within the ruling Christian Democratic Union party, influential foreign policy expert Norbert Röttgen said that "if the project were to be completed that would give Putin the ultimate proof that he can carry on with his politics as normal. A European decision should be: stop Nord Stream 2." Mr Maas made clear though that he wanted to avoid hitting the gas line if at all possible. "Those calling for a stop need to know what the consequences are," he said. "There are more than 100 companies from 12 European countries involved, and roughly half of them are German." There are also indications that Chancellor Angela Merkel has shifted her stance after saying last week that the pipeline should remain "decoupled" from Navalny. The statement came in for criticism from sections of the media. Asked at Friday's press conference if she would repeat the statement, her spokesman, Stefan Seibert, declined to comment. Mr Navalny is currently lying in an artificially induced coma in Berlin's Charité hospital. Doctors say that his condition is improving but that he will have a long road to recovery.
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| Gottlieb says COVID-19 vaccine "staged introduction" likely for 2021 Posted: 06 Sep 2020 08:13 AM PDT  Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb says Americans are "exhausted" by coronavirus mitigation efforts, warning vigilance to fight the virus.
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| China's first reusable spacecraft lands after 2-days in orbit Posted: 06 Sep 2020 05:49 AM PDT |
| Seeking unity, NKorea's Kim vows to overcome typhoon damage Posted: 05 Sep 2020 08:13 PM PDT  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has visited typhoon-stricken areas in the northeast, fired a top official there and promised to send 12,000 workers from Pyongyang for recovery efforts, state media reported Sunday. The Korean Central News Agency said that Kim on Saturday visited South Hamgyong province, which was hit by Typhoon Maysak last week. It said Kim was briefed that the typhoon destroyed more than 1,000 houses and inundated public buildings and farmland in the coastal areas of South Hamgyong as well as nearby North Hamgyong province.
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| Letter from Africa: Why journalists in Nigeria feel under attack Posted: 06 Sep 2020 04:01 PM PDT  A video of a tongue-lashing one reporter recently received comes as no surprise, writes Mannir Dan Ali.
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| 13,000 chairs outside German parliament in Greek migrant camps protest Posted: 07 Sep 2020 01:47 PM PDT  Campaigners placed 13,000 chairs outside the German parliament building in Berlin on Monday, in a symbolic protest calling for the overcrowded migrants camps in Greek islands to be shut down.
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| Rival militias descend on Louisville at 'No justice, no Derby' Breonna Taylor protest Posted: 05 Sep 2020 08:08 PM PDT  Protesters march peacefully around Churchill Downs for Breonna Taylor, insisting "No justice, no Derby." Armed militias on both sides are also present.
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| Fact check: Payroll taxes cut by executive action must be paid back Posted: 07 Sep 2020 11:55 AM PDT  Your paycheck might be bigger lately, but you'll have to pay back any payroll tax cuts being deferred during the rest of 2020.
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| Cardi B slams Candace Owens: ‘I’m not getting pimped out by White men’ Posted: 06 Sep 2020 06:22 PM PDT  Cardi B had time on her hands Sunday night when she posted a stinging video message to conservative personality Candace Owens. The Grammy award-winning performer, who refused to show her face on camera because she was under the weather, held nothing back in her address to Owens, who Cardi accused of harassing her online for her support of Democratic Party. Cardi B, real name Belcalis Almánzar, said that Trump supporters had been harassing her online due to her previous endorsement of Bernie Sanders during the Democratic primary and later of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
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| Another popular Boeing plane is reportedly being investigated by the FAA after newly discovered production errors ground 8 aircraft Posted: 07 Sep 2020 05:23 PM PDT  Eight Boeing 787 Dreamliners were grounded after a potentially unsafe combination of two issues stemming from production errors was discovered.
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| Florida activists released after rally over police shootings Posted: 06 Sep 2020 09:52 AM PDT |
| Oregon rejects GOP voter statement, says it was submitted 29 seconds late Posted: 06 Sep 2020 10:15 AM PDT  The Oregon Republican Party's statement for the state voters' pamphlet arrived 29 seconds too late and will not appear in the guide mailed to voters for the November election, according to officials.
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| Chinese chip giant SMIC 'in shock' after US trade ban threat Posted: 07 Sep 2020 06:05 AM PDT  SMIC's Hong Kong shares sank 23% after the Pentagon said it could be added to a trade blacklist.
