Month: January 2017

James Mattis sworn in as Trump’s defense secretary

James Mattis signs his confirmation letter to be named US Secretary of Defense in Vice President Mike Pence’s Ceremonial Office in the Old Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, January 20, 2017. WASHINGTON, United States Retired Marine general James Mattis was sworn in Friday as US defense secretary, praising intelligence agencies and calling for stronger ties with allies in a break from positions taken by President Donald Trump.

US requests South Korea’s help in detaining former UN chief Ban Ki-moon’s brother

THE U.S. government has asked South Korea to arrest a brother of former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on charges that he engaged in a bribery scheme to carry out the sale of a Vietnamese building complex, a U.S. prosecutor said on Friday. During a court hearing in federal court in Manhattan, Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Noble said that a request had been made for the arrest of Ban Ki-sang, who was an executive at South Korean construction firm Keangnam Enterprises Co Ltd. South Korea’s Justice Ministry was discussing the request to arrest Ban but “it is not yet a formal consultation,” Yonhap news agency quoted an unnamed source in the country’s judiciary as saying.

Aamir Khan receives heartwarming letters from theatre owners

New Delhi , Jan. 21 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s shock demonetisation move adversely affected the business of theatre owners but then came Aamir Khan’s ‘Dangal’ that saved them from being out of business. The year 2016, witnessed a lull by the Hindi film industry but Aamir’s Christmas bonanza proved to be the tide changer in the economics of the industry.

Trump brings Churchill bust back to Oval Office

President Donald Trump restored the bust of Winston Churchill to the Oval Office immediately after assuming the presidency on Friday, the most notable move in an aesthetic redecoration of the space. Trump signed his first executive orders at the Resolute Desk before new gold curtains with a blue trim, a new sunburst-patterned carpet and new brocade couches.

NZ 192-4 in reply to Bangladesh’s 289

Half centuries from Ross Taylor and Tom Latham on Saturday lifted New Zealand to 192-4 at tea on day two of an evenly balanced second test against Bangladesh. Replying to Bangladesh’s first innings of 289, New Zealand still trailed by 97 runs with Henry Nicholls 19 not out and Mitchell Santner 5. Ross Taylor made 77 and passed 6,000 runs in his test career, becoming the third New Zealand player to pass the milestone after Stephen Fleming and Brendon McCullum.

Russian Chocolate Factory Owned By Poroshenko To Close, Lay Off 700

A chocolate maker owned by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced on January 20 that it is planning to shut its factory in Russia for “economic and political reasons” and lay off 700 workers. The move came after a barrage of criticism in Kyiv questioning why Poroshenko, who made his fortune with his Roshen candy empire, was maintaining business activities in Russia while the two nations are in armed conflict.

FBI employee gets jail time for acting as Chinese agent

Kun Shan Chun, also known as Joey Chun, was also ordered by U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero in Manhattan to pay $10,000 after pleading guilty in August to having illegally acted as an agent of a foreign government. Chun, a U.S. citizen who was born in China, was arrested in March in connection with what prosecutors called a duplicitous betrayal of the Prosecutors said that beginning in 2005, Chinese individuals claiming to be affiliated with a China-based printer products manufacturer called Zhuhai Kolion Technology Company Ltd solicited an investment from one of Chun’s parents.

‘Axolotl Overkill’: Film Review | Sundance 2017

Overkill may indeed be the appropriate term to describe German author turned director Helene Hegemann’s feature debut, adapted from a bestselling novel she penned at the age of 16. Chronicling the wild nights and aimless days of a Berliner girl who just wants to have fun, and possibly find some real affection in the process, Axolotl Overkill vaguely follows in the footsteps of films by Larry Clark or Gus Van Sant, though its many scenes of decadence are portrayed with all the polish and deliberateness of an Urban Outfitters ad.

UPDATE 1-Venezuela 2016 inflation hits 800 pct, GDP contracts nearly 19 pct

Jan 20 Venezuelan consumer prices rose 800 percent in 2016 while the economy shrank 18.6 percent, according to preliminary central bank figures seen by Reuters, the sharpest economic contraction in 13 years and the worst inflation reading on record. An extended slump in oil prices has turned the OPEC nation’s once-prosperous economy into a mirror of the latter day Soviet Union, with rampant product shortages forcing some to skip meals and wait hours in food lines.

Trade, trade-offs, and O’Leary: three ways politics touched Canadians this week

The pageantry of the Donald Trump inauguration absorbed most of the political oxygen in Ottawa this week, mainly because the subtext was a growing realization that so many facets of Canadian politics have been turned on their head. The Jenga tower of assumptions that have allowed the Canadian, and global, political economy to function on a relatively stable basis is being disassembled from the bottom, threatening to wobble before policy makers understand how to react.

New White House website strikes a different tone

Just moments after President Donald Trump took the oath of office Friday, the official White House website was transformed into a set of policy pledges that offered the broad contours of the Trump administration’s top priorities — a list that included fierce support for law enforcement bordering on vigilantism, an immediate elimination of the White House’s policy page on climate page and a notable absence of any directives involving President Obama’s Affordable Care Act. “Our job is not to make life more comfortable for the rioter, the looter, or the violent disrupter,” reads the law and order section, which calls for “more law enforcement” and “more effective policing.”

