Author: Cole Hanson

At least three people were killed and 150 others missing after a river inundated a river in northern India by a rupture of a glacier in the Himalayas on Sunday, police said. We identified at least three bodies at the bottom of the river. A Uttarakhand state police spokesman told AFP that our latest assessment brings the number of missing people to 150. There are 16 or 17 people stuck in a tunnel. A piece of glacier split off and slid into Daliganga River. A sudden surge of water washed away everything in its path in this narrow canyon, including…

Their expedition organizer and the Pakistan Alpine Club said Saturday that three climbers went missing while trying to climb the summit of K2, the second highest mountain in the world and one of the most dangerous. Also read: A fatal climber falls off during expedition on K2 The three climbers – John Snorri (Iceland), Juan Pablo Mohr (Chile) and Muhammad Ali Sadbara (Pakistan) – lost contact with the mission base camp on Friday. “It’s now more than 30 hours since we heard (at base camp) from John Snorri, Ali Sadbara and Juan Pablo Mohr, as none of their GPS signals…

(Yangon) Several thousand Burmese protested in Yangon on Saturday, forming the largest gathering since the coup against Aung San Suu Kyi, despite internet censorship and ongoing arrests. Posted on February 6, 2021 at 9:49 am Updated at 12:24 France Media The latest arrest so far was the arrest of the economic advisor to former Australian leader Sean Tornell, aged 75, who was arrested in his hotel on Saturday. The professor at Macquarie University in Australia told the BBC: “I am currently in custody and may be accused of something.” This is the first known arrest of a foreign citizen since…

(New York) Fox News has canceled Fox Business broadcaster Lou Dobbs, who was a staunch supporter of former US President Donald Trump among air stars. Posted Feb 6, 2021 at 7:39 am France Media The decision comes the day after Fox News and Lou Dobbs are sued for defamation by computer company Smartmatic, which is charging them $ 2.7 billion for spreading the conspiracy theories that wrongly implicate him. A Fox News spokesman told Agence France Presse that “Fox News Media is regularly studying network changes and has planned to launch new formats adapted to the post-election period, especially on…

(Washington) On Friday, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken urged Beijing to respect the rights of Uyghurs, Tibet and Hong Kong, during his first meeting with the Chinese government since Joe Biden took office. Posted Feb 5, 2021 at 10:45 PM France Media Mr. Blaken tweeted after a phone call with a senior US official: “I have made it clear that the United States will defend our national interests, fight for our democratic values, and hold Beijing accountable for any violation of the international order.” Chinese diplomacy Yang Jiechi. “The United States will continue to struggle for human rights and…

Washington | The US Air Force opened an internal investigation Friday after an intruder managed to board an official plane at a military base near Washington, despite heightened security measures after the January 6 attack on Capitol Hill. The United States said that an “adult man” managed to enter the Andrews military base on Thursday, which welcomes foreign dignitaries to Washington and which is home to official US aircraft, including Air Force One, according to the Air Force in a press release. The Air Force added that he “boarded the C-40 illegally,” which is a military version of the Boeing…

Berlin | A former prison camp secretary, who is not born, now risks a trial for complicity in murder before German courts, which in recent years have expanded the scope of prosecutions targeting those responsible for Nazi crimes. Now 95, she will be the first woman to appear in Germany’s latest trial of Nazi atrocities, where several men have been tried. The accused, whose identity has not been revealed by the prosecution, will be tried before a special juvenile court because she was still a teenager at the time of the facts. The indictment accuses him of “complicity in murder…

Computer company Smartmatic is seeking $ 2.7 billion from Fox News as well as supporters of Donald Trump, who are accused of transmitting conspiracy theories that made him a tool for widespread electoral fraud. After Joe Biden’s victory was formalized, many close to the Trump camp asserted that the US presidential election had been rigged, especially thanks to the active role of vote-counting programs. Attorney Sydney Powell, who was a member of Donald Trump’s legal team, argued that the specialist service providers Dominion and Smartmatic, whose services were used during the election, were instrumental in an international plot to deprive…

(Washington) On Thursday, Joe Biden ended US support for the Saudi coalition in Yemen, and froze the withdrawal of US forces in Germany, while he began to change his rhetoric towards Russia, contrary to Donald Trump’s diplomacy. Posted February 4, 2021 at 12:06 PM Updated at 4:25 pm. Jerome Cartier and Francesco FontimageFrance Media In his first foreign policy speech to the State Department, the President of the United States said, “We are strengthening our diplomatic efforts to end the war in Yemen,” which has caused a humanitarian and strategic disaster. He stressed that “this war must end,” confirming the…

Taipei | The US Navy said a US military ship crossed the Taiwan Strait on Thursday for the first time since US President Joe Biden was inaugurated last month. The Seventh Fleet said in a statement that the destroyer USS John McCain had made a “routine” passage through the sea arm between Taiwan and mainland China. US ships usually use this strait, much to the dismay of Beijing, which considers the island part of its territory. “China remains vigilant and will respond at all times to threats and provocations,” said Chinese diplomacy spokesman Wang Weinpin Thursday. Wang told reporters that…