Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Taiwan scrambles jets as China aircraft carrier enters Taiwan Strait and other top stories.

  • Taiwan scrambles jets as China aircraft carrier enters Taiwan Strait

    Taiwan scrambles jets as China aircraft carrier enters Taiwan Strait
      Taiwan scrambled jets Wednesday as China's sole aircraft carrier led Chinese warships through the Taiwan Strait amid heightened tensions between the mainland and self-governing island it claims as its own territory, Reuters reported. A ministry statement said the Liaoning was traveling northwest along the center line dividing the strait, along with its battle group. It said the military was closely monitoring the vessels' passage and urged the public not to be alarmed. Taiwan regularly dispat..
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  • Kellyanne Conway Defends Trump's Twitter Use As A 'Free' Way To Share Information

    Kellyanne Conway Defends Trump's Twitter Use As A 'Free' Way To Share Information
    “Wouldn't it be great for you personally if he tweeted a little bit less?” 01/11/2017 02:15 am ET. Nick Visser Reporter, The Huffington Post. Kellyanne Conway defended president-elect Donald Trump's 140-character missives on Twitter as a “free” way to ...
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  • Penthouse Offers $1M for 'Exclusive Rights' to Tapes of 'Donald Trump's Golden Showers'

    Penthouse Offers $1M for 'Exclusive Rights' to Tapes of 'Donald Trump's Golden Showers'
    Penthouse Offers $1M for ‘Exclusive Rights’ to Tapes of ‘Donald Trump’s Golden Showers’ The adult magazine posts six-figure offer on Twitter after “explosive — but unverified” allegations surface Debbie Emery, provided by Published 11:21 pm, Tuesday, January 10, 2017 Penthouse Offers $1M for ‘Exclusive Rights’ to Tapes of ‘Donald Trump’s Golden Showers’ Twitter was flooded with jokes about Donald Trump’s alleged “Golden Showers” on Tuesday night, but one social media pos..
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  • Can Animals Of Different Species Breed? Monkey And Deer Caught Having Sex

    Can Animals Of Different Species Breed? Monkey And Deer Caught Having Sex
    Researchers have published their observations of a rare example of interspecies mating behavior as a male Japanese macaque, or more popularly known as the snow monkey, has been documented while attempting to have sex with female sika deer on Japan’s Yakushima Island.In a video of the incident that occurred in November last year, the snow monkey can be seen performing sexual mounts on at least two different female deer. Although one deer can be seen dashing away, another female “seemed to accept ..
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  • US may hold fire on 'non-threatening' N Korea missiles

    US may hold fire on 'non-threatening' N Korea missiles
    Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mr Carter was speaking at his final news conference before he steps down US Defence Secretary Ash Carter has said the US would not necessarily shoot down a North Korean missile, if it was not threatening.He said the US military would want to gather intelligence from the missile's flight instead of intercepting it.Mr Carter's remarks follow President-elect Donald Trump's Twitter comments on North Korea's nucle..
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  • Clare Hollingworth, Reporter Who Broke News of World War II, Dies at 105

    Clare Hollingworth, Reporter Who Broke News of World War II, Dies at 105
    The date was Aug. 28, 1939, and her article, published the next day, would become, as the British paper The Guardian wrote in 2015, “probably the greatest scoop of modern times.”On Sept. 1, Hitler’s forces invaded Poland, marking the start of World War II.For the next four decades, Ms. Hollingworth (who over the years contributed articles to The Telegraph, The Guardian, The International Herald Tribune and The Wall Street Journal) covered World War II from Eastern Europe, the Balkans and North ..
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  • Muslim Girls in Switzerland Must Attend Swim Classes With Boys, Court Says

    Muslim Girls in Switzerland Must Attend Swim Classes With Boys, Court Says
    “The public interest in following the full school curriculum should prevail over the applicants’ private interest in obtaining an exemption from mixed swimming lessons for their daughters,” the court found. The case was the latest to pit freedom of religion against the imperative of social integration, and to raise the question of whether — and how much — a government should accommodate the religious views of Muslim citizens and residents, many of them immigrants.The ruling could set an importa..
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  • BuzzFeed Posts Unverified Claims on Trump, Stirring Debate

    BuzzFeed Posts Unverified Claims on Trump, Stirring Debate
    “BuzzFeed News is publishing the full document so that Americans can make up their own minds about allegations about the president-elect that have circulated at the highest levels of the US government,” BuzzFeed wrote. Ben Smith, BuzzFeed’s editor in chief, declined to comment beyond the article, which carried the bylines of three BuzzFeed reporters. But in a memo to his staff, Mr. Smith offered a further explanation about why the site had published the document.“Our presumption is to be transp..
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  • Will Trump be the president who moves the US Embassy to Jerusalem?

    Will Trump be the president who moves the US Embassy to Jerusalem?
    JERUSALEM — Of Donald Trump’s many campaign promises, from building his great wall to making America great again, the most straightforward may be his vow to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. That has worried many in the region, but delighted many Israelis. Close U.S. allies in the Middle East have warned that moving the embassy might look easy but would be deeply reckless, like painting a big bull’s eye not just on a building, but on the United States and its friends..
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