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Foreign spectators at next summer’s Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics are likely to be exempt from Japan’s 14-day quarantine requirement if they are from countries or regions with relatively fewer COVID-19 cases, according to a government panel. The panel — including officials from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the national government and Tokyo 2020 organizers — elected...
An Aeroflot executive has been nabbed for allegedly spying for Britain, according to Russian news agencies. The London-based employee, Dmitry Fedotkin, is accused of passing secrets related to Russia’s social and political situation to Britain’s MI6 foreign intelligence service, according to an unnamed source cited by TASS and RIA news agencies. Fedotkin, however, did not...
BEIJING/TAIPEI – China will strike back against any moves that undermine its core interests, its foreign ministry said on Friday after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that Taiwan “has not been a part of China”. China calls Taiwan the most sensitive and important issue in its ties with the United States and has...
Messages from foreign leaders to President-elect Joe Biden are reportedly sitting unread at the State Department as President Trump has blocked the new administration’s transition. Under normal presidential transitions, the president-elect can tap into State Department resources to better log and translate communications between the incoming administration and world leaders, CNN reported. With Tru...
Kristopher Sean Matthews, aka Ali Jibreel, admitted Tuesday in a San Antonio courtroom to conspiring to provide material support to the foreign terrorist organization.
Two Texas men have been charged with trying to sell 50 million non-existent N95 face masks to a foreign government, prosecutors said Tuesday. Arael Doolittle, 55, and Paschal Ngozi Eleanya, 46, both of Houston, planned to defraud a foreign government — which federal prosecutors didn’t name — out of $317 million worth of N95 respirator...
A Manhattan psychiatrist and medical assistant were busted Monday for illegally prescribing highly addictive drugs to undercover agents for no legitimate medical purpose in exchange for cash, authorities said. After police received a complaint in the summer of 2019 of drug-seeking activity in front of Dr. Leon Valbrun’s medical practice, the NYPD and the city’s...
BEIJING/MANILA – China will respond to the reported visit of a US Navy admiral to Taiwan and firmly opposes any military relations between Taipei and Washington, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Monday as a senior US official praised their ties with Taipei. A two-star Navy admiral overseeing US military intelligence in the Asia-Pacific region...
Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is urging Joe Biden to dump President Trump's "America First" foreign policy for a more "cooperative" approach with the country's allies around the globe.
Apple’s head of global security was indicted on Monday for allegedly trying to bribe a California sheriff’s office with the promise of 200 iPads in exchange for concealed-weapon permits for company employees. In addition to Thomas Moyer, 50, the tech-giant’s chief security officer, two officers with the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office were also charged...
Biden, a former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has been speaking with US allies and other global leaders in the wake of the Nov. 3 election.
President-elect Joe Biden’s secretary of state nominee is reportedly expected to be Antony Blinken — a foreign affairs adviser to Biden’s campaign who served in both the State Department and the National Security Agency under Presidents Obama and Clinton. Sources close to Biden’s Cabinet-choosing process told the New York Times of Blinken’s likely nomination as...
Convicted spy Jonathan Pollard, a former US Navy analyst who sold government secrets to Israel, has completed parole and is now free to return to the Jewish state, according to reports. Pollard, 66, was jailed for passing thousands of confidential documents to an Israeli official in exchange for lucrative payoffs until his arrest in 1985 —...
Senior Defense Department official Anthony Tata tested positive for COVID-19 this week after an infected foreign official toured the Pentagon — hobnobbing with the upper echelons of the US military, including the defense secretary and the secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force. Tata, a retired Army brigadier general, is the acting undersecretary of...
A Virginia lawyer is facing a count of sex trafficking minors for allegedly showering underage girls with cash and expensive gifts in exchange for sex and threesomes.
A bipartisan group of senators is launching an effort to block the Trump administration from going through with a $23 billion arms sale to the United Arab Emirates. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Bob Menendez (D-NJ) along with Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) introduced four joint resolutions rejecting the president’s decision...
