| US contractor killed in Iraq rocket attack, troops wounded Posted: 27 Dec 2019 02:47 PM PST ![US contractor killed in Iraq rocket attack, troops wounded]( "US contractor killed in Iraq rocket attack, troops wounded") A U.S. defense contractor was killed and several American and Iraqi troops were wounded Friday in a rocket attack in northern Iraq, U.S. officials said. According to officials, the attack involved as many as 30 rockets fired at the Iraqi military compound near Kirkuk, where U.S. service members are also based.
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| Bolivia says Spain 'tried to extract' wanted aide from Mexico embassy Posted: 28 Dec 2019 04:38 PM PST  Bolivia on Saturday accused Spain of an abortive attempt to extract a wanted former government aide from Mexico's embassy in La Paz, prompting a sharp denial from Madrid. It was the latest twist in a murky incident Friday involving embassy personnel in the Bolivian capital that has sparked a bitter diplomatic spat. Several hours later, Bolivia's top diplomat accused Spanish embassy staff of trying to infiltrate the Mexican mission with a group of masked men in what it said was a violation of Bolivian sovereignty.
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| Japan police find human remains in boat suspected from North Korea: Coast Guard Posted: 28 Dec 2019 01:59 AM PST ![Japan police find human remains in boat suspected from North Korea: Coast Guard]( "Japan police find human remains in boat suspected from North Korea: Coast Guard") Japanese police found the remains of at least five people in a wooden boat suspected to be from North Korea on the coast of one of Japan's outlying islands on Saturday, a Coast Guard official said. Police made the discovery in the wooden boat's stem around 9:30 a.m. (0030 GMT) on Saturday on Sado island, which is off the coast of Japan's northwestern prefecture of Niigata, Coast Guard official Kei Chinen said.
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| New York City Increases Police Presence in Jewish Neighborhoods After Possible Anti-Semitic Attacks. Here's What To Know Posted: 27 Dec 2019 02:42 PM PST  Some Jewish neighborhoods of New York City will see an increase in police presence after a string of recent anti-semitic attacks.
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| In 2010, The Navy Surfaced 3 Nuclear Submarines To Scare China Posted: 28 Dec 2019 03:30 AM PST  Submarines are good for more than defense.
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| A New York Times column exploring why 'Jews are smart' is prompting heavy criticism and canceled subscriptions Posted: 28 Dec 2019 01:13 PM PST  Columnist Bret Stephens relied on a study about IQ tests written in part by a professor who is associated with white supremacist groups.
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| Federal judge to halt latest North Carolina voter ID mandate Posted: 27 Dec 2019 10:04 AM PST ![Federal judge to halt latest North Carolina voter ID mandate]( "Federal judge to halt latest North Carolina voter ID mandate") Republican attempts to require photo identification to vote in North Carolina are being thwarted again by judges hearing arguments that the mandate is tainted by bias that would deter black and Latino residents. A federal court announced that next week U.S. District Judge Loretta Biggs will formally block a photo ID requirement scheduled to begin in 2020. Unless the upcoming preliminary injunction is successfully appealed, the requirement will be halted until a lawsuit filed by the state NAACP and others is resolved.
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| Survivors tell of France's 'dirty war' in Cameroon independence Posted: 27 Dec 2019 07:46 PM PST  Ekité (Cameroon) (AFP) - It was a "dirty war" waged by French colonial troops but it never made headlines and even today goes untold in school history books. The brutal conflict unfolded in Cameroon, which on January 1 marks its 60th anniversary of independence -- the first of 17 African countries that became free from their colonial masters in 1960. "My life was overturned," Odile Mbouma, 72, said in the southwestern town of Ekite.
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| 'The Issue Is Not What I Did.' Joe Biden Says He Would Not Comply With Subpoena to Testify in Trump Impeachment Trial Posted: 28 Dec 2019 11:42 AM PST  "The reason I wouldn't is because it's all designed to deal with Trump doing what he's done his whole life: trying to take the focus off him," Joe Biden said.
