Trump's Plans to Ditch TPP, Leaving Trade Pact 'Meaningless'
World leaders were 'disappointed' and bemused Tuesday after President-elect Donald Trump announced he plans to scrap the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal on his first day in the White House. Trump made his announcement in a short video on his future administration's plans Monday night in which he listed "executive actions" he plans to implement on the first day of his presidency meant to "restore our laws and bring back our jobs." He also said he would roll back energy regulation..>> view original6.9-magnitude earthquake strikes off Japan
Residents in Fukushima Prefecture braced for the worst after a tsunami warning was issued early Tuesday morning -- along the same stretch of coast devastated by enormous waves five years ago. In 2011, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake -- one of the worst ever to hit Japan -- killed more than 20,000 people and caused tsunamis of up to 12 meters (40 feet) which swamped the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, triggering a nuclear meltdown.Tuesday's quake struck close to the epicenter of the 2011 quake,..>> view originalJo Cox case: Thomas Mair will not offer court defence
Image copyright Julia Quenzler Image caption Thomas Mair denies murdering MP Jo Cox The man accused of murdering MP Jo Cox will not give evidence in his defence, the Old Bailey has heard.Thomas Mair, 53, is accused of murdering the Labour politician in Birstall, West Yorkshire, on 16 June, a week before the EU referendum vote.The 41-year-old was shot and stabbed outside a constituency surgery.Jurors heard that Mr Mair, who denies murder, said in his f..>> view originalQatari sisters robbed of $5.3 million in valuables near Paris
Story highlightsWomen were being driven from Paris-Le Bourget Airport north of the cityRobbery is just the latest in a spate of high-profile crimes in the French capitalThe women were being driven from Paris-Le Bourget Airport to Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport when two masked men intercepted their car Monday, Flavien Fouquet, general secretary of the Bobigny prosecutor, told CNN.Forcing the vehicle to stop, the robbers sprayed tear gas at the driver and manhandled the women before taking their ..>> view originalTurkey withdraws child rape bill after street protests
Image copyright AP Image caption The capital Ankara has seen furious protests Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has withdrawn a bill that pardons men convicted of sex with underage girls if they have married them.The bill, part of a package of amendments to the legal system, was sent back for further work just hours before a final vote in parliament.It had sparked protests across Turkish society and was condemned abroad. Critics said it would leg..>> view originalEurope|UK Rejects Trump's Call for Nigel Farage to Be Made Ambassador
Photo Nigel Farage, center, the interim leader of Britain’s populist, anti-immigrant U.K. Independence Party, at Trump Tower in New York this month. Credit Yana Paskova/Getty Images LONDON — Once again, President-elect Donald J. Trump seems to have gone out of his way to embarrass the British government.After Election Day, he spoke with nine other leaders before taking a call from Prime Minister Theresa May and then told her casually, “If you travel to the U.S., you sho..>> view originalMiddle East|Scenes of Flight From Mosul's Front Lines
Mr. Ponomarev, a New York Times photojournalist, and Mr. Arango, The Times’s Baghdad bureau chief, are in northern Iraq covering the Mosul offensive and the intensifying humanitarian crisis surrounding it.Each day, dozens of families pick their way out, some carrying white flags even as they come under mortar or sniper fire from the Islamic State. Billowing black clouds from oil wells set on fire by militants provide a dystopian background to the scenes of flight; it is so bad south of Mosul th..>> view originalTurkey issues arrest warrant for head of Syrian Kurdish party: Anadolu
ANKARA Turkish authorities issued an arrest warrant for the leader of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) on Tuesday in relation to a February bomb attack on military buses in the capital Ankara, the state-run Anadolu news agency said.The warrant named Salih Muslim - co-chair of the PYD, the political arm of the YPG Syrian Kurdish militia, which the United States is backing in the fight against Islamic State in neighboring Syria. Turkey is angered by the U.S. support and says the ..>> view originalEgypt court overturns Islamist ex-president's life sentence
Maggie Michael, Associated Press 7:33 a.m. EST November 22, 2016In this June 21, 2015 file photo, former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, wearing a red jumpsuit that designates he has been sentenced to death, raises his hands inside a defendants cage in a makeshift courtroom at the national police academy, in an eastern suburb of Cairo, Egypt.(Photo: Ahmed Omar, AP)CAIRO - An Egyptian court on Tuesday struck down a life sentence and ordered the retrial of ousted Islamist President..>> view original
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
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