Trump may have just thrown decades of US-China relations into disarray
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Donald Trump has been ruffling diplomatic feathers since he was elected by casually talking to world leaders without first getting guidance from the State Department. He’s already angered close allies like Britain and India, but his latest phone call threatens to do far more damage.
That’s because of whom it was with: President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan.
This isn’t just some charming diplomatic faux pas by Trump — this was a blunder of potentially historic proportions. Trump’s call is believed to be the first between a US president-elect and a leader of Taiwan since diplomatic relations between the two countries were severed in 1979.
Aung San Suu Kyi accuses international community of stoking unrest in Myanmar
Leader says outsiders are ‘concentrating on the negative side’ of what the UN and Malaysia claim is ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslim minority
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi accused the international community on Friday of stoking resentment between Buddhists and Muslims in the country’s northwest, where an army crackdown has killed at least 86 people and sent 10,000 fleeing to Bangladesh.
Aung San Suu Kyi appealed for understanding of her nation’s ethnic complexities, and said the world should not forget the military operation was launched in response to attacks on security forces that the government has blamed on Muslim insurgents.
“I would appreciate it so much if the international community would help us to maintain peace and stability, and to make progress in building better relations between the two communities, instead of always drumming up cause for bigger fires of resentment,” Aung San Suu Kyi told Singapore state-owned broadcaster Channel News Asia during a visit to the city-state.World's youngest country South Sudan is 'on the brink' of genocide, UN warns
'There had been a lot of hope for this country. It’s a tragedy,' says UN official Leo Dobbs
South Sudan is “on the brink” of a genocide comparable to what happened in Rwanda, the UN has warned, urging that the international community is “under an obligation" to prevent such a catastrophe from taking place.
Following a 10-day visit to the country, the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan urged the international community to take action after they found the country was facing a repeat of the 1994 Rwanda genocide.
According to the Commission, which is due to report to the Human Rights Council in March, a process of ethnic cleansing is underway, with brutal tactics such as starvation and gang rape being deployed against civilians.Left in limbo by the state, Paris attacks informant awaits new identity
More than a year after the Paris attacks, a Frenchwoman who risked her life to supply the security services with valuable intelligence that thwarted future attacks says she feels abandoned by the French state.
On January 19, the night editor at French radio station RMC received a very strange phone call.
It was a little over two months after the November 13, 2015, Paris attacks that had claimed 130 lives. France was on high alert, the nation was under a state of emergency and its citizens were still jumpy, trying to come to terms with the threat in their midst. The caller was an obviously distressed woman who claimed that, without her, “We would never have stopped the terrorists.”
In those jittery days after the Paris attacks, RMC and its sister TV station, BFM, were receiving a number of bizarre calls. But this one seemed particularly strange.
Impeachment vote set for Dec. 9 |
By Rachel Lee
Three opposition parties agreed Friday to put their impeachment motion against President Park Geun-hye to a National Assembly vote on Dec. 9, calling on lawmakers of the ruling Saenuri Party not aligned with the President to join forces to remove her from power.
After the agreement, they jointly submitted an impeachment motion to the Assembly after gathering consent from their lawmakers. Assuming that all 172 opposition and independent lawmakers vote for the motion, at least 28 votes are required from the ruling party for the passage of the motion, which requires support from two-thirds of the 300-member Assembly. |
Standing Rock: US veterans join North Dakota protests
Hundreds of US military veterans have joined activists in North Dakota protesting against the installation of a multi-billion dollar oil pipeline.
The activists, who are demonstrating in sub-zero temperatures, have been ordered to leave the area by Monday.
It is unclear if they will obey.
The pipeline, which runs close to the Standing Rock Sioux Native American Indian reservation, is nearly complete except for a section running underneath a nearby river.
President-elect Donald Trump has said he supports the completion of the pipeline. He has stocks in Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners, the project's builder, and Phillips 66, which owns one-quarter of the pipeline.
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