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| Philippines bans two U.S. senators, considers tighter entry restrictions for U.S. citizens Posted: 27 Dec 2019 09:03 AM PST  The Philippines has banned two U.S. lawmakers from visiting and will introduce tighter entry restrictions for U.S. citizens should Washington enforce sanctions over the detention of a top government critic, President Rodrigo Duterte's spokesman said on Friday.
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| North Korea Is Broke, But Sitting On $10 Trillion In Mineral Wealth Posted: 27 Dec 2019 02:51 AM PST  Yes, $10 trillion.
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| A giant 'blob' of hot water more than twice the size of California threatens the survival of fish and coral near New Zealand Posted: 27 Dec 2019 03:48 PM PST  A 386,000-square-mile chunk of the Pacific Ocean east of New Zealand is 10 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than average in what could be a marine heat wave.
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| Man who made 27,000 crosses for shooting victims is retiring Posted: 27 Dec 2019 01:03 PM PST  An Illinois man who made more than 27,000 crosses to commemorate victims of mass shootings across the country is retiring. Greg Zanis came to realize, after 23 years, his Crosses for Losses ministry was beginning to take a personal and financial toll on him, according to The Beacon-News. "I had a breaking point in El Paso," he said, referring to the mass shooting outside of a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.
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| Record cocaine haul worth more than $1bn seized in Uruguay after drugs found in flour containers Posted: 28 Dec 2019 07:29 AM PST  A record haul of 6 tonnes of cocaine estimated to be worth more than $1bn (£765m) has been seized in Uruguay, according to the country's navy.Naval and customs officers seized 4.4 tonnes of cocaine which had been hidden in four soy flour containers destined for Lome, Togo, in Montevideo port and another 1.5 tonnes on a ranch, local reports said.
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| Scores in Turkey protest Russia over Idlib assault Posted: 28 Dec 2019 07:41 AM PST  Several hundred Turkish and Syrian protesters held an anti-Russia demonstration in Istanbul on Saturday against intensified Russian and regime bombardment in Syria's rebel bastion of Idlib. The protesters -- mostly Syrians living in Turkey -- gathered close to the Russian consulate in Istanbul, shouting "Murderer Putin, get out of Syria!", referring to the Russian President Vladimir Putin. Since mid-December, regime forces and their Russian allies have heightened bombardment on the southern edge of the final major opposition-held pocket of Syria, eight years into the country's devastating war.
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| Trump sparked a tourism boom in Ghana when he told congresswomen to 'go back' to where they came from Posted: 27 Dec 2019 11:02 AM PST  President Trump's tweets telling four freshmen congresswomen to "go back" to the "totally broken and crime infested places from which they came" had an unexpected and surprising upside: a massive tourism boom in Ghana.Akwasi Agyeman, the chief executive of the Ghana Tourism Authority, told The Washington Post that after Trump's July tweets, interest in visiting the West African nation surged: "People spoke of booking a trip, he said, as a way to strike back at Trump's words." Applications to visit Ghana this year have reportedly risen from 1,000 per week to 10,000.Trump's tweets had been directed at Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), all of whom are U.S. citizens. Omar, a Somali refugee and the only one in the group to have actually been born abroad, was visiting Ghana at the time of Trump's attack. She'd tweeted in response: "So grateful for the honor to return to Mother Africa."In addition to retaliation to Trump, tourists flocked to Ghana in 2019 to honor the "Year of Return," which marked 400 years since the first slave ship reached the state of Virginia; the nation expected "some 500,000 visitors this year, up from 350,000 in 2018," the Christian Science Monitor reports. Celebrity interest, including posts by Cardi B, also enticed Americans across the Atlantic. Many have even moved to Ghana permanently."When I think about going home to the States," one Boston emigrant, Pierre Delva, told the Post, "it almost makes me want to cry."More stories from theweek.com The evangelical resistance? The best novels published in 2019 Porn is evil. Don't ban it.