SIM, IMEI Amount & SAM

Demand for Apple’s bigger, more expensive iPhone 7 Plus smartphones is great – but supply/demand balance may well not happen this quarter. Armed with several iPhones and a higher speed training video camera with the capacity of saving at up to 15,000 fps, we hoped to find out just what kind of impact causes broken glass with an iPhone.

Trafficking triumph for police

A FISHING boat that became logged on a reef at Shipwreck Coast in Port Fairy on December 6 has been linked to one of the biggest drug busts in Victoria’s history. A Melbourne organised crime syndicate had planned for a former Japanese whaling boat, Kaiyo Maru, to sail to a rendezvous point hundreds of kilometres from Port Fairy’s coast and exchange 180 kilograms of South American Cocaine.

Speed Racer

HAMILTON star water skier Clancy Vaughan has returned home from the Australian Speed and Marathon Titles where he produced one of the best performances of his career to finish second in the under-25 class. Vaughan, who is no stranger to the big stage, rose to the occasion once again as he outclassed and outpaced some of Australia’s best on Lake Jindabyne.

‘El Chapo’ is hauled off to US jail that has held terrorists

In this photo provided U.S. law enforcement, authorities escort Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, center, from a plane to a waiting caravan of SUVs at Long Island MacArthur Airport on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, in Ronkonkoma, N.Y. The infamous drug kingpin who twice escaped from maximum-security prisons in Mexico was extradited at the request of the U.S. to face drug trafficking and other charges, and landed in New York late Thursday, a federal law enforcement official said. An armed officer stands guard as a vehicle carrying Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman arrives at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017.

Hawaii bill compels mediation for Zuckerberg-type land deals

This Jan. 15, 2017 photo shows public Pilaa Beach, center, below hillside and ridgetop land owned by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, near Kilauea on the north shore of Kauai in Hawaii. Zuckerberg Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, went to court to gain ownership of isolated pockets of land tucked away within his sprawling estate in Hawaii, many of which are less than an acre and could be split between hundreds of owners in a situation unique to the islands.

Liverpool to select Matip again, says issue resolved

Liverpool says former Cameroon defender Joel Matip has been cleared to play for the Premier League club by FIFA after an eligibility issue was resolved Liverpool to select Matip again, says issue resolved Liverpool says former Cameroon defender Joel Matip has been cleared to play for the Premier League club by FIFA after an eligibility issue was resolved Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2jHZ7gY LIVERPOOL, England – Liverpool says former Cameroon defender Joel Matip has been cleared to play for the Premier League club by FIFA after an eligibility issue was resolved.

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Prince William will soon leave his job as an air ambulance helicopter pilot to spend more time on royal duties.

The Latest: Trumps step out of cars twice on parade route

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump twice got out of their vehicles to walk and wave to the crowd during their escorted trip from the Capitol to the White House. They first walked for about a block before reaching the Trump International Hotel, where the crowds on both sides of the street were at their loudest.

After Trump pledges ‘America First,’ the world responds with…

If the credo of the new U.S. president is “America First,” as Donald Trump emphatically declared Friday in his strikingly nationalistic inaugural address, then where does that leave the rest of the world? That’s what people around the globe – from Asia to the Middle East to Latin America – were left to wonder after watching Trump use the opening minutes of his presidency to double down on campaign pledges to end what he sees as misguided efforts to help other countries at the expense of U.S. interests. After more than 70 years of vigorous political, diplomatic, economic and military engagement to promote pax-Americana, Trump’s words suggested to international observers a far more isolationist and protectionist path ahead.

Fact Check: Trump starts on familiar note: with exaggeration

Donald Trump’s inaugural address held familiar echoes of the campaign speeches that led to his presidential win: downbeat about the state of the nation, to the point of hyperbole. A look at some of his assertions Friday: TRUMP: “The jobs left, and the factories closed the wealth, strength and confidence of our country has disappeared over the horizon.”

‘El Chapo’ Guzman pleads not guilty in US to 17 counts

Drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, a Houdini-like master of escape accused of running one of the world’s largest drug trafficking organizations, entered a not guilty plea through his attorney at an arraignment Friday in federal court in Brooklyn. The diminutive, clean-shaven trafficker, described by a federal official as “the most notorious criminal of modern time,” was not handcuffed and wore a dark blue short-sleeved shirt and pants with white sneakers during his brief appearance in a packed courtroom.

‘El Chapo’ appears in a U.S. court for the first time, pleads not guilty – Fri, 20 Jan 2017 PST

Accused drug lord Joaqumn “El Chapo” Guzman appeared in a U.S. court here for the first time Friday, pleading not guilty to the charges against him as prosecutors revealed in stunning detail how they intend to build and prove their case. Guzman, dressed in dark blue prison garb, said, “Yes, sir,” in Spanish as a judge asked questions about whether he understood the charges against him.

Nor1’s CheckIn Merchandising Solution Deployed at Atlantis …

The adoption of Nor1’s Merchandising Platform has been expanded to include CheckIn Merchandising at Atlantis, the Bahamas based 3,500 room mega-resort to enable their front-desk agents to merchandise their premium inventory and enhance their guests’ stay upon arrival. The adoption of Nor1’s Merchandising Platform has been expanded to include CheckIn Merchandising at Atlantis, the Bahamas based 3,500 room mega-resort to enable their front-desk agents to merchandise their premium inventory and enhance their guests’ stay upon arrival.