Sixth Memphis officer relieved of duty -- but not fired -- in Tyre Nichols case - 2分前  UPI.com

Memphis Police confirmed on Monday that it relieved a sixth officer of duty connected to a traffic stop that eventually led to the death of motorist Tyre Nichols earlier this month.

Tunisia records low turnout in second vote for defanged parliament - 20分前  France 24

Just 11.4 percent of Tunisian voters took part in a second round of elections for the toothless legislature, the electoral board said Monday in a final figure.

IOC rejects 'defamatory' criticism from Ukraine - 21分前  Channel NewsAsia

KYIV : The International Olympic Committee on Monday rejected fierce criticism from Ukrainian officials, who have accused it of promoting war after the body said Russians could potentially be given the opportunity to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics. Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak at

Migrants refuse to move from hotel to shelter - 35分前  RT

Illegal aliens are protesting New York City’s decision to relocate them from their current accommodation to another facility New York City’s efforts to cope with an influx of illegal aliens bussed to the Big Apple from border states have hit a snag. Some of the migrants are refusing to be moved to a newly prepared shelter in Brooklyn after apparently preferring their free stay at a Manhattan hotel. Dozens of migrants who had been relocated to a converted cruise terminal protested the decision by returning to Manhattan’s Watson Hotel...more and camping outside their original lodgings on Sunday night. Office workers passing by the scene on Monday morning found the sidewalk partially blocked by tents and protesters sleeping in the open. A sign was hung on the scaffolding, saying “permanent homes” in Spanish and “cancel rent” in English. The 1,000-person shelter at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal was set up to accommodate single adult men, making room for migrant families at hotels and other temporary housing. Protesters complained that living conditions at the barracks-style shelter were unacceptable, including inadequate heating and a lack of privacy. Read more Huge spike in terrorist suspects caught entering US More than 42,000 migrants have arrived in New York since Texas and other southern states began sending them to the largest US city last year, according to a spokesman for Mayor Eric Adams. The converted cruise terminal is the fifth emergency relief center set up by the city to deal with the influx. The new Brooklyn facility provides “the same services as every other humanitarian relief center in the city, and the scheduled relocations to Brooklyn Cruise Terminal this weekend took place as planned,” mayoral spokesman Fabien Levy told the New York Post. “We remain in serious need of support from both our state and federal governments.” The flow of illegal aliens into the US has surged to an all-time high in the past year. Since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, there have been more than 4.5 million migrant encounters by Border Patrol officers. The governors of Texas, Florida and Arizona, seeking to score political points on the border crisis, have bussed migrants to so-called “sanctuary cities” – such as New York, Washington and Chicago – that ban the deportation of illegal immigrants. READ MORE: New York City is full, mayor tells migrants Adams has pushed back by demanding more funding help and announcing that New York has no more room to shelter migrants. “This is just unfair for cities to carry the weight of a national problem,” the mayor told MSNBC last week....

Nina Ali exits 'Real Housewives of Dubai' after one season - 44分前  UPI.com

Nina Ali announced her departure from the Bravo reality series "Real Housewives of Dubai."

EU won't borrow more to counter US green subsides -draft document - 51分前  Channel NewsAsia

BRUSSELS : The European Commission will not propose any new joint EU borrowing on Wednesday when it presents ideas on how to support Europe's green industry facing Chinese and U.S. competition, a draft of its "Green Deal Industrial Plan" showed on Monday.Instead, the draft seen by Reuters offers to re-pur

ダナン：ハイバン峠から転落したバイク旅の男性が5日後に救出 [社会] - 53分前  VIETJOベトナムニュース

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Labeling Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as terrorists will hinder the fight against actual terrorism - 1時間前  RT