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| Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein Associate, under FBI Investigation Posted: 27 Dec 2019 08:17 AM PST  Reuters reports that the FBI has opened an investigation into several associates of late billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, including his longtime friend Ghislaine Maxwell, who is accused of being complicit in the financier's underage-sex trafficking ring.Maxwell, 58, is a former girlfriend of the wealthy financier who remained in his circle and is accused by multiple women of helping Epstein find underage girls to have sex with. The British socialite has not been criminally charged, and she has denied all allegations.One of Epstein's accusers, Virginia Giuffre, has alleged in a civil lawsuit that Maxwell lured her to the billionaire financier and forced her to have sex with Epstein as well as British Prince Andrew.The British royal family said any interview with Prince Andrew would be "a matter for the FBI."Epstein, 66, was found dead by apparent suicide in his Manhattan jail cell in August, shortly after he was arrested and charged with sex trafficking underage girls as young as 14 from 2002 to 2005. His death sparked a Justice Department investigation and came a day after court documents were unsealed detailing the allegations against billionaire. Epstein had pleaded not guilty to the charges against him before his death."Any co-conspirators should not rest easy," Attorney General William Barr said in August of the ongoing investigation.Maxwell, the daughter of late British media heavyweight Robert Maxwell, has been spotted in various locations since Epstein's death, including a Los Angeles shopping mall.
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| Islamic State says it beheaded Christian captives in Nigeria Posted: 27 Dec 2019 11:36 AM PST  The Islamic State group released a video purporting to show its militants beheading 10 Christian men in Nigeria, saying it was part of a campaign to avenge the deaths of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and its spokesman.
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| Photos show scenes of devastation after a plane carrying 98 people crashed in Kazakhstan, killing at least 12 Posted: 27 Dec 2019 03:14 AM PST  The Bek Air flight from Almaty to Nusultan plunged into a building in the village of Almerek just after take-off on Friday, amid foggy conditions.
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| Baltimore breaks city record for killings per capita in 2019 Posted: 27 Dec 2019 01:05 PM PST  Baltimore broke its annual per capita homicide record after reaching 342 killings Friday. With just over 600,000 residents, the city hit a historically high homicide rate of about 57 per 100,000 people after recent relentless gunfire saw eight people shot — three fatally — in one day and nine others — one fatally — another day. The total is up from 309 in 2018 and matches the 342 killings tallied in 2017 and 2015, the year when the city's homicide rate suddenly spiked.
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| China's South China Sea Bases May Be More Trouble Than They Are Worth Posted: 28 Dec 2019 04:00 AM PST  More territory to defend.
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| Nuclear power plant in UAE risks sparking arms race, expert warns Posted: 27 Dec 2019 11:00 PM PST  Four nuclear reactors being built in the United Arab Emirates could spark a nuclear arms race in the Middle East and leave the Persian Gulf at risk of a Chernobyl-style disaster, a leading nuclear scientist has claimed. In a report, Dr Paul Dorfman, chairman of the Nuclear Consulting Group, warned the UAE's Barakah nuclear power plant lacks key safety features, poses a threat to the environment, is a potential target for terrorists and could be part of plans to develop nuclear weapons. "The motivation for building this may lie hidden in plain sight," Dr Dorfman told the Telegraph. "They are seriously considering nuclear proliferation." Dr Dorfman, who is also an honorary senior research associate at University College London's Energy Institute, has served as a nuclear adviser to the British government and led the European Environment Agency response to the Fukushima disaster. However, the UAE has stressed that it is committed to "the highest standards of nuclear safety, security and non-proliferation." The UAE hired the South Korean firm Korea Electric Power Corporation to build the Barakah - "Divine Blessing" in Arabic, plant in 2009. It will be the first nuclear power plant in the Arabian peninsula, and has fuelled speculation that Abu Dhabi is preparing for a nuclear arms race with the Islamic Republic. The UAE has denied allegations by the Qatari government that its power plant is a security threat to their capital of Doha and the Qatari environment, dismissing any causes for concern. Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan photographed in Germany earlier this year Credit: Reuters However, Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed they hit the Barakah nuclear power plant with a missile in 2017. The UAE denied that the rebels fired any such missile, adding that they had an air defence system to deal with such threats. Dr Dorfman said that scrambling fighter aircraft or firing surface to air missiles in time to intercept an incoming strike would be difficult. In September, Saudi air defences failed to stop a drone attack on oil processing facilities. Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for that attack, though Saudi Arabia blamed Iran. The increase in transportation of radioactive materials through the Persian Gulf when the plant goes into operation could also raise the risk of potentially fatal collisions, explosions, or equipment and material failure. Any radioactive discharge resulting from accidents could easily reach population centres on the Gulf coast and have a potentially devastating impact on delicate Gulf ecosystems, including rare mangrove swamps. The plant is also vulnerable to climate change and extreme temperatures that could affect its cooling system, Dr Dorfman's report says. The International Panel on Climate Change has said that extreme sea level events are now likely to happen more frequently, meaning coastal power plants such as Barakah could become defenseless against rising sea levels, tidal ingress and storm surges. High average sea water temperatures in the Gulf could also make it more difficult to cool the reactor using sea water. The cost of the 1986 Chernobyl accident has been recently estimated to be around $235 billion (£179 billion). The Japanese Centre for Economic Research has said the 2011 Fukushima accident cost over 81 trillion YEN(£567 billion), although the Japanese government has put the cost at YEN 22 million (£142 billion). The United Arab Emirates Foreign ministry had not responded to a request for comment at the time of publication.