Sen. Lindsey Graham says he was simply “saying hello” to Vice President-elect Kamala Harris when he fist-bumped her on the Senate floor. The friendly exchange was caught on video during a Tuesday vote on a Federal Reserve nominee — despite Graham’s claims of voter fraud in the election. “Just saying hello. I haven’t seen in...
Foreign spectators at next summer’s Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics are likely to be exempt from Japan’s 14-day quarantine requirement if they are from countries or regions with relatively fewer COVID-19 cases, according to a government panel. The panel — including officials from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the national government and Tokyo 2020 organizers — elected...
An Aeroflot executive has been nabbed for allegedly spying for Britain, according to Russian news agencies. The London-based employee, Dmitry Fedotkin, is accused of passing secrets related to Russia’s social and political situation to Britain’s MI6 foreign intelligence service, according to an unnamed source cited by TASS and RIA news agencies. Fedotkin, however, did not...
BEIJING/TAIPEI – China will strike back against any moves that undermine its core interests, its foreign ministry said on Friday after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that Taiwan “has not been a part of China”. China calls Taiwan the most sensitive and important issue in its ties with the United States and has...
Messages from foreign leaders to President-elect Joe Biden are reportedly sitting unread at the State Department as President Trump has blocked the new administration’s transition. Under normal presidential transitions, the president-elect can tap into State Department resources to better log and translate communications between the incoming administration and world leaders, CNN reported. With Tru...
Researchers at Chainalysis, a firm that investigates Bitcoin transactions, found that the majority of the 22 transactions on Dec. 8 went to Nick Fuentes, a far-right Internet influencer who was in the protest crowd that assaulted the seat of American government on Jan. 6.
President-elect Joe Biden’s inaugural committee refunded a $500 donation from former California Sen. Barbara Boxer after she registered as a foreign agent for a Chinese firm that monitors the detention camps holding Uyghur Muslims, according to a report on Tuesday. The former Democratic lawmaker, who was succeeded by Vice President-elect Sen. Kamala Harris, registered as...
The Cuban government said it “condemns” the renewed US designation of the island as a sponsor of terrorism, calling the move “fraudulent.” Cuba’s foreign ministry said the US announcement Monday only serves to impose more restrictions on the socialist country and damage any prospects of a reconciliation between the two rival nations, the communist party...
China passed new rules over the weekend to push back at President Trump’s sanctions after he signed an executive order to delist three Chinese communications companies from the New York Stock Exchange, according to a report on Monday. Trump’s executive order from November bars American investments in companies that have suspected ties to the Chinese...
A Chicago man who killed three people as he randomly shot eight strangers had posted a series of disturbing videos — in which he vowed to “blow up the whole community.” Jason Nightengale, 32, appeared to randomly pick out targets Saturday as he shot dead a Chinese exchange student, a female security guard and a...
American democracy is “limping on both feet,” a senior Russian lawmaker said Thursday – a day after a violent mob loyal to President Trump stormed the US Capitol in a last-ditch effort to overturn the election. Konstantin Kosachyov, chairman of the Russian upper house’s foreign affairs committee, said the chaos that unfolded in Washington, DC,...
A white Pennsylvania police officer called a woman a “ghetto girl” as she and other witnesses questioned why a burglary suspect had to be aggressively detained, video shows. The footage — recorded Monday by a bystander and later posted to YouTube — shows two Reading cops restraining a male suspect in the street, with one...
Sen. Ron Johnson and NBC News host Chuck Todd got into a fiery exchange Sunday over the Republicans’ effort to challenge certification of the Electoral College tally during a joint-session of Congress this week. Johnson, one of at least 12 GOP senators who will object to the certification on Wednesday, disputed claims that they are...
There is a chance for the US and China to “open a new window of hope,” and begin a new round of dialogue, China’s foreign minister said Saturday. Wang Yi did not mention President Trump or President-elect Joe Biden by name during an interview with official media outlets, but he said that relations between the...