The damning designation is becoming a political club to batter undesirable countries with The European Parliament is urging the EU to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization, a move which the UK may follow. An amendment was voted into the European Parliament’s annual foreign-policy report, calling for the EU and its member states to designate the IRGC as a terrorist organization. The vote passedwith 598 in favor to nine votes against, with 31 abstentions, in what is a non-binding amendme...morent, meaning that the EU does not have to act on it, but will likely have to deal with mounting pressure to do so. The stated reason for the damning designation is the Guard Corps’ alleged“terrorist activity, the repression of protesters and its supplying of drones to Russia.” The UK is also preparing to proscribe the IRGC as a terrorist group, with broadly the same justifications. However, one of London’s key reasons for resolving to do so has clearly been connected to Iran’s execution of its former deputy defense minister Alireza Akbari, who was convicted of spying for Britain’s intelligence agency, MI6. The UK government, in itsofficial condemnations of the death sentence handed to Akbari, undermined the professionalism of Iran’s judiciary and omitted his conviction in an apparent attempt to frame him as a political martyr. London has also introduced 30 new sanctions against Tehran as a response. The first problem with designating the IRGC as a terrorist organization, if the UK and the EU end up doing so, is that they will be applying the terrorist label to an official wing of the Iranian state’s armed forces. This would also include the Quds Force, which deals with foreign military and intelligence ventures, in addition to the volunteer paramilitary force known as the Basij. One of the reasons why the designation of a country’s armed forces as a terrorist group is so problematic is because it then opens up the floor to counter-measures from enemy states. Read more Iran threatens to designate all EU member armies as terrorists This weakens the very term ‘terrorism’ as a hyperpolarized tool with which to batter an enemy. This tool is then significantly devalued in its originally intended use – to designate actual terrorist groups like Islamic State (IS) or Al-Qaeda as common international threats. Although the United Nations has no clear definition of terrorism, leaving this matter up to individual states to decide, it does routinely express concern over how certain definitions can impact human rights. The EU and UK’s definitions are very vague, yet share common themes in that they focus on non-state actors, which is an unspoken rule when it comes to defining what a terrorist group is. A terrorist organization, like Al-Qaeda or IS, cannot be accepted as a state for this reason, even if they manage to set up a state-like structure. At this moment, sanctions on the Taliban are still in place in Afghanistan, and at the United Nations the Taliban’s proposed representative has not been permitted to represent Kabul’s Islamic Emirate. The Islamic Republic of Iran is, however, a longstanding member state of the United Nations, as a state it also has certain rights and characteristics. Under former US President Donald Trump the IRGC was designated as a terrorist organization by the US...

Fans to be punished for racially abusing Real Madrid's Vinicius - 1時間前  Channel NewsAsia

MADRID: Spain's High Council for Sport (CSD) said on Monday (Jan 30) that more than 10 Real Valladolid fans who racially insulted Real Madrid star Vinicius Junior in a La Liga game last month will be punished. Some home fans hurled abuse at the Brazilian winger during Madrid's 2-0 win at Valladolid on Dec

Hockey icon Bobby Hull, Chicago Blackhawks star, dies at 84 - 1時間前  UPI.com

Longtime Chicago Blackhawks winger Bobby Hull, a 1961 Stanley Cup winner and 1983 Hockey Hall of Fame inductee, has died, the NHL Alumni Association announced Monday morning. He was 84.

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Twitter working on payments feature - FT - 20分前  Channel NewsAsia

Twitter Inc is working to introduce payments on the social media platform and has begun applying for regulatory licenses, the Financial Times reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.New boss Elon Musk is pushing Twitter to create new streams of revenue as it faces a drop in advertising

Twitter makes first interest payment on Musk buyout debt - Bloomberg News - 31分前  Channel NewsAsia

:Twitter Inc has made its first interest payment under Elon Musk after the billionaire took the social media company private last year using about $12.5 billion of debt, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people with knowledge of the matter.The Tesla boss borrowed $13 billion to close the Twitter acqui