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| China says can cooperate with U.S. journalists if Chinese media treated fairly in U.S. Posted: 07 Sep 2020 12:07 AM PDT |
| Sudan declares state of emergency amid flooding as River Nile swells to highest level in almost a century Posted: 06 Sep 2020 06:20 AM PDT  A three-month state of emergency has been declared in Sudan as it is engulfed by deadly floods that are quickly spelling out a humanitarian disaster. The heavy rainfall, which started at the end of July, has already killed almost 100 people and caused the total or partial collapse of over 100,000 homes, according to the state news agency. With above-average rainfall forecast to continue until the end of the month, UN agencies are warning of catastrophic consequences. Much of the flooding is caused by heavy seasonal rains in neighbouring Ethiopia, which cause the River Nile to rise. By late August the Nile had risen around 17.5 metres, the highest in almost a century. The floods have already contaminated or put out of use over 2,000 water sources, according to the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, leading to concerns over the ability to enact coronavirus prevention measures. Sudan has more than 13,000 coronavirus infections, including 833 deaths. The agency also warned that Sudan's aid stocks have been "rapidly depleted" and that its humanitarian plan for the country is less than 44 per cent funded. The rates of floods and rain this year are already higher than the 1988 record which saw over a million people displaced from their homes, according to the Sudanese Irrigation Ministry. The UN's refugee agency also raised concerns with an estimated 125,000 refugees and internally displaced people affected. In North Darfur, in particular, 15 people have so far died and a further 23 are missing. Lina Al-Sheikh, the Labor and Social Development Minister said that more than 500,000 people across the country had so far been affected.
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| In sign of COVID-19's impact on New York tourism, Hilton to close Times Square hotel Posted: 07 Sep 2020 09:09 AM PDT  Hilton is closing its 478-room hotel in Times Square on Oct. 1, according to a document it filed with state regulators this week, citing the pandemic.
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| Citing pandemic, the Archdiocese will livestream the Mass for Our Lady of Charity Posted: 07 Sep 2020 05:28 PM PDT  The novel coronavirus pandemic has caused hundreds of event cancellations across South Florida since March, but it won't prevent the celebration of Mass for Our Lady of Charity, the patron saint of Cuban Catholics, from happening this week.
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| California wildfire traps campers in national forest Posted: 05 Sep 2020 09:23 PM PDT  The Creek Fire jumped a river and compromised the only road into the Mammoth Pool Campground, where they were forced to shelter in place.
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| Hamas leader says group has missiles that can hit Tel Aviv Posted: 06 Sep 2020 10:07 AM PDT |
| Top Democrat accuses U.S. attorney general of lying about China election threat Posted: 06 Sep 2020 07:18 PM PDT  The Democratic chairman of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee on Sunday accused U.S. Attorney General William Barr of lying when he said China posed a bigger threat to November's U.S. election than Russia. "That's just a plain false statement by the attorney general," Adam Schiff told CNN. "What Bill Barr just did in that statement was just flat out mislead the American people."
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| South Africa's Clicks beauty stores raided after 'racist' hair advert Posted: 07 Sep 2020 06:48 AM PDT  The advert showed African hair labelled dry and dull while white hair was described as fine and flat.
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| A new single-engine plane was designed to be so efficient it can make flying private cost the same as a commercial airline – see the Celera 500L Posted: 07 Sep 2020 05:50 AM PDT  Otto Aviation's Celera 500L aims to make private aviation cheaper with far cheaper operating costs than a private jet.
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| Businessman racially discriminated by wife who made Australia rant, tribunal rules Posted: 06 Sep 2020 10:20 AM PDT  An Australian businessman has been awarded a payout of more than £100,000 after winning a racial discrimination case against his British wife who said she hated his country's "mentality", a tribunal has ruled. Duncan Bendall took his wife, Fiona, and their company The Female Social Network (TFSN) to an employment tribunal claiming he was discriminated against because he is a man and due to his nationality when he was pushed out of the firm. He also claimed unfair dismissal after she ousted him following the breakdown of their marriage. An employment judge awarded him more than £100,000 for race discrimination and unfair dismissal, but rejected his claims he was fired due to his gender. The tribunal heard Mr Bendall received an email from his wife three months before he was sacked in August last year in which she said: "I hate Australian mentality and you have it [in] droves just sh**…And DO NOT say you are a founder in MY business MY efforts ever again You Leech - you don't even believe in women or have ever stuck your neck out." Mr Bendall claimed he was dismissed as a result of his gender and nationality, and told the panel his wife "kept treating Australia as an inferior race" despite the couple living there for 15 years. He told the hearing: "It just made me feel small and like she was putting me down. It seemed she was only saying all this because now she was back in England. "The board had clearly chosen to back an English female and remove an Australian male." The tribunal heard Mr Bendall and his ex-wife, 42, set up a company called Bendalls in Australia in 2004, before setting up The Female Social Network in 2016. It then became a global company and the couple have been pictured with Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York at the UK launch last June.
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