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| Ivory Coast leader says Soro must face full force of the law Posted: 28 Dec 2019 11:19 AM PST  Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara on Saturday said former rebel leader and presidential candidate Guillaume Soro was not above the law and would face justice for allegedly seeking to destabilize the country. Soro this week canceled plans to return to Ivory Coast after the authorities issued a warrant for his arrest as part of an investigation into an alleged coup plot that has seen more than 15 people close to him detained. In his first comments on the case, Ouattara said at a news conference in Abidjan that anyone "involved in destabilizing the country, must face the full force of the law".
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| N. Korea's Kim holds top party meeting ahead of US deadline Posted: 28 Dec 2019 04:39 PM PST  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has convened a key meeting of top ruling party officials, state media said Sunday, ahead of a year-end deadline for Washington to shift its stance on stalled nuclear talks. The plenary session, which opened on Saturday, follows widespread speculation that Pyongyang is preparing to test an intercontinental ballistic missile -- as a threatened "Christmas gift" for Washington. Kim presided over the meeting which discussed a new "transparent, anti-imperialist independent stand", the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.
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| Massive redwood tree falls and kills hiker in California park Posted: 27 Dec 2019 11:18 AM PST  A man was killed and another person injured by a massive redwood tree that fell inside a California national park, in what officials have described as an "unfortunate, tragic event" that occurred on Christmas Eve.Subhradeep Dutta, a 28-year-old Minnesota resident, was visiting the Muir Woods National Monument when a tree measuring over four feet (one metre) in diameter collapsed.
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| An American Citizen Died After Being Injured in the Deadly Volcanic Eruption in New Zealand Posted: 27 Dec 2019 11:23 AM PST  The latest victim is one of at least 17 casualties from the Dec. 9 volcanic eruption
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| Teen fatally crashed ATV after cop used stun gun; family wins $12 million settlement Posted: 28 Dec 2019 12:49 PM PST ![Teen fatally crashed ATV after cop used stun gun; family wins $12 million settlement]( "Teen fatally crashed ATV after cop used stun gun; family wins $12 million settlement") The settlement will go to the family of 15-year-old Damon Grimes, who was driving his ATV in August 2017 when the fatal incident occurred.
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| Scuffles break out in Paris as pensions protesters, 'yellow vests' march Posted: 28 Dec 2019 09:08 AM PST  Protesters marching against the French government's planned pension reform clashed with the police in Paris on Saturday as police fired tear gas to disperse some groups of demonstrators. French trade unions have spearheaded nationwide strikes since early December in an outcry over President Emmanuel Macron's pensions overhaul, disrupting schools, railways and roads, while lending support to regular protests. On Saturday "yellow vests" - an anti-government movement that sprung up a year ago as a backlash against the high cost of living - joined a rally of several thousand people against the pensions shake-up.
