US lawmakers on Thursday unanimously denounced China’s use of a suspected spy balloon that flew over North America last week. The vote allowed lawmakers to agree on a bipartisan stance on Beijing, after several balloon-related political skirmishes. The balloon’s days-long flyover from Alaska to South Carolina captured the attention of regular Americans and officials alike, before the US military shot it down off the country’s east coast Saturday. The House of Representatives passed a resolution “condemning the Chinese Communist Party’s use of a high-altitude surveillance balloon over United States territory as a brazen violation of United States sovereignty.” Republicans had…
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The European Union on Friday said it felt “satisfaction and relief” after Nicaragua freed over 200 detained opposition members and expelled them to the United States The post EU relieved by release of Nicaragua dissidents appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News.
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It wasn’t the nuclear missiles, ranks of goose-stepping soldiers or medal-bedecked generals that captivated most attention at North Korea’s recent military parade: it was a 10-year-old girl. Alongside the country’s leader Kim Jong Un, the girl — likely Kim’s second child Ju Ae — inspected a guard of honour in the most recent of a slew of high-profile appearances that have sparked fervent speculation she has been anointed his heir. AFP takes a look at what we know: Who is she?For years, North Korean state media never mentioned Kim’s children, although Seoul’s spy agency has said he has three with…
Beijing condemned on Thursday US President Joe Biden’s comments that Xi Jinping faced “enormous problems”, saying the remarks were “extremely irresponsible”. The latest rhetorical skirmish between the United States and China came after last week’s downing of a Chinese balloon that Washington said was part of a spy fleet spanning five continents. Following a brief warming after a November G20 meeting between Biden and Xi, US-China relations have once again nosedived, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken last week calling off a visit to Beijing over the balloon fracas. The US has alleged the high-altitude device — which crossed directly…
At least four people were killed Thursday when an earthquake struck the capital of Indonesia’s breakaway eastern region of Papua and crumpled a waterfront restaurant, officials said. The 5.1-magnitude quake hit around 1.28 pm (0628 GMT) on land just southwest of Jayapura city at a depth of 22 kilometres, the US Geological Survey said. “A cafe collapsed and four people died there. It fell into the sea,” Asep Khalid, head of the Jayapura disaster mitigation agency, said in a press release. Residents in Jayapura said people scrambled for safety, running from houses and shops when the quake struck. Putri Kurita,…
A bus driver rammed his vehicle into a day care center near Montreal Wednesday, killing two four-year-old children in what police believe was a deliberate act. One child died on the scene and another in an ambulance, Canadian authorities said, after several children were trapped under the vehicle when it slammed into the building in the suburb of Laval at around 8:30 am (1330 GMT). “We think that this is deliberate, but we don’t know the motive,” local police chief Pierre Brochet told AFP. The 51-year-old suspect, named as Pierre Ny St-Amand, seemed agitated as he appeared via video link…
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