Australian Border Protection Minister Peter Dutton, left, and Air Vice-Marshal Stephen Osborne, commander of Operation Sovereign Borders, address reporters at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Monday, May 7, 2018. Dutton says people smugglers are now marketing New Zealand as a backdoor into Australia. (AP Photo/Rod McGuirk) Australia says asylum seekers target New Zealand backdoor CANBERRA, […]
Category: Top Stories
Posted inTop Stories
Giuliani confounds, contradicts as he defends Trump in media
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s new attorney, Rudy Giuliani, is delivering confounding and at times contradictory statements as he tries to lessen the legal burdens on his client from an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and a $130,000 hush payment to a porn actress. The former New York City mayor is […]
Posted inTop Stories
Sale of newspaper in Cambodia ‘disaster’ for media freedom: rights group
BANGKOK (Reuters) – The purchase of The Phnom Penh Post by a Malaysian whose public relations firm lists Cambodia’s long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen as a client is a “disaster” for media freedom ahead of a general election, an international rights group said on Monday. In power for 33 years, Hun Sen and his allies […]
Posted inTop Stories
horoscope
Aries (Mar.21 – Apr.19) This is your day to shine, Aries. Just make sure you don’t do so at someone else’s expense. You’re feeling more self-confident than usual, which may be hard for you to believe. Nevertheless, you could be so focused on your agenda that you fail to see subtle signals put out by […]
Posted inTop Stories
USAID, MERIP Mark Completion of Project that advances Resiliency of Coastal Communities in Pohnpei
Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia – The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) recently marked the completion of a partnership that has helped make coastal communities in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia, more resilient. In February 2015, USAID, through its Pacific-American Climate Fund, collaborated with the Marine and Environmental Research Institute of Pohnpei […]
Posted inTop Stories
R.O.C. (Taiwan) ends diplomatic ties with Dominican Republic
Since wresting away diplomatically Panama in June 2017, China has offered huge financial incentives to the Dominican Republic, successfully enticing it to end 77 years of ties with Taiwan May 1. The Republic of China (Taiwan) is deeply upset by China¡¦s actions. To uphold both the nation¡¦s dignity and sovereignty, the government of the Republic […]