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| Trump claims homelessness 'so easy' to handle in attack on Democrats Posted: 28 Dec 2019 09:45 AM PST  President says governors of New York and California should 'politely' ask him for help in latest broadsideDonald Trump has continued to use America's homelessness crisis to attack his political opponents in California and New York, tweeting on Saturday that homelessness should be "easy" to handle and that the governors of the two liberal states should ask him for help.Workers and activists on the front lines of the crisis have repeatedly said that Trump's "tough talk" on homelessness is concerning, and that some of his proposed policies will only make the situation worse.As the number of homeless people has increased sharply in cities across California, some local politicians have already tried to try to penalize people for being homeless, rather than addressing root causes of the crisis, including unaffordable rents and evictions pushing people on to the streets.Meanwhile, Trump has continued to fuel anxiety by repeatedly suggesting he might try to implement some kind of police crackdown in California to clear the streets of encampments.On Christmas Day, Trump attacked California's governor, Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, for his "bad job" on "taking care of the homeless population in California"."If he can't fix the problem, the Federal Govt. will get involved!" the president said.On Thursday, Trump attacked Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat who has lead the effort to impeach him, and told her to "clean up her filthy dirty District & help the homeless there".On Saturday, Trump wrote that fixing the homeless crisis "would be so easy with competence!"The governors of California and New York "must do something", Trump wrote, and if they "can't handle the situation, which they should be able to do very easily, they must call and 'politely' ask for help."In September, a report from Trump's Council of Economic Advisers concluded that "policing may be an important tool to help move people off the street and into shelter or housing where they can get the services they need".Trump told reporters that month he was concerned about homeless people living on "our best streets, our best entrances to buildings", places "where people in those buildings pay tremendous taxes, where they went to those locations because of the prestige"."We can't let Los Angeles, San Francisco, and numerous other cities destroy themselves," he said, citing his concern that "foreign tenants" who moved to the cities because of the "prestige" now wanted to leave because of the homeless people and tents on the streets.Violent attacks directly targeting homeless people have risen in California in the past year: in Los Angeles alone, there have been at least eight incidents in which people threw makeshift explosives or flammable liquids on homeless people or their tents, according to officials and the Los Angeles Times.Trump's repeated tweets about homelessness have been labeled "vile and reprehensible" by activists.Diane Yentel, the president and chief executive of the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC), noted on Thursday that Trump had proposed drastically shrinking or eliminating federal programs that keep the lowest-income people affordably housed, an important prevention measure that keeps people from becoming homeless."In California, over 37,000 of the lowest-income people are at risk of eviction from this Trump proposal alone," Yentel said.She also noted that Trump's Department of Housing and Urban Development had "proposed allowing homeless shelters to discriminate and refuse shelter to transgender and other LGBTQ people, subjecting them to high risk of violence".Homelessness is continuing to rise across California: a year-end Guardian investigation found that homelessness had increased 16% in Los Angeles, 17% in San Francisco, 42% in San Jose, 47% in Oakland, and 52% in Sacramento county, home to the state's capital. Many people were experiencing homelessness for the first time, and both families and seniors are increasingly struggling with homelessness.Trump's focus on homelessness in California and elsewhere is not the first time he has suggested that he could "easily" solve complex social problems in cities where Democrats hold political power.During his presidential campaign, Trump claimed that an unnamed Chicago police official had told him that violence in Chicago could be stopped "in one week" if officers were allowed to be "very much tougher than they are right now".Chicago typically has the highest total number of murders of any American city, though other smaller cities, including St Louis, have higher per capita murder rates.
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| "Double murder-suicide" likely in deaths of mom and 2 kids Posted: 27 Dec 2019 01:01 AM PST  A district attorney called the deaths of Erin Pascal and her children Allison, 4, and Andrew, 1, "unspeakable."