Britain gives Ukraine tank delivery timeline - 35分前  RT

The Challengers will arrive on the battlefield “this side of summer,” the defense minister said Ukraine will receive 14 Challenger 2 main battle tanks from the UK before the summer, Defense Minister Ben Wallace told Parliament on Monday. This timeline means the Challengers will likely arrive after Germany’s Leopard tanks reach the battlefield amid Kiev's hostilities with Russia. Asked when the tanks would be deployed in Ukraine, Wallace told lawmakers "It'll be this side of the summer, or May – it'll be probably towards Easter time....more" For Western Christians, Easter Sunday falls on April 9 this year. Wallace said that he could not provide further information on the training process for the tanks’ Ukrainian operators. Kiev’s ambassador to the UK, Vadim Pristaiko, told Ukrainian media last week that this process “will not take much time.” Wallace’s timeline is close to that provided by Alex Chalk, the Defense Ministry minister of state, who said last week that the Challengers should be deployed “at the end of March.” Read more Russian governor puts bounty on Western tanks The UK announced that it would send the Challengers nearly two weeks before Germany confirmed it would donate an equal number of Leopard 2 tanks. However, the German armor will likely reach Ukraine just before its British equivalents, with Berlin stating on Thursday that its tanks would arrive by the end of March or beginning of April. Germany also granted other European countries permission to ship their own fleets of Leopards to Ukraine. Poland, which had threatened to send the tanks with or without Berlin’s permission, will deliver around 14 Leopards “within a few weeks,” Deputy Defense Minister Wojciech Skurkiewicz told local media on Thursday. The last heavy Western armor to reach Ukraine will be the US’ M1 Abrams tanks, the deliveries of which were announced by Washington alongside Germany’s Leopards. The announcement came despite earlier statements from the Pentagon that the Abrams tanks are too complex to maintain and consume too much fuel for use in Ukraine. According to recent reporting by the Washington Post, the tanks were only offered as “cover” for Germany to send the Leopards, and will not arrive until the end of the year at the earliest. Russia has maintained that foreign weapons, including heavy tanks, will not change the course of the conflict. “As we said in the past, these tanks will burn just like the rest. They just cost a lot [to make],” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday, referring to the Abrams specifically....

Fighter jets for Ukraine: Top adviser 'counts on positive results very soon' - 45分前  France 24

Igor Zhovkva, deputy head of the office of the president of Ukraine, urged western countries to deliver long-range missiles and fighter jets to Ukraine as he spoke to FRANCE 24 from Kyiv. He said Ukraine was counting on "positive results soon" and "believed in the united efforts of our partners in delivering weaponry to us". Following repeated calls from Kyiv for more western heavy weaponry, several countries including the UK, US and Germany have now committed to sending battle tanks to Ukrainian front lines.

EU planning fast-track permits for clean tech -draft - 51分前  Channel NewsAsia

BRUSSELS : Producers of clean technologies like renewable hydrogen and batteries could receive faster permits under European Union plans to support industries facing U.S. and Chinese competition, a draft document showed on Monday.The European Commission is set to publish ideas on Wednesday to retain and b

Look: 'My Brilliant Friend' photo introduces Season 4 cast - 1時間前  UPI.com

Alba Rohrwacher and Irene Maiorino will play Elena Greco and Lila Cerullo in the fourth and final season of the HBO series "My Brilliant Friend."

Aerospace company Lockheed Martin confirms successful hypersonic missile test - 1時間前  UPI.com

Lockheed Martin and the U.S. military have successfully completed a Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept test flight, the Maryland-based aerospace firm confirmed Monday.

France and Australia to jointly build shells for Ukraine - 1時間前  Channel NewsAsia

PARIS: France and Australia on Monday (Jan 30) unveiled plans to jointly manufacture ammunition for Ukraine as the two countries seek to shore up defence cooperation and move past a row over Canberra's decision to ditch plans to buy French submarines two years ago. The

New Czech president vows to boost ties with Taiwan - 1時間前  Channel NewsAsia

PRAGUE: Czech president-elect Petr Pavel on Monday (Jan 30) vowed to boost his country's ties with Taiwan after holding a phone call with the island's president and foreign minister.