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Jamaican man hospitalised, son dead after plane crash in Bahamas

A Jamaican man remains hospitalised after a plane crash that claimed the life of his son in waters near South Bimini in the Bahamas on the weekend. The deceased has been identified as 20-year-old pilot Kyle Wade. His father, 59-year-old Andre Wade, was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and is a past student of Wolmer’s Boys’ School, media reports […]

Updated: May 14, 2021
26 years since the Oklahoma City bombing – FOX23 News

April 19, 1995, a day that changed Oklahoma and that Oklahomans will never forget. A bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. More than 25 years later, Oklahomans continue the tradition of honoring the lives lost or affected by the bombing. The Oklahoma City National Memorial & […]

Updated: May 14, 2021
Man accused of threatening to harm Birmingham mayor and bomb Linn Park indicted on federal charges

A 50-year-old man accused of threatening to put a bomb in Linn Park, and also threatening Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin, has been federally indicted. The Northern District of Alabama U.S. Attorney’s Office on Wednesday announced the indictment against Brian Stephen Vest. He is charged in a one-count indictment issued Tuesday charging the Warrior man with […]

Updated: May 10, 2021
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un orders legal supervision over economic plan

Mr. Kim spoke on Wednesday during a Workers’ Party meeting convened to follow up on decisions made at the ruling party’s congress in January, where he admitted previous economic plans had failed and announced a new five-year development plan. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered tougher legal supervision to support his development plans […]

Updated: May 10, 2021
How a Massive Bomb Came Together in Beirut’s Port

Alarmed, the officer, Capt. Joseph Naddaf of the State Security agency, warned his superiors about what appeared to be an urgent security threat. But it turned out that other Lebanese officials already knew. Lots of officials. An investigation by a team of New York Times reporters who conducted dozens of interviews with port, customs and […]

Updated: May 9, 2021
N Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un and sister visit flood-hit village | Kim Jong Un News

North Korea is re-building after a season of storms and typhoons destroyed thousands of homes. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited a village flooded in recent typhoons to see recovery efforts, accompanied by his sister in her first public appearance in about two months, state media reported on Friday. Kim praised the speed of reconstruction work […]

Updated: May 8, 2021
Trump Says He’d Meet with Kim Jong Un Again | Voice of America

SEOUL – U.S. President Donald Trump says he is open to another summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, even as Pyongyang signals it is uninterested in resuming stalled nuclear talks. Trump made the comments Tuesday in an interview with Gray Television’s Greta Van Susteren. “I understand they want to meet and we would […]

Updated: May 8, 2021
Olympic hopeful? Moon pins legacy on Kim Jong Un trip to Seoul

TOKYO — Japan may have decided to bar overseas spectators from the Tokyo Olympics this summer as a coronavirus precaution, but South Korean President Moon Jae-in hopes Tokyo will make an exception to help him cement his diplomatic legacy. As the end of his term approaches, Moon is considering a trip to Japan during the […]

Updated: May 7, 2021
State Dept.: Kim Jong Un should be held accountable for human rights abuses

SEOUL, April 29 (UPI) — The United States condemns North Korea‘s “increasingly draconian measures” to strengthen control over its population during the COVID-19 pandemic and will work to “promote accountability” for the Kim Jong Un regime, State Department spokesman Ned Price said. “We stand with the millions of North Koreans who continue to have their […]

Updated: May 7, 2021
What the US Thinks It Learned About Kim Jong Un – The Diplomat

Advertisement If Americans have learned anything from brinkmanship and summitry with North Korea these past few years, it should be that familiarity can clarify not only differences, but also what remains unknown. Dialogue may deepen mutual understanding or mutual distrust – sometimes both. Revelations emerging from the Trump administration provide a trove of first-hand accounts […]

Updated: May 6, 2021