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| Doomsday Writer’s Friend Says He Prophesied Wife’s Mysterious Death Posted: 28 Dec 2019 07:56 AM PST  Idaho author Chad Daybell, who wrote a series of doomsday books for Mormon readers, confided in a friend that he had visions his first wife would die. "Angels had told him that he was going to lose Tammy," Julie Rowe told a local TV station this week.Tammy did end up dead—and now Daybell is at the center of a tangled mystery that includes the exhumation of her body, an investigation into two missing children, and questions about the deaths of his second wife's husband and brother.Daybell and wife Lori Vallow have not been seen since October. They reportedly left their Rexberg home before police showed up with a search warrant amid concern that two of Vallow's children, a 17-year-old girl and an adopted 7-year-old with special needs, were missing. In a Dec. 20 statement, police said the missing children, Tylee Ryan and Joshua Vallow, may be tied to a suspicious death investigation. They say neither was reported as missing to authorities but that their whereabouts are unknown. Lori Vallow married Daybell just weeks after his first wife Tammy Daybell died in the family's home at the age of 49. After Daybell refused to order an autopsy on his wife, which is his right, the coroner listed her cause of death as "natural." Vallow's own husband Charles Vallow was fatally shot by Lori Vallow's brother Alexander Cox during a domestic disturbance in July that is now also under investigation. Cox died on Dec. 12 of unknown causes. Vallow and Daybell were members of an organization called Preparing a People that says its goal is to "help prepare the people of this earth for the second coming of Jesus Christ." Vallow's extended family members told East Idaho News that they felt the group was a cult. "I don't want to attack anyone's beliefs," Brandon Boudreaux, a relative of Vallow's said. "But when you look at the fruit that's come from this group and its beliefs … it certainly, from my mind, doesn't come from God." Preparing a People founders Michael and Nancy James deny the group is a cult or represents a specific religion. They have removed references to the couple, both contributors, from their website. "We considered Chad Daybell a good friend, but have since learned of things we had no idea about," they wrote. "We recently learned of Chad's new marriage to Lori Vallow a couple weeks after Tammy Daybell died... We did not know Lori as well as we thought we knew Chad."Rowe was also a Preparing a People member—and a close friend of Daybell's since he published her book on a near-death experience at the publishing house he founded with his first wife. She said Daybell told her he wanted to get out of the publishing business but that Tammy did not."He said I'm ready to get out and Tammy doesn't want to get out," Daybell told Rowe, according to local media reports. "When she passes, I'm done, I can't keep doing this." Rowe, who said she is using her own visions to try to send messages to Daybell, insists the missing children are safe. "I do know the kids are safe. I can see them," she said. "I can see their energy and that they're in a bright house."Police aren't so sure. On Dec. 11, Rexberg police exhumed Tammy's remains to conduct a proper autopsy. Those results have not been released, but Daybell and Vallow denied any wrongdoing through attorney Sean Bartholick—who says he does not know where the couple or Vallow's children are, says they deny any accusations. "Chad Daybell was a loving husband and has the support of his children in this matter," Bartholick told the East Idaho News. "We look forward to addressing the allegations once they have moved beyond speculation and rumor."Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Palestinians in Gaza will scale back protests along the fortified border with Israel Posted: 27 Dec 2019 11:08 AM PST  Palestinians in Gaza will scale back protests along the fortified border with Israel, factions in the strip said on Thursday, in a sign of a lasting détente between Israel and Gaza's Islamist rulers, Hamas, along the volatile frontier.
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| US military base blares false alarm amid N Korea concerns Posted: 27 Dec 2019 07:58 PM PST  A U.S. military base in South Korea accidentally blared an alert siren instead of a bugle call, causing a brief scare just as the U.S. and its allies are monitoring for signs of provocation from North Korea, which has warned it could send a "Christmas gift" over deadlocked nuclear negotiations. The siren at Camp Casey, which is near the border with North Korea, went off by "human error" at around 10 p.m. Thursday, said Lt. Col. Martyn Crighton, a public affairs officer for the 2nd Infantry Division. The incident came a day before Japanese broadcaster NHK caused panic by mistakenly sending a news alert saying North Korea fired a missile over Japan that landed in the sea off the country's northeastern island of Hokkaido early Friday.
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| Thai navy SEAL who took part in cave rescue dies after year-long infection Posted: 27 Dec 2019 07:15 AM PST  A Thai navy SEAL who took part in the dramatic rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave in northern Thailand last year has died from a blood infection he contracted during the operation, the Royal Thai Navy said on Friday. Petty Officer Beiret Bureerak had been receiving treatment, but his condition worsened, the navy said in a statement. Another rescuer, former navy diver Sergeant Saman Kuman, died during the rescue